[center][h3][b][color=97aaad]Phan Le Chi Mai[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://media3.giphy.com/media/Z1ENXTzr1L9SbYKr5i/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611698e917f12877a3dc4dcf63e937ea43745920e4a&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g[/img][hr][b][color=97aaad]Location:[/color][/b] Mailroom
[b][color=97aaad]Skills:[/color][/b] None Used!
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…what?

…no, seriously, what the actual fuck?

Of the many, MANY things that Chi Mai had imagined may possibly have arrived for Sabine…bruh, this shit wasn't even in the top thousand. What the shit? Chi Mai watched Sabine shift the sword around with a dropped jaw. After the initial stun wore off, Mai couldn’t help but laugh. [color=97aaad]“Bruh.”[/color] she managed in-between hees and haws. [color=97aaad]“Why the fuck somebody gonna send you some goofy-ass sword?”[/color] she started, wiping the [s]tears[/s] condensation from her eyes, not immediately picking up on Sabine’s apparent confusion.

Then the whooshening happened.

As the papers and whatnot were being kicked up and pushed aside, so too was Mai’s hair thrown about before falling back into its naturally messy state. In yet another mood swing (which were increasingly becoming uncomfortably commonplace for her), Chi Mai’s self-pity and fear had been replaced by pure awe. She glanced around at her surroundings, taking in the…what…force field? Murky air? Whatever the fuck it was, she was looking mighty hard at it. Then she shifted her eyes back to the sword. One might, should one listen with an eager and earnest intentness, hear the faint clinking and clanking as rusty gears begin to clunk together and turn in her head.

[color=97aaad]“Babes I think I…yeah, no, I uh…”[/color] she babbled, confused in response to Sabine’s suggestion. [color=97aaad]“Okay, but like, just hear me out for a second: all of uhh, well, [i]THAT[/i],”[/color] she started, waving her hands toward Sabine. [color=97aaad]“Yeah, that shit felt super fucking familiar. Like, I’m getting some real, like, I dunno, deja vu right now? Well, not deja vu but like..y’know what I mean? And I don’t know why?”[/color] she explained, glancing at her arm. [color=97aaad]“Yeah, dude, like check this shit out - I got goosebumps. Like actual goosebumps. What the shit? How am I gonna get goosebumps over some goofy-ass sword?”[/color] she exclaimed, more to herself than to Beanie.

[color=97aaad]“I am not even remotely high enough for this shit.”[/color] she resigned, shaking her head. [color=97aaad]“And that’s saying a lot because a bitch is pretty baja-blasted right now.”[/color] she added, nodding to herself. [color=97aaad]“Whatever. Yeah, let’s go find our dorks.”[/color] she said, shifting from bewildered conspiracy theorist Chi Mai back to Chill Mai and turning to leave the mailroom, heading back out into the heat and sunshine.

If she got her way, this would be all the heat and sunshine she got for the rest of the year. It was the sun’s fault that her head was funky today. She couldn’t quite prove it just yet, but just wait…

You’re on thin ice, Sol.

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[center][h3][b][color=de641d]Teddy Thompson[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://media1.giphy.com/media/IQ9KefLJHfJPq/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47zmucl65wvm0lqsnrw3vjxrpujakf2rpf39nxjwe6&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g[/img][hr][b][color=de641d]Location:[/color][/b] Kree Ship
[b][color=de641d]Skills:[/color][/b] Conflict Resolution…? He’s trying his best, people.
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Hearing the sadness in Vicky’s voice, Teddy immediately broke and was about to attempt to  apologize and explain himself when Zelda broke the introvert’s code and began to speak up. Teddy was first stunned by the sudden assertion, but that quickly shifted to defensiveness when he realized that she was aiming the blunted words towards his friend. When Vicky took her leave, he glanced at Zelda, now a bit unsettled by her, before turning back to Diana and relaxing back into a smile. [color=de641d]“I was actually about to ask, so, I appreciates the heads up, Di.”[/color] he called over to Diana in an attempt to reassure her.

Turning back to Zelda, he couldn’t help but feel a little bad for the girl. It didn’t always feel the best to have somebody else explain you to somebody. But publicly lashing out at somebody over something as innocuous as an introduction? That wasn’t exactly…reasonable? Teddy began speaking before he even knew exactly what it was he was going to say.

[color=de641d]“Uhm, hey, if you’re going to be upset at anybody, blame me. I’m uh…”[/color] he started looking around the little group before settling back on Zelda. [color=de641d]“I’m pretty much the odd man out here and Di knows I’m nosy so she just sorta beat me to it this time.”[/color] he chuckled nervously. It wasn’t like him to speak this much at all, but he couldn’t just stand by and say nothing when something like this might not have even happened if he hadn’t been there. The guilt, deserved or not, was eating him up inside.

[color=de641d]“If it helps, I still don’t really understand what SHIELD even is? Or…was? And I’m completely open to just forgetting that I ever heard that?”[/color] he babbled, digging the hole even deeper. [color=de641d]“I think there’s actually a student around here that can make that a thing if we actually wanna…uhm…I’ll uh…I’ll shut up now.”[/color] he trailed off, suddenly feeling super self-conscious about how long he had been talking, the righteous fury he had felt for his friend gone as quickly as it had come. It had been replaced by the realization that he had just surgically inserted himself into a conflict that he quite frankly had no right to butt in on, even if his intentions were good, and he was now drowning in all of the embarrassment that deservedly came with the territory. 


Fortunately, Teddy’s death-by-embarrassment was postponed when he was yet again stunned by an incoming freshman of the Margaret Carter Institute. The sheer ridiculousness of the incredibly earnest question caught him completely off guard, causing the large man to bellow a mighty belly laugh.The tension which had been suffocating felt as if it had been melted. Well, for him it had, anyway. He turned to look at Ardere and shrugged. [color=de641d]“I mean…”[/color] he started, giving the ship a long, intense look. So far all he had managed to do was introduce Mary Sue to people she already knew and helped Ardere to become even more of a space cadet. So he had failed three different freshmen in the span of…what, less than an hour? Really just knocking it out of the park with this whole mentor thing. Though, in a way, if you have the worst possible day right off the bat, then it really could only go up from there, right? …right? 

Tilting his head, he grunted. [color=de641d]“Well…actually…I can sorta see it.”[/color] he said, amused and very much grateful for the rope that Ardere had thrown him. [color=de641d]“I mean, if you squint a bit, it sorta looks kinda saucer-y.”[/color] he continued. [color=de641d]“Maybe he actually saw one of these and just put it in the game?”[/color] he suggested.

In his defense, it was more likely than you might think.