MASK OR MENACE IC INBOX

[runningstart]

WALLY WEST
"You've reached the personal voice mail of the Wall-man. The honor is yours! Leave your deets, I'll holla back atcha."
[ BEEP. ]

KID FLASH
"This is the contact for Kid Flash. If it's an emergency, call Robin; he'll know where I am. Otherwise, leave your info and I'll get you back ASAP."
[ BEEP. ]


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[lyingheart]

[ Antagonists are bad for digestion, Wally. As it is, Annie watches him, keeping her own council. For her, the politics are still too obvious and too dangerous. This idea of a world that accepts people with difficult to believe abilities, that welcomes them to handle the things that are so far out of the norm that they need help for the handling, it's new.

Annie has been looking to change herself. She's been succeeding, in the ways that matter, that probably don't show so well, because they're on the inside, in her head.

But she isn't a hero. She doesn't think of herself as a hero, and certainly not a superhero.

So against that, she has nothing to say. ]

Good. That's one subject I wouldn't have any knowledge of, not from this world - though I've researched the subject - and not from home.

[ It's all she has to say. Making things better, not worse, is what she can strive to do... without forcing it to a level of superheroics. ]

Be careful. That's all I really mean.

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I'll be fine. [Wally grabs his jacket from the back of the chair. He starts to slip it on before remembering it's hot outside, and that's why he took it off in the first place.

His thoughts are buzzing around in his head. Not needed. He's needed. And he doesn't have to be needed, he doesn't; he makes his own places, his own opportunities. Barry didn't want a sidekick, and so what? Wally made himself Barry's sidekick anyway.

His fingers move restlessly around his coat as he heads to the door, but something stops him, pulls him up short and he turns on his heel, jabs a finger in Annie's direction, and the words are falling out of his mouth before he can stop them. If he were honest with himself, he doesn't want to stop them anyway.] You should be careful. You're the one who told everyone that you've killed a bunch of people. You think we're all unwanted here? I don't agree, but if you really think that's true, then you're definitely worse off than I am.

[lyingheart]

[ Annie doesn't say anything in return. Wally's not saying anything new. He's also... not responding to what it is Annie feels makes them unnecessary. The military will use them, if it can, but this world doesn't need them to solve the problems of its own creation. Maybe being an outsider who has sat within another culture before gives her that perspective, but the idea of something needing to come in from beyond to change what happens... she's seen it be disastrous. Be meant to be disastrous.

The biggest changes have to come from within.

And she's always been in danger. Known to people at large, or to just those from home. She lifts a hand, waving him off with her fingers. ]

Goodbye, Wally.

[runningstart]

[Wally scoffs, turns and storms off. ...slams his jacket sleeve in the door and has to sheepishly reopen the door to pull it out.

And three days later, he'll just pretend this fight never even happened.]

not here

[lyingheart]

but I laughed really hard at this mental image, thank you