05 ☣ TEXT & VOICE;

[angermanaging]

Looking to gather some info. Please respond with succinct list of what you would consider unalterable laws of reality in your home dimension, e.g. gravity, conservation of mass, particular laws of magic.

Will attempt to compile results into meaningful commonalities across dimensions. Maybe there's a universal law somewhere.

Would prefer text response if possible. Thanks.

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[The message is then repeated in audio, if preceded by Bruce clearing his throat, for those that can't read English.]


[Voice | 60% encrypted to castmates & established CR.]

Finally got fed up with everyone talking over my head and made a trade to see my future.

[A beat.

In utter, dry exasperation,] You're all nuts. What kind of teamwork was that?

[ooc: Bruce is now post-Avengers! If you're not sure if you're established CR, ping me and I'll let you know if they're included, but feel free to play fast and loose.]

Comments

[angermanaging]

Didn't think about it in terms of not being able to turn it off. Or finding the world smaller that way.

Getting worked up is what makes me dangerous. Better to just avoid it. [He can say that much in public. His cover's completely blown, so he could say even more, but old habits run deep.]

[andaway]

[Kal doesn't push things on purpose, he never means to. Must be his reporter instincts, you never stop trying to find a story when you've been trained by Lois Lane.]

I'm guessing you've already tried to control said danger? I also thought it was better if I just didn't touch anything ever again when my strength kicked in.

[angermanaging]

Tried to control. Harder than it sounds. Working on that now.

How did you get over that? [He has to admit a very personal interest in the subject-- learning how someone else with phenomenal power learned to cope in regular life.]

[andaway]

I know some meditation techniques if you think that would work. Good luck either way.

I didn't, not really. Or I guess I simply practiced enough to control it. The strength is part of me, I just simply learned to live with it.

[angermanaging]

Know every form of meditation I could find someone to teach me. It helps. Not a cure.

Live with it. That's a little difficult.

[andaway]

Isn't fighting it on a daily basis even more difficult? I obviously can't really imagine what you go through when you aren't really yourself so I'm not sure to which point my advice will help you but when I accepted who I was and stopped trying to hide it was when I began truly being able to control it.

And when something like laser vision is involved controlling it is crucial.

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[angermanaging]

How do you accept something you can't remember? It's a big blank. Wake up and survey the damage. That's it.

You're probably right. Just as crucial as controlling laser vision. Past experience suggests self-acceptance furthers control. 'Self-acceptance' isn't easy.

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[andaway]

Is self-awareness completely impossible? Maybe a mindreader or someone with telepathic abilities could help, from where I'm standing it looks like the main problem is how separate the two personalities, for lack of a better term, are.

Maybe I'm being too naive and I apologize for giving unwanted advice, but if you managed to find some basic way of communication self-acceptance would be easier.

2013/10/14 angermanaging - DW Comment dw_null@dreamwidth.org

Re: encrypted 60%

[angermanaging]

Almost tried that. Used to be an empath here, but she left. Not sure it would be safe in my mind. And not sure I could trust someone with what I've seen. But it's an option I've thought of before.

No. I need advice. It's not unwanted or naive.

encrypted 60% ugh sorry about the fail html, replied from phone

[andaway]

Maybe take it little by little, step by step? So either of you can call it off if you feel too comfortable or the telepath thinks they can't handle what you've seen?

I am personally wary of someone peeking inside of my mind, but I've had to let people do it in the past because it was the only way.

encrypted 60% no problem!!

[angermanaging]

Only partly about not wanting them to see anything. It also might not be... safe. For them. He might not take well to an intrusion.

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[andaway]

Is the other dangerous at a mental level? If you mean physically I could try to handle him or even get more people to help me out if you think it would be necessary but I have no power on the mental realm.

[He's fought mind-control before but it always took someone to pull him back to reality and this would be a completely different case.]

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[angermanaging]

I have no experience with it one way or another. But I wouldn't be surprised. He's the sort to be territorial; I'm his territory.

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[andaway]

That makes it sound as if he was the one in control of your body.

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[angermanaging]

He is, sometimes. He wishes it could be more.

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[andaway]

Does he have a fully formed personality? Because if so I could understand feeling confined in someone else's body like that, dangerous as he might be.