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We're a team. What happens to the team reflects on the people within the team. Even if no one's fully responsible for the ultimate actions of the team while in the field.
You will. [ Lucina has no doubt otherwise. No hesitation, no second thoughts. She knows that Veronica's reasons for a bodyguard were well justified, and there are still ways to go before she can truly stand against dangers on her own, but—
She will adapt. With, or without a bodyguard by her side. ] You have a strength to you that others may overlook. I am grateful that I was not one of them. [ Now— all Lucina can hope is that they will see each other again, one day. ]
I wish you the best of luck, Veronica.
She will adapt. With, or without a bodyguard by her side. ] You have a strength to you that others may overlook. I am grateful that I was not one of them. [ Now— all Lucina can hope is that they will see each other again, one day. ]
I wish you the best of luck, Veronica.
[Even if it's time for Veronica to take her incentive and go, she's going to wait until Lucina returns from a mission. Such a thing feels important to her.
Her hand extends to Lucina.]
I suppose such words are ... as good of a farewell as any. It may feel hollow, but you are one of the strongest, most loyal people I've ever met. And as I've now made clear, I am used to quite the opposite arrangement among those who are closest to me back home. Well, excluding my closest comrades, of course.
[Her family is sketchy as hell, basically.]
It would be difficult to forget you.
Her hand extends to Lucina.]
I suppose such words are ... as good of a farewell as any. It may feel hollow, but you are one of the strongest, most loyal people I've ever met. And as I've now made clear, I am used to quite the opposite arrangement among those who are closest to me back home. Well, excluding my closest comrades, of course.
[Her family is sketchy as hell, basically.]
It would be difficult to forget you.
[ If you ever permadrop Veronica I'll do one last goodbye thread with you then
There's little hesitation as Lucina takes the hand. It's a firm handshake, still intensely formal by the virtue of who Lucina is, but it's still warm, somehow. ] They don't feel hollow at all. [ Maybe it's her voice. ]
Likewise. [ ( She doesn't intend to forget. ) ] ... Farewell.
There's little hesitation as Lucina takes the hand. It's a firm handshake, still intensely formal by the virtue of who Lucina is, but it's still warm, somehow. ] They don't feel hollow at all. [ Maybe it's her voice. ]
Likewise. [ ( She doesn't intend to forget. ) ] ... Farewell.
Champions is six, including me. The team of X-Men I'm working with is 7 people plus two people keeping it running/funded and two people serving as teachers/back-up. But there are dozens of X-Men total, we just don't all work all together all the time.
Micromanaging six or seven people in contrast to sixty.
That's my point, and you knew it was my point all along.
That's my point, and you knew it was my point all along.
But I wasn't making a point about leading. Micromanaging. Whatever.
Micromanaging.
You want to control the actions of sixty people all for the sake of saying it reflects on us. We can only do what we're able to in the face of all of this.
You want to control the actions of sixty people all for the sake of saying it reflects on us. We can only do what we're able to in the face of all of this.
[ Damn, Veronica, don't call him out like this. ]
I didn't say I wanted control. And it's not about reflecting on me. It's about wanting people to not do something stupid.
I didn't say I wanted control. And it's not about reflecting on me. It's about wanting people to not do something stupid.
I love managing people.
I just also like having realistic expectations of what it is that I can accomplish.
You don't.
[Calling him out is like, her full-time job at the moment.]
I just also like having realistic expectations of what it is that I can accomplish.
You don't.
[Calling him out is like, her full-time job at the moment.]
[ But he didn't ask her to take the position! ]
Okay, no. That's completely unfair. This is the exact thing I am supposed to be capable of accomplishing. It's the thing I was supposed to be doing.
Eventually.
Before I got stuck in the future.
Okay, no. That's completely unfair. This is the exact thing I am supposed to be capable of accomplishing. It's the thing I was supposed to be doing.
Eventually.
Before I got stuck in the future.
[Veronica Lodge doesn't need to be asked to do anything she already wants to do.]
Just because you're trying to be a different man than the other Scott Summers, that doesn't mean you don't share traits with him. I'm not completely unlike my father, and we're not genetically identical twins, so to speak.
You were expected to do that because you were capable of it all along.
The real question was ever it was good to give in to your worst traits.
And clearly, that isn't the case. But that's precisely how it is with me, as well.
Just because you're trying to be a different man than the other Scott Summers, that doesn't mean you don't share traits with him. I'm not completely unlike my father, and we're not genetically identical twins, so to speak.
You were expected to do that because you were capable of it all along.
The real question was ever it was good to give in to your worst traits.
And clearly, that isn't the case. But that's precisely how it is with me, as well.
[ But why would she want to do it at all, is the thing Scott will struggle to understand. Not generally. Just, for him. ]
That's not
[ Actually, he doesn't know what to say to this. All the statements that come to mind just sound terrible, like no that's not my worst trait. Or arguing about temporal continuity. Also, it would be stupid? ]
That's not one of the things about him I was avoiding.
That's not
[ Actually, he doesn't know what to say to this. All the statements that come to mind just sound terrible, like no that's not my worst trait. Or arguing about temporal continuity. Also, it would be stupid? ]
That's not one of the things about him I was avoiding.
No? It feels and sounds like it may be at the root of all your wrongs.
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