51-His hopes aren't the only thing being raised

[amansgottadowhat]

[Voice Post]

Well, well, look who decided to surprise us! Quite a treat at the end of such a perilous week. You all are raising my hope for good things to come.

But of course, what could be better than such wonderful visitors?

[/Voice Post]

[OoC: So cute you could eat them up? Bad jokes aside, this is one hilarious thirty-second video. ANYTHING GOES, he's soon to be in a terrible mood anyway.]

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[video]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

[If he belonged to an animated medium, his face would be the color of a tomato. As it is, he feels like his brain is frying. And he loves it.]

I-I'm... beside this... fountain... thing...

[Verbal articulation, what is that?]

[video]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Then if you don't mind hugs from Pennys from other dimensions, just stay right there.

[Because, you know, it's totally no big deal to go around hugging strange Billys who have never in their wildest dreams (well, maybe in their wildest dreams) had Penny hugs.]

[video]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

No! No, I don't... I don't mind at all, I... I...

[...am going to stop talking now.]

I'll be waiting! Right here! _{Won't move an inch! Not even a centimeter!}

[In his wildest dreams, he's done a full dance number with Penny. But a hug is beyond his wildest realistic expectations.]

[action]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

[Penny goes to the fountain to look for Billy, hoping that there's only one in the City right now. How awkward would it be to find the wrong one? But there's only one at the fountain, so odds are...]

Hey, Billy!

[There's no song and dance, but there is a hug.]

[action]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

[He freezes up as soon as he sees her, and it takes a full ten seconds for him to awkwardly return the hug]

Penny! Hello! It's... it's been a while, huh...

[Compliment her, dolt!]

...Your arms are very strong!

[action]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

I guess has it been, especially for you.

[It's a good thing Penny finds Billy's awkwardness strangely endearing. She doesn't prolong the hug. No need to kick the awkward up a notch.]

Thanks? [Um.] So! How've you been?

[action]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

Y-yeah... Um... Fine! How about you?

[He nods, smiling cheerfully. Maaaybe a bit too cheerfully? But for him, it's not too bad.]

[action]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

So things're going okay? Staying busy?

[Hanging out with Bad Horse and being a supervillain? No, not a good place to go.]

Oh! Well, I've... been great. [Dead.] Going to work, collecting stray animals, feeding hobos in some other dimension. Good stuff.

[action]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

Uh... Yeah, yeah... Busy!

[He crosses his arms in an exaggeratedly casual motion, nodding.]

That's... good to hear. I guess the hobos in all dimensions need some help, huh?

[action]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Such is the way of all dimensions, I guess. Except they're actual hobos and not homeless people and Death kind of implied that it was a lifestyle choice and not anything bad...

[Rambling. Cool.]

So! Do anything super-geniusy lately?

[action]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

...Oh. Oh, well, that's... that's very nice...

[Very. It's almost the only way he knows how to communicate.]

...S-super-geniusy? No! No... of... of course not! [A strained laugh.] Why would I be doing anything super-geniusy?

I... I can barely measure the right amount of laundry soap...

[action]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

C'mon, Billy! You--well, technically I guess it was another you, but that doesn't matter--were all into figuring out how this City exists and how people get here and how all of the worlds are connected. I can't say I always understood what you were saying, but it sounded super-geniusy to me.

...Besides, your laundry always turned out just fine.

[action]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

[...Right, deep breath. She said super genius, not evil genius.]

Oh, oh, yeah. I... that definitely sounds pretty interesting. Did... um... I? He...?

[Pronouns. He's a scientist, not a grammarian- but maybe a scientist is better when it's about grammar as it relates to apparent alternate universes?]

...Did the other me find out anything?

[action]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

Not too much. Something about... fluctuating somethings, I don't know. This place does a good job of keeping anyone in it from finding too much out.

[Now this could cause some awkwardness.]

Sorry for being totally nosy, but what's... you know, what's happening back home? Where you're from?

[action]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

I see... <sub>[Well, no, but he's genuinely fascinated, and he thinks he could see if he has time to work on it.

Oh, crap-]</sub>

Um... l-laundry, mostly. And frozen yogurt.

[action]

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

[She'll assume that this Billy hasn't gotten to the exploding-Death-Ray-dying-supervillain phase yet. Yes. Better safe than breaking a Billy's brain.]

Oh! That's... that sounds nice. Crazy how frozen yogurt always accidentally comes in twos, isn't it? I kept having that problem, too.

[action]

[societyslipping.livejournal.com]

[And she assumes correctly.]

Yeah... [He sighs. Maybe a little dreamily? He's... hesitantly hopeful as he continues.]

But... it was... I don't know, I'd say it wasn't... such a bad thing. [Pause.] Extra frozen yogurt is never a bad thing!

_{(OOC: Sorry, probably should have mentioned this before. Like, way earlier... orz. His canon point is after his first time having frozen yogurt with Penny, but before attacking the Superhero Memorial Bridge.)}