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nexus_sages2015-08-31 09:18 pm
bestdadinamestris) wrote in nexus_sages2015-08-31 09:18 pm
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Super what now?
There's nothing Hughes loves more than his family.
There's nothing Hughes loves more than anything other than his family than information.
The Nexus was a strange cross-section of a universe that the Intelligence officer simply didn't understand. He was doing his best to accommodate all of the strange goings on in his mind by learning about and understanding them a little at a time.
The fact that there was a portal to and from the Nexus in his world was growing on him. The grand scale of technology beyond what was available in his world was daunting, but didn't come up as much since he avoided most of the shops in the Forum. And some of the characters that had appeared in the Nexus? Well, if they were human, it was understandable. Weird, but understandable. Everything else? Well... he was just going to have to take some more time for everything else.
He liked being in the Forum, picking up bits and pieces as he simply listened. That's how he got onto this whole thing about some people being "better" than others, in some rather unscientific sounding ways. He'd spent a while trying to glean more information about it and failed quite spectacularly. People simply accepted that's the way things were. Not Maes Hughes. He needs to know, and if listening isn't enough, then, well... Sometimes, it's just easier to reach out and gather information the old fashioned way - by asking.
"There's been a lot of talk in the forum lately about super heroes and people doing super human things. It's all a little too vague for my taste. If I don't know how to define something, I can't know it when I see it. So, my question to you is this: How do you define the term 'super hero?' Or, rather, what makes a person a 'super hero?'"
There's nothing Hughes loves more than anything other than his family than information.
The Nexus was a strange cross-section of a universe that the Intelligence officer simply didn't understand. He was doing his best to accommodate all of the strange goings on in his mind by learning about and understanding them a little at a time.
The fact that there was a portal to and from the Nexus in his world was growing on him. The grand scale of technology beyond what was available in his world was daunting, but didn't come up as much since he avoided most of the shops in the Forum. And some of the characters that had appeared in the Nexus? Well, if they were human, it was understandable. Weird, but understandable. Everything else? Well... he was just going to have to take some more time for everything else.
He liked being in the Forum, picking up bits and pieces as he simply listened. That's how he got onto this whole thing about some people being "better" than others, in some rather unscientific sounding ways. He'd spent a while trying to glean more information about it and failed quite spectacularly. People simply accepted that's the way things were. Not Maes Hughes. He needs to know, and if listening isn't enough, then, well... Sometimes, it's just easier to reach out and gather information the old fashioned way - by asking.
"There's been a lot of talk in the forum lately about super heroes and people doing super human things. It's all a little too vague for my taste. If I don't know how to define something, I can't know it when I see it. So, my question to you is this: How do you define the term 'super hero?' Or, rather, what makes a person a 'super hero?'"
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He's gone a good five or ten minutes before he returns, a comic in hand. "I ain't able to get none of the superhero ones," he explains sheepishly as he approaches. "They're all tied up by our boy in the science lab. Guess he's got it in his head he's gonna start collectin' any of 'em that we find and that means they stay with him. I didn't have it in me to argue with the guy, he's way smarter than me, besides. But here!"
He holds out the comic book, one that's a little creased and smudged with age here and there. It's an Uncle Scrooge comic.
"That one's good for your kid, I would think. Got funny ducks in it." He grins.
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"I see what you mean about this being different from a picture book," he says when he's done reading it. He holds the comic back out to Jesse. "I only wish there were things like this in my world. People would be a lot more at ease with something to lighten the mood from time to time."
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"So what's goin' down back home with you, Hughes? Sounds dire, I reckon."
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"They're..." He hesitates, obviously unsure of how to continue. "...complicated. Not so dangerous that I feel the need to pull my family out, but those close to the heart of matters causing all the complication are certainly under a lot more pressure these days than they used to be."
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He frowns as he listens to the rundown of what home is like, though. "Well, y'all can always relocate to the Nexus if things get too hairy back home. Even just to make sure yer lil' family is safe. I'd sign up for makin' sure they stay that way."
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