( CLOSED ) ; don't call it a fight when you know it's a war

[divaricate]

Who: Wanda Maximoff & Cisco Ramon. ( divaricate & thisismadfreaky )
Where: Wherever she finds Cisco.
When: Backdated to yesterday (July 10th).
Rating: At most, PG-13.
Summary: Wanda comes back from a canon update. Her first stop is Cisco.
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[thisismadfreaky]

He comes back a few moments later with the tools he'd been searching for. He might have purposely taken a little longer than necessary to find them, just to give himself those few seconds more to collect himself. Now that he knew about the collar, he was prepared to deal with it.

"Underwater?" He shakes his head a little, that sounded awful. Based on things he's heard from various people, it seems like as bad as Wonderland ever is, a trip home is almost always worse. "People are... often afraid of things they don't understand, but...it doesn't make you terrible or irredeemable, just because they're scared."

He talks while he fusses with the collar, brushing her hair to one side to get a better look at the mechanism.

[divaricate]

She doesn't have a hairtie, but she'll hold it up like she's going to tie it up. "Multilevel facility right in the middle of the ocean made for mostly people like me." She'd not known about its existence beforehand. If she had, well, she'd probably go wreck it. "That seems ... pretty substantial of an obstacle to overcome so people aren't afraid and give me a chance. One of those not being here to my knowledge is nice, yeah. I guess it doesn't keep me from doing something by accident that causes that kind of fear though. In some hypothetical future point here." Does that even make sense?

[thisismadfreaky]

"People like you?" He echoes, frowning a little. "People they slap a danger label on?" He hates the way the world works in ways like that. Maybe she had done something to deserve it, maybe she'd done nothing at all; but treating people like caged animals instead of people who need to be seen and heard and feel valued, tends to backfire pretty massively.

"It is, it's a huge obstacle and an unfair one to need to work around. But it's unfortunately how the world works." He pause and grabs something from his toolbox before setting back to work. "Accidents shouldn't be held against you that way, either. People just like to feel they're in control, and when you add abilities like ours into that mix, they let the fear guide their actions." In some ways, it's surprising there hasn't been more of an issue with metas back home.

With a soft click, the collar separates and he unhooks it from her neck. "There."

[divaricate]

He's not wrong. The world works in lame ways, more often than not.

"Ours?" She tilts her head slightly to the side. "I mostly just thought you had tech skills. You can do the .. telekinetic and psychic things too?" His wording is curious, is all.

With the collar off, finally, she rubs at her neck with one hand to try to get the weird feeling away sooner rather than later. With the other, she lets a few red wisps float in the air, not doing anything but that. Just to illustrate what her power actually looks like.

[thisismadfreaky]

He freezes for a fraction of a second when she asks that. He thought everyone would have seen Georgia's piece about her interview with him, detailing how things had been derailed. But maybe he shouldn't be so surprised, not everyone paid attention to those sorts of things. And given her trip home, maybe Wanda had just missed it altogether. He isn't sure when she left, really.

He starts putting his tools away and explains, "Not so much telekinetic or psychic--" There's a beat. "Well, maybe a little psychic..." He frowns a little as he puts the toolbox away. "It's hard to explain, it's...vibrations, and energy from them, I can tap into it. Make portals to other worlds, theoretically I can make concussive blasts from that energy too." He pauses and folds his arms across his chest. "I met a doppelganger once who had the same powers...he could do that, so...I know I can, but I don't know how." He waves one hand, somewhat dismissively. "And the psychic thing-- sometimes I get these...vibes, I see things before they happen. It's super sporadic and really hard to force. Hasn't happened in awhile, though."

His powers are weird and multi-layered and complicated, Wanda.

[divaricate]

"Yeah, that does sound like a lot to have on your plate, powers-wise. Lots of interesting applications to it, though." She offered another half smile. "Takes a while to get the hang of stuff, doesn't it?" And even then. Well. Things don't always go according to plan or theory or whatever else.

"Makes you wish it came with a users manual or something. I would have loved one of those for mine: 'So You Have Powers, What Now?' or some other appropriately cheesey title. Other than that it's just ... hitting up training rooms that can take it and hope for the best."

[thisismadfreaky]

He chuckles softly and nods, "Yeah, it is...a lot to figure out. I'm still not sure how most of it works." He admits. Having a non-Team Flash person to talk to about this stuff might not be the worst thing in the world.

"That would be great. There'd be a real market for that kinda thing back home, if someone could actually make one." He snorts. The powers in the metas were so varied, it would be hard to do a one-size-fits-all sort of guidebook, though. "I'm not looking to do too much with mine just yet." Maybe one day. He'd taken a bit of a backslide in his confidence when things fell apart a couple of months ago.