#chargestep

Herald asks ortega what sidestep was like and in ortega's head there is an angel and demon and the angel is screaming 'BE NORMAL BE NORMAL" while the demon is watching a Dead Wife Montage of sidestep with "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri as the background music at full volume.

what if you're the leader of a superhero team and the weight of the world is on your shoulders and you have a vigilante sidekick who's all dark and mysterious and maybe an estranged family member of your archnemesis but you let her be her own person and she becomes your best friend and you may be falling in love with her but you have too much internalised heteronormativity to really handle that well so you have this thing going on where you're both your truest selves with each other but no one puts any names on it and before you can have a serious talk about any of it she dies on your watch and you're left to pick up the pieces. so you try to for 7 years and suddenly your dark and mysterious situationship is drinking coffee in a diner. this happened to my good friend julia ortega

if i was your homoerotic hero partnership and i died a preventable death would you sleep blacked out on ditches for seven years until you saw me in a diner looking alive and unwell? would you wonder if i was a hallucination, just another trick your mind is playing on you, if it weren't for how lifeless and drained i looked? when i pushed you away would you keep coming back? when i told you you don't want to love me would you do it anyway?