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Franklin "Foggy" Nelson ([personal profile] avakaido) wrote in [community profile] nexus_sages2016-03-24 08:32 pm

holy guacamole it's foggy nelson!

 "Excuse me." Bumped past someone. What? He's preoccupied with trying to find out where he is exactly. The seats at the forum seem like a good place to crash. This is what he gets for venturing out to a fancy schmancy coffee shop that Marci picked out. The door should have lead to the bathroom. 

Should have.

"You ever feel like you're just really, really lost?"
brave_heart_verity: (thinking about it)

I'm so meta. :P

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Calm and reason are the best remedy for panic. The coffee and cake being delivered now will help too. Chocolate cake makes everything better. She murmurs merci to the waiter, who seems not to be phased by Foggy's behavior. This is a place lots of people are brought their first time visiting. They've seen worse. "It's okay. You're doing fine."

She pats his hand and leans back now that there's food and drink between them. Her croissant is flaky, buttery, and properly not curled. She's a dunker. "Oh no, lots of things are different. The Incident never happened where I'm from. I mean, we had plenty of other attempted alien invasions, but not the way that happened. The Red Skull didn't die in the war. Sokovia isn't a place I'd ever heard of. Tony Stark didn't build Ultron."

She shrugs and has a bite of her croissant, letting him take all that in before she continues. "So, there are similarities, but... it's kind of like reading a book then watching the movie. Things change."
brave_heart_verity: (sad)

Of course, there really are comics about the Avengers and FF and whatnot where she's from...

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Ver watches him without comment for a few moments, taking in how the simple ritual of sharing food is helping him relax. This was definitely not the time to shock him with some of the other things on the menu. Or by letting him see a menu. It's good to see him starting to feel a little better.

Just in time for him to ask those questions. Her gaze drops. She waits for his mouth to be empty.

"My world no longer exists. A portion of the multiverse was collapsed in on itself. We um. There wasn't time to implement the solution."
brave_heart_verity: (disappointed)

That'd be a trip!

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's a thought process she understands; her paternal line fought the dark elves. She's the latest in a line of heroes, and may be the last of them. That deserves so much cake.

"I escaped. I came here." She doesn't want to come home, Foggy. She wants to go home, but she can't. "Beings called the Beyonders. Those Who Sit Above In Shadows. They wanted to see what would happen if the Multiverse collapsed. So they..."

She holds out a hand, open and empty, then snaps it shut.

"The only way for one planet to survive was to destroy the other Earths set on a course to collide with it. People here helped me find a way to stop that, but there wasn't time to stop that for my world. So." So here she is. The refugee with no papers and no place willing to claim her.
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
An All Cake is way better than a No Prize. But it's not realistic to think she and Matt are ever going to settle down and have kids. He's far too dedicated to the heroing to be a decent father, and Ver would never do that to an innocent child.

"What? No. You had no way of knowing. It's... I mean. Knowing that other people are still alive and well is kind of comforting." It's not okay, it's never going to be okay, but it doesn't have to be a crisis situation forever.
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
People have suggested her reason is to be the keeper of the knowledge; to make sure anyone from a world that might get caught up in this gets a copy of the directions to fix things. A hero, they call her. Can you imagine?

Lawyers are heroes who work within the law; vigilantes are heroes who work without. They're two sides of a man.

"You're not." She'd tell him if she were frustrated... eventually. It's still important to her to have his good opinion. The offered comfort gets a little smile from her. "Actually, I'm kind of glad you came here. I don't like lying to people."

She turns her hand so she can give his a little pat, then nudges it back toward his cake. He should be enjoying that, not worrying about her. "Right. When I realized there wasn't any stopping things, I decided to move here. And... well. Not many people listened to me, when I tried to warn them about what was going to happen."
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Knowing has always been her burden. But sometimes it saves her; she knows there's no good and no comfort in being spiteful. She tried that. It never worked. So now there's the mourning of what's gone and what will never come. Someday, she's been promised, she'll feel better about it all.

She doesn't have much to say--she could have done more, risked more... probably died with everyone else then, but that's what real heroes do. The gratitude that she's still alive confuses her for a moment, but then she manages a thin smile. "I thought it was his place to tell you, when he was ready. It's part of why I didn't come to meet you sooner. Matt's always told me such lovely stories about you."

Yes, she's changing the subject. Please don't press, Foggy, not right now.
brave_heart_verity: (cautiously optimistic)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Somehow, carrying on with cake seems a little easier. Just a little. She, too, will continue the brave struggle to keep her own delicious treats in line. It's a burden she'll have to learn to live with.

"Oh, is that how it went with you? He's been somewhat more forward with me." Shy about some things, sure, but he was certainly the one taking the lead for most of their relationship. "We first met at a big party. It was Halloween and he was dressed as Waldo. Surprisingly, not that hard to find."
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
A greasy spoon that makes good macarons is something she has to see... and recommend a cleaning service to.

"That is," she agrees. "Sharing food is one of the primal bonding rituals." Says the woman who's fed him twice now. It's almost like, in lieu of knowing what she's doing, she's been reading a lot of books. (She has been; research is easier than actually talking to people.)

"Ah, I must have been a surprise." That's not an attempt to fish for compliments; she knows she's a five, maybe a six where she's from. But the scale she grew up with includes goddesses, so. "Who's Tommy?"
brave_heart_verity: (cautiously optimistic)

[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-29 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ver's got no complaints about people doing the best they can in the wake of tragedy. The Manhattan she grew up in was like that all the time. She just prefers places that are a little cleaner than Josie's.

It's good he sounds so fond of Matt, she wouldn't usually let someone get away with calling her Matty anything like that. But from him, it gets a smirk. "Oh, did he? Just the once?" She finds it hard to imagine him ever doing that. Impaired senses doesn't seem like his idea of a good time. But everyone does stupid things in college.

"Oh, he told me what a good friend you've always been, how lucky he is you took the chance in opening Nelson and Murdock, how much you like bagels." Plenty of other things too. "Nothing too embarrassing, don't worry."

She doesn't view it as self-depreciation; to her, it's a simple truth. But she'll take the compliments with a smile. "Thank you." Comparing her to exes would not be a smart move; on one hand, she'd love knowing she wins, but on the other, it'd make her wonder about them. She doesn't need to do that.

"Oh. Right." She still has no idea what he's talking about, but it's so much easier to pretend a little and smooth over these things. It's going to be a familiar refrain from her before long. Anyway, there's something more important she ought to tell him. "So... did Matt ever tell you about my power?"
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-30 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
It's good to know they have standards.

"Yeah... me too. I don't do well with that sort of thing." What? She went to college. She was uptight and frigid and all the things that people use as excuses to offer her drugs still. Once was more than enough.

"I guess it would depend on your definition of embarrassing? There wasn't anything I think poorly of you for." Croissant finished, she curls her hands around her half-empty mug. "Matt wants us to get along too much to risk it with a silly story about that time you wore your pants inside out."

She hums softly at the partial understanding and gives a little shrug. "Sort of. I'm a human lie detector. You know how frustrating it is when you know someone's lying to you? I feel that all the time. It's tiring."
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-31 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
It's no bad thing to like nice things. And if Verity's cooking beats every restaurant in Hell's Kitchen, well, someone needs to step up their game and it's not her.

"Matt just knows things. I try not to worry about the reasons so much." 'Try' being the key word. She worries about him constantly, and has spent some considerable effort trying to understand his powers. But in the end, it's all for naught. He does what he does and she cannot truly understand it. "You wear fake pants to court? Oh, Foggy."

She shakes her head at his question. "No. Nothing stops it. Nothing I've ever found. There were a few ideas when I came here, but... they didn't amount to anything."
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-03-31 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Thai food after a long day should be acceptable most of the time. She thinks he just really like Thai food, which is also fine.

"Matt's identity was public knowledge where I'm from, so once I knew his name I knew what he did. That's probably helped. At least I don't wonder if it's another woman that keeps him so busy at night." With Foggy, it seems safe to be a little more honest about how frustrating Matt's heroing is. She can love it and wish it weren't so all-consuming at the same time.

"Let me tell you two true things, Foggy." She lifts her gaze and waits until she has his full attention. "The first one is, someone is always watching. The second is, you have never been a nobody." No sign of flinching or even an arched eyebrow. It must be true. She'd know otherwise.

It's good he's giving up that line of questioning, because the constant reminder that there's something wrong with her is painful. The more he digs, the more she shuts down; quietly, wordlessly, she withdraws into herself. There are some nasty cutting words on the tip of her tongue. She'll try to drown them in coffee.
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[personal profile] brave_heart_verity 2016-04-01 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ableist and delicious. It's got to be hard to not take advantage sometimes, to try and get a bit of his own back.

"I understand he was very popular in San Fransisco. You know how helpful people can be if you promise them a great selfie for their efforts." She gives a little shrug before admitting, "I don't know why he did it. But you may want to steer clear of representing the people he rounds up at night."

She was going to tell him anyway. There's not much stopping her sometimes. "Is what? I don't even know what it is you think I can't tell you. I'm not a mind reader."

If only. Maybe Foggy will have to help him with that. He might give more glowing reviews of the experience.

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