Day 8: Write a prequel to that superhero. Pre-superhero life. Maybe their childhood.
On Electrolexi's eighteen birthday, her mother sat her down in the living room. Electrostatic, Lexi's mother, looked like she had just swallowed a koala, and though it was fuzzy, it seemed to want to claw its way out of the woman's throat. After the whole Iris VI fiasco a couple weeks ago, Lexi wasn't really sure what her mother had to say to her that could possibly be good. Especially not with that face she was wearing.
"Mom, are you okay? You look like you're going to throw up or something," Electrolexi said. Despite it being her birthday, she was still the type of person who put the concerns of other people in front of her own. Plus this was the woman who gave her life, and that had to count for something.
"Yeah, sweetie, I'm fine," Electrostatic replied, staring off into some space just past her daughter's head before gulping down the koala in her throat. "But we need to talk."
"Are you...are you breaking up with me?" Electrolexi deadpanned.
"Alexandra, be serious. This is important," her mother said, her eyebrows scrunching together in frustration.
"Okay, okay, what's this all about?"
"I have to tell you who your father is," Electrostatic blurted out. The words sent an unintentional shock through the coffee table Electrostatic had decided to sit upon, and Electrolexi heard the piece of furniture give a little whimper. The shock extended, of course, to Electrolexi herself, though not quite so literally.
"I, um, what?" was all that Electrolexi could really manage at that point. "He's Superman, isn't he?!"
Electrostatic took a deep breath. She didn't seem to be listening up until the point when Superman was mentioned, and the look that she gave Electrolexi was one that said "Come on, really?" without actually verbalizing it.
"Your father is Bad Horse."
"My father...what? I think I heard you wrong, I could have sworn you said that he was Bad Horse."
"He is Bad Horse."
"Who the hell is Bad Horse?"
"He's...a horse. Who's bad."
"You kinda have to give me a little more to go on than that, Mom," Electrolexi prompted. The sinking feeling in her gut told her that whoever this Bad Horse was, he probably wasn't a cool superhero that was going to end up giving her some special superhero training when she came of age and came into her extra powers bestowed upon by him.
"He's the Thoroughbred of Sin," Electrostatic said, hiding her face in her hands.
For some reason, it was at this point when it dawned upon Electrolexi: "He's a horse, isn't he?"
Electrostatic looked up from her palms and nodded once gravely.
"My father's a HORSE?"
"A bad horse. A very very bad horse."
Well, that explained nothing at all....
"I wanna do great things, you know? I wanna be an achiever, like Bad Horse."
- Doctor Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog
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