[honestly, he doesn't have much a choice. if she wants to find out some other way, she can. sharing information here, and willingly, will work out to be more mutually beneficial.
...he still hates doing it though.]
Erasure. I can eliminate another person's quirk, or powers I suppose, for a short period of time.
You can see why this is more useful when people don't know about it.
[ her blood runs cold. but at the same time, she can almost touch the possibilities something like that provides. peggy takes longer to answer, this time, than she has before. ]
How pragmatic. Especially in an educator. I wish I'd known about it before you transferred.
[ it isn't that she assumes he'll make trouble -- but there's something to be said for her loyalty to the enhanced individuals on the starstruck. for all peggy knows, this man is as likely to exert his ability out of spite as much as anything else. after all, he'd come to her with a desire to lock others out of the consoles -- that's a level of control that could be either helpful or hurtful. what if he felt similarly entitled to lock wanda out of her powers? or pietro? or steve? bloody hell, she doesn't even know if what steve is counts as 'powered' -- it's the serum that altered him on a biological level. he's less powered and more peak.
even so, she realizes she'd rather not find out. ]
[ funny, really, how the thought of keeping this from steve doesn't bother her half as much as keeping it from wanda. although she hadn't seen it for herself, a description of the collar they'd kept on her in the raft was chilling enough. ]
If you can do what you claim you can, you may need all the good faith you can get.
Relax. You can verify everything I tell you with Uraraka. She can't lie to save her life.
I can only erase a power that requires activation; mutations, physical quirks and the like, they're immune. I also can only do it as long as I maintain eye contact with my target, so anything that interrupts my line of sight will stop it.
Additionally, I have chronic dry eye. So I don't like using my quirk unless someone's life is in danger.
[ -- it goes some way to assuage her worries. peggy begins to consider the loopholes. consider how she'll be able to look wanda in the eye. ]
Thank you for your candor. A few in our number have had a rash of recent bad experiences with government overreach -- specifically targeted towards their...abilities. If I'm to try their trust by keeping your erasure a secret, then when it inevitably becomes less of a secret I need to reassure them that I had their best interests at heart the entire time.
If they don't prove themselves to be a danger to me or my student, I have no issue telling them myself and saving you the trouble. I don't have any intention of just hiding away in a hole while I'm here, after all.
[ a double meaning certainly wasn't intended. although she doesn't believe pietro is entirely daft, he does happen to be on her shit list. currently. peggy only meant that he's superhumanly fast -- instead of double entendre, she'd aimed for understated.
And if Rogers makes a fuss about permissions being put on the consoles -- [ although she realizes she can't adequately predict whether steve will even care ] -- then tell him to quibble it with me.
[ after all, the specifics of those permissions had been her call. in the end. ]
I have an a duty of care -- arbitrary or not. I imagine it's a similar motivation as the one driving you to take control of the requisition consoles.
[ after all, the augments are (to a lesser degree) just as arbitrary. though there's more to her captaincy than these simple facts, of course. but she's not about to tuck into the war, the ssr, and all of that dirt. ]
What a rubbish joke that would be. I'm happy to say mine are better. No -- it's not a word of lie. And there are others who have been here longer. Wanda Maximoff included.
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...he still hates doing it though.]
Erasure. I can eliminate another person's quirk, or powers I suppose, for a short period of time.
You can see why this is more useful when people don't know about it.
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How pragmatic. Especially in an educator. I wish I'd known about it before you transferred.
[ it isn't that she assumes he'll make trouble -- but there's something to be said for her loyalty to the enhanced individuals on the starstruck. for all peggy knows, this man is as likely to exert his ability out of spite as much as anything else. after all, he'd come to her with a desire to lock others out of the consoles -- that's a level of control that could be either helpful or hurtful. what if he felt similarly entitled to lock wanda out of her powers? or pietro? or steve? bloody hell, she doesn't even know if what steve is counts as 'powered' -- it's the serum that altered him on a biological level. he's less powered and more peak.
even so, she realizes she'd rather not find out. ]
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If you want the full medical disclosure, I guess I'll give it to you. As a show of good faith.
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[ funny, really, how the thought of keeping this from steve doesn't bother her half as much as keeping it from wanda. although she hadn't seen it for herself, a description of the collar they'd kept on her in the raft was chilling enough. ]
If you can do what you claim you can, you may need all the good faith you can get.
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I can only erase a power that requires activation; mutations, physical quirks and the like, they're immune. I also can only do it as long as I maintain eye contact with my target, so anything that interrupts my line of sight will stop it.
Additionally, I have chronic dry eye. So I don't like using my quirk unless someone's life is in danger.
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Thank you for your candor. A few in our number have had a rash of recent bad experiences with government overreach -- specifically targeted towards their...abilities. If I'm to try their trust by keeping your erasure a secret, then when it inevitably becomes less of a secret I need to reassure them that I had their best interests at heart the entire time.
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[ even steve. ]
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Anything else I should know?
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[ it's a rare opening -- one that she doesn't assume he'll necessary take advantage of. ]
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Pietro. Wanda's twin brother. He's -- very quick.
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll make a point to introduce myself.
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And if Rogers makes a fuss about permissions being put on the consoles -- [ although she realizes she can't adequately predict whether steve will even care ] -- then tell him to quibble it with me.
[ after all, the specifics of those permissions had been her call. in the end. ]
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[if rogers ever even finds out, that is.]
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For what it's worth, I don't make it a habit to introduce upset to a working system. I'm sort of professionally trained to do the opposite.
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[ after all, the augments are (to a lesser degree) just as arbitrary. though there's more to her captaincy than these simple facts, of course. but she's not about to tuck into the war, the ssr, and all of that dirt. ]
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Have you been here long, then?
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You're joking.
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[THIS IS HONESTLY THE SUCKIEST NEWS OF THE DAY]
All that nonsense of time "not passing" for us, is any of that true?
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