selfhelp: ([billy] oh god. oh thank god.)
William "Billy" Kaplan (Wiccan) ([personal profile] selfhelp) wrote2013-07-12 09:13 pm

[Action, July 11th-13th]

[To say that Billy is a bit of a basket case right now would be a severe understatement. His mom is here. His admittedly teenage and therefore doesn't-know-who-he-is-and-kind-of-alternate-universe mom, yes, but that doesn't seem to make the intensity of his feelings about the matter any different. One small comfort is that they're getting along (so far), and their shared powers gives them common ground, but there's still that lingering... risk that he can't stop thinking about. That he won't be able to keep his secrets, that eventually everything will come crumbling down. He's terrified of that.

The first day, he does little else but fret and mull over it, after separating from Wanda; Teddy's kind enough to cancel any of his daily doings, since he's in no state to be pretending like everything's normal. It had been hard enough with Wanda the first time. Today, though, he feels much better. His head is more clear, he's found his center of calm, and he spent at least half the day and night before meditating so he figures he has a firm grasp on his sanity again.

There are certain things that he knows he needs to do, especially since he ditched all his usual priorities the day before, so he's made himself a list, and today he's going through it all. It is as follows: He swing by the art gallery and removes some of his work, namely anything that features the Scarlet Witch (only a couple of pieces, mind you, and they're his, but art theft is still art theft). He attends training with Logan and begs for forgiveness about skipping the day before (beg may be an overstatement of what actually happens because he isn't really sorry at all). He'll attend X-Men Training and try to perform decently despite feeling ridiculously scatterbrained. And finally, he'll probably talk to some Very Important People in the process of completing the rest of his list.

In the end, well... he's decided to track down Wanda again, maybe not now, but some time in the near future. Because despite his fears and misgivings, despite everything he's likely to say to everyone else - that it's a bad idea, that he'll mess things up, that he'll accidentally reveal himself - the temptation of sharing his powers with hers, teaching her, helping her, is too strong to resist. This is about more than a lost family, now. This is about magic.]
fashionably_strong: (triumph)

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[personal profile] fashionably_strong 2013-09-04 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
So, watching movies or going out dancing at a club aren't really Avenger-type activities, then?

[She's joking, but it is quite an image, envisioning fully costumed superheroes out on the dance floor.]
not_a_troll: (nah bro naaahh)

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[personal profile] not_a_troll 2013-09-04 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
One simple shot is very minimal. Just try it. And if it does not work, ask Teddy Altering Man to take off his clothes. You can marvel at his broad chest and deem it yours.

[Loki nods firmly while picking at his sandwich.]

Perhaps we should wear friendship bracelets. Saori has already given me a necklace, you see? A bff necklace.
touchofrogue: (Default)

[ action ] oh good /feels much less guilty then

[personal profile] touchofrogue 2013-09-04 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rogue nods. It's good that he sees all that, but she can't quite agree.]

Well, there's one thing - secrets have a way of outin' themselves in this place. Might be better to find a way to do it before it blows up in your face.

[Wanda would not take being lied to kindly.]
fashionably_strong: (happy)

[Action, July 12th]

[personal profile] fashionably_strong 2013-09-05 02:04 am (UTC)(link)

So, how old does a person have to be to be an Avenger as opposed to a Young Avenger?

[It's probably for the best that the regular Avengers aren't referred to as the Old Avengers, Bulla thinks.]
not_a_troll: (the smiley thing)

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[personal profile] not_a_troll 2013-09-07 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loki shows Billy the necklace. It is, indeed, half a heart.]

Aye! Do you have one as well?

fashionably_strong: (side profile)

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[personal profile] fashionably_strong 2013-09-07 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
So...what happens when one of you guys turns twenty? Is that when you'd become full Avengers, or would Young Avengers become teens and college age people?
tryit: ([others] bitch)

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[personal profile] tryit 2013-09-08 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[At his response, she wraps her arm back around his shoulder and gives him a light squeeze. Honesty's the best policy. But whoever came up with that saying never experienced life in the day of a Young Avenger.]

Yeah...

[A sigh.]

You'd think someone would have come up with an "Alternate Realities for Dummies" manual by now.
not_a_troll: (facing up)

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[personal profile] not_a_troll 2013-09-09 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
Saori has the other half.

[A nod.]

Thus we are bff's. But perhaps we can do the bracelets.
not_a_troll: (bros before hoes)

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[personal profile] not_a_troll 2013-09-13 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
The art club? Is there an art club? To maintain art? Or to produce art?

[He smiles.]

Am I able to join? I am most artistic.

[Loki is definitely not artistic.]
tryit: ([others] friends forever)

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[personal profile] tryit 2013-09-13 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Not that it's any consolation, but I'm pretty sure half the stuff we've gone through would mess with anybody's head. Let alone this.
tryit: ([sad] regret)

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[personal profile] tryit 2013-09-16 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Melodramatic, maybe. But Billy has a good point. She never wound up in that prison, and it takes her a moment to realize what he's referring to. That civil war between superheros. Funny how that seems like decades ago instead of just one or two years.]

...if you never left? [Sigh.] I hate to ruin your existentialist fantasies, but this place is way too bizarre to be anything but real.
not_a_troll: (party in the back business in the front)

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[personal profile] not_a_troll 2013-09-18 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Color Loki incredibly excited!]

Aye! I am most thrilled!

[He claps his hands.]

On a more serious note...please, please, please do not be sad anymore, yes?
tryit: ([serious] kate said what she meant)

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[personal profile] tryit 2013-09-18 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[She gets that. As far as prisons go, things could be a whole lot worse. But that still doesn't mean you wish this sort of thing on your own worse enemy.]

Even if it sucks that we were all brought here, I think I'd rather we face this as a team than any one of us on our own. Young Avengers don't leave their own behind.

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