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1[[FanFic/DireWorm Click here]] to return to Dire's home dimension.
2----
3* Chapter 1.1: Dire's BadassBoast to Bakuda is notably amusing: "TUITION PAYMENT IS HEREBY WAIVED, YOUR APPLICATION IS ACCEPTED, AND YOU ARE NOW OFFICIALLY ENROLLED IN PAIN UNIVERSITY, ON TRACK TO GRADUATE MAGNA CUM LAUDE WITH A MAJOR IN GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED! AND NOW YOU SHALL BE WELCOMED TO YOUR DORMITORY OF SHAME WITH MANDATORY BEATINGS!"
4* Chapter 1.5: Dire says she would have killed Grey Boy if he were still alive, and involuntarily crushes the soda can she was holding. Then:
5--> I took a sip, in the silence. [[MoodWhiplash Still a bit of cola left in the can, after all.]]
6* Chapter 2.2: Again with the hilarious MoodWhiplash.
7--> When I looked up, damn near the entire room of villains was staring at me.\
8"Shit, it moves," muttered Skidmark.\
9I set the mask to partial release, and triggered it with a hiss of escaping atmosphere. The sound echoed through the bar The valkyrie twins tensed, the light-woman glowed a little brighter, and Faultline's hand had vanished into a pocket. The snail-man and the lizard-guy shifted in their seats, readying for trouble. Others did as well, all save for the Undersiders and Coil.\
10I let the tension go on for a second, then stuck the straw through the gap created, and drew a loud slurp of lemonade.
11* Chapter 2.2, again:
12--> I sighed, as my nice little hopes and dreams of civil discourse [with the heroes] faded away.\
13At least with the villain meet, I'd gotten lemonade out of the deal...
14* Chapter 2.3 promptly continues the hilarity:
15--> "[[DoWrongRight YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.]]"\
16"Doing what wrong?" [Armsmaster asked.]\
17"[[EvilGloating GLOATING]]. YOU'VE GOT THE POSTURE RIGHT, AND THE SOMEWHAT UNHINGED GRIN HELPS, BUT YOU REALLY SHOULD HAVE EMITTED A [[EvilLaugh WICKED LAUGH]] BY NOW."\
18He looked at me with utter disbelief.\
19"ADD AN INTIMIDATING STATEMENT IN THERE, AND YOU'RE GOOD TO GO. SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF 'TREMBLE BEFORE [[MemeticMutation HAL-BEARD]]!'"
20* Chapter 2.5:
21--> "Wait. You WON?" Tattletale asked.\
22I looked at her, and breathed heavy [[ShoutOut for a few seconds]]. "DIRE [[Film/ANewHope FINDS YOUR LACK OF FAITH... DISTURBING]]."
23* Act II Intermission: the aftermath of fighting Dire, from the Protectorate's perspective.
24--> Armsmaster growled through his teeth, thumping his fist on the table to accentuate every point. "One! That was not a Chinese refugee, who escaped with a powerful but unreliable suit of prototype Yangban battle armor. Two! If that was a, and I quote, 'rookie who's run from most fights, and barely knows how to use his stolen armor', I'll eat my halberd. Three! If his known psychological weaknesses included a fear of entrapment and a weakness to confrontation, I'll chase the halberd down [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment with a jug of draincleaner]]!"
25** While viewing the battle footage,
26--> [Director Piggot] frowned, and turned to look at Armsmaster. "What's this Hal-Beard business about?"\
27Armsmaster made noises that [[{{Angrish}} shouldn't have been producible by a human throat]].
28** Same chapter, Uber POV:
29--> And then the smoke detector went off. [Uber] jumped and punched it Mario-style until it stopped screaming.
30** Uber gets mad at Leet for letting the pizza rolls burn, but then Uber catches sight of the Protectorate versus Dire battle footage...
31--> Uber looked at the television.\
32Five minutes later he looked at Leet, who was [[TearsOfJoy crying tears of sheer joy]]. Leet looked back at him, snot running down his face, grinning like that time they'd pulled a heist at Comicon.\
33"That. That. That is an end-boss. Right there. Pure end-boss. Pwnage. Pure Pwnage."\
34Uber grinned back at him. "I have two questions."\
35"Yeah?"\
36"Is this guy hiring, and do you think he'd be okay if we recorded our jobs? Because if the answer to those questions is yes, then as Creator/HideoKojima is my witness life just took a turn for the friggin' [[AwesomeDearBoy awesome]]."\
37Leet's face froze in pure joy, as [[IronicEcho he made noises that shouldn't have been producible by a human throat]].
38* Chapter 4.1, in which Dire very politely turns down Accord's employment offer.
39--> We'd end up duelling with sword-canes atop the hands of a clock-tower. Never been through that personally, but I'd seen it before with his type, never fails. And I'm horrible with sword canes, most of them are flimsy things that break on you in a heartbeat if given the chance.
40** Also, the very fact that Dire dresses so professionally that Accord falls in... something... with her.
41* Chapter 4.2, more of Dire's reaction to Accord.
42--> I suppressed a shudder. Really hadn't meant to... [[AbhorrentAdmirer Intrigue him, that much]]. Tattletale's advice on clothing had been a bit too accurate. I was forced to wonder if she had played an elaborate prank on me.
43* Chapter 4.2:
44--> "[[LargeHam DIRE]] HAS MUCH EXPERIENCE WITH OVERBLOWN DIALOGUE."\
45[[DeadpanSnarker Circus]] smirked. "I would never have guessed."
46* Chapter 4.3:
47--> "YOU ARE WITHOUT A DOUBT THE MOST POLITE METAL URCHIN THAT [[ItMakesSenseInContext HAS EVER BEEN ATTACHED TO DIRE'S KEISTER]]."
48* Chapter 5.1:
49--> Alec looked to Dire. "So are you pretty much like a crazy cat lady, only with robots?"\
50She sneered at him. "Dork."\
51"You stole [[CatchPhrase my line]]!"\
52Dire tapped her chest. "What part of [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers 'supervillain']] did you not understand?"
53* Chapter 5.3, Grue and Gamma:
54--> Grue: "I guess I shouldn't be surprised by robots with OCD."\
55Gamma: "Technically we're androids. Also the others couldn't care less. Me? I can't stand messes."\
56A crunch from downstairs, shrieks and laughter. She froze mid-step, put her hand over her face. "A fact that Delta well knows. Come on. Let's get things packed before they find the universal solvent."\
57"Wait, you've been storing stuff like that under my loft?"
58* Chapter 5.4, blink and you'll miss it, but even [[SherlockScan Tattletale's power]] can't tell whether Circus is [[AmbiguousGender male or female]].
59--> "Confederate [[VideoGame/MetalGear Otacon]], face blanked out, female? Male? Can't tell. Peculiar.​"
60* Chapter 5.5, Alec's snark:
61--> Alec laughed. "We'd make shitty heroes. Oh! I know! I could switch costumes, call myself Spazz, the lord of leisurely seizures! And Grue could be like Captain [=NotGrue=], or something. And you could be... I don't know, [[ShoutOut Butterfly girl]]?"
62** Slightly later:
63--> "I'm too awesome to be a good guy," said Alec. "Seriously, can you see ME making a noble sacrifice, or something so stupidly goody goody?"
64** Also Taylor's reaction to Dire and Danny Hebert getting along so well:
65--> "Union Rep?" I asked.\
66"YES. QUITE A NICE FELLOW. DIDN'T EXPECT HIM TO KNOW SIGN LANGUAGE. MADE THE NEGOTIATIONS MUCH EASIER, DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT ON A TRANSLATOR."\
67Oh god.\
68My mom had taught a course for the hearing impaired, years ago. I still remembered her and my dad staying up nights, practicing sign language, helping her get the hang of it.\
69"BIT OF A PAIN, USING HANDSIGNS ONLY. STILL, BETTER THAN USING DIRE, DIRE, DIRE, ALL THE TIME. WOULD RAISE QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW? EASIER TO PRETEND TO BE MUTE. BUT WE CONCLUDED MATTERS QUICKLY, EVEN HAD TIME FOR A GOOD LUNCH TOGETHER AFTERWARD."\
70Wait, he'd asked her out for lunch? What? No! This wasn't... God damn it!...\
71...\
72"LET'S JUST SAY LUNCH WITH DANIEL THIS AFTERNOON WAS FAR MORE PLEASANT AN OCCASION [THAN MEETING ACCORD] AND LEAVE IT AT THAT."
73** Attraction shenanigans, a ShoutOut to Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack, and ''more'' GenreSavvy. [[spoiler: Also (yet) another hint that Dire is an AlternateUniverse Annette-Rose Hebert]]:
74--> "[[ThouShaltNotKill YOU DON'T KILL]]. NOW WHO DOES THAT REMIND YOU OF?"\
75I looked at her, raising an eyebrow. She spread her arms, and stood there, silent in the night.\
76"You're joking. We're nothing alike."\
77"NO? SEARCH YOUR FEELINGS, YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE..."\
78Despite the tension, I snorted. "You're not my mother. And I'm not jumping off this tower."\
79"BARRING DIRE'S ACCEPTANCE OF THAT DRINKS INVITATION FROM DANNY AND A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA IN THE NEAR FUTURE, YOU ARE CORRECT IN YOUR FAMILIAL ASSESSMENT."\
80"You wouldn't-"\

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