♻ 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.

Comments

[fridgetothefire]

Yes, but vaguely. Plausible deniability, or something.

On the one hand, things would be more settled, but on the other, you don't have the element of surprise if you need it later. Decisions, decisions.

[She isn't really kidding at all. She's just telling the truth playfully.]

[Private]

Seventh floor, right next to the art room.

[chillestrogue]

If I'm being suspected anyway, what kind of element of surprise do I really have?

[but he's smiling anyway]

[Private]

What time's good for you?

[fridgetothefire]

Still some. Depending on what your MO is.

[Private]

I promised my inmate something, I gotta take care of that now. Tomorrow after lunch sound good?

[Since the promise is a boatload of weed and she may be a bit hungover in the morning. Of course, this is going to have to be postponed when she gets cut to ribbons by a very human inmate, oops.]

[chillestrogue]

It's not really as clever as all this build-up suggests.

[Private]

Tomorrow after lunch sounds great.

[Damn it Anya. Cold is gonna be pissed about that]

[fridgetothefire]

I'm sure you'll manage to embellish.

[Anya has supervillain drama in her bones, Cold. She knows you're her people.]

[Private]

I look forward to it.

[Sorry bro. 8C She'll make it up to you sometime.]

[chillestrogue]

[such a shit-eating grin here]

[Private]

See you soon, Anya.

[She never introduced herself, but he reads the network posts religiously, starting to put names to faces]