No. If I needed to kill someone I'd do it myself, thanks.
[ which is a little bit the problem and a little bit not. jack's pretty sure, as long as he has time to plan on something and research it, he'd be able to find a way to take out most people, one way or another. but this place rarely ever allows for either, and if someone like barnes or deadpool woke up deciding they'd like to break his face against the side of a rover, well, not a whole lot he could do aside from try to talk his way out of it or run. or go hide behind dagger, if he really wants to be pathetic about it. ]
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
I need something to cover the disadvantages of being a normal, weak, fragile human. And I don't want to sit at the position of cannon fodder for the rest of this contract. [ because lbr, that's what recruits are. ] I didn't come this far to die in something stupid like a sudden rock fall, or bear mauling.
There's a lot of ways to do that, if we can ask for whatever power we want. I've seen people come in with telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, Rogers' super soldier crap, your whole icecube thing. What kind of thing ends up being more valuable, for the CDC?
But that's not something you can ask for, I'm pretty sure. You can ask for anything in the whole universe but they won't change who you are, and if you're a complete failure, you have to work that out on your own.
Gliese was already terrifying when she came in, and that was when she could still be killed pretty easy. Powers are pointless if you don't have the guts to use them when you have to.
I have it. [ he pretty much wasted his entire life for a single ambition at home. if there's anything jack has, it's dedication. before hanna, clary, michelle and david, jack's only goal here was really just make it out alive and find somewhere far away from shiloh to figure out his life. weird that it ends up being people, and having something to actually care about, that gives him the more solid purpose, as well as something he never expected for himself, but it's wonders what having an actual life does for a person. ]
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
I can manage that if it needs adjusting. It's the other limitations I need to eliminate.
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FROM: dagger@cdc.org
I wish I did.
And what's the second thing for? You in trouble? Do you need to kill someone?
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Weird. Ok.
No. If I needed to kill someone I'd do it myself, thanks.
[ which is a little bit the problem and a little bit not. jack's pretty sure, as long as he has time to plan on something and research it, he'd be able to find a way to take out most people, one way or another. but this place rarely ever allows for either, and if someone like barnes or deadpool woke up deciding they'd like to break his face against the side of a rover, well, not a whole lot he could do aside from try to talk his way out of it or run. or go hide behind dagger, if he really wants to be pathetic about it. ]
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
I need something to cover the disadvantages of being a normal, weak, fragile human. And I don't want to sit at the position of cannon fodder for the rest of this contract. [ because lbr, that's what recruits are. ] I didn't come this far to die in something stupid like a sudden rock fall, or bear mauling.
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I can respect that.
So obviously the human part of "normal, weak, fragile human" isn't gonna go away. Just fix the rest of that phrase, then. Problem solved.
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There's a lot of ways to do that, if we can ask for whatever power we want. I've seen people come in with telepathy, telekinesis, pyrokinesis, Rogers' super soldier crap, your whole icecube thing. What kind of thing ends up being more valuable, for the CDC?
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Dedication.
But that's not something you can ask for, I'm pretty sure. You can ask for anything in the whole universe but they won't change who you are, and if you're a complete failure, you have to work that out on your own.
Gliese was already terrifying when she came in, and that was when she could still be killed pretty easy. Powers are pointless if you don't have the guts to use them when you have to.
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I have it. [ he pretty much wasted his entire life for a single ambition at home. if there's anything jack has, it's dedication. before hanna, clary, michelle and david, jack's only goal here was really just make it out alive and find somewhere far away from shiloh to figure out his life. weird that it ends up being people, and having something to actually care about, that gives him the more solid purpose, as well as something he never expected for himself, but it's wonders what having an actual life does for a person. ]
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
I can manage that if it needs adjusting. It's the other limitations I need to eliminate.
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Then start with the one that gets you killed first. You figure out how you wanna do it.
Squishiness is your first problem.
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I think I've broken more bones here, or come close, than I ever had where I came from. Counting Gliese's contribution of that as just one.
That's what I'll handle first, then.
FROM: benjamin.jonathan@cdc.org
Thanks.
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FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Good luck. Don't die in the process.
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That'd sort of the counter productive to the whole idea...
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FROM: dagger@cdc.org
If you're always this negative then fine, just die.
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Saying dying isn't in the plan is negative?
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FROM: dagger@cdc.org
You're probably going to fail on that in time, but.
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Your confidence is so inspiring, sir.
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FROM: dagger@cdc.org
I know. You're so spoiled.
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Some day, someone in Red might even smile for two seconds. Then you'll really be in trouble for being too kind with us.
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FROM: dagger@cdc.org
Death to everyone on the day that passes.
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You say the sweetest things.