Yeah, and before you say anything else, no, I'm not gonna let you fuckin' tempt me down there so you can watch me float around. Is this supposed to be your warden strategy?
My warden strategy largely depends on whether you're gonna kill me or not 'cos you're a hypermegalomaniac with superpowers or something. I get those a weird amount.
[ Angelo was only vaguely aware that Professor X is supposed to be a superhero, so he can't really play that game. He decides, charitably, to let his guard down a little bit. ]
I can make people think they're hurting. Feel things that aren't actually there. I can do it to myself too.
You know that means this place thinks your powers are too dangerous to let you live and let live with 'em then, right? Inmates don't get anything that can hurt people unless their warden lets them.
Yeah, and? I didn't have them surgically implanted in my brain on purpose, it's just shit I can do. I've been able to do it since I was a kid. You're talking like I woke up one day and decided I simply must be able to to fuck with a person's perception of reality so hard that they start bleeding from imaginary paper-cuts. What else was I supposed to do?
[ Eiffel's not really talking like that, but Angelo's hackles are already up. He'll let insults wash over him and smile away all the while, but it's different when he's perceiving that someone's trying to criticise what he's done with his life. It's easier to ignore whatever point Eiffel's making and try very hard to establish a difference in blame: maybe he's done some truly shitty things with the powers he has, but he didn't ask for them, so therefore it'd be self-destructive to acknowledge any kind of responsibility for his powers being too dangerous to keep on the Barge. He didn't ask for any of this. He's just doing what he has to do. ]
Yeah, but the shit you can do involves making people bleed from imaginary papercuts. Who needs a knife when you can make someone believe their intestines are falling out so hard it literally happens?
Like I don't think you rolled out of bed one day and chose violence but you sure are leaning into it, pal.
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[Which is actually a real thing in Eiffel's world so mostly he's just curious to see what bullshit Angelo comes out with.]
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I wouldn't use a pulse-beacon relay that degrades if you paid me to, man. Where are you officiating communications from, a dump?
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[The only reason he's only mock-offended is that he knows Angelo's full of shit.]
I bet you've never actually been in zero gravity, Poker Face.
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Half my powers don't fuckin' work here. Calm down.
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I'm flattered and all, but I'm not actually a professor.
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Probably not. I doubt the real professor would be an inmate.
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I can make people think they're hurting. Feel things that aren't actually there. I can do it to myself too.
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So funny enough, you're not my first inmate with the power of a bad trip on your side. So you're kind of old hat this time around.
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I can't even fuck you up with it, man. I tried already, nobody feels anything when I try to use it. I haven't tried it on myself, though.
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[ He did not ask first back home. This is irrelevant. ]
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[ Eiffel's not really talking like that, but Angelo's hackles are already up. He'll let insults wash over him and smile away all the while, but it's different when he's perceiving that someone's trying to criticise what he's done with his life. It's easier to ignore whatever point Eiffel's making and try very hard to establish a difference in blame: maybe he's done some truly shitty things with the powers he has, but he didn't ask for them, so therefore it'd be self-destructive to acknowledge any kind of responsibility for his powers being too dangerous to keep on the Barge. He didn't ask for any of this. He's just doing what he has to do. ]
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Like I don't think you rolled out of bed one day and chose violence but you sure are leaning into it, pal.
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cw lots of unpleasant injury talk in detail
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