Spectacular World

A Day In Lillian And A Day In Oleander

"We made it back home." Alice walked the streets of Lillian, looking around at all the buildings. "Or at least we're close to home. Lillian is right next door to Oleander." Today, she was in a simple white buttoned-up shirt with a black dress jacket over it and a normal skirt. "Usually I'm always using my drones to record and look at Oleander or Lillian. It's kind of fun walking around and looking at everything with your eyes. Don't you think so, June?"

"I'm getting really sick and tired of holding this camera. I'm not even a real cameraman, you know." June said, his eye twitching. Despite that, though, he did his job.

Oleander had three different sections to it, and so did Lillian. It had the rich, the very rich, and the insanely rich. Instead of vast stores and other streets that Oleander had, it was filled with a bunch of theme parks and water parks. A few parks were scattered throughout the city, and the towers all loomed above. If you were to get to the very rich part, you'd find dozens of massive lawns and manors. Lillian and Oleander were both simple cities, yet had a vast history, with many different heroes constantly popping in and out of it. New heroes would always appear, and historical moments seemed to constantly happen.

Alice turned back to the camera and brushed some of her hair behind an ear. "Well, let's go ahead and get to the interviews, should we? After all, we're almost done with this journey."

June nodded and turned the camera off. When it finally came back on, they were in a section of the city that was known for its many pop up bars. They stood outside of one where a grumpy, fat man stood, his arms folded over his chest. "Ain't this the second time we had a talk?" The man asked, making a face.

"Is it?" Alice cocked her head to the side. "Have we met before?"

"Names Qrow Bar." The man grumbled. "You came to me after my last bar in Oleander burned down."

"Your last bar? So did you used to be from Oleander?"

"That I did." The man pointed his thumb at the bar behind him. "We Bar family have been running bars for years. It's not very shocking considering the name, but that's just because we do it better than anyone else. This here is the Crowbar, one of the best bars in Lillian. I used to have one in Oleander, but that one got destroyed after a noob hero had her fight inside of it with the bastard Intake. Worse yet that hero is still out in the field doing stuff and didn't even say sorry! Her being in Oleander is one of the reasons I moved to Lillian and reopened my bar!"

"Oh? Do you know the name of this hero?"

"Better than that, I got a video of the bitch! See, she posted this on Hero Hub after the incident!" Qrow reached into his pocket and fished out his phone. He went to the Hero Hub and typed something up before finally showing it to the camera.

The video showed a new up-and-coming hero, one known as Cinder. She was in full costume, and the video was listed as 'My Apology.' A few people had some issues with her recent fights. Not because she was a little destructive in her combat, instead most of the comments she had been getting were about how she didn't act cute or girly. Qrow had made one such comment on her page, expressing displeasure at the fact that she was fighting crime and had gotten one of his bars destroyed instead of doing normal female hero stuff like modeling. Cinder's response was simple.

"I'd like to go ahead and apologize." The hero stated as the video started. "Apologize for the inconvenience of me not giving a fuck about what any of you think!" The video then cut to the image of some sort of backpack mascot that had arms and legs. It danced for the rest of the ten minutes of the video. It was the only video Cinder had posted on her account and was met with a series of downvotes...

"Huh." Alice blinked, slowly processing what she had just seen. "That's the hero Cinder from Oleander. Part of Myth's team. She first appeared in the public eye when she battled the villain Intake, though she didn't have a proper costume at the time. It's been linked back to her, though. Her first actual in-field showing was when she saved Justin Time-"