Owner Pose
Bennett It's early evening, the sun outside has only been down half an hour or so. That still makes it dark in New York and the saying goes, the freaks come out at night, right? The subway station is busy with the hustle and bustle of people going about their daily lives, pushed here by the need to get from point A to point B.

Crowds generally aren't Bennett's thing, but sometimes they're a necessary evil. A mess of people actually equates to less eyes on him. Less eyes on him means no one really pays much attention to the fact that he's currently rummaging through a trash can. Just the top, he's not a 'digger', the stuff at the bottom generally isn't worth the effort.

SCORE! Look, someone threw away a perfectly good half a sandwich with some chips and it's all sealed nicely in one of those Styrofoam containers. Prize in hand, he meanders to a nearby bench to have dinner.
Stepford Cuckoos     Irma is out on her own tonight, having watched Phoebe go out on a date the night before, so Irma is on her own looking to enjoy a night on the town.

    The young blonde woman is walking down the landing platform of the train she just climbed off of, and with her cellphone held in her hand, the young woman spots a man elated at finding his dinner for the night and not having really encountered a homeless man before, the girl can't help but stop herself mid stride and stare at the man. Her eyes lingering on him as she begins to delve into his mind and thoughts, curious.
Bennett There's currently not a whole lot going on on the surface of Bennett's mind. In fact, he's just humming 'If You're Gonna Play in Texas' by Alabama in his head. But like the man's physical appearance, there's more than meets the 'eye' with him; even if that eye is a mental one. He's worried. He hasn't seen someone he knows in a little while, another street person.

He breaks off a piece of the crust of his sandwich and offers it to his... hair near his left shoulder? No, wait. There's something under Bennett's hair. A rat, small by New York City 'rat standards' pokes its head out and snatches the little morsel. A series of squeaks, some more audible than the others - made by the man not the rodent - and another of the little critters climbs from one of his deep jacket pockets to sit on his knee.

Even then, no one seems to notice Bennett other than Irma. In true 'Big City' fashion, the homeless are invisible.
Stepford Cuckoos     The woman wearing a long white coat and a mid thigh length red skirt, remains standing still, observing the man and the rats starting to climb over him, and yet this doesn't affect her in any way. Irma slips her phone back into her pocket and steps towards the homeless man. "I didn't expect people to feed animals like that." She says in a weirdly flat tone of voice as she lingers over the man.
Caim     "Intriguing." Caim says, greek accent to his voice as he leans on his cane. His mind flashes between acts of violence and desires. For example he envisions having to fight his way through the subway station. Between this imaginary battle and the memories of violence he has flashing in his mind. He looks to the man with the rats on him. "Personally I never seen the feral animals like rats show favor to anyone. Either you are gifted with the vermin or they are trained." He says softly as he approaches the two. The way he is dressed he could be mistakened for a businessman, if it werent for the massive longcoat he wore, looking like old military coat.
Bennett One might think the rats would scatter at the approach of a stranger, but they don't. They stand their ground, little beady eyes fixated on Irma. Their demeanor is almost challenging.

Bennett doesn't look up from his food at the sound of strange voices. He doesn't tense. He just replies softly, "They have to eat too, Miss," to Irma. His accent is Southern, more than that it's 'cultured' Southern - Rhett Butler Southern. One might expect an 'Ah do declare' to fall from his lips at any moment. "Vermin? What, pray tell, gives you the right to refer to them as vermin?" he asks with just a slightly harder edge to his voice.

Another rat, larger than the two currently using Bennett as furniture appears under the bench the man's sitting on and then another.
Stepford Cuckoos     Irma looks over to Caim as he appears from nearly no where and she squints at his thoughts. "He is a dangerous man." The girl responds, warning the man and the rats, as she does agree, that animals need to eat as well. Better for him to feed them food than for them to take bites out of him.

    Almost like a young child, Irma reiterates. "Vermin is quite a harsh word to use for someone's pets." The woman explains.
Caim     "I apologize." Caim say calmly as he watches the rats appear. "If it makes you feel any better, I like rats better then some people. The ultimate survivor, able to live anywhere on the planet." Caim says. He looks to Irma and watches her curiously. He then turns his attention to the man again. "How do you make them come to you...do you suppress the prey part of their mind, make them think you arent anything to be feared?" He asks curiously. He then reaches into his coat to pull out a small packet of crackers which he opens to offer to the man.
Bennett Finally Bennett looks up. The action reveals his black eyes. He graces Irma with a genuine smile. Seems he likes the girl. "So am I," he murmurs without any malice or threat. He's just stating the facts as he sees them. He offers Irma a potato chip from his little trash diving treasure box.

Another rat under the bench. The total is up to five now. Not a single one of them seems afraid in the slightest.

Attention shifts to Caim. "I do not //make// them think anything. They do as they please. They believe I'm not a threat because, well, I'm not. Not to them anyway." Seems his feathers might still be a little ruffled over the 'vermin' comment, or perhaps there's something else that has him ruffled?

Bennett is sitting on a bench picking at the sandwich and chips in a white Styrofoam container. A rat is settled on his knee, another on his shoulder, both are smaller than average. Beneath his bench are three more that are much more the standard NYC rat size. There's only one of the Cuckoos present, Irma. She and Caim are standing near the homeless man with a fondness for rodents.
Stepford Cuckoos     "I am dangerous as well. It all has to do with how willing someone is to act on those dark thoughts." The woman says with a glance of her blue eyes towards Caim. A simple peak into the man's mind revealed he can and will harm.

    Irma however steps closer to the man on the bench and her delicate hand reaches out to take the potato chip and then lift it to her lips to eat softly. "I appreciate the sentiment." The clone whispers.
Stepford Cuckoos One of the Cuckoos barfs up her portion of bean.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos has an idea to send one girl to each of the big groups.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos try to make PG say it in unison with them. "We love you Cyborg."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "Gamora doesn't care for anyone. She's the green han solo."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "If it has a light saber, it better have the high ground like mama taught."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "If we had children, wouldn't they be Emma's heirs more so than us?"
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "that out... you need to go back to your tailor and sue."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "Kinda like the power rangers, and/or Fantastic Four they tend to like to have a full team around them."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "PG, it's only a mental image. We make everyone THINK we look like you."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos grabs a diagram and teaches Jason Todd how babies happen.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos ... "Then the daddy opens the hatch and pulls the girl out and cleans off the fluids.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos sleep. "Will someone let C know I was looking for him."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos doesn't want to wait another year for the next one.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "He was generally dark. The campy nature really only happened in the Adam West show."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos assimilates Carrie into the herd of blondes. "We're pretty nice."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos will have to ask Power Girl to break Crusader's fingers slowly and independantly until his wrists are feeble.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos has one split off to change her look to be mini Diana.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "We aren't creepily similar. We are, in fact, identical. Darling."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos sit around and all five pairs of eyes stare into Guest1. "We accept."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "Can offer you some advice Guest1? We'll page you if that's okay?"
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos haven't learned about corsets yet like their much older sister.
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos have 995 other clone sisters and one, original sister. >.>
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "Emma does appear on grid, yes, but the other thousand haven't even been hinted at other than our BG. In the comics, yes, the horde of clones were a plot element."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "C, you're getting close to a case of 'swiss army knife syndrome'."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "Swiss Army Knife Syndrome. A tool that does multiple jobs can't do a jobs as well as a tool designed to do just one."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "They'd change the whole face of the earth as soon as they arrive."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "You think Stark, Lex, or Doom wouldn't reverse engineer that?"
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "Also, the whole plot of the new movies were about how humans wouldn't be as advaced as we are WITHOUT the transformers."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "If the Transformers are coming, why not go all out and have the Men In Black, but this still doesn't address the issues I have. If there's too many themes on grid, there's less people in overlapping spheres, diluting RP."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos says, "Yes, some characters CAN operate in spheres, but many characters, can't consistently RP in most spheres."
Stepford Cuckoos Stepford Cuckoos might app a GL in the Xandarian sector. That could be fun.