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[headinjuries]

you're never alone, no matter how dark it gets.	they say space goes on forever, right? doesn't it have to end eventually?
where's your sense of adventure?	i am so freaking pent up all the time...i could just burst!

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[erbier]

( What do you mean? )

[ Not that he's rude, she knows that, merely looking for examples. ]

[headinjuries]

( About the useful stuff or about telling him his manners suck? )

[erbier]

( Both, perhaps. )

[headinjuries]

( I figured out the Ngozi stuff because he helped. Like, I could tell she was full of it but I was having a hard time pinning it down any farther? I really don't know much about...psychic power stuff. )

[ Granted, part of the reason he couldn't pin it down any further was because he didn't really try for it until Ren pushed him, but he's at least got some idea of what direction to go in now. ]

( And, you know, he just really sucks at asking stuff like hey, step over here so we can talk, or if you find out anything important here let me know. I've told him that saying please won't kill him, but he apparently disagrees! )

[erbier]

( I see. Yes, he would be a good mentor for such a skill. )

[ She's not so petty that her personal annoyance with him will have her deny it. ]

( Please inform me if he pushes you for something you do not wish to give. )

[ She'll stand up to him, if it's needed. ]

[headinjuries]

( It's cool. I'm not afraid to tell him to piss off. )

[erbier]

( I am glad. He can be intimidating. )

[ Although not exactly to her. ]

[headinjuries]

( I've seen worse. )

[ Only half fair, really. He's definitely fought enemies that are far worse in the sense of "people to have a physical throwdown with."

He doesn't have so much experience with "people who could brainfry me," Pleasant Hill aside, but that's not enough for him to admit to any unease over. ]

[erbier]

( Have you? In your travels? )

[ While she has something mildly maternal towards him, she is also wildly interested in his life as a tiny world traveling savior. Her eagerness to hear more about it sparkles subtly. ]

[headinjuries]

( Yeah. I'd fight Ren over the Hulk again any day. )

[ The Hulk is pretty much always the first thing that comes to mind, when he considers "what do I never ever want to deal with again." ]

[erbier]

[ Just tugs at the thread of thought, wanting to see this Hulk creature. Startling! Interesting! Alien! ]

( What is that? )

[headinjuries]

( So, there's this guy back home, and whenever he gets ticked off, he like...monsters out. He gets bigger and meaner and really strong - like, he punched me halfway around the world. That kind of strong. )

[ Superhero physics, lol. ]

( That's the Hulk. Except Cap said back then, apparently the Hulk has a Hulk? So I guess that was even worse than he usually is. )

[erbier]

( How would you survive such a blow? )

[headinjuries]

( I'm stronger when I use the Nova Force. So that kept me from getting completely clobbered. )

[erbier]

[ She has so many questions and wonders if it is too tedious to ask them all. ]

( The Nova Force? Your life seems to have been very exciting. )

[headinjuries]

( Only in the past year. It was super boring before that, trust me. But then everything kind of exploded at once. )

[erbier]

( Do you wish otherwise? )

[headinjuries]

( Sometimes yes. Sometimes no.

...lately, more yes. )

[erbier]

( I understand. )

[ I mean. No, she doesn't. But what she does understand is that he had a life before. She did not. She'd had a death waiting for her, there is nothing to long for in the past. She assumes there must be something desirable to this normalcy he speaks of. She thinks it sounds interesting, almost like a fairytale. Family. School. Is that why she dotes on him, in order to get that vicariousness? Likely. ]

( Is it better or worse, to speak on it? )

[ Because she wants to keep asking, but not if it's just painful to him. ]

[headinjuries]

( It's...I don't mind. )

[ He's not actually sure if it is better or worse. So he'll go with "it's okay to talk about" and leave it at that instead of confusing himself by trying to decide. ]

[erbier]

[ Okay good because bitch is feeling nosy. ]

( What is the Nova Force? )

[headinjuries]

( It's this...energy field. I don't know a ton about how it actually works, but it's where my powers come from. The Xandarians figured out how to use it, and they made the Nova Corps to be like police. )

[ You know, police who can fly through space and blow shit up. All the important things. ]

[erbier]

( An alien sect. )

[ Kind of, Ilde, kind of. ]

( How is it that it came to you? Was it suited to you, like the symbiote? )

[ Popular with the aliens, huh. What a special kid. ]

[headinjuries]

( My dad was a Nova first. I don't...actually know how he became one, I don't think they have much to do with Earth usually. )

[ That part always seemed to get left out of his dad's endless war stories. Or had he only told that one after Sam stopped listening to them?

...no, he needs to not go there. He has enough regrets about his relationship with his father. ]

( He went missing, so I...took over. )

[erbier]

( How noble. )

[ What is this cute little fairytale he lived? Not only did he get a slice of home and normalcy, he also gets to stand up proudly for his father's dedications? That's what she thinks anyway, but that's because she doesn't understand any part of this from his perspective. It twinkles in the distance, his reality, but she doesn't reach out to touch it, not without invitation. ]

( I never knew my family, nothing to inherit beyond our surname. )

[ Vilmaine, she does not know what it means, it could questionably even truly be hers, but it was what she had always been called. She assumes someone along the way must have known who she was, who she was born of. ]