"The Dresden Files is copyright Jim Butcher. This story is licensed under the Creative Commons as derivative, noncommercial fiction."

Gaming sessions often devolve into random conversations eventually. Especially when there is food to be gotten and a break is being taken, but this had to be one of the more bizarre such discussions I'd ever had.

"So Michael is Superman," Billy said. "That's pretty clear, right?"

"Who else could he be?" I asked. "Does anybody else lay the smack down like Michael?"

"Then Thomas is the Flash then?" Georgia suggested.

"Flash dance maybe," Kirby snorted, drawing a playful swat from Andi.

"And Wonder Woman would be..."

"Charity," I interrupted.

"Really, Charity Carpenter? Wonder Woman?" Georgia asked, crossing her arms. "Really?"

"You haven't seen her in action," I noted.

"Fine, but I want Batgirl," Georgia noted.

"Ooo, can I be Black Canary?" Andi asked.

"I'll go for Wolverine," Kirby noted with a smirk that drew several eyes to him.

"Wolverine isn't in the Justice League," Billy protested. "He isn't even in the DC universe."

"So, I still want to be known as the Wolverine of Chicago's Justice League," he said.

The rest of us exchanged a look and said in unison "Guy Raynor."

"But...but, he's a chode," Kirby whined.

"How about Molly?" Andi asked. "Would she be Raven?"

"Raven's on the Teen Titans," Georgia noted. "Or the Titans when they stopped being teen. And Molly's too cheerful and energetic to be her anyway."

"How about the TV version of Starfire for her then?" Andi asked with a shrug.

"She's annoying enough," Georgia agreed.

"Hey, quit picking on my apprentice," I protested. "She's not nearly that bad. Oracle for her."

"But I'm Batgirl, do we want a time paradox going on?" Georgia protested.

"Plus, Molly can walk," Billy noted.

"Can she ever," Kirby agreed with an emphatic nod.

Myself and the two women turned to glare at him.

"What? It's the truth," he said shrugging.

"What about Will then?" I asked.

"Blue Beetle?" Andi asked.

"What, as in Batman-lite?" Kirby asked. "That might work."

"Hey, I was going to suggest Martian Manhunter," Will protested.

"Well, I'm Batgirl, maybe you can be Nightwing, dear," Georgia suggested.

"I'm not sure I like comparing our relationship with a couple that breaks up more often than a butterfinger bar," Will said, drawing a teasing laugh from Georgia as they hugged close.

"Who's Batman then?" Andi asked.

All the answers were in complete agreement: "Murphy."

"And Kincaid would be the Green Arrow, then?" Andi asked.

"Now there's a slash-fic idea I'd never wanted to consider," I muttered bitterly. "So I guess that leaves me as..."

"Catwoman," Georgia noted.

"Ummm, I was going to say 'Doctor Fate'," I noted.

Billy snorted.

"Right?" he stuttered in a chittering amusement. "No, I think Catwoman is right the way you play things close to the edge."

"Hey, if you're going to make me a girl, at least make me Zatanna," I said.

"I like the Catwoman thing!" Kirby agreed. "She's totally other-ethical enough."

"I am not other-ethical!" I protested sharply. "I have very firm morale standards."

"Anyway, with the whole brainwash people for their own good, I'd make Molly Zatanna now that I think about it," Georgia said.

"Besides, Batman and Catwoman make a great couple!" Andi added.

"Great, so I'm the woman of the relationship then?" I asked, shaking my head before continuing to mutter under my breath. "I still say at least Zatanna. I mean Zatanna has a much better outfit and..."

I grumbled silently for several seconds.

"What are you looking at?" I asked them.

"I just got a great idea for the convention coming up!" Andi declared. "You have to invite Sergeant Murphy!"


"Tell me Dresden," Murphy said in a voice of dread and doom that perfectly fit the costume she was wearing. "How'd I get roped in the Super-Hero Boxing Day thing?"

"You're not asking about how I got into this?" I asked, crossing my arms.

"I know better than to strain my sanity that far," Murphy noted.

And people walked around us firmly impressed with the Batman and Catwoman costumes we were wearing.

"Well, I like what they got for me!" Molly said in her Zatanna costume.