strictdiscipline | FUTURO

[She's a woman of business, what can she say.]

It's a pretty specific scenario. [But maybe she ought to elaborate.] I'd prefer not to have a repeat of it.

[To be honest, he's not above persuasion as a method of extracting information when it's justified. And there is no love lost, on his end, for those who've got that coming to them. But he's also not one to waste his time.]

Sounds like you guys have been busy.

[A collective "you." Hawkeye's definitely the rigidly upright type. But sounds like not everyone on the crew is so principled.]

[Even the magic of the jewelry can't pick up and convert her sigh, curt and forceful.]

I wouldn't mind being busy so much if any of it ever resulted in anything worthwhile.

[Don't worry, he'll just imagine it instead.]

Such as?

[More fishing. What counts as worthwhile? In her opinion. Time for a philosophical network conversation, it's like they're building real serious rp game cr.]

I was under the impression you've been around for a while.

[And in all that time, how much worthwhile has there been?]

[wow, drops this thread immediately so they can never build real game cr

But the short answer is: not enough.]

Longer than I'd like.

[He can play a numbers guessing game if he really wants. As for his actual question...She pauses, despite the rush of answers that spring immediately to mind.]

Preventing more deaths instead of standing around twiddling our thumbs. Not bringing about the natural end of a world due to insufficient and unclear mission parameters. Repairing the growing rifts between the Nalawi instead of watching our team tear itself apart.

[You name it.]

[Assuming they can skim the network backlog, he's got a decent idea. Either way, it's longer than him.

He waits out her answer to get a feel for her priorities, and the slight pause between them is pretty obviously him deciding if he finds them wanting or not.]

What's stopping you?

[Maybe the second example up there would be a littler harder to keep tabs on. But this is more a general statement, anyway.]

Nothing.

[Even she can admit to that much.]

It's less of what's stopping me and more the lack of results I've seen due to everyone's combined efforts.

[Due to circumstances mostly outside of her control.]

[Combined efforts is a generous term for the crew's general level of teamwork. Especially with everyone arguing over the airwaves, recently. Not that Jason's not contributing to the general lack of unity—he's not much of a team player these days.]

Not everyone's got the same kind of priorities. Funny how shanghaiing a bunch of crossdimensional saps into working for you doesn't turn up the best results. Not the smartest of business models.

[Quelle surprise.]

[That's probably one of the few things they've seen eye-to-eye on so far, though anyone who doesn't think that ALASTAIR's comprised of a bunch of idiots surely must be an idiot themselves.]

If this is a business, they must not be making much of a profit.

[Or maybe they're just one of the shittier teams out there, who knows. Would make sense, given how little everyone seems to know about everyone else..]

And what are your own priorities?

[That sounds like a personal question, Hawkeye.]

Oh, you know. Righting wrongs. Taking down bad guys. Truth, justice, and the American way.

[Tone is so hard to tell through text, isn't it?]

[Ah yes, he seems just like the type of honorable person she'd expect to rattle off a laundry list of that sort.]

The American way?

[Humor her.]

[Hey now, you'd be surprised. Most of that is ostensibly true. Of course, it's not really a matter of honor. So yeah, that's fair, he's no Big Blue Boyscout, either.

That one flew over her head, huh? Well, he shouldn't be surprised, anymore.]

Let me guess, wrong Earth? Or you're not from Earth at all.

[She didn't strike him as enormously alien, just a little old fashioned. But you never know.]

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look I offered you an out

no!! i'll weakly struggle along

gpoy, really.

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