[ 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. ]
[ 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. ]
(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.)
[ 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. ]
[ 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. ]
(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. ]
[ 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. ]
[ Every thought about his father comes with a sense of regret under it. Guilt, regret, and a weird mixture of love and anger that suggests things were complicated. Because they were.
Her response, though.
It feels like one of those things where people usually say they're sorry, but he doesn't really care for that kind of empty pity and he suspects she doesn't, either. And it's not like he can say he understands, when his family (as dysfunctional as they sometimes were) has always been the most important thing he has. ]
(What's your world like?)
[ She's asked a lot about his, but he hasn't heard all that much about hers. ]
[ She feels out the shape of his guilt and love... It's an utterly foreign texture to her. Family, and all the dissonance and strife that can come with ones unconditional love for them. It's like turning over a puzzle without any real sense of how one might solve it, interesting but ultimately baffling.
She is still distracted by it when he asks her about her own life. In a way, she doesn't want to answer. She had been enjoying simply peering into the edges of his panorama, she doesn't want to spoil it with her own, but... She also sees it relevant to be forthright. ]
(The burned world is a hard, unhappy, place. It was ravaged by the Godking's magic and what was left behind was suffering and death.)
[ Crisp but detailed, she does not want to lie but neither does she particularly wish to show him those terrible things the way she has with others. ]
[ It hardly sounds like a place worth missing. But then, Sam found himself missing a lot of things he never would've thought he'd care so much about. ]
(It was a difficult world, but it was one I understood. It was mine, sometimes I long for that feeling, of knowing, of being certain about my place in life and the future of it.)
[ Which is fair, and does not make her sound insane, okay. ]
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[ 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. ]
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[ Although not exactly to her. ]
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[ 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. ]
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[ 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. ]
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[ 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." ]
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( What is that? )
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[ 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. )
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( The Nova Force? Your life seems to have been very exciting. )
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...lately, more yes. )
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[ 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. ]
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[ 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. ]
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( What is the Nova Force? )
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[ You know, police who can fly through space and blow shit up. All the important things. ]
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[ 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. ]
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[ 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. )
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[ 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. ]
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Her response, though.
It feels like one of those things where people usually say they're sorry, but he doesn't really care for that kind of empty pity and he suspects she doesn't, either. And it's not like he can say he understands, when his family (as dysfunctional as they sometimes were) has always been the most important thing he has. ]
( What's your world like? )
[ She's asked a lot about his, but he hasn't heard all that much about hers. ]
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She is still distracted by it when he asks her about her own life. In a way, she doesn't want to answer. She had been enjoying simply peering into the edges of his panorama, she doesn't want to spoil it with her own, but... She also sees it relevant to be forthright. ]
( The burned world is a hard, unhappy, place. It was ravaged by the Godking's magic and what was left behind was suffering and death. )
[ Crisp but detailed, she does not want to lie but neither does she particularly wish to show him those terrible things the way she has with others. ]
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[ It hardly sounds like a place worth missing. But then, Sam found himself missing a lot of things he never would've thought he'd care so much about. ]
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[ Which is fair, and does not make her sound insane, okay. ]
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