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007: AMAs, Third Round
So, we've got a load of new people, and that means it's time for me to do the only thing it feels like I get on these comms to do anymore: AMAs.
For you new people, I find it helps when we get together and explain a little bit about ourselves, any powers we have, and our skillsets. That way we know what we're starting with and what we can build off of. So, please, come and introduce yourselves and be willing to answer questions.
For you new people, I find it helps when we get together and explain a little bit about ourselves, any powers we have, and our skillsets. That way we know what we're starting with and what we can build off of. So, please, come and introduce yourselves and be willing to answer questions.
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[ It's a weird name, but this kid is green and apparently from the 31st century or something in the first place. Carolina has spent most of her adult life named after a place on Earth she's never seen. Glass houses. ]
It was a bad time, and I'm not proud of who I was. I've been trying not to let those years define me anymore.
[ Her smile is just a little bitter. ]
The universe doesn't seem to agree.
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Despite a troubled childhood and teen years - the teen years especially being a period I'm not proud of - I went on to regularly save the galaxy with my team. I changed, grew more empathetic and kinder, and I tried my best to turn my title into something heroic. I largely succeeded, but a short time ago I was blamed for an incident that nearly killed some of my team. One that was eventually revealed to not have done so - and revealed to be an act of villainous sabotage.
[One he blamed himself on at first, before understanding he hadn't been at fault.]
Until my teammates were revealed to be alive, and until the responsibility for the incident was revealed to be caused by the minion of an omnicidal being, the public vilified me. After all, a Brainiac couldn't break away from the family legacy, couldn't really become superheroic without eventually devolving into calculated malice.
[He drops the sarcasm and bitterness that was in his voice in that last statement.]
The universe often doesn't recognize those changes that we make to become better. That doesn't mean the internal change didn't happen, and it doesn't negate any positive influences we exert on the world.
One's past may be inescapable but it doesn't inexorably define them for all time either, nor does their origins.
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[ She's surprised to be trusted with so much by a stranger, and recognizes it. Carolina isn't someone used to being offered this kind of trust so readily. People hand her tactical decisions readily enough, but this? Not so much. ]
We can't change who we've been, or what other people think of us, or whether we are forgiven. But we can control what we do now. That's all I expect.