retrospec | (no subject)

Entry tags:

(no subject)

help

my eyes are glowing and i can see through walls

i don't even know if i'm posting this right because I CAN SEE THROUGH THE COMPUTER and looking at parts and boxes and circuits on a card thingy is cool i guess but i can see through the monitor too so i can't see where i'm typing!!

i think retrospec gave me x-ray vision which is cooler than turning into a puddle or any of those other weird powers i was worried about BUT HELP

what do i do??????????

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

That's true, you were pretty good there. Even though you got a ton of sabotages, you just kept going.

Oh good, at least someone noticed.

So sure, if that counts as a superpower, then yeah, I have superstrength. And I don't have to turn it on or off at all.

Lucky. I bet you never have problems.

Ha!

With the strength? Not yet I haven't.

Trust me, I get plenty of trouble with the other crap Retrospec saddles me with.

Your memories must be pretty bad.

Oh trust me, that's just the tip of the iceberg. With great strength comes great heaping piles of bullshit.

What about you, huh? What do you remember so far? There's gotta be some story behind this eye stuff you've got going on, and I'm willing to bet it's not all that nice.

Don't tell me you think I got dissected by the government, too. Somebody already told me they thought that.

Edited 2017-12-14 13:53 (UTC)

[ He snorts a little. He wasn't thinking that, but now he is. ]

Wouldn't be the first time.

You mean someone actually did?

In whatever fake or past life I'm remembering, yeah.

Seriously? That's horrible! Okay, new plan, maybe it's a good thing normal people don't notice this stuff or we might get alien-autopsied.

I mean, they only did it to volunteers. And they turned out fine.

[ Well. Steve did, anyway. James actually has no idea if there were any other American supersoldier experiments, failed or otherwise. He only knows about the one. ]

If anyone's gonna dissect people, it'd be Retrospec.

Signing up to get dissected? Seriously?

[ This is the sound of him shrugging. ]

He thought it was a pretty good gamble, compared to not trying anything at all. And hey, it worked out for him at least.

[ James is being intentionally vague--while he knows the story of how Cap came to be and understands why he did it, he feels a little wrong just blurting out all the details. It's a matter of national secrecy--and even if it has no relevance here, now, the idea of explaining it further just feels like a betrayal somehow. ]

Huh... I guess if you really, really want superpowers. Some people might. Probably not enough if these guys have to go fishing in other universes or whatever, though.

You think they've got actual volunteers in there somewhere?

....You think that's what all the employees are?

Maybe. If they put out an ad and normal people didn't notice, but these guys went "hey, sure." Weirder things have happened.

Well, joke's on them, because they got jack and now they have to give us the superpowers.

Or, y'know, horrifying disfigurements. It's a double-edged sword.

You... really hate Retrospec, don't you.

Yeah, well. Not all of us get cool fancy x-ray superpowers.

It's not really cool, but... uh, sorry.

[ Wow!!!! He cannot BELIEVE she has the gall to say her supervision-whatever isn't cool when he's down an arm for no reason! He has half a mind to pick a fight over it, but won't, because he's already doing that in another thread with her and I don't want to have two threads of that. ]

You can see through stuff like all those old gameboy models! That's like, one of the most basic and famous superpowers. How is it not cool?

I guess, but... I don't really want to, like, have people thinking I can see through their clothes. I mean, maybe I can, but it's not like I'm gonna try? And it gives me a headache after a while.

Is that really all it takes to ruin an honest to god full-on superpower for you?

...You know, you're right. I should probably be more positive about this. It's still pretty scary and weird, but I could've got my neighbour's ink-drinking thing?