[ The good news is - if you'd call it good news - this is a Nebula who's grown from her kneejerk reaction of stabbing anything that offends her. Or that so much as enunciates she might be weak. Which he practically does rather he knows it or not. Her shoulders tense and she chews the last piece of the lizard violently, taking the sudden surge of aggressive energy out on the food rather than him.]
[ Really, this is what we call character growth, especially when she gets up and tosses the empty skewer into the fire like she wants to kick grass. ]
[ Maybe it's just Mantis being family or a whole other life experience that makes her accept the fact more readily. Maybe it's that acceptance, that knowledge of this is who she was. I wasn't always like this, she'd said. Rhodey's response had been, Neither was I; We make due with what what we have. Or maybe she'd be madder if it was her feelings - it's not, so it's easier when she breathes out through her nostrils. ]
I'm always in pain. Everyday. A gift from my father and this body he gave me.
[ In no way does she make it sound like it was a gift as she rounds on him, lilac eyes peering into him: ]
Why? [ Why does he have it? No, more importantly: ] Why me?
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[ Really, this is what we call character growth, especially when she gets up and tosses the empty skewer into the fire like she wants to kick grass. ]
[ Maybe it's just Mantis being family or a whole other life experience that makes her accept the fact more readily. Maybe it's that acceptance, that knowledge of this is who she was. I wasn't always like this, she'd said. Rhodey's response had been, Neither was I; We make due with what what we have. Or maybe she'd be madder if it was her feelings - it's not, so it's easier when she breathes out through her nostrils. ]
I'm always in pain. Everyday. A gift from my father and this body he gave me.
[ In no way does she make it sound like it was a gift as she rounds on him, lilac eyes peering into him: ]
Why? [ Why does he have it? No, more importantly: ] Why me?