♻ 022 | audio

[tucky]

Hey, y'all. I been thinking about some stuff lately - about powers. I don't have any and I never did, except for Admiral powers and except for one time when I thought I had some of my own - but that's another story.

They're just kinda all over the place here, I noticed. Arthas had his, and he tried to kill the whole Barge. And I know wardens hurt people with their powers sometimes. I've seen it. And we got inmates who don't have any powers at all, but still hurt and kill people. It's like I was telling someone earlier - it ain't like the Barge is safe when inmates have powers, and dangerous when they don't. It's a lot more complicated than that.

I got two inmates I been talking to, Lourdes and Pietro - and they want their powers back 'cause they don't feel right and whole without 'em. And I don't blame 'em, if I'm gonna be real honest. I maybe would have, before I was a warden, but now I got a different perspective. We're letting parts of people be locked away, and how's anyone supposed to trust us if we do that and don't care?

But maybe it ain't right to just give 'em back without thinking about it, neither - 'cause some of the powers are dangerous, and all of us'd be affected if something happened. So we decided that since they don't got wardens of their own, we're gonna talk to the whole Barge about it and see if any of y'all got objections. Or-- or questions or concerns. Stuff like that.

Pietro's got super speed, and super senses so he can see things okay when he's using his super speed. Lourdes can control people's bodies, and their minds, and even the chemicals inside 'em. Now, that's a whole fucking lot - so she's mostly what I wanna talk about today, I guess. We got Iris and Jean and all those guys who can protect people from stuff like that, but it can still be dangerous. So we're asking you.

Everybody gets a say.

[filtered to Lourdes]

if you get em back i want to talk about how your gonna use em ok

[filtered to Barbara, Cain, Dillon, Eggsy, Iris, Jean, Letty, Lloyd, Lydia, Ricki, Roderick, Simon, Tig; dated to after the post has been up for a while]

I'm giving Lourdes her powers back - but only when she's in the Enclosure with me. Now, I don't think she's gonna hurt me - but if she does, I don't want any of y'all hurting her back, okay? I ain't saying no punishment, or no being mad. Just no torturing or murdering or nothing. Thanks.

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[tucky]

Yeah, I heard Long Island's full of rich people and stuff.

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[gulosity]

My parents weren't rich. But they weren't poor, either.

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[tucky]

Middle class, right?

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[gulosity]

Yeah. Something like that.

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[tucky]

Were you happy?

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[gulosity]

Before everything went to hell? Yeah. I was.

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[tucky]

You think you're gonna go back someday, or go to another world? You can do that.

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[gulosity]

I don't know. All of that's just so far away I can't even think about it right now.

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[tucky]

Don't blame you.

[She falls silent for a moment, staring up at the sky through the trees.]

You know, I meant it when I said you could use your powers on me in here, if you ever needed to. I don't know if that's something you feel like you need to do. Do they bug at you when you ain't using 'em?

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[gulosity]

No. Not really. I just need to be able to feel them. Like feeling Dillon - it's the same thing.

I wouldn't . . . want to use them on you, anyway.

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[tucky]

Okay. Well... then I really meant it when I said I'll take you in here to feel 'em whenever you want. And we can stay in here right now as long as you want; that post and all those people can wait.

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[gulosity]

I just don't . . . I didn't actually think everybody would say no.

Are they scared of me, do you think?

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[tucky]

[Tiffany hadn't actually thought everybody would say no, either. But she had thought a lot of people would have had big reservations.]

Some of 'em. Probably.

[She doesn't want to lie.]

'Cause they don't know you. And some of 'em are probably scared of all people with powers. I used to be.

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[gulosity]

Why aren't you anymore?

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[tucky]

'Cause I met people with powers who didn't want to hurt me. People like you.

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[gulosity]

I still want to hurt other people.

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[tucky]

[This is the first time Lourdes has come right out and said that, and Tiffany is a little surprised - but only a little.]

Like who?

... I won't say nothing to anyone else, I promise.

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[gulosity]

People who try to hurt me. People I don't trust.

[So almost everyone.]

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[tucky]

Did anybody hurt you here?

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[gulosity]

Not yet.

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[tucky]

Who are you worried is going to?

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[gulosity]

. . . Everyone.

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[tucky]

Why?

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[gulosity]

Because if they knew what I did, they'd think I deserved it.

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[tucky]

I know what you did and I don't want you getting hurt.