2.14 - Voice

[breakingmyheart]

[Posted about two hours after Megamind's post.]

[Seconds before transmission, almost everything is reset. The lost areas and items reappear, the above-decks areas are restored in their entirety, and the 'space' and sunlight around the ship come back. Zero is returned to normal and anyone teleported down there is automatically released. Anyone who has had their powers or weapons temporarily removed will get them back. Auto-demoted Wardens regain their previous status and everything associated with it.

The loose panels are still around. For some reason, it's raining lightly on deck. A few random bits of furniture in the common rooms have changed colour.

The voice of the 'Admiral' comes from Toshiko's network signature, quiet and tired.]

I don't stand by everything I said, but I don't hold myself above any of it. Anyone who wants to call me a hypocrite, a coward, a sadist, a weakling…

[The feed shifts. Tosh's voice. Hi, Barge.]

I know. I just - I know.

I need…time. To end this without doing any more damage. Tomorrow I'm going to come out. I'm not - I'm not going to fight. I'm not going to defend myself in any way.

[There is a background interjection from Megamind: But I will!

Tosh is quiet for a moment, probably pulling a face at him.]

...Whatever's decided, I'll....go along with it.

Comments

voice;

[supersonic]

[ Pietro was, quite honestly, ready to bestow a swift knife in the back upon whoever was responsible for locking his sister in a cell and subjecting her to twelve hours of torture. But something about the way she says that — I'm not going to fight — cuts right through him. (Hasn't he been there, in Megamind's shoes, defending someone who had decided not to defend herself, because her life mattered more to him that all the people she could possibly harm?) Even that thought doesn't negate his anger entirely — she isn't Wanda, and she hurt Anya — but the rage in his voice is cold, restrained for once. ]

Why did you do it?

voice; private

[breakingmyheart]

[After a long pause:]

You're the only person who's asked me that instead of telling me.

[Unfortunately she doesn't have much of an answer yet, at least not one that doesn't sound absolutely horrible to her own ears.]

voice; private

[supersonic]

I imagine that's because your motives matter approximately not at all, to most of them.

[ And he'd agree, under any other circumstances, but these aren't other circumstances. ]

No motive would negate your actions. But when you have an answer, I would like to hear it.

voice; private

[breakingmyheart]

[He's asking her for her motives instead of dictating them and he's accepting that she isn't stable enough to explain herself properly right this second? Hi, new favourite person ever.]

You will.