[quote=@Joshie] The point, though is to give Andrea the 'chance' to reject influence. If things stand, she's already in there, get what I'm saying? But a good point was brought up: Would Andrea just do this without voicing out concern. What I plan is to give a chance to reject influence and grow from there. I'll leave it to @Ermine though. [/quote] Well, if Andrea sat it out, so would Alex. She's way too involved in Andrea, and already predisposed to avoid causing what she views as unnecessary harm to her friends and teammates, to actually stick around and let the gang be drawn into an imagined, somewhat pointless conflict with Andrea's holographic aunt, the part of the gang that cares anyway (presumably no one besides Robert, who already said he was going through with this, would have had any prior contact with Andrea's aunt for any reason). My strong suggestion would be to start posting in the IC, and leave me and Ermine's posts last in the order. Presumably we'll know what's going on by the time the other four of you can get a post in. [quote=@Tengri] "No, for this training we need the whole team involved. No excuses." He sighed heavily, feeling like the whole world was crushing him under its weight. It wasn't a pleasant sound. "And yes, I would fight and I would kill my mentor. Not out of my duty. Because that's what she would want. Nucleus knows that sometimes we have to make compromises with ourselves. It's what heroes do: fight bad guys. To no end. Again and again." [/quote] IC: "Well, after this is over, we'll come back, start up a holo, and kill Nucleus together. I'll make you watch while she rips off my arms, or I rip off hers, and I'll snap a pic when you have to make the call to let one of us die and allow the other to live. In the meantime, I don't care that it's a hologram, --, in fact, you know what? I do," she lowered her shirt and spun on Net, with a ferocity few ever saw in her. Alex was usually the girl who sat in the corner and played on her phone, occasionally chiming in with some comment or another until there was work to be done, and even then she was all business. Everyone knew she cared about Doktor Faust, though, even those who weren't aware of their civvie relationship, perhaps she was known for taking things way too far when her feelings and safety were concerned by this point. Another thing that a war time commander wouldn't have the luxury of. "[b]This. Isn't. Real.[/b] No one is in danger, and there's no reason we need to brainwash ourselves into cold hearted robots to stop imagined super villains, who we've all already proven we can fight and beat. You wanna talk threat preparedness? Arsen is dangerous, she has a Class S briefcase that has who knows what in it, and we're sitting around in this fancy room terrorizing Faust for no reason when we could be out there looking for that bitch," it was still a sore spot. Tal had been like an older sister to her, was around before Andrea and talked her through a lot of the earlier super stuff, when her powers were developing. Knowing that not only was Zondervan using her as a puppet towards whatever his ends were, and remembering getting kicked out of that window into the street by someone she trusted, well... Needless to say, it was super shitty.