Discord: I got the results back from the study I had conducted regarding possible names for the organization.


Nightshade: Nice hair.


Discord: I was in a pink mood today.
Nightshade: I noticed. So what do the results say?
Discord: It turns out the fastest way to gain name recognition is to sponge off the hard work of someone else and change it slightly, using words already associated with the field in question.


Discord: Like 'Panatronic' and 'Sorny' companies in the bootleg electronics industry. So we should use something like 'Legion of D00M' or 'Cobra' something or other. They compiled a list for us.


Nightshade: I don't know. Shouldn't we use something witty and original that will strike fear into the names of do-gooders everywhere?


Discord: Sure, sure. But first you have to put up with the questions and dumb looks of the do-gooders for a few years before the name gets around. Do you really want to be torturing some hero in the name of, say 'Pink Moon' and have him be all like 'what? who's that?' in between the screaming and the pleading?


Nightshade: Good point. Gimme.
Discord: You're making the right choice. I like 'The Great Old Party'' myself.


Nighshade: Yeah,but the GOP isn't doing well enough to sponge off of them lately. Hmm... this is a really long list...


Discord: I'll leave you to it then.
Nightshade: Thanks, I'll let you know when I've made my choice so we can have the billboards made.

 

Elsewhere:
Eric: I really miss not needing to sleep. This 'not thinking about anything' trick is hard.


Eric: Oh well. I might as well just eat and start working. I wonder if we have any waffles left...

Eric *Yawn* or maybe I'll just have a pot of twice-brewed coffee. Or... What the...


Eric: HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON?



Magma: Oh, hello.
Eric: WHAT WERE YOU DOING TO HIMEMIYA?!


Magma: We were just-
Eric: You sick pervert! You won't rest until you've forced yourself on every person in the house!


Eric: ...and I was going to EAT there!


Magma: Relax sex-bot.
Eric: First you assault me in my sleep, then you terrorize poor Ash! And you're still not satisfied, you have to force yourself on poor Himemiya!
Magma: I wasn't forcing myself on her.


Eric: Sure, you probably just got her lamp and WISHED her to have sex with you! Well you shouldn't treat girls OR jinn that way!
Magma: ...and you don't?


Eric: THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT!
Magma: AA!


Magma: Take that! You're just a cheap copy of me anyway!
Eric: I'm not like you at ALL!
Himemiya: Hey... don't beat him up too badly...

 

 


Nightshade: Hmm.. Al Kilya? Lame. Macrosoft? No. MADD? I think that's taken...


Beressa: Hello Mistress Nightshade.


Nightshade: B...Beressa?


Beressa: It is I. It's been a long time, Mistress Nightshade. You have gotten far since we spoke last.


Nightshade: I thought you were dead! They said on the internet you'd been cancelled! How did you ever escape?


Beressa: Nyet! No cancellation could ever stop me!


Nightshade: This is so awesome! We'll rule the world like twice as fast now!

Commentary:
The merchandising conversation is actually sound industrial psychology. I took the classes. Indistrial psychologists are the fun people responsible for those ugly shades used in public buildings because they promote harmony or productivity or whatever (the ugly shade of the color used is usually the fault of the person picking colors at the public building). Like how pink is used in a lot of prisons, because it's supposed to cut down on agression. It's a pretty useful field of psychology; the only one being more useful is of course the psychology of persuasion.

Fun facts: You can buy Panatronic batteries at flea markets. Legion of Doom is a superhero villain group. COBRA was the terrorist group GI Joe fought, and is also the most overused word in the military/defense industry. I swear they toss that in whenevery they want to 'cool' something up. GOP=Grand Old Party=The Republican Party. MAD was the organization Dr. Claw worked for in Inspector Gadget (and MADD is Mothers Against Drunk Driving).

Part 1 of Himemiya's plan is to get Eric jealous and make him think he's as bad as Magma.