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Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue had to keep herself from face palming as the group of them, in their attempts to save Lady Nimue, attacked her instead. She wasn't very concerned for the Lady's wellbeing, being fairly confident that she'd be able to survive just about anything they could throw at her, even if they wanted to kill her, but in any case, if they had been trying to save somebody who wasn't nigh immortal, they would have just murdered the person they were supposed to save. They needed to improve, desperately, and she had no idea what more she could do to make sure that happened.

As the Mothman was dealt with, Mary Sue approached the scene, unsure of where to go from here. She didn't want to say anything, instead reliant on the feedback from their leader, once she decided to stop playing possum. If this persisted, she might feel a bit unease, but as it stood, all they could really do was see if April was going to try anything to "heal" her. Clearing her throat, she said, "Um, I might be wrong about this, so we should try to help anyway, but Lady Nimue should be fine. It wouldn't be a strict overstatement to say she's a goddess, so I'm not confident we could kill her." Her voice was small, but if anything, she was looking to provide some degree of reassurance to her teammates.

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Okay, this was just about Mary Sue's nightmare scenario. Everything that was going wronmg right now felt as if it was tied directly to the fact that she couldn't follow a simple instruction from her teacher. That alone was enought to make her drop her barrier; she was struggling to keep herself together, much less a quasimagical construct of hopes and dreams. As the cage flickered into nothingness, her mind was scrambled, looking for anything sher could do to stop this from spiraling towards an all out failure. This hellish beast had stolen their Lady, and it was about to get away with it.

Shakily pulling herself together, she mustered up all the force of will she had, and forced a solid wall of force to appear in front of the exit. This was of course, a workplace safety violation of the highest order, but the core of superheroing was exchanging lives for code violations and property damage. She didn't know if there was much else she could do, the idea of trying to manifest something through the beast came to mind, but that sounded risky, and even then, her mind flicered through the possibilty of impaling Lady Nimue on accident, and she wouldn't allow herself the chance to mess up that badly.

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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A smile flickered across Mary Sue's face for the first time in this excercise, it felt like they were handling this much better than the Questing Beast, but her lips faltered for a moment as she caught the stony expression on Lady Nimue's face. Exhaling, she tried to reasses where they could have gone wrong, and they words she had cried out at the start echoed in her head. Was this sufficient protection? Sure, they were focused on eliminating the threat, but what had they actually done to directly protect her? All Mary Sue had done, was protect her and her team mates.

Since it seemed like offense was being appropriately handled by everyone else, she turned her attention to trying to remedy her percieved error. She imagined a bubble appearing artound Lady Nimue, soemthing that would hopefully protect her from stray attacks, but she couldn't pull that into reality. Gritting her teeth, she thoughtshe might be able to dismiss things she'd already made in an attempt to make the process easier for her, but she felt nothing change. It was moments like this where she felt like she was still over her head with her powers. She shook her head, and said, "I'm not sure, but I think we're not doing the right thing right now. Lady Nimue said to protect her, but all we're really doing at present is protecting ourselves..." Her void trailing off, as she tried to come up with some kind of solution for the situation they found themselves in.

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue's eyes were stuck on Lady Nimue as she healed her team and crtiqued them. Her lips twitched as she was caught reflecting on what she said. Was she impressed with Mary Sue? She didn't know. There was some part of her psyche that wouldn't let her make that assumption, the feeling that, even if it was true, it wasn't a useful belief for her to have at this moment. She has to be better. Andy was stabbed by the bery blade she made, and she couldn't help but feel some accountability for that. If they were actually being attacked by the questing Beast, they'd have, in all likelihood, died. Silently, she nnodded at Andy, and took her blazer back, unwilling to put it back on her though, given the amount of blood.

Soon after, bats were swarming them, and she watched as Andy and Mads started their attack against the swarm. Still slow to act, she watched the situation unfuld. She wasn't interested in being the first combatant in any situation, she needed to know what cards to play, so she could be sure to minimize risk and harm to herself and those she worked with. A bead of sweat rolled down her forehead, and she realized she'd been keeping up actual, tangible things for longer than she'd even thought possible. She still had so much to understand about her own abilities, but all she could do now was see how much further she could push them.

Her mind flashed back to her audition, and thought that, maybe, if she could do that again, that would be the most effective method to deal with such a large swarm. She tried once more to pull something out of nothing, and construct a mist to choke the bats, but nothing came of it. Making that many things at once, along with the swords she'd been maintaining, was just infeasable. Instead, she thought a bit more clever, and realzied that all her team members could attack at range, whereas the bats would need to get close to them to attack them. Shortly after, a cage with openings throughout, not unlike a kennel, formed around them, hopefully allowing for a one-sided slaughter of the beasts.

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue watched with a dropped jaw as the sword she summoned was used to stab one of her teammates. How on earth these things she made kept ending up inside people, she had no idea, but she wasn't a fan. Even more so, Mads pulled the sword out, putting the girl at risk of bleeding out. This girl was either a sociopathic loose cannon, or an idiot; either way, Mary Sue would be slow to trust her, if ever now. Instead, she focused on getting this done, and rushed past the beast, making to to the sword rack and grabbing a sword for herself with Andy, she had yet another plan.

Zipping back to the scene of the attempted murder, Mary Sue quickly found herself by the bleeding out Andy, but held her tongue at reprimanding Mads. That sor tof talk about and team fighting wouldn't get them anywhere right now. Instead, she laid the spare sword gently by her side, and made herself let go of Andy's constructed sword, it fizzling off into where ever the things she made went when they were done existing. She briefly tried to summon up some gauze, but apparently between all the stress, blood, and confusion, Mary Sue wasn't quite able to do that.

Thinking on her feat, she slid her jacket off, and felt her heart jump in her chest. She didn't like what she was about to do at all. She was, technically, now in violation of her dress code, but she assumed it was preferable to Andy dying on the floor. Quickly, she wrapped the blazer around Andy's wound, and looked over to her teacher, almost pleadingly. "Okay, Okay." She said, speaking quickly, an obvious tremor in her voice, "We've all got swords, can the monster go away now?" That wasn't originally how she wanted to pitch it in her head, and she was already beating herself up for her delivery, but she was shaken and wanted this to end.

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship, super hero knowledge

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Mary Sue took a step back in shock at the summoning of the Questing Beast. Facing something so dangerous so suddenly was absolutely terrifying, and her careful nature quickly took over, almost as a self defence mechanism. Her first thought was to see if she obfuscate the vision of the beast, but that surely would offer issues if her try out was any indication of how her powers worked. She quickly broke the situation down in her head into the constituent pieces: Herself and her teammates, Nimue and her beast, and the objective, the swords. Step one of victory was knowing your enemy, and Lady Nimue was actually somebody she knew a good deal about.

The Otherworld from which she hailed was a place where logic and reason flowed from an almost narrative frame, rather than from grounded first principles. Perhaps, Mary Sue thought, she could leverage this to her advantage. Tales from ages past were full of clever people tricking others through linguistic sleight of hand: No man of woman born could kill Macbeth and all. With that in mind, Mary Sue had an idea. Drawing up that power that lived inside of her, she conjured three swords in front of her team mates. How viable they'd be, she didn't know, but she had a plan now.

"Those should be solid? I think" She called out, hope in her voice, "Lady Nimue never said we had to get out swords from the rack, just that we needed to get swords." She explained, dashing towards the goal, "Now we just need one mo-" She started, before the beast caught up with her and knocked her back. She grunted, surprised and annoyed she caught the beasts ire. "One more." She finished, bracing herself for more attacks, "Then we win."

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills:

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If there was one thing Mary Sue was absolutely sure of today, it was that she would be dressed impeccably. School uniforms were so her thing, it was a set of defined clothes that had to be worn in a certain way. Essentially, she say it as a way to never be wrong about her dress, and never have to think about it at the same time. Truly, it was a perfectionist's dream. All other things though? She was deeply uncertain of after the massive fuck up that was her audition. She was left with the idea that she had no idea about the true nature of her abilities, and that made life at a school where she was meant to hone them terrifying.

Purple as a good color on her, and given the season, she was wearing the skirt, plain white top and tie. Hurrying into the training room, Mary Sue could see that she was the last of her team to arrive, something that left her face a bit red. "Hopefully, I'm not late." She said hurriedly, as she joined the amassing group of students. She didn't know how much other people may have heard of how her audition has gone, but, maybe, maybe, that didn't matter anymore? They were all here, of course, so they could be, possibly, all about equal. That was at least a comforting truth to soak herself in. She gave a brief wave to April, wondering if she recognized her at all, their parents used to work together, right?

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym
Skills: The Power Of Friendship, Stealth
First Day Fit

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This was a patently silly idea. that wa swhat Mary Sue was tuck with as she tried to steel her nerves enough to make her able to do do this. She wanted to be a hero, yes, but she still was plagued with what felt like endless amounts of ucnertainty. She didn't even know how to show something like this off. Was she to try to make some kind of dream-esque landscape, and fool the likes of the heroes she idolized? Of course not. The best she could think to muster was a fog, something she could hide in. If she could sell her powers around deception or obfuscation, perhaps she could hone her body to be a weapon that depended on that. She didn't like it, but she truly didn't have anything better she thought she could do.

The scene of her audition was simple, an open stage covered with golems det to try their best to detect her, with her standing in the center ready to disapear. She was fairly confident she could make a dense enough fog that would make her borderline unnoticable. A bit of her father's sort of analysis crept into her, telling her that the larger the particle she made, the harder it would be for it to be seen through. All she needed to focus on was making them stick around in the air and be dense as hell. She'd done a fair amount of private practice with her powers, so she really thought she could manage this.

With a silent look towards the judges, Mary sue closed her eyes, and all around her on the stage materialized the densest cloud of faintly glowing flecks of golden light. Discerning out individual specks would have been borderline impossible for all but the most keen eyed, but they were there; this was not some solid cloud of light, but a confluence of tens of thousands of particles. Dropping to the ground, Mary Sue was intent on putting distance betweem herself and the puppets that were now set to look for her. very proud of herself, she navigated around the stage with a kind of smoothness and dexterity that she didn't know she was capable of.

She positioned herself behind the first golem, ready to take them down silently and knock them out, only for her to realize very quickly that something was terribly wrong. The sounds of coughing were filling the stage, and the figure in front of her had buckled to its own knees. With a kind of shock, she quickly dismissed her own fog, and saw faint specks of blood sputtering out of the mouth of her target. A look of shock and fear crossed her face, as she hurried to try to see what had happened. Turning the doll over, she noticed flecks of her fog still in its mouth, and her eyes grew wide. There was something she fundamenntally didn't understand here, but clearly her illusions were far more solid than she'd believed so far. Unsure of what to do, she looked up t the judges, frozen. She didn't want these things to suffer, but they also... weren't people? She didn't know what to do, but she shook her head, and quickly realized that, whatever she'd done, it was likely because their lungs were all still filled with her sand. She closed her eyes, and focused on whatever was still keeping her power up, and shut it down completely. "I..." she stammered out, horror flat on her face as the scene around her, "Had no idea tha that would happen."

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Stark Hall, room 401 -> Lobby
Skills: N/A
First Day Fit

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It might be Mary Sue's increasingly fallin gopinion of Ardere, but it was har dnot to see anything she said to Teddy as some kind of paperthin attempt to flirt with the first boy she met. She didn't know why she was suddenly this judgemental of anoyhter person, but it was absolutely at the forefront of her mind to pick at all the tiny things about her new roommate that she didn't like. This is something that made her feel terrible, as if her internal critic was just looking for somebody else to latch onto soince she was resolved to not attack herself too much. It was unplesant, and she wanted to be better than that.

Following after Teddy, Mary Sue watched the space around them, trying to learn what she could. Surely it'd be somehting she'd pick up on later, the layout of this place, and all the particularities about where things were and where people hung out, but right now she was still in awe. compared to her homelife, this was all just... so different. She loved it, and wanted to soak herself in it, but already there were things to do and people to meet, downtime might not be something she had in spades. Taking a moment to look over at Ardere, Mary Sue started, "Well actually, plenty of other countries get visited by aliens. There was a major attack on Cardiff just twenty or so years ago." She ws saying it to try to be helpful, but she realized it may just seem like she was correcting her for the sake of correcting her, and turned sheepish shortly after.

Avengers Academy 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Stark Hall, room 401
Skills: N/A
First Day Fit

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Mary Sue cringed internally at Ardere's response. She wasn't asking her... not that Mary Sue didn't care about her roommate, she didn't want to be immediately turned off to her, but it was hard to not be at least have things be awkward. She would find a way to fix this, even if it meant being a bit of a doormat. She just wished that she and the person she ended up living with had a little bit of chemistry, but if this was how it was, she really could only meet the universe where it was. Clenching her teeth, she forced herself to focus on Teddy.

"A Kree ship? That's awesome! Let's go!" She said, obviously enthused. She thought her parents had mentioned that they'd run into them a few times, but she really didn't know specifics. She pointedly kept herself from trying to explain her powers, not only because she really didn't fully understand them herself, but also because she really didn't think they were much to be proud of. She hoped they'd be something useful and impressive one day, but she was currently operating under the assumption that if she wanted to get where everyone else already was, she'd need to work twice as hard.