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[querulus]

UN: kidomega
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[querulus]

hold up you got gravity powers and you went with defender? come on man "gravitas" is right there. get it because you're pretentious and shit??? smh i gotta do everything for you.

whatever. make sure you've got julian keller on your list. hellion. ignore the edgelord codename, he's just like that. telekinetic, tough as hell, good instincts. trust me, you want him on your squad.

as for me, back home on my team i gather intel, run comms, psychic defense, that kinda shit

[hexcope]

I'm not that pretentious! And that's not a heroic name at all!

Alright, noted. I'll send him a message next.

Something I hope you'd be willing to do here?

[querulus]

you're just mad i came up with a better name than you did 💅

great. he'll be a complete dick probably, but if you end up with a team of amateurs you'll be glad to have the asshole around

uh yeah obviously. why'd you think i mentioned it? for my health???? no. just please try to put together a halfway competent squad for me mkay? preciate it

[hexcope]

Sure, if you like puns.

[He does like puns but now he has to pretend he doesn't just for this conversation.]

As long as he's providing results, I don't care if he has an attitude. See: you.

Given that at least half of the people who came here from Etraya are likely "no-powers losers" like you said, there's going to be a learning curve.

[querulus]

look powers-based codenames are a staple of superhero society. "hey who's that guy with big feathery angel wings?" "oh that's angel" "who's the lady who controls weather?" "oh that's storm"

ok wow?? uncalled for???

[Says the guy who just recommended someone he said was an asshole. But that's different!!]

fine whatever i guess i'll babysit you newbies. but you better not waste my time. you're just lucky i can monitor you nerds from anywhere on the planet so you're welcome. now ask all your dumb questions about my powers so we can work together or whatever. i know you're curious.

[hexcope]

Something to be said for going with the obvious choice, I guess. But I'm sticking with Defender.

I can't make any promises for anyone else, but I won't waste your time. I hope you understand that I respect your experience in this field in the way I would respect a professor, and I want to learn how to use my abilities safely and effectively.

When you say monitor us, do you mean you know where we are at all times? Are you able to observe us at all, or know our status? For example, if I'm unconscious, would you know?

[querulus]

ugh god you are such a goody two-shoes. but don't you worry, a couple weeks of superheroing will cure you of that

it means i can sense just about every brain on this planet. you want me to track locations, vitals, etc?

[hexcope]

If you say so.

[He doesn't agree. He's been trying to be a superhero his entire life. Also distracted from answering Quentin's question;]

That's... a lot. Just, all the time? How do you hear yourself think?

[querulus]

my thoughts are way more interesting than anybody else's

[hexcope]

Sure they are. Locations and vitals would be helpful, but maybe not all the time. Maybe we let you know when there's something going on, so you don't have to keep tabs on us 24/7.

[querulus]

right yeah i have a macro for that

[Because it's so obvious what that means.]

[hexcope]

I'm assuming that means some sort of... mental subroutine?

[querulus]

good guess

i run a shared mental network using my brain as a hub, connected to anyone else i decide to add to it. self-sustaining so it doesn't require me to pay much attention to it. auto-filters all the boring crap like surface thoughts, alerts me if there's anything wrong, works as team radio and shared knowledge database as needed. pretty advanced stuff, not to toot my own horn.

[hexcope]

That's incredible.

[And he means it, genuinely.]

[querulus]

[Yeah, so. Funny thing about being the sort of arrogant little shit that Quentin is: he doesn't really get many genuine compliments that aren't buried in layers of qualifications or conditional statements or some other form of backhandedness. His head is big enough as it is.

But also consider this: Quentin doesn't actually know how to accept a genuine compliment???]

yeah

i mean obviously

i told you. genius.

[hexcope]

And if I had a dollar for every time someone called themself a genius and all they've done is try and reinvent the wheel, I wouldn't have to worry about funding.

I can't imagine how you do all that without burn out.

[querulus]

true dat

it's pretty simple really. my mutation is speaking "brain". that includes everything brains do, like all the shit you don't know it's doing. i route stuff through my autonomic nervous system, piggyback off all those background processes but leave them open to move over to manual control if i want. you know, like breathing. or blinking. plus secondary mutation: my brain processes at an accelerated rate.

in other words i'm built different

[hexcope]

And this is something exclusive to you? Not all telepaths can do this, right? It sounds like the telepathy is more a side effect of your main ability.

[querulus]

it's all telepathy. i just do my own thing with it. doing the same shit as everyone else is BORING zzzz
couldn't be me

[hexcope]

So others could do this, if they could figure it out, but you're the first one who has?

[querulus]

different priorities. personalities. different areas of expertise.

if i were feeling uncharitable i'd say all the other telepaths i've met are unoriginal hacks who just copy each other's boring, uninspired, derivative methods of using their powers with a few minor yet ultimately negligible differences. my demographic is sadly lacking in freethinkers. the irony is staggering.

[hexcope]

If you were feeling uncharitable.

[Buddy.]

Are you including Sophie in that?

[Aren't you friends??]

[querulus]

if i was feeling uncharitable yeah

my dude she's a clone of a different telepath and (formerly) in a hivemind of 4 other identical telepaths. "unoriginality" isn't a bug it's a feature

and before you get all high and mighty at me i recall you yourself made some disparaging remarks about people reinventing the wheel. now what do you suppose "the wheel" is in a powerset that includes access to and control of any brain? if you had to guess.

[hexcope]

"Unoriginal" isn't anyone's default state, it's just a mindset. She's working on breaking out of that. You should know that.

Reading minds and influencing thoughts. Creating illusions, hallucinations, mind-control. All things you can do, I'm assuming.

[querulus]

ok first of all calm down on the white knighting broski. second she would literally agree with me??? seriously just ask her.

can do. have done. it's the most obvious shit to do with telepathy, and most telepaths don't consider doing anything different. so before you @ me just remember i'm throwing shade at a bunch of assholes who spend their lives getting better at manipulating and being nosy.