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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.

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I don't know whether I should be doing the sappy kind of awing over you two in love or the sad kind of awing over you in different places right now. [That can be so hard. It can scare the other person off instead of catch them up.] A little bit of both? I'm really happy for you and really sorry she's not... wait, run away with you?

Do you mean like a romantic escapade or was there something to run from?

Er.

[Definitely not a romantic escapade. How to sum up the situation without going into boring detail?]

Techinically I should have been reporting her for failing to adhere to oversight and thus becoming an international fugitive.

Okay, that's pretty intense. The rift with Steve and the government orders? [She's heard things, but the Avengers have this stoic way of never really going into it with her.]

[He nods.] The Sokovia Accords, they're called, after Wanda's home that Ultron attempted to turn into a cataclysmic meteorite. The Avengers--and probably any other persons with extraordinary abilities they learn about--are to be overseen by a council of world leaders. It's by no means a perfect system, but it's been my opinion to follow the rules until something better can be developed.

[He glances away, shoulders slumping a little.]

But the restrictions they place on her are exceedingly harsh. It's not right to keep her a virtual prisoner and allow me freedom, simply because I have better control over my destructive ability.

The government wants to oversee people with abilities... You can't legislate against a person for being who they are. [For her it's obviously a personal topic. But it would be for anyone born differently with powers. But in her world it wasn't the governments that oppressed mutants. It was mutants who rose up and destroyed governments—civilization as they knew it and most of the planet. Apocalypse was in control, powerful, and driving a mostly mindless force of Infinite soldiers beneath him but how many mutants signed up without mind control or genetic augmentation because of the hate and harassment they faced from their elected representatives? It didn't make it right and she was decidedly not on their side, but she knows it was never easy to be a mutant. It's a little unsettling to hear Vision think any part of that is okay, but she can also understand wanting some kind of order after all the chaos she lived through.] Yeah, that's not going to go well.

I guess it didn't.

[And however he felt in the beginning it doesn't sound like he's wholly behind it now, wanting to run away and all.] Did something get destroyed accidentally? [By Wanda.]

Precisely. And in the case of a crisis, I can honestly say I would not wait for a bureaucracy to tell me whom to save. In peacetime, acceding to the Accords is a simple matter; better to remain positive in the public eye as long as possible.

[So yeah, he doesn't agree with the spirit of the law at all.]

No, it did not. [And he picks up on her implication fast enough.] In attempting to remove a bomb from a crowded marketplace, Wanda accidentally deflected it into a delegate of Wakandan scientists.

Peace time. [She lets out a small burst of air somewhere between a laugh and a snort.] What's that? [Though she's known far less fighting in Marina and Drift, it's rarely anything resembling peaceful.

She listens as he talks about Wanda.]

You can't save everyone. [She wouldn't blame Wanda for something like that.]

It's when other people are taking care of the problems at hand. I'm sure you've heard of it. [Yeah no, peace time is just like, saving sinking ferries in New York instead of aliens burning down half of New York. Life as an Avenger is never boring, it's just--smaller scale, sometimes.

Though at her next comment, he sighs.]

That does not stop me from wanting to, Kitty. And I know Wanda feels the same way.

Sounds vaguely familiar. [Like protecting your crew against cannibals?]

[She just looks at him.] Who do you think you're talking to? I know that. [Like she doesn't walk around with years of guilt of the people she didn't save or know that Vision and Wanda are good, caring people.] It's just good to remember we set unattainable goals for ourselves.

[He looks a wee bit abashed at that.]

Of course. My apologies. But I do think that's part of why it's easy to be your friend, despite what you would call radically different backgrounds.

[And then he suddenly smiles.] Though I hope my latest addition to my powers won't accidentally upset you.

[She purposefully bumps into his arm and smiles up at him.] I like you too. [It's really good to have him back. She really hopes this lasts. In Marina sometimes they'd have days when the prison would be flooded by new and familiar faces and then the next day they were all gone again. That hasn't happened here, but there's a first time for everything and it still seems unreal that he's back with his memories.]

You have a new power? How could that possibly upset me? It's not like you walk through walls, right?

[Wait, she does remember that he can do that, right? He looks alarmed for a moment before realizing it's probably a joke.]

Er. Well, this is more of a development of something else I could already do. You recall I could manipulate my clothing at will?

[All those terrible dad sweaters? He concentrates for a moment, first growing normal human clothing for himself, and then shifting his skin tone and a few other features until an attractive but slightly goofy-expressioned apparent-human is standing in the hallway.]

It would have been terribly difficult to sneak off with Wanda under my normal appearance, you understand.

[And then he quickly shifts back, because he really is more comfortable in his own skin.]

[Definitely a joke even though she was honestly annoyed by it last time. But if someone is going to share her power and have a ton of other powers on top of it she's glad it's Vision at least.]

I remember. [She did her best not to mock any of his choices. She remembers having certain tastes* her teammates didn't always appreciate. It takes a person awhile to find their sense of style and they can still evolve it as they go on. Vision may look (and often act) older than her but he's not in any actual passage of time kind of way.

She watches his demonstration and her eyes open wider. Of course she's seen shapeshifting a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot. Mostly from Morph but also Mystique and there were a few others in Marina and the fleet and from what he said and really what he could do before she shouldn't be surprised and yet she is. And maybe a tad disappointed? Not that he has a new power. And she's glad he was able to use it for something he cared about like seeing Wanda. But disappointed he had to hide who he was to do it. They are supposed to live in the better world, aren't they? Okay, that's maybe a lot to put on a different world and also her world is SUCH a low bar, but she still wants them to clear it with a lot of space leftover.]

Wow, look at you. [Or don't because he is already back.] Hard to improve on perfection though.

(OOC: *That's 616 Kitty and this Kitty probably didn't wear anything exactly like that, but she was more similar to her split counterpart the younger she was so something similar occurred. No professor though!)

Edited 2018-07-26 20:30 (UTC)

[And before the Accords he wouldn't have needed to. Damn the situation that had led to Germany, and his friends fighting one another, and the need for secrecy. They all knew that if Tony had really put forth any effort into finding the splinter Avengers, he could have; they all, equally, knew he was too stubborn about it to do so. So it fell to him to be secretive, because he stood out the most.

He sincerely hopes things will change in the future and he can go on a date with the woman he loves in his own skin.]

Thank you, Kitty. I must say, I hope it's a completely useless ability to have in this place.

It's definitely not something you need to do for my benefit. You might remind Kurt of his mom now though. [Still PRETTY DIFFERENT from his mom. She smiles before looking curious again.]

So, other than driving you into new powers and skins, how was the oversight?

[He raises an eyebrow.] I honestly cannot tell if that would be a good thing or not.

[He shrugs.] It hasn't yet prevented us from doing our duty. Occasionally some of the council members will have some astonishingly stupid questions about me, but they tend to retreat from them if I wear my on-duty outfit or demonstrate some harmless trick in front of them. Mr. Stark has me complete much of the paperwork, as it only takes me a fraction of the time when there is an electronic version.

It's not difficult to sneak out, if necessary, because I know the security systems better than the ones who design them.

[She listens curiously. It could be worse. Of course it could be worse. But it also doesn't sound great to her, having to perform for people who don't understand or trust him for being different. To put their minds at rest even though he hasn't done anything wrong.]

Are you sure it's harmless? [She likes sharing her power with people. It can be...intimate in a way especially now that she's less apt to use it as a test. She used to purposefully try to scare people with it. That way if they were scared it was on her terms and not just because of what she is. And if they weren't it put her at ease.]

And is that security to keep you in or other people out?

{He smiles, if a bit grimly.] The physical effects, yes. As for the psychological effects, I hardly need Wanda to tell me when they're afraid of what they don't understand. I do try to simplify the science behind it, but that can be rather difficult at times. Nevertheless, I'm happy to explain it until their heads spin.

Oh, it's to keep other people out. They haven't yet determined how to hold someone who can phase through matter.

[With an energy prison, obviously, but it's not like he's going to say that out loud.]

Unlike the Atroma, I might add. I did test the shuttle hull earlier, and it's still impenetrable to me.

Here's hoping they don't. [She'd be able to get out of some energy prisons. Energy, magic, and telepathy can all have different results with her when phased. ~~Almost like different writers just do whatever they want whenever it's convenient.~~]

The Atroma are funny that way. I can go through the shuttle hulls all I want, but I don't fry any circuits like I normally would. I do on other things. Just not the ships. Not that I want to fry the ship's circuits but that isn't really a choice. [People she shouldn't phase through just to see how it goes: Vision.]

[Gotta love having different writers!]

Hmm. I wonder if they intend to keep me from accessing space directly. I've no idea what it would do to me, but as I still have organic components I'm in no hurry to test it.

[Although that begs the question--]

Does it work on the communicators?

Could be. Maybe they just figured you were more likely to try or more likely to succeed if you did. Or maybe it's inconsistent and weird or based on ratings somehow.

[She considers his question.] Probably. Would you like me to try to fry your communicator? [She's not trying with hers.]

That I would readily believe. Their inconsistency with regards to powers is something to behold. [Does he need better ratings to be able to phase through a hull? Are they saving it for when he needs better ratings? How does the ratings system actually work, anyway?]

Actually, it has nothing important on it at the moment. Better now than ever. [He offers it out to her.]

[She takes it, still looking unsure.] We can probably get it working again but there's a chance it won't. I mean, assuming I do short it out. Are you sure?

I think it would be better to know now than to have it happen by accident and learn then. I can live without a communicator for a short time if it breaks, and I've always itched to take one apart regardless.

Okay, just remember you said that. [She sets it down on a table before slowly waving a hand through it.] Feels normal. [In as much as she feels anything while doing it. Solid once more, she picks it up and tries to turn it on, but the screen stays dark.]

I have defeated it. [She says while handing it back to him.]