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driftfleet2018-07-21 12:10 pm
unbearablynaive) wrote in driftfleet2018-07-21 12:10 pm
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Who: The Vision
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Caprine
When: At the Shuffle, evening of the 20th
[He doesn't appear immediately on the Caprine, of course. First he's rudely deposited onto the hospitality deck of the Marsiva, but although he grasps the reality of the situation quickly enough it takes some time to process it all - the uncovered memories of his time here, the juxtaposition of his new situation with the events at home, and then a crushing disappointment as he scans over his newly-acquired communicator and realizes he can't put in a transfer to the Windrose, because his ship doesn't seem to exist anymore.
So that's how it's going to be.
He figures it won't be long before he's assigned to a new ship, and sure enough he's popped over to the Caprine in all his maroon-skinned android glory. He shakes the confetti off and pulls up a video broadcast.]
Good evening, members of the Fleet. I am the Vision, recently of twenty-first century Earth and one of the Avengers, if that means anything to anyone. [Yes, he's still technically an Avenger, even if he's been a bit AWOL lately.] If there's anyone here who knows me, I'd like very much to know that you're here, and please don't hesitate to ask me if you'd like anything from me. I seem to be on the Caprine this time around.
[And then he looks a little wistful.
Does anyone know how long it's been since I was here last? It's been two years for me subjectively, but I'm aware that often has little to do with time passing in the Fleet. I was on the Windrose. [Captain of it, in fact.]
Thank you.
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Caprine
When: At the Shuffle, evening of the 20th
[He doesn't appear immediately on the Caprine, of course. First he's rudely deposited onto the hospitality deck of the Marsiva, but although he grasps the reality of the situation quickly enough it takes some time to process it all - the uncovered memories of his time here, the juxtaposition of his new situation with the events at home, and then a crushing disappointment as he scans over his newly-acquired communicator and realizes he can't put in a transfer to the Windrose, because his ship doesn't seem to exist anymore.
So that's how it's going to be.
He figures it won't be long before he's assigned to a new ship, and sure enough he's popped over to the Caprine in all his maroon-skinned android glory. He shakes the confetti off and pulls up a video broadcast.]
Good evening, members of the Fleet. I am the Vision, recently of twenty-first century Earth and one of the Avengers, if that means anything to anyone. [Yes, he's still technically an Avenger, even if he's been a bit AWOL lately.] If there's anyone here who knows me, I'd like very much to know that you're here, and please don't hesitate to ask me if you'd like anything from me. I seem to be on the Caprine this time around.
[And then he looks a little wistful.
Does anyone know how long it's been since I was here last? It's been two years for me subjectively, but I'm aware that often has little to do with time passing in the Fleet. I was on the Windrose. [Captain of it, in fact.]
Thank you.
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[Wanda smiles, a hint of that deeper softness coming into her expression. Of all the Avengers here, she feels safest with him. Always has. He and Steve both have a gentleness with her that doesn't feel like coddling.]
There's another telepath here, [she says with hushed excitement. She's not alone anymore.] And Natasha said there is a wizard from our world? I didn't know we had wizards.
[Her smile fades to something much more uncertain. Even knowing there are others like her here, two weeks isn't enough to soothe months of watching people instinctively flinch away from her.] I hope they are still so...open-minded.
[She's not going to be so naive as to think that she won't have to fight here - why bring the Avengers at all unless you were routinely going to chuck them on planets with giant monsters?]
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At least half of us have powers. [And most of the ones who don't have no idea what a normal life is.]
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Then I guess they would have to be. [A beat.] What is the ship like?
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Full of windows. [It was already kind of their thing and then Vash bought them an upgrade with even more.] There's a big garden in the shuttle bay. Not exactly the kind you stroll through, but lots of food and herbs. I don't know, it's more about the people and it's good there at least in my biased opinion. [She doesn't really know the two newest arrivals that well yet, but the rest of them are family.]
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And the garden must help with the food. [She smiles, the picture of unsure-but-game.] If you're sure we'll be welcome then I'll ask for a transfer.
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Thank you, Kitty.
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That's excellent news. I do hope the two of you can practice your abilities together. I--can't say I know of a wizard, but there was something I saw [maybe from poking around where he wasn't strictly supposed to, but he can't help it if he knows Stark security systems intimately] about someone else with extraordinary abilities. Perhaps that's the one it was talking about.
[He nods, even biting his lip a little in a distinctly human gesture he's picked up.] As do I. Even here, being an, ah, artificial person isn't exactly commonplace.
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Whatever he is, I hope we can all learn from each other. I have so many questions...
[She laughs again; she knows she's getting ahead of herself but she just can't help it. Wanda hasn't felt this kind of excited curiosity towards her own abilities since she learned how to fly. Feeling something other then fear is exhilarating.]
You're as much a person as anyone else. If they can accept one of us, they can accept the other. [A beat. At home, they're both outsiders of a sort, different in ways the other Avengers aren't. Maybe that's another part of why she tends to gravitate towards him. It's a similar experience, if not the same thing.] And if not, I think it would not be so bad if we were together.
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[The second bit flusters him a little, though.] I--well, yes, I know you know that, but it doesn't exactly prevent the small-minded from calling me a glorified roomba. [SUCK IT LOKI, YOU'RE SMALL-MINDED.]
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[who said that, they're in big trouble]
Did someone here call you that?
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In fact, he called me "Stark's vacuum cleaner" and "a sexless doll", and before you ask, it was someone who already dislikes me without ever having truly met me rather than someone who's bothering to actually judge me based on my actions or intent.
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Of course it was.
[She huffs, still fuming. This is the same face she makes before someone really gets it.]
But not someone on the Twin Roses?
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[He says it in a deadpan tone.]
He's apparently captain of the First Breath here, and before you ask, I don't know the man at all except by reputation, but he has reason to dislike the Mind Stone.
[And, by extension, the Vision.]
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Yeah, she can't suppress that eye roll.]
You're nothing alike. [And as someone who was almost torn apart by the Mind Stone, she would know. It doesn't feel so cruel anymore - Vision seems to temper whatever bad feelings it used to give her. In his hands, it really is just a tool, nothing more.] It's obvious.
[The bitter sarcasm is strong with this one.] I thought he was supposed to be smarter than that.
[Or at least from everything she'd seen in Thor's mind, and how everyone always goes on and on about 'threats like Loki' like they aren't going to see something worse. Like she isn't worse.]
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I can't expect someone who doesn't know me to understand that, Wanda. I can hardly expect it of people who do know me.
[And Loki was afraid. Of the Stone itself or of what it might draw to them, or both. But he's not about to admit that over an open network where Loki might overhear him.]
His opinion isn't important to me. Yours is.
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[She exhales, some of the fire in her dimming. As long as Vision doesn't start believing it she can swallow her fury. For now. As long as it doesn't happen again.
She doesn't tend to fight back if someone is prejudiced against her, but mess with her friends and it's another story altogether.]
I believe in you, Vizh. It doesn't frighten me anymore.
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[Of course he knows he's not a roomba. He might have maybe adopted some of the cleaning bots his ship's janitor had had last time, but they were definitely pets, not people.
He smiles a bit ruefully.]
Considering you're one of the few with the power to stop me if it were necessary, I'm glad to hear it.
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[She doubts Loki's the kind of person to share the fear of what some people would do with it.
But enough of that - Wanda's face goes slack at his last sentence and she's stiffening again.]
Don't...don't talk like that. [Don't even make her imagine it. It makes something in her chest twist painfully.] You're going to be fine.
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I hope it never does happen, but it's worth being aware that this place can...cause strange reactions. Once, for example, it caused the Winter Soldier to revert to his previous programming. [And if it can mess with Bucky like that, there's no guarantee it couldn't mess with the Vision as well.]
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Maybe it's not fine, but it's as fine as it could be.]
I don't think there's any future where you would try to hurt people.
[She's seen his mind and she just...can't comprehend that. He's too gentle. Always has been. Timelines shouldn't be able to change that, and again:] We're going to be fine.
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He definitely has to tell her about the intervening years, he thinks, but perhaps not until they meet in person. It will be easier to show her.]
Thank you. It does mean a great deal, coming from you.
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[Wanda smiles and ducks her head, unsure what to do with that level of praise. It's...unusual, coming from someone who isn't Pietro. She's not blushing, not yet, but it's the notch just below that.]
Is there anything I should know about this place?
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Actually, yes. You've been here a short while already. Have you learned that it pulls people from different points in time?
[Not that that hasn't been, like, obvious from the fact he'd been here before for years at a time, but he needs to segue into the subject somehow.]
May I ask what was the last thing from home you remember?
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Wow phone
autocorrect!!!! /shakes fist
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