My ability to tell isn't a skill or anything. It's just usually those who try to focus getting into my head disrupt my mental hold on my own Blessings and they go haywire.
But most people are pretty amateur with their blessings and abilities, especially on this boat. It sounds like your vision self is pretty strong.
I think most people are also just coming into them? I didn't know my last blessing until I got here but... I've been this way forever. In any life, I guess.
[ but the rest makes his gaze turn determinedly to the window. ]
Mm... power is neither good nor bad, but it can be constructive or destructive.
Even the best of people with the best of intentions can cause harm to others. I think that's less about the power itself, though, and the moral and ethical aspects. So I would try not to look at the power itself as the problem.
[ He takes in a breath sharp and then he just stops. ]
[ He can't know all the details, but he thinks Wanda couldn't have fully mean to make Westview - because why make a family you would inevitably lose? That would crush you? And then- ]
[ He didn't know how he came back. He didn't expect to bring Tommy back but Agatha knew and - ]
[ The thing in Agatha's basement. The names. If he was right Sharon was poisoned (he didn't have access to poison). Alice was killed by Agatha - he saw that he knew then why? He doesn't know what happened to Lilia. But he suddenly realizes that weight: He killed them. Whatever the portal symbolized was his fault it was - ]
[ You really are a Maximoff, otherwise none of this would be nearly as dramatic, she's said and he gets up then - rocking the chair back as he takes another breath. ]
[ Which is to say - No, he's not okay, though he diligently tries to shake his head as if to say 'yes'. His mind rotates through the details of everything he knows. It loops around, tries to poke holes into the theory - But he has enough for the theory to solidly become a real possibility. ]
[ It can't be right. ( It's probably right.) ]
[ he scrubs at his eyes as the details poke holes into his hope and he breathes out. ]
No - Yeah.
I just-
[ he breathes out. ] I think I just figured out something that made everything worse.
[ Sam lets him run, but he's only going to like get out into the hall before a water spear materializes in his path and is going to shoot at him like a javelin to pin him to the nearest surface by his clothing— with actually pretty impressive accuracy to avoid harming him even if the clothing is well fitted. That said, even if the 'blade' touches him it'll skim and feel similar to a hard pressurized spray from a hose at worst rather than slice him.
Sam will step out into the hallway, either to come get him or chase after him if he manages to dodge and get past the situation before Sam gets there to scruff him by the collar. ]
[ SOMEHOW. Somehow this kid manages to use all of his physical ability to (unknowingly) dodge that javelin but it zooms passed him in a near miss - and the motion is enough to make him stop and look back in alarm and -
Well, that's enough because in the motion Sam is able to grab him and while he struggles to maneuver to let him go like the frightened fuzzy kitten his soul truly is he drops the ring with a clatter and forgets it in the moment of panicked, confused response that breaks his voice: ]
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You'll regret saying that. I'm not even at full power yet.
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... I just meant that we barely know each other and that I'm not, like, super trying in that regard, y'know?
I do try to ignore things I shouldn't know most of the time.
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and whenever the powers that the Ticketmaster tries to return to us happens it'll get worse.
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But most people are pretty amateur with their blessings and abilities, especially on this boat. It sounds like your vision self is pretty strong.
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[ but the rest makes his gaze turn determinedly to the window. ]
... yeah.
[ to "is pretty strong". ]
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I know a lot about his power and his family and it's - not really good.
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His power comes from one of his mom's and even though she was considered a superhero... the whole world is pretty afraid of her.
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He has, too. He's killed people he cared about - accidentally - but it still counts.
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Even the best of people with the best of intentions can cause harm to others. I think that's less about the power itself, though, and the moral and ethical aspects. So I would try not to look at the power itself as the problem.
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That's just it -
The power is the problem. Because they can do stuff without actually meaning to without even knowing how they do it- Without -
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[ He takes in a breath sharp and then he just stops. ]
[ He can't know all the details, but he thinks Wanda couldn't have fully mean to make Westview - because why make a family you would inevitably lose? That would crush you? And then- ]
[ He didn't know how he came back. He didn't expect to bring Tommy back but Agatha knew and - ]
[ The thing in Agatha's basement. The names. If he was right Sharon was poisoned (he didn't have access to poison). Alice was killed by Agatha - he saw that he knew then why? He doesn't know what happened to Lilia. But he suddenly realizes that weight: He killed them. Whatever the portal symbolized was his fault it was - ]
[ You really are a Maximoff, otherwise none of this would be nearly as dramatic, she's said and he gets up then - rocking the chair back as he takes another breath. ]
Oh.
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Oh no.
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[ Which is to say - No, he's not okay, though he diligently tries to shake his head as if to say 'yes'. His mind rotates through the details of everything he knows. It loops around, tries to poke holes into the theory - But he has enough for the theory to solidly become a real possibility. ]
[ It can't be right. ( It's probably right.) ]
[ he scrubs at his eyes as the details poke holes into his hope and he breathes out. ]
No - Yeah.
I just-
[ he breathes out. ] I think I just figured out something that made everything worse.
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Because he's probably the reason for every bad thing that happened to them.
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I'm sorry -
I don't-
I can't -
[ in a surprisingly swift movement he moves to yoink up a small item from his desk and turn back. ]
Sorry, I've got to go.
[ If sam doesn't stop him he's gonna go run off to try and throw his magick into the ocean. ]
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Sam will step out into the hallway, either to come get him or chase after him if he manages to dodge and get past the situation before Sam gets there to scruff him by the collar. ]
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Well, that's enough because in the motion Sam is able to grab him and while he struggles to maneuver to let him go like the frightened fuzzy kitten his soul truly is he drops the ring with a clatter and forgets it in the moment of panicked, confused response that breaks his voice: ]
What? Let me go - please.
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