thelegion | text | locked to kid q, brainy, rich, ray, and wash

[Rich sticks to text. He's not okay right now. He's not going to be okay for a while. It's easier to hide it in text.]

i know why. but it's up to you if you want to tell everyone else why.

Edited 2017-12-01 04:56 (UTC)

im pretty sure im the reason death was there
i think you guys deserve a real explanation at this point
just
keep it here

i think you're going to find that whatever you have to say, no one's going to be upset with you.

but go ahead, just get it off your chest.

wanna wait until kid q and brainy get here
its gonna suck just explaining it once
dont wanna repeat it

I'm here, Danny.

[ This is dumb, and stupid, and he doesn't wanna do it, but he knows better than to think he didn't have a bigger role in everything that happened in the cancerverse. especially with freaking death showing up. ]

okay so
you saw how death showed up and stuff right?

Edited 2017-12-01 05:11 (UTC)

Brainy's flight ring caught the footage. I've been briefed.

[Kid Q herself hadn't gone on the mission since her reality-altering powers were completely unpredictable in the face of another universe's physics.]

it took a while for me to figure it out but
the cancerverse is supposed to be all alive and stuff right?
like
nothing dies in there
everything lives forever
etc etc
so im guessing death isnt supposed to be able to show up there right?
is that a thing rich would know?

my universe's version of death made it to the cancerverse once, by hitching a ride on someone who was effectively an avatar of death.

the first thing she did was blow up captain marvel, the leader of the revengers, with a touch.

the reason the cancerverse even was what it was was because captain marvel and the revengers killed its version of death and then let the many-angled ones in.

Edited 2017-12-01 05:28 (UTC)

[ there's a noticeable pause here. a minute or two. ]

yeah um
i was doing the same stuff
like
i was touching the monsters and they basically exploded into bits
and death thanked me
so um

[ another pause. just type it out, slowly. ]

i uh
i was lying when i said i didnt have powers back home

That was fairly obvious. You've comported yourself more competently in the field than someone with no superheroing experience.

[ okay he's just gonna ignore that. ]

its more than that
i know ive mentioned some of this stuff before but
my parents are paranormal investigators
and they have a ghost portal in the basement
they couldnt turn it on when they first built it
so i kind of walked in and started messing around and uh
turned it on
while i was inside it
i mean i dunno how the science for it works and stuff but
im half ghost
and im pretty sure not having my powers doesnt change that
just like im pretty sure thats how death got in
through me

Ah, that would explain several perplexing anomalies that were encountered during your initial medical scans.

Thank you for apprising us. It's important for us to have accurate and specific information on power sets for mission deployments, and it's vital for us to know about any unique physiological states in the case of injuries.

[And that's it. There's his big reaction.]

[ a full three minutes pass. ]

thats it?

I'm not sure what you're expecting, Danny, but this team has had its fair share of strange origin stories and encountered more than its fair share of strange phenomenon.

For instance, Umbra's darkfield powers are possessed by the dead spirits of past Shadow Champions.

And a lot of the missing Legionnaires, still trapped in the crystal dimension, have unusual origins. Ultra Boy got his powers from eating the flesh of a giant space whale he was trapped inside. Wildfire is an energy being made from the merged forms and souls of two heroes that died, reborn as a new person. Shikari is a wayfinder like all the other Kwai, and their abilities can't be pinned down as having any kind of organic root like some other metapowers can be. It may as well be magic.

Which is real in this universe too, as you've seen by now.

I wish you hadn't hid the nature of your powers because that was dangerous. If you'd been hurt, Medbay would've been able to treat you better if they knew you had a particularly unique physiology. But beyond that, there's nothing wrong or all that strange about it.

All that and you neglected to mention the spacetime anomaly that increased my intellect and changed my personality on a whim, Jazmin.

We live in a very peculiar universe, as I'm sure you've noticed, Daniel. I'll admit to being fascinated by the concept of someone's body being in state of flux between life and death but I'm fascinated by quite a few of the power sets and unique physiological states of members on the team.

Edited 2017-12-01 06:11 (UTC)

[ this pause was definitely a lot longer. long enough that it almost looked like danny stopped replying. until finally, half an hour later: ]

dont tell anyone else please

We can keep it a secret Danny - but if it becomes mission-relevant and a teammate needs to know about it to keep you alive or needs to know it for the mission to be successful, I'm going to trust that you'll speak up. I can always talk to that teammate after and ask them to keep confidence.

And I am reporting it to Dr. Gym'll, in case you're ever hurt in a fight - that one, you're not wiggling out of. It might be something he needs to know to treat you in the future. But the medstaff has a strict policy of confidentiality with any personal health data.

As for everyone else, on a day to day basis, it's up to you who you want to tell.

That said, I really don't think anyone would make it a big deal. This team takes a lot of things in stride and has a lot of people that come from very unusual circumstances. I'm not sure why you feel the need to hide it, but if you ever do talk to people, I think they'd be more accepting than you think.

speaking as someone who's had to keep a secret id i kinda get it. it's almost instinct, covering your ass so your entire life doesn't fall apart.

speaking as someone who's had a brain full of nightmare squids and who only wound up that way because a veritable god had a messy breakup with my universe's version of death, there are much weirder things out there, danny.

i mean the whole reason i wound up in the cancerverse was because a guy with a nickname "the mad titan" couldn't handle "she's just not that into you" coming from a cosmic abstract.

life is strange. there's not many people on this team that'll get judgey over it. more likely they'll trade weirdness war stories.

Edited 2017-12-01 08:09 (UTC)

i dont have a lot of good experiences with telling people my secret identity

how many of people that you told were also superheroes?

Edited 2017-12-09 10:07 (UTC)

[ There's a pause here. ]

exactly zero

As am I.

Edited 2017-12-01 05:08 (UTC)

Do you want to meet or keep it to this?

[Private to Danny]

I can be there in two minutes if you need company.

[These things are hard to talk about alone. If Danny wants support, Wash will be there.]

its easier like this

[ he's a little freaked out, so he's gonna aggressively shut people out right now. ]

Okay. Whenever you're ready.

waiting for kid q and brainy
its not a thing i wanna have to repeat

I guess it wasn't as bad as you were worrying it was, was it?

I wouldn't worry too much about Death being able to hitch a ride on you. She seems more like the "take people when it's their time to go" idea of Death rather than a "Kill everything indiscriminately" Death. It's a natural part of life. The Cancerverse proved that well enough on it's own.

im not scared death will do something to kill everyone because of me
im scared something else might
something i couldve stopped if i just told you guys about my ghost powers

What's got you worried?

i dunno
i just know im tired of not being in control
if someone gets hurts because i didnt tell you guys im half ghost then thats on me
and i dont want that to happen

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