« Prev 1 2 3 4 Next » Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first Author Topic: Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) (Read 595 times) Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 15, 2015 22:45:08 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Absinthe doesn't seem too bothered with what direction he wants to take the conversation. She listens intently every time. "Do you feel like if you did train with different people, it will help with your worries?" Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 15, 2015 22:50:07 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I have no idea. Just felt worth trying, really; I like training with Mr. Amtrum, except for when I, you know, get stabbed, but with my powers I have to approach him in a pretty specific way to do anything at all. Some variety could keep me and my strategies flexible; it's kind of like why I take art classes, because working on creativity helps with what I can do with this power." A conceptual power like "bend darkness itself to your will" needs either a really creative mind or a really scientific one to get the most out of it, after all. « Last Edit: Nov 17, 2015 8:43:56 GMT -6 by Aaron Silverman » Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 15, 2015 22:54:56 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Do you think that's something you'd want to try and see if it does help?" Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 15, 2015 23:23:34 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Yeah, I've meant to go up to his office anyway, he's probably expecting my report since I took the lead on that incident. I'll bring it up to him. Dr. Husher said nothing strenuous for the next few days, but using my power doesn't strain my body that much unless I really push it, and I can always wait a bit before starting." Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 15, 2015 23:33:23 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Tell you what. When you're good to go, try it out, then come tell me how it went. I'll be able to give you a pass if it seems like it did you some good." Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 15, 2015 23:54:31 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "You're the doctor, I trust you." What's the alternative, sit here spinning his wheels? Get a report sent back that keeps him out of the field and leaves him stewing at home while everyone else is at risk? He tries another smile, and tries to finish his tea. "Sounds worth a shot. Keeping busy, even if I'm not pushing myself too hard... it's better than dwelling, than making myself keep thinking about what happened. The more I think about it, the more I think about how if I wasn't standing exactly where I was I could be getting sent home in a box right now, how next time I might not be so lucky, the worse it'll get." Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 15, 2015 23:58:11 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "You were very lucky." she nods. "But despite your understandable fear, it sounds like your drive is pushing you to learn from what happened and become greater." Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 16, 2015 0:03:04 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "It'd be an insult to Miranda's memory if I didn't at least become stronger from this, so that I can stop this kind of thing from happening again." Not to mention that if he failed to get stronger, eventually he'd get killed out there. Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 16, 2015 0:04:41 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "As long as you're not just channeling anger into it." she smiles. Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 16, 2015 0:13:25 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I am angry. I'd be lying if I said otherwise. But I'm trying to do something constructive with it." Aaron nods. There are deserving targets, then there's things he'd be wasting his energy on. He takes a long breath and lets it out through his teeth, as he thinks on who some of those targets are, in particular. "If I ever see that bomb lady again, Doctor... I don't think I'm going to be as nice as I usually am. For what she did, I kind of want to hurt her. Not sure I like it, but if it means stopping her from hurting any more people I'm willing to deal." Heroes don't take revenge for revenge's sake. But they do stop bad guys. Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 16, 2015 0:19:05 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Absinthe's smile fades. "That right there is what I'm talking about, Aaron. What happened is a tragedy, but if you think you'll be putting your personal feelings into a mission against this woman, you're best not to go." Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 16, 2015 0:31:16 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "It's part of my worry, that's why I agree I need a little time." He tries to push the frown off his face, because he didn't mean to let it leak out. "She killed my... I don't know if I can call Miranda my friend, we barely spoke outside of a mission, but my comrade gave her life to stop that woman from butchering helpless children. Of course I'm angry at her, and of course I need to make sure I won't let it get in the way." He doesn't mean any disrespect with it, just trying to put it on the table. "I guess maybe I'm venting a little, or maybe now I know how I feel when I meet someone who really just needs to be stopped. There's knowing the Empire has to be defeated, or that there's supervillains out there who're evil and have to fail, but I'd never met people like this myself. Mom and Dad didn't tell me how it'd feel, meeting the first villain I, personally, wanted to bring down." What was it they say? You never forget your first time. That usually doesn't mean your first supervillain rival, though. Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 16, 2015 12:22:58 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top She nods. "You're feeling what a lot of people before you have felt. The first time something goes that wrong, it can make you feel very powerless, very small. But it's all very normal." she says gently. "I can already tell you have a good head on your shoulders, Aaron. That you're heroic and want to help everyone and make sure no one gets hurt on your watch. I'm very confident you'll be able to channel all of that in a positive way when you bring that person to justice." Hopefully without trying to hurt them very bad for what they did. She'd been in that place herself, before. Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 17, 2015 7:26:43 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Aaron doesn't respond verbally, but looks very flattered! Flattered enough he seems to have snapped out of the little show of anger he had going on, finishing the tea and setting the cup gently aside. Sure, maybe it's just a pep talk, but it's a good one. "Thanks, Doctor. Really." He spends the next moment in silence, before taking a breath. "If I can ask, I know you used to be a field agent, a damn good one. Did you have any villains like this for you? That were personal? Like, sure, we all want to stop the bad guys, but not everybody has that one opponent they look at and see as like, 'I want to be the one to take you down'." Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 17, 2015 20:36:56 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "I've had several." Absinthe admits. "The sad truth is I don't think I captured a single one." she smiles sheepishly. Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 17, 2015 20:40:32 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Guess what matters is they did get beaten in the end, huh?" Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 17, 2015 20:49:47 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "In a manner of speaking, yes." she nods. "You just have to try and be prepared for it to go that way. For a long time I didn't even feel like things were over because I wasn't present for what happened." Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 17, 2015 20:55:18 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Must've felt anticlimactic." Not that that's the important bit, he's just relating. Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 17, 2015 21:02:31 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Heh, very!" she actually laughs. "But I like to think what I was doing instead was important, too. I went to save someone who would eventually return the favour." Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 18, 2015 6:23:23 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Oh?" He doesn't mean to pry, but he does like the old generation's stories, and it sounds like there's one to hear there. Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 18, 2015 12:03:38 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "You want the whole story or brief explanation? This is your time, I wouldn't want to take it up with too much self-disclosure." Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 18, 2015 12:32:41 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Either's fine with me, I like hearing stories like this. Don't have anything too important I'd be cutting into." He'd missed some classes, but given he was known to be in the infirmary and Dr. Husher'd sent his teachers a memo, that's not actually a problem. He'll have the work to make up when he next sees those instructors. "If nothing else, think of it as helping take my mind off what happened." Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 18, 2015 15:49:19 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "If you believe it'll help, I don't mind, It's nothing you can't find details of in the archives, but, it can feel more personal coming from someone." she says. "A long time ago I was tricked by an immortal into helping him with...well all sorts of things against the Academy. I was still very new, so I suppose I didn't know any better." More than most people, at least. "When he was done using me he tried to kill me, and for someone I thought was my friend to do that...it really destroyed me. But I went on to learn about who he was and all the lies he told me, and I really, really wanted to take him down. But someone I knew was in danger, so I went with the team that rescued her and learned afterwards that the other team had seen him die for the last time. I wasn't even there to see for myself. To see it was all finally over. But some time later, when I was in trouble, the woman I helped save, saved me. Maybe if I hadn't gone with the team, she could have died and I wouldn't be here today either." Back to Top   Aaron Silverman Legend Defense ... [send pm] Joined: November 2014 Posts: 3,701 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 19, 2015 0:56:32 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "Oh, Thanatos, wasn't that? I read some of the files on him." His parents hadn't dealt with him, but they had had some stories to tell. "Sounds like it all turned out okay in the end." Back to Top   Some things are worth fighting for, some feelings never die... Absinthe Makaila Secretary Counsellor [color=deeppink]<3[/color] [send pm] Joined: September 2009 Gender: Posts: 4,814 Head Check (Dr. Gavyns) « Nov 19, 2015 1:06:51 GMT -6 » Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top "So far so good." she chuckles. "How do you feel about perhaps not having anything to do with stopping the person who killed Miranda?" Back to Top   Reply Share Thread Facebook Twitter Tumblr LinkedIn MySpace Email Go to Previous Thread Next Thread Please make a selection first