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.
Uuuggghh. And now I feel like a bad guy. [Wally throws himself back on the floor, arms above his head.] Look, fine, I'm fine with you...deciding stuff. I just want to make it happen without dragging our feet, that's all.
I'm not deciding anything. [Though she is being a bit of a control freak. That's just Kate. She isn't even aware she's doing it half the time.
All the time.
Really, it's a thing.]
I'm just not-so-abrasively wording "let's create a team that can help this world" without worrying about seeming immature at the same time.
A little text goes a long way. [Or a lot of text. Kate figures she might have to keep this one short, though, and low on the dramatics. She's done the dramatic bit recently. That sucked.]
But it might have to wait until I can field questions. [She's also not keen on getting things going at the moment. Best to wait.]
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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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All the time.
Really, it's a thing.]
I'm just not-so-abrasively wording "let's create a team that can help this world" without worrying about seeming immature at the same time.
A little text goes a long way. [Or a lot of text. Kate figures she might have to keep this one short, though, and low on the dramatics. She's done the dramatic bit recently. That sucked.]
But it might have to wait until I can field questions. [She's also not keen on getting things going at the moment. Best to wait.]