querulus: (x-men - thinky thoughts)
Quintavius "Quentin" Quirinius Quire ([personal profile] querulus) wrote2023-08-22 01:57 pm
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Hey, losers, I'm probably out doing something amazing, so leave a message, and I'll try to get back to you. Or just think really loudly at me. I'll hear it. BEEP.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-11-27 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
( it doesn't tell him everything he more-or-less needs to know, but as clint also knows logan, would even call him a friend even if he knows logan finds him annoying as fuck, clint doesn't think it's quite as damning as quentin might intend it to sound.

but in the rest of it, he's not wrong. it'd started as a means to be useful, to have something to do other than shovelling elephant shit and helping to fix rides. it'd been something to do that also made him feel wanted, even if neither jacques not chisholm had been quite the father figures he'd been hoping for.

the "it makes a point" of it all had come later. )


it doesn't, quire. you being able to do what you can do because it's you isn't the same thing.

but it's not like I really give two seconds thinking about why thor uses a hammer, or tony decides to dress up as a tin can.

my choice is my choice, is mostly what it comes down to.

plus there's just something really funny about kicking some bad guy's ass with some string and wood.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-11-28 08:08 am (UTC)(link)
( wait until quentin discovers that spite was the entire reason clint quit the circus and decided to (try to) become a superhero. )

the WHAT
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-11-30 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
( is that what clint was expecting? no, not at all. is it better? debatable. )

so... you're an external hard drive, is what you're saying, only without the right admin privileges to access the questionable folder you've just downloaded from a questionable website and we've just gotta hope it doesn't install anything weird on you.

but with the positive spin of 'if something goes wrong with the ai, you can maybe kind of fix it'? like a data restore or whatever.


( does clint do computers? not really. )

how does the ai feel about all of this?
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-01 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
the "super nerds" do the computer stuff, quentin. we're lucky I can type.

let's not talk about what people do to try and stop bruce, please. that's a shitty comparison.


( given, you know, clint did kill bruce and he did undergo a murder trial for it. given clint absolutely, completely hates himself for agreeing to do it in the first place. )

anyway, precisely none of what you've said makes me feel good about any of this.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-02 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
1. no-one needs to see my thoughts
2. ALSO not what I meant. but for what it's worth, if you don't think I've got an arrow for every person I work with, you've got another think coming.
3. yay knowledge
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-02 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
for starters, there'd be no "merciless slaughtering".
and telling you would INCREDIBLY defeat the point.

I wasn't, thank you.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-03 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
you do know I don't kill, right?

( —mostly. 99% of the time. )

I'm gonna let you ask kate that to her face, and I'm not gonna do a single thing when she punches you.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-03 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
it means putting you in time out, christ, quentin.
on the naughty step, whatever.
NOT killing.

...yeah, okay, we can call
( ... ) training 'platonic arrow shooting' if you want.
sure a way of putting it though.

I'm not uptight.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-03 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
you're a telepath and I don't have any powers, we both know I don't need to answer that with my words.

( a pause of his own here, one punctuated with a series of because the way he thinks quentin's taken it is not how he'd meant it. )

look, it's generally not what a person chooses to do that's the problem.

but for the record, I don't make it a habit of working with anyone I think's a psycho.

you and I are working with very different definitions of 'uptight'.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-04 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
...that's it? you really think I haven't heard an off-color joke in my time?

I know card tricks! I just don't know card "tricks". which honestly just says I had a slightly more interesting, less lonely teenage experience than whatever would've led to me knowing how to guess what card someone's just picked out a pack.
could probably figure something out since you're so goddamned hung up on it though.

...do you just take someone not telling you what you want to know as someone being weird and uptight? cause there's DEFINITELY another word we could use for that, and it's not one that describes me.

mine was just an asshole, I dunno if I'd go so far as to say 'evil'.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-04 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'm as normal as an avenger can get.

if you want me to teach you how to cheat at poker, I can teach you how to cheat at poker.
makes for some fun games with ben and logan.

ha, we both know there's nothing in my mind you really wanna see.


( is it your luck talking, quentin, or is it your self-perception. )

alright, let me just change my entire perspective on murder because quentin quire says so.
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[personal profile] westcoasts 2024-12-05 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
we don't invite telepaths. didn't even invite spider-man for the longest time cause none of us were sure if that spidey sense of his would, you know, let him know when someone was trying to fuck him over.

( (and also he never has money, which is a little rich coming from clint, but—.)

so, yeah, that's a no. )


you can make your own little poker game.

and no, I wouldn't know, but you and I both know there's a chance you're gonna have to do something without your powers at some point in your life. relying on one thing and one thing alone's just setting yourself up for failure, and I don't for a second believe you're not a guy that doesn't like to have some surprises in his back pocket.


( WHY are you like this— )

yeah, well, that's because I'm a divorced man in his thirties. explore away, kiddo, just don't say I didn't warn you.

I had to deal with going blind once. "I'd make you forget how to aim" isn't the threat you think it is.

but for the rest of it: nah. that's really not my style. most every time, there's a better way.
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