Owner Pose
Hellboy     Pushing through the diner's door, Hellboy stands out, as usual. Unlike most places, however, in Mutant Town, it gets glances, but not as much staring. He likes being able to interact with people, but celebrity can wear even on Hellboy, and what he really wants is to fit in, anyway. He moves to one of the booths and sits. The man behind the bar asks him across the narrow restaurant, "Usual, Red?" Hellboy responds with a Right Thumbs Up of Doom, and soon the whole cook surface will be covered with pancakes for Hellboy's order.
Bando George     The people! Bando's a mutant, even if he doesn't look like one. He's supposed to be doing homework, but instead, he's just being distracted. Not a surprise. His backpack on his shoulders, he wanders seemingly aimlessly into the diner. "Whoa, this place is like a hundred years in the past!" he announces. He goes to one of the seats, spinning it. "Like that old movie," he tells someone who was in another conversation. "You know, the one where the one guy goes back in time to save his...something, I dunno. Like a scientist?" He looks then at Hell Boy. "OH! Hi again Mr. Hellboy," he says. "You know the one, right? They like, strike the car with lightning to make it time travel?"
Karen Starr     It's all about the people all right.

    From up in the sky, comes this week's delivery. It comes on the usual "ship", an entire shipping container's worth of canned food, water jugs, and assorted snack-adjacent goodies combined with a couple literal tons of clothing and camping supplies. She can't necessarily solve the housing problem with the donors she has: But she can at least make those without homes a bit more comfortable.

    It's a shadow that descends over the front of the diner at first, this week's delivery a different location from the last, which was different from the last, and so on- so that a line can form naturally, and people don't riot. You don't cause a Black Friday incident that way, and randomizing the 'drops' helps get these items into new hands. The blonde form of Power Girl lands in the street, one hand above her head, her muscular arm supporting the aforementioned stuffed-to-the-gills shipping container full of relief.

    She tips it forward, letting one side touch the ground and then lowering the other side with a sort of practiced grace: as if the thing wasn't even heavy at all, and just bulky.

    "Alright everyone, first come first served. I want an orderly line or I chuck you into the bay and you get to line back up."

    The bay is not near enough that anyone wants to question how unpleasant such a thing would be.
Hellboy     "Back to the Future," Hellboy says. He considers Bando for a moment before snapping his left hand and pointing at him. "Glow-worm!" he finally recognizes with a smile that showed he was pleased with himself. "Shouldn't you be at school or something?" A demon who lives in a basement keep track of what time it is? For shame to anyone who expected that from him of all people.
    Hellboy is soon distracted by Power Girl's entrance. He gets up from the booth and joins the others at gawking at her. Some were just amazed to see a superhero akin to Superman up close and personal. Hellboy was more distracted by the powerful Girl's ample assets. "I think I'm in love," he confessed to Bando while staring at Power Girl's cleavage window.
Bando George     "We had a teacher's training day," he says. "And I'm not Glow Worm! I'm Bando." He should probably recognize that he's never going to shed that nick name from Hellboy. "Yeah, Back to the Future. I think there's like five of those movies," he adds, recognizing the shadow behind him. He glances over his shoulder, then turns around as he sees Power Girl descending. "OH sick!" he declares. "It's Power Girl! He laughs at Hell Boy's comment. "I think you gotta get in line, like, half the planet has a crush on her. Cuz of the..." he gives a quick quirk of his eyebrows. "Well, you know." Doesn't need to be said. "Is she like, what is she doing?" he asks. "A whole frickin' shipping container. Is it a super villain? Or maybe some refugees that are saved from something? Oh man, maybe it's stolen goods that she's gotten back for some...somebody." He adds. "Come on, we gotta check this out!" He starts making his way back to the diner door.
Karen Starr     To call Power Girl 'Blessed' would be a mistake. Blessed doesn't really come close to encompassing just how... Lucky, in certain genetic lotteries, Power Girl has been. The only person that comes close to her 'allotment' has an onlyfans, and even then, though they look similar: Power Girl was allotted more. It, frankly, just isn't /fair./

    Regardless, though, Power Girl keeps her attention on the people she's trying to help. The two inside- she overhears, but doesn't do anything about. Hellboy can say what he wants, as long as he keeps his distance and minds his manners. That much is somewhat obvious.

    She doesn't bother with a key to the shipping container- preferring instead to pull open the lock with a couple of fingers, and let the weight of the chain unfurl it. When the container opens... It's food. Water. Shelter. Clothing. The essentials people down on their luck will need.

    "Okay then, you step forward, you tell me what you need and how many mouths you're feeding, and I give you what I can. First up." she calls, hooking an arm towards the people on the street so that they start lining up, and come one at a time.
Hellboy     Hellboy goes so far as to push Bando out of the way, keeping his eyes on Power Girl as he moves out of the diner. He does manage to make eye contact as he moves out of the building. He's not an ANIMAL, after all. He's a wicked and sinful demon, but not an animal. He looks around at the people lining up, crowding around him, and realizes, much to his chagrin, that his lewdness isn't going to be well received during a humanitarian mission.
    Hellboy reaches out with the Red Hand of Doom, grabs Bando's shirt, and pulls the kid close. "Glow-Worm," he says. "Follow my lead." The demon moves through the crowd. He actually manages to look Power Girl right in the eye when he says, "How can we help?"
Bando George     Bando's size and weight are different enough that he is little more than a rag doll when Hell Boy pushes past him, and he struggles to maintain his balance. It's held just enough that he's still stationary when he's taken by the shirt and pulled close, eyes going wide with surprise. "Huh?" he asks, looking very confused. "Lead for wha-" oh we're starting. He stumbles through the crowd with Hellboy as if an unwilling participant, though it's really just that he hasn't quite figured out what's happening. He stops with him, looking up at Power Girl.

    Even though he is a teenage boy, he seems to have no trouble keeping his eyes where they belong. More interested in the fact that she's a superhero than anything. "You're Power Girl!" he declares. As if everyone didn't already know that. "Whoa, you're feeding people! That's super cool. Yeah yeah, how can we help?" he agrees with Hellboy.
Karen Starr     With no smoother an approach than a jar of peanuts that haven't been ground into Jif yet, Karen finds herself in the company of two individuals, one of which she's somewhat heard of. Her brow raises, and she sets the gauntleted knuckles of each hand on its corresponding hip.

    She lets out a sigh- to some degree, clearly, bothered. After all- again- she has super-hearing, so she heard the lead-in. Still, though, they're asking to help- and while she might have been able to hear that there are ulterior motives, she's not certain at all that the motives are the kind that deserve a punch. Instead... If they want to help, well...

    She gestures to the open shipping container. "Okay everyone, a second line. Form up, tell the big red guy what you need, and how many mouths you've got to feed, and we'll give you what we can."

    To Hellboy and Bando, she offers a calm, "Try not to go crazy. There's only so much to go around, so be judicious. I wish we could give everyone everything they need, but we can't, so we have to make do."
Hellboy     "Yeah," Hellboy says, taking a step up and into the container. He was immediately overwhelmed by the volume of stuff. Power Girl may have had super-human organizing and inventorying ability, but Hellboy was just a demon trying to make his way in the world and impress a super hot kryptonian. "Uh," he vocalizes. He turns to the few people who have split from Power Girl's line to his own. "Oh," he reacts. This was not his normal modus operandi. "Uh, hey," he says to the first lady in line.
Bando George     Bando...what is he supposed to do? He glances between Power Girl and Hellboy. "Okay, I guess I'll um...get the stuff?" he asks. He bounces on his heels, and then jogs over to the shipping container. "Okay, somebody tell me what to grab," he declares, waiting for instruction on what stuff to pull out of the container to ferry to the needy.
Karen Starr     Admittedly, a good number of the people remaining in her line can do little more than trudge up to the front, say "You're /Power Girl/." and for a long while nothing else before finally managing to say that they need some resource or another.

    It causes her to roll her eyes, but eventually there's a balance struck, where both Power Girl and the Bando/Hellboy couple are managing to hand out an equal amount of supplies. More people are in Power Girl's line- and she's moving through them quicker- but they're moving through what she's brought at equal pace.

    "Good job you two, keep it up and..." she looks to the sky for a moment in mild frustration, "Don't get lost in the back, kid."
Hellboy     Hellboy steals glances over at Power Girl for a while between people he's helping. The people in his line are desperate, and while the blonde bombshell is certainly helping, she seems significantly less approachable the longer Hellboy spends around her. However, Glow-Worm and he continue to work--well, Hellboy continues to work, no matter what Bando does--and the supplies don't last forever. "Hey," he says to Power Girl. "You free for dinner? Maybe a movie?" He might as well ask her out while she's there. Even if she turns him down, he's not likely to get a lamp post through the chest just for asking.
Bando George     Bando is an eager beaver. He seems to have a superpower of stamina. Well, at least a teenager version of stamina. He is rushing and grabbing things as he goes through the supplies. He's short of breath, but he is a hard worker, and from the ink and dirt that was on the packages from the container hhis hands become stained a mixture of dark gray and brown by the end of the process. "Phew," he declares, rubbing his forehead, which earns him a streak of filth along his forehead at the end of it. "That was like, intense," he declares, seemingly obvlivous to the ask on the date.
Karen Starr     It's correct to assume that, in this context, Power Girl is unlikely to get violent just for being asked out. It's happened on worse circumstances before. "What," she begins, acknowledging his call for her attention, before answering him as succinctly as she can. "Busy and gay. If you stop helping because you don't have a shot, you'd best hope you can breathe on the moon."

    Eventually- because Hellboy isn't heartless it can be assumed that he assists until there's nothing left to hand out, and therefore does not have to worry about living on the moon. "Yeah. I do this every week. Always a different place so there isn't a riot, and nobody double dips to get more than their share. I wish it were easier, and that I had more to hand out, but that's what I've got, and that's what I have to do to give it."
Hellboy     Hellboy looks back at the empty container. "I mean...not JUST that," he says. He looks at Bando. "Come on, Glow Worm. Let's get out of here so Power Girl can take the container away." He hops down and starts walking away. Busy is one thing. Gay is not a hurdle Hellboy's willing to confront. He lifts a Red Hand of Doom to wave without looking back at the superheroine. When he's a ways away, he says quietly to himself, not knowing how super her hearing is, "Figures."
Bando George     Bando just looks between the two of them. He tries to hold in a laugh at her answer. He REALLY tries REALLY hard. As soon as Hellboy turns to start walking away, his lips fail to remain shut, spitting out a laugh at what just happened. He gives Power Girl a suspicious grin. "Is that true, or you just tell him that to get him to leave you alone?" he asks her in a conspiratorial whisper. He doesn't seem to be interested in taking a shot, but then, he's quite a bit too young for her anyway.