A lot, [she says, understanding how it might seem.] But they're kind of fond of recruiting en masse. [Who isn't an Avenger anymore ... is the real question.]
You mean right when a meteor filled with evil aliens is headed for Earth? That kind of en masse recruiting? [Probably better than the League, anyway. They sit around a table and talk about a handful of people and figure out how to whittle it down to less than a handful of people. Becoming an endorsed superhero is harder than becoming a millionaire or a movie star.]
No, that's just when you get everyone in a room together. They tend to stock free alcohol for them, a thing I did not appreciate until I got here. [And although Tony does not drink, there is something about bringing everyone together and making sure there's camaraderie. Group Hero Shots as a Party.]
But that aside, it isn't anything as bad as that. I think it might be because we have more freedom.
Can we recruit people at underage keggers? I feel like that would really be helpful in getting to know someone better. No inhibitions. [Seriously, you can tell if a guy is a dick real quick if he's drunk. ...or maybe everyone is a dick when drunk. Okay, problem with this plan.]
While I have been party to throwing underage keggers already, I'm not sure if what we want is underage keggers to be our recruiting strategy. [Free alcohol isn't really going to inspire anyone to be heroic.]
We'd be memorable. [Wally shoves the last of his fifth (sixth?) candy bar into his mouth, petting Springsteen on the head where he's laid it on Wally's knee.] Hey, get your cast over here. I still have to draw something on it. [no dicks and boobs though which honestly just sucks the fun out of everything] Maybe I'll put a huge recruiting ad on it. You can be our first billboard.
We need to agree on what we're labeling ourselves in order to do some kind of recruiting strategy. [Still, she shuffles over and extends her arm. After a little of angling, she bares the underside of her arm, since Loki did a number on a good deal of the rest of it.]
And this might not be the best place for a billboard. It's like a highway that no one ever travels.
Wha, like ah tea na'e? [Wally asks with a pen cap between his teeth. What is the dealio with team names? Their team doesn't have a name back home and they operate just fine. ...he's drawing hearts around his signature ok]
Why do we even need a name? Why don't we just say we're a superhero team or group or something. Do we have to register it for taxes or something? [Wally caps the pen and leans back to examine his work. Beautiful. He took up so much room.]
We'll need funding to do the things we want to do. That we don't have a name to go along with our organization might not help. I mean, we are talking something bigger than just a stateside team. We need to look organized and together. What if the team you have back home tried what they were doing, but had no official stance, no way of trying to sign the dotted line? [Given what he's told her, Kate thinks she has a point here. She even waits to check out her arm.
The team I was on back home was kind of under Justice League jurisdiction. [Wally dumps the pens into the shopping bag and plucks out the Twizzlers.] And I don't know how the League did that stuff.
[Partially because it was all very secret but mostly because he never cared about the bank stuff before so he didn't spare it any thought.]
Soooo, that might be why you just want to run it on our own. You don't know where we should begin, right? [She's asking to be clear. There are further questions, but she needs this one answered first.]
Grahhhhh I dunno. [Wally scrubs his hands through his hair, Twizzler rope between his teeth.] I just feel like such a loser, waiting for the okay from grownups to get something done. God, and I just said 'grownups' unironically like I'm five!
My team is pretty functional, but nowhere on the scale and with the resources we discussed before. I'm not saying we need to get the okay, but if you're willing to sit back and actually talk to some people, it might not be a bad idea. [Actually, wait.] Let me talk to people, and I lay the ground rules for equality while we set this up.
Y'know, it doesn't really sound fair when I'm sitting back and making you do all the work, either. [Wally leans back on his hands, legs crossed.] I don't get the higher politics or economics and legality involved in this crap and it's not like I'm asking you to let me screw things up, but I'm tired of expecting other people to handle all the stuff I don't wanna do.
Don't you want help? If you don't want me to mess things up by like, yelling at people at the wrong time, then just tell me what I can do. And don't say recruiting, I'm already working on that.
Oh, I want help. But I'm saying—if we put something like this out there, we need to make sure that the first responses to us aren't, "Aren't you a little young for that?" [Of course, Kate also has a hard time asking for help, but she's currently armed with a ... broken arm, so she's a little aware of the need for help.]
I mean, I'm twenty two, and I still get it. Framing it the way you just said it, it's going to sound like ... a whim, even if I know you have the right idea, you know? Plus, I naturally translate speedster. [She points to her head.] A talent that everyone should have, but not everyone does.
[Wally draws up his knees, resting his elbows on them.] Hey hey, I don't need a translator. ...Right? Anyway, they're gonna look down on us no matter what. It's kind of their schtick. Half of 'em are so stuck in their ways that just breathing the word change in their general direction sets off a mass panic, like a buffalo stampede. Like the one that claimed Mufasa's life, I'm talking tragic.
I'm not so sure about that. Right now, most of their being stuck in their ways has to do with the fact that they don't want to rock the boat too much. That can be a bad thing, but if the incentive is there, they might see things a different way.
[Kate doesn't remark on the speedster translation thing.
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But that aside, it isn't anything as bad as that. I think it might be because we have more freedom.
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And this might not be the best place for a billboard. It's like a highway that no one ever travels.
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Yeah, like a team name.
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The Mighty Ducks. I loved that movie, I watched it like every day when I was seven.
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We're not naming ourselves after a Disney property.
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Though she's really curious.]
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[Partially because it was all very secret but mostly because he never cared about the bank stuff before so he didn't spare it any thought.]
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Don't you want help? If you don't want me to mess things up by like, yelling at people at the wrong time, then just tell me what I can do. And don't say recruiting, I'm already working on that.
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I mean, I'm twenty two, and I still get it. Framing it the way you just said it, it's going to sound like ... a whim, even if I know you have the right idea, you know? Plus, I naturally translate speedster. [She points to her head.] A talent that everyone should have, but not everyone does.
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[Kate doesn't remark on the speedster translation thing.
They absolutely need one sometimes. Absolutely.]
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