Hey, we've all got to start somewhere. For baseline kids, it's a trip to Hot Topic for your first anarchy shirt or V mask. For mutant kids, it's probably doodling the MLF logo places.

"Oh, right, the mighty third force of the MLF, conquering the world one unmarked wall at a time." Ironically his sister is doing something very much like that right now. "How many divisions does it have again?"

His frown softens a little. He might, he thinks, have some brain to him, or at least a talent for improv. He's not less jaded than Gilbert, just in different ways.