I had a thought whilst perusing the most recent entry on the network: has our group been linked to Morningstar in any way prior to our assistance on these raids?
it takes him half a minute to run through potential linkages. ]
The most concrete link I can think of would be the first wave's arrival, when Morningstar crashed the transport and took the cargo, us. Additionally, if the group that initially held us recognises our faces, then they'll know we've been intercepting the subsequent shipments and may suspect Morningstar's involvement in helping us do so.
So nothing public.
[ and the UNA would need ties to their initial captors, to have that intel, or be intercepting Gaby's reports. ]
Which leads me to the leak. We weren't compromised but Gaby was and was spared; why? It could be a testament to Morningstar's safeguards regarding the dissemination of intel, the mole being a turncoat and making off with a list before we were added to it, or a collaboration between that rogue operative and the UNA to intentionally keep us out of harm's way as clear assets with her as our handler.
I don't think our omission from these raids is a coincidence or an oversight, Fitz.
The soldiers didn't seem aware we would intervene, let alone prepared for abilities like ours with any specialist tech, though they weren't fearful, either. That might be tied up in the other debates, of course. And you don't tell soldiers everything, even when you send them off on an operation.
[ they both know that. he's simply laying it out. ]
I feel confident in saying Gaby and the displaced were actively spared by someone. And we know Gaby thinks we're the reason she was passed over. So, we're assets, yes — but whose? The leak, the UNA, a third party, all of the above?
As far as anyone is aware, Morningstar included, we're free game. No one has laid claim to us, not even the people responsible for our being here — otherwise why turn us loose at all?
[ They're already touched on that theory but it bears no relevance to what they're discussing now. ]
Or at least we were free game until we stepped in to assist. I suspect it won't matter now who's signed up or not. So for now, whoever's calling the shots believes we're Morningstar's assets and is interested in wresting control.
I wouldn't go that far. We don't know that the "shot callers" are against Morningstar enough to worry over our apparent allegiance. In fact, they may be entirely unrelated to the leak and simply issued a separate command to the UNA to pass us over or belatedly scrubbed the leaked data on us, when they realised we had become targets.
Just because "they" haven't asked anything of us doesn't mean we're not part of their plans. Perhaps we're even already playing into them. With their claim potentially embedded in our very bodies and inhuman abilities. Maybe our new genetic code's even copyrighted, like everything else on this planet. We don't know.
There's also the matter of the mysteriously released murderers among us. I doubt Gaby went down to the precinct herself to bail them out, if they're roaming free in the city under the same names as their arrest, after they were initially held while unregistered. Maybe someone else intervened.
[ a pause before he presses on. ]
I think what we are, our purpose here — it's inherently linked to why we were spared.
No. I think for all our talk of not making assumptions, we trapped ourselves in one early on, myself included. We're not just experiments or sleeper agents of chaos or even some Machiavellian nonsense. People use human beings, when they think they're doing the right thing. We fought the monster. We cured the outbreak. Those are defensive manoeuvres. And we were only equipped to do the latter because of how we've been altered.
[ We, he says, meaning the first groups of displaced. She's barely been here a month and while the experiment angle was one worth exploring, there was another layer she saw, coloured by her own experiences in the war. Or rather, the experience of one other man and the hand she had in it.
There's a delicate pause, and then: ]
Perhaps I'm grasping at straws, but I haven't been able to shake the parallel between us and Project Rebirth since our little chat a few weeks ago.
It's as we said — humanity can't have changed very much in five centuries. Yes, the pervasiveness of greed and corruption is staggeringly unsurprising, but there's another matter that's remained consistent: someone seeing a threat and creating a solution. Who's to say that isn't what we are? That's what Captain Rogers was.
Gaby called this a period of environmental unrest. Things are happening to this planet, changing, and we're part of it.
[ She gets it. Of course she does. And then she takes it a step further.
Project Rebirth, Project Looking Glass — they stem from the same source. If you want to save the world and the ones you love from extraordinary forces, you need extraordinary operatives. ]
As you know, on June 27 2511, shortly after the first wave of us were retrieved by Morningstar, earthquakes preceded the arrival of a large creature. So, I looked into the seismic activity on this planet, and the incident with the creatures marks the second unpredicted quake in the last year despite all others being identified in advance by the technology of this world. In September 2510, the seismic event in question hit a number of large megacities, including New Amsterdam, New Oslo, and New Venice. Moreover, there were power outages across all the cities, despite their divergent locations. That sounds more like an EMP than separate, latent infrastructure and electrical issues.
I think you and Gaby are right. This earth was changing before we awoke. And someone noticed. Whether or not they altered us, they equipped us with implants so we could survive out here.
Which could point towards private, not government. But who's to say a covert branch of the UN couldn't be involved in some way? They're too good at covering their tracks,, appear to have too much pull and access where they need it. I'm certain we've both been privy to operations that were on a need-to-know basis. Whatever we are likely falls under that.
Very few people were aware of Project Rebirth. We couldn't risk the enemy finding out (though they damn near came close) and losing our advantage, especially if we had succeeded in creating the army of supersoldiers as planned. Rogers made up for that discrepancy but even so, he was part of an elite squad whose movements remained confidential in order to remain effective. There's a possibility the people involved don't all know they're involved.
And regarding those earthquakes: have we heard of any reports about people like us in Oslo and Venice?
This might be biased from my own experiences with HYDRA, but I doubt the operation is strictly private or government as well. The MO better fits a conglomerate with extremities in every field. And with varying levels of self-awareness, as you said.
[ teeth everywhere. and some don't know even why they're locking their jaws (like ward, always like ward). ]
No, but we wouldn't. I've scoured online. Boards of all kinds. Anything substantial would be censored before it reaches us.
[ he looked into it after the monster, actually. the media can't stand against the government or third-party hackers. ]
[ She has a theory about the earthquakes and is prepared to launch into it when the world halts at the name HYDRA. It's a name that should be confined to history — in a poor light, in a past tense. But Fitz speaks of personal experience, which — impossible.
Surely. ]
HYDRA was defeated in 1945. The Commandos and I saw to it.
[ Ah, he'd hoped someone else would handle this (Bobbi; even Daisy or Strange, with their offhand remarks) but as is often the case, needs demand he fill the gap in time between them. ]
[ It's a good thing this is over text so she can take a moment to feel the absolute gravity of such a horrible, familiar phrase. Then I guess we'll keep cutting them off, she'd snapped back at Werner Reinhardt before arresting him and all his soldiers. She'd been so certain they'd won that last battle of a war that was meant to be over by Christmas. A battle they won for those they lost along the way: Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes.
For what, then? What does their sacrifice mean if it survived decades later? She feels, for one awful second, like she might cry. But her emotions have been too raw, too volatile, lately and she reins it in with an iron will. Later. There will be time to be angry and upset later. ]
To hell with the head, I should have gone for the heart.
No matter. HYDRA isn't the issue now. You're right, we won't find any answers as to who is behind all this but we can start making informed guesses as to why and how. But first, tell me, Agent Fitz: what's the current theory regarding the nature of our arrival here?
[ It's horrible in the way of sudden, sheer drop. Every time HYDRA resurfaces, it's as though the terrain shifts, the world giving out beneath SHIELD's feet. You can't destroy the threat by shooting for the head or the heart. HYDRA has neither.
You have to take them apart limb by limb, and hope that one day, you've buried the last extremity.
Fortunate that Carter lets the moment pass and saves him from worse news. HYDRA survived by embedding itself in SHIELD, rotting us from the inside. ]
I don't know what others believe, but I'm of two minds, which share an entry point. In either case, we entered this universe through a portal in spacetime, so the question becomes: Were we chosen and dragged through the portal, or accidentally sucked into an unstable opening?
[ One day they'll discuss it. But not now. God, no, not now. ]
Given my encounter with the rift caused by Zero Matter, I had begun to wonder the same. Whether or not its deliberate remains to be seen, but here's another wrinkle for your forehead: do you suppose the earthquakes have something to do with our being here? (And the monster in question.)
It's far-fetched, maybe. But that's why I want to know if there are any rumours of similar individuals in the other cities. If we've all tripped through the same entry point one way or another.
Not a wrinkle at all. I think the earthquakes and power outages are side effects of our entry mechanism or symptoms of whatever force is causing the gateways to open.
Theory one: The monsters came through the same door we did, potentially exposing them to the same interactant that makes us glow blue and manifest unnatural abilities. We get picked up and equipped by a third party from there.
Theory two: The first group of seismic events released enough of that interactant for the people who picked us up to sample — and use to create a defence against the oncoming threat, intentionally infusing us with it.
Theory three: The third party is actually also the second party and doing something to cause the openings, earthquakes, and so on.
I'm inclined to go with three, if only because I'm familiar with people who are too clever for their own good and impacting the world for better or for worse. (Often, they believe it's because of the former.) If we knew the rhyme or reason behind the specific abilities manifested in each of us, we'd be able to narrow those down.
We're not in the business of believing in coincidence and all of these things can't be. Our being here, what we can do, getting involved in local affairs and in public no less, being passed over by the UNA and our handler alongside us. There's a reason. Someone out there either anticipated something coming or took advantage of a situation to right a possible wrong that's gone on long before us.
No, we're not in the business of believing in coincidences, Carter.
[ he agrees with her. whatever's happening is both cosmos and chaos. there's an element of unintentionality, yes, but someone's capitalising on the byproducts of this reaction in spacetime. ]
Counting ourselves, I know the abilities of twelve present individuals. I also know the abilities of two who've since gone missing. That's not a bad sample.
[ has he been collecting that data intentionally this whole time?
he doesn't know. ]
So let's narrow it down. Meet you by the waterfront. Corner of 74th and 6th.
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[ She'd been on her way back to the motel after work but after a quick recalculation via her GPS, it's easy enough to change tack and switch trains at the next station. After that, she puts most of her neural implant programs into sleep mode and makes her way to the designated meeting spot by the daylight breaking over the tall spires of New Amsterdam.
It's not far from where they first came across the river so she cuts through the market to grab a quick bite to eat (some kind of steamed bun filled with savoury mushrooms) and offers another to Fitz the moment she spots him on a bench. ]
Here, [ she says before easing herself gingerly into the seat next to him. ] It's difficult to theorise on an empty stomach.
[ Which is what she'd said to him in the SHIELD kitchen not too long ago. ]
[ though he leans back where he'd normally hunch forward in an effort to protect his ribs, one foot still taps with his tell-tale nervous (at once excited and frightened) energy, reserved for reworking theories. by now, he's switched into more casual attire for his night job. a grey crew neck and dark trousers, steel-toed boots. a little scruffier than he was the month prior, too.
in his haste (whirring in his head), he'd forgotten to grab a bite tonight. at carter's offer, his features loosen, breaking up the tight lines and wrinkles of thought on his face. oh. that's very — thoughtful.
like jemma. ]
[ a little duck of his head, as he budges up to make room for her. ] Thank you, Carter. [ one corner of his mouth tugs to the side, not quite a smile. a bite and then, ] Quick thinking.
[ he cases their surroundings then, with the evening crowds (morning, if the faintly rising light is any indication of the natural hour). plenty of people to cover their chatter. ]
Shall I get into the list?
[ that he hadn't realised he'd been maintaining meticulously, tucked in a locked cabinet in his mind, with the key appearing alongside her comments on the importance of knowing. unsettling, if he thinks about it too long (he's been thinking about it the entire way here). his gaze fixes somewhere in the distance, even as he digs into the food. ]
[ She leans against the bench with a soft exhale, keenly aware of the pressure against the colourful bruising across her back, but there's nothing for it. They are all still in recovery even with this future's medical advancements and that hasn't stopped anyone from doing their jobs — both overt and covert. Which is why she says, ]
By all means. Far be it from us to have a meeting without making it about business.
[ It's a joke and it isn't. They're always busy, always working, always thinking. She should take it easy. (They all should.) But in the wake of the raids is the best time to pay close attention and it's better they're on the same page moving forward. ]
[ At the joke, he blinks twice, not sure if it is just that. Hard to distract him when he's set on an idea, though she nearly managed it with her gift of food. Right. ]
Telling. [ another bite. he tries to talk through it near the end, but has the decency to cover his mouth with his other hand. ] More secure that way.
[ clearing his throat. ]
As we both know, you have metal-based shielding, which first manifested in self-defence — an adaptation to survive, localised at the site of a potential wound. And Markus has more literal shields, rather expansive and movable. [ a rolling gesture before he brings his hand back to his person, over his heart. ]
Now, I have portal-based manipulation, a subset of spacetime manipulation. The portals have increased in size and distance by 200% since they began occurring. [ he points outward. ] Similar to myself, Cain has a localised spatial manipulation ability, a subset of spacetime manipulation.
Both Hafid and Ren have a form of combustion, seemingly unstable, with the former's particularly volatile, not unlike his emotional state. [ it's a clinical observation, as all of this is. ] Vanessa and Katelin have some form of emotional affectivity. [ tipping his head this way and that. ] I'd classify Katelin's as more active, like persuasion or manipulation. [ he hums in thought. ] Similarly, Marcos had the ability to induce truthfulness in others. [ an unpleasant experience, evident in the slight tightening of his mouth. and moving on, ] Ah, Connor, meanwhile, can compartmentalise his emotions and sensations. Originally, this ability was restricted to himself, but it appears he can affect others now. He noted this allows him to be more like his former self: A machine.
[ he counts on his fingers, keeping track. ]
Jaqobis has a form of wound transfer, where he can take on others' injuries and likely return the favour. Ciri had a form of blood-based healing, of particular note because she was known and hunted for her blood in her homeworld.
[ he arches his brows. maybe there's a pattern here, after all. ]
That leaves Daisy with the ability to deconstruct objects and then construct new devices with the parts. [ well. ] And, of course, there's the good doctor — whose ability I'll have to omit, as he's been rather upset about my discussing him with coworkers before now, but it would appear to tie into his former life, as I know it.
[ Mild irritation there, but he gets it. Every tidbit he reveals now is evidence that he's been looking at this too closely, that he can't be trusted, but Hunter and Bobbi both said he ought to use this side of himself, right? This is useful. ]
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it takes him half a minute to run through potential linkages. ]
The most concrete link I can think of would be the first wave's arrival, when Morningstar crashed the transport and took the cargo, us. Additionally, if the group that initially held us recognises our faces, then they'll know we've been intercepting the subsequent shipments and may suspect Morningstar's involvement in helping us do so.
So nothing public.
[ and the UNA would need ties to their initial captors, to have that intel, or be intercepting Gaby's reports. ]
all private obv
Which leads me to the leak. We weren't compromised but Gaby was and was spared; why? It could be a testament to Morningstar's safeguards regarding the dissemination of intel, the mole being a turncoat and making off with a list before we were added to it, or a collaboration between that rogue operative and the UNA to intentionally keep us out of harm's way as clear assets with her as our handler.
I don't think our omission from these raids is a coincidence or an oversight, Fitz.
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[ but as she asked, to what extent and why? ]
The soldiers didn't seem aware we would intervene, let alone prepared for abilities like ours with any specialist tech, though they weren't fearful, either. That might be tied up in the other debates, of course.
And you don't tell soldiers everything, even when you send them off on an operation.
[ they both know that. he's simply laying it out. ]
I feel confident in saying Gaby and the displaced were actively spared by someone. And we know Gaby thinks we're the reason she was passed over.
So, we're assets, yes — but whose? The leak, the UNA, a third party, all of the above?
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[ They're already touched on that theory but it bears no relevance to what they're discussing now. ]
Or at least we were free game until we stepped in to assist. I suspect it won't matter now who's signed up or not. So for now, whoever's calling the shots believes we're Morningstar's assets and is interested in wresting control.
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Just because "they" haven't asked anything of us doesn't mean we're not part of their plans. Perhaps we're even already playing into them. With their claim potentially embedded in our very bodies and inhuman abilities. Maybe our new genetic code's even copyrighted, like everything else on this planet. We don't know.
There's also the matter of the mysteriously released murderers among us. I doubt Gaby went down to the precinct herself to bail them out, if they're roaming free in the city under the same names as their arrest, after they were initially held while unregistered. Maybe someone else intervened.
[ a pause before he presses on. ]
I think what we are, our purpose here — it's inherently linked to why we were spared.
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What do you suppose, then? Just another in a series of elaborate field tests?
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I think for all our talk of not making assumptions, we trapped ourselves in one early on, myself included. We're not just experiments or sleeper agents of chaos or even some Machiavellian nonsense.
People use human beings, when they think they're doing the right thing.
We fought the monster. We cured the outbreak. Those are defensive manoeuvres. And we were only equipped to do the latter because of how we've been altered.
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There's a delicate pause, and then: ]
Perhaps I'm grasping at straws, but I haven't been able to shake the parallel between us and Project Rebirth since our little chat a few weeks ago.
It's as we said — humanity can't have changed very much in five centuries. Yes, the pervasiveness of greed and corruption is staggeringly unsurprising, but there's another matter that's remained consistent: someone seeing a threat and creating a solution. Who's to say that isn't what we are? That's what Captain Rogers was.
Gaby called this a period of environmental unrest. Things are happening to this planet, changing, and we're part of it.
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Project Rebirth, Project Looking Glass — they stem from the same source. If you want to save the world and the ones you love from extraordinary forces, you need extraordinary operatives. ]
As you know, on June 27 2511, shortly after the first wave of us were retrieved by Morningstar, earthquakes preceded the arrival of a large creature. So, I looked into the seismic activity on this planet, and the incident with the creatures marks the second unpredicted quake in the last year despite all others being identified in advance by the technology of this world. In September 2510, the seismic event in question hit a number of large megacities, including New Amsterdam, New Oslo, and New Venice. Moreover, there were power outages across all the cities, despite their divergent locations. That sounds more like an EMP than separate, latent infrastructure and electrical issues.
I think you and Gaby are right. This earth was changing before we awoke.
And someone noticed. Whether or not they altered us, they equipped us with implants so we could survive out here.
[ and be of use. ]
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Very few people were aware of Project Rebirth. We couldn't risk the enemy finding out (though they damn near came close) and losing our advantage, especially if we had succeeded in creating the army of supersoldiers as planned. Rogers made up for that discrepancy but even so, he was part of an elite squad whose movements remained confidential in order to remain effective. There's a possibility the people involved don't all know they're involved.
And regarding those earthquakes: have we heard of any reports about people like us in Oslo and Venice?
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And with varying levels of self-awareness, as you said.
[ teeth everywhere. and some don't know even why they're locking their jaws (like ward, always like ward). ]
No, but we wouldn't. I've scoured online. Boards of all kinds. Anything substantial would be censored before it reaches us.
[ he looked into it after the monster, actually. the media can't stand against the government or third-party hackers. ]
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Surely. ]
HYDRA was defeated in 1945. The Commandos and I saw to it.
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I'm sorry, Carter.
You cut off one head.
[ The rest is history, ever repeating. ]
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For what, then? What does their sacrifice mean if it survived decades later? She feels, for one awful second, like she might cry. But her emotions have been too raw, too volatile, lately and she reins it in with an iron will. Later. There will be time to be angry and upset later. ]
To hell with the head, I should have gone for the heart.
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No matter. HYDRA isn't the issue now. You're right, we won't find any answers as to who is behind all this but we can start making informed guesses as to why and how. But first, tell me, Agent Fitz: what's the current theory regarding the nature of our arrival here?
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You have to take them apart limb by limb, and hope that one day, you've buried the last extremity.
Fortunate that Carter lets the moment pass and saves him from worse news. HYDRA survived by embedding itself in SHIELD, rotting us from the inside. ]
I don't know what others believe, but I'm of two minds, which share an entry point.
In either case, we entered this universe through a portal in spacetime, so the question becomes:
Were we chosen and dragged through the portal, or accidentally sucked into an unstable opening?
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Given my encounter with the rift caused by Zero Matter, I had begun to wonder the same. Whether or not its deliberate remains to be seen, but here's another wrinkle for your forehead: do you suppose the earthquakes have something to do with our being here? (And the monster in question.)
It's far-fetched, maybe. But that's why I want to know if there are any rumours of similar individuals in the other cities. If we've all tripped through the same entry point one way or another.
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Theory one: The monsters came through the same door we did, potentially exposing them to the same interactant that makes us glow blue and manifest unnatural abilities. We get picked up and equipped by a third party from there.
Theory two: The first group of seismic events released enough of that interactant for the people who picked us up to sample — and use to create a defence against the oncoming threat, intentionally infusing us with it.
Theory three: The third party is actually also the second party and doing something to cause the openings, earthquakes, and so on.
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I'm inclined to go with three, if only because I'm familiar with people who are too clever for their own good and impacting the world for better or for worse. (Often, they believe it's because of the former.) If we knew the rhyme or reason behind the specific abilities manifested in each of us, we'd be able to narrow those down.
We're not in the business of believing in coincidence and all of these things can't be. Our being here, what we can do, getting involved in local affairs and in public no less, being passed over by the UNA and our handler alongside us. There's a reason. Someone out there either anticipated something coming or took advantage of a situation to right a possible wrong that's gone on long before us.
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[ he agrees with her. whatever's happening is both cosmos and chaos. there's an element of unintentionality, yes, but someone's capitalising on the byproducts of this reaction in spacetime. ]
Counting ourselves, I know the abilities of twelve present individuals.
I also know the abilities of two who've since gone missing.
That's not a bad sample.
[ has he been collecting that data intentionally this whole time?
he doesn't know. ]
So let's narrow it down.
Meet you by the waterfront. Corner of 74th and 6th.
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[ She'd been on her way back to the motel after work but after a quick recalculation via her GPS, it's easy enough to change tack and switch trains at the next station. After that, she puts most of her neural implant programs into sleep mode and makes her way to the designated meeting spot by the daylight breaking over the tall spires of New Amsterdam.
It's not far from where they first came across the river so she cuts through the market to grab a quick bite to eat (some kind of steamed bun filled with savoury mushrooms) and offers another to Fitz the moment she spots him on a bench. ]
Here, [ she says before easing herself gingerly into the seat next to him. ] It's difficult to theorise on an empty stomach.
[ Which is what she'd said to him in the SHIELD kitchen not too long ago. ]
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in his haste (whirring in his head), he'd forgotten to grab a bite tonight. at carter's offer, his features loosen, breaking up the tight lines and wrinkles of thought on his face. oh. that's very — thoughtful.
like jemma. ]
[ a little duck of his head, as he budges up to make room for her. ] Thank you, Carter. [ one corner of his mouth tugs to the side, not quite a smile. a bite and then, ] Quick thinking.
[ he cases their surroundings then, with the evening crowds (morning, if the faintly rising light is any indication of the natural hour). plenty of people to cover their chatter. ]
Shall I get into the list?
[ that he hadn't realised he'd been maintaining meticulously, tucked in a locked cabinet in his mind, with the key appearing alongside her comments on the importance of knowing. unsettling, if he thinks about it too long (he's been thinking about it the entire way here). his gaze fixes somewhere in the distance, even as he digs into the food. ]
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By all means. Far be it from us to have a meeting without making it about business.
[ It's a joke and it isn't. They're always busy, always working, always thinking. She should take it easy. (They all should.) But in the wake of the raids is the best time to pay close attention and it's better they're on the same page moving forward. ]
Are you telling me or sending it to me?
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Telling. [ another bite. he tries to talk through it near the end, but has the decency to cover his mouth with his other hand. ] More secure that way.
[ clearing his throat. ]
As we both know, you have metal-based shielding, which first manifested in self-defence — an adaptation to survive, localised at the site of a potential wound. And Markus has more literal shields, rather expansive and movable. [ a rolling gesture before he brings his hand back to his person, over his heart. ]
Now, I have portal-based manipulation, a subset of spacetime manipulation. The portals have increased in size and distance by 200% since they began occurring. [ he points outward. ] Similar to myself, Cain has a localised spatial manipulation ability, a subset of spacetime manipulation.
Both Hafid and Ren have a form of combustion, seemingly unstable, with the former's particularly volatile, not unlike his emotional state. [ it's a clinical observation, as all of this is. ] Vanessa and Katelin have some form of emotional affectivity. [ tipping his head this way and that. ] I'd classify Katelin's as more active, like persuasion or manipulation. [ he hums in thought. ] Similarly, Marcos had the ability to induce truthfulness in others. [ an unpleasant experience, evident in the slight tightening of his mouth. and moving on, ] Ah, Connor, meanwhile, can compartmentalise his emotions and sensations. Originally, this ability was restricted to himself, but it appears he can affect others now. He noted this allows him to be more like his former self: A machine.
[ he counts on his fingers, keeping track. ]
Jaqobis has a form of wound transfer, where he can take on others' injuries and likely return the favour. Ciri had a form of blood-based healing, of particular note because she was known and hunted for her blood in her homeworld.
[ he arches his brows. maybe there's a pattern here, after all. ]
That leaves Daisy with the ability to deconstruct objects and then construct new devices with the parts. [ well. ] And, of course, there's the good doctor — whose ability I'll have to omit, as he's been rather upset about my discussing him with coworkers before now, but it would appear to tie into his former life, as I know it.
[ Mild irritation there, but he gets it. Every tidbit he reveals now is evidence that he's been looking at this too closely, that he can't be trusted, but Hunter and Bobbi both said he ought to use this side of himself, right? This is useful. ]
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