Pseudo-parenting is...a lot like actual parenting.

[makes_asteroids]

Who: makes_asteroids and thecrowingtobe
When: After this convo.
Where: The HoA
Summary: Claudio needs to talk, Mags is willing to listen.
Warnings: None yet

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[thecrowingtobe]

"When I... can I guess? I have duties ah Purgatory, and I do prop work and stage work at the Felton. I've been getting some painting work here and there from a contact. Did a big wall at some mall a few weeks ago. The news said it looked real enough to walk into." He said chuckling and sipping his coffee. When did he sleep? Eh, he tried not to sometimes. Work, work, training, car, work and... sleep sometimes

[thecrowingtobe]

"I'm trying to be patient and practice and all that. Samus has been working with me on that um... super... strength thing of mine. I can almost get that to work at will and not just when I'm scared or pissed or something. But I mean, seriously, how do you practice bringing someone back to life? That's... impossible, other then actual field work." Which was not an idea he liked to think about

[makes_asteroids]

"Apprentice to a healer. Bringing them back to life is just a form a healing. A large and rare form of healing. I don't mean practise bring the dead back - just learn about the healing process."

He smiles. "Yes, something. Something I'd rather not share with many. It's something from my world. Something that helps with training." He tapped the tablet, his hand sparking, and touched the power port. Worked perfectly. "I'd imagine so. I'm one of the oldest, so..." He's been alone, most of the time.

At the question he looked up. "I do. My people, for one, need me. My son, my two daughters. My granddaughter. Katherine, who might as well as bee my granddaughter. Charles. I still have a great deal of work to do at home."

[thecrowingtobe]

"Oh..." Healing. He hadn't really thought of it that way, as... as the wounds didn't heal. He had just brought life back. This did give him something more to think on though, and he wondered if it was the same. "Healing... yeah. That would have been the logical first thought."

He watched the computer crackle to life, giving the man a small nod. He understood wanting to keep things silent. After all he had his secrets as well (being clearly crazy being one of them, he was sure). "I don't know nothing." He said as ensnarement that he wont press the subject or tell anyone.

There was the faintest of sad little smiles at that. "Heh, so it sounds like you've got a pretty big family back home to return to. Sounds nice. I'm sure if time moved back there they'd miss you."

[makes_asteroids]

"It may not be the right track, but it's a place to start." And without Wanda here, that was all he could offer.

"Atta boy. I'll let you when it's up and running. You won't be able to get to it without myself or Jubilee anyway." Safety protocols. There were going to be a LOT of them.

"I suppose. My family numbered in the hundreds, once. There aren't even ten of us now, just myself and my progeny. So it seems very small."

[thecrowingtobe]

"No, it's a good idea. Just... I donno, didn't think of that at all. So I gotta find some hurt people and try to heal em huh? Should be a snap here." Considering how often he himself bleed here? Yeah...

He gave a nod to that. "Keeping things safe. Makes sense. I'll look forward to hearing about it though."

Leaning on the table he pondered that over. In the hundreds? He couldn't even imagine. "Small. I understand that one. I think I just realized just how little there is to return to now." They were all dead after all. Realizing this power in full also told him his sister really wouldn't have lived. He knew that though but the denial had been there for over two years.

[makes_asteroids]

"There's a little more to it than that. You have to know, either instinctively or through training how to put a body back together. Which is why I suggest finding one of the healers and learning with them." There was also some thought that learning something of telepathy - because if the conciousness is gone, the body won't live, no matter what, but that could wait.

He nodded. Safety, security, training. Preparedness.

"At your age? It was the same for me. Rebuilding can - and does - occur. As this place proves."

[thecrowingtobe]

"So... look for a healer. That... can't be too hard?" Can it? There were healers everywhere in this city, right? Hmmm, he would have to consider it more. He had Samus helping with some training, but now to get someone else to help.

He shook his head at the last part though. "I'm rebuilding here though. I've got Trauma and Jinx and her stupid angel. It's more then I'll ever have back home. I don't want to go back home. There's.... there is too much..." He shook his head, leaning back into the chair now, frowning. "There is too much back home for me to deal with and no one left to rebuild with."

[makes_asteroids]

"Shouldn't be. Skye has a good program." It was simple enough to apprenticeship with them. Or so it had seemed.

"I know. But, as this place proves, what we don't really have a choice, right now what the Core does. At some point we might but..." He sighed. "My home, Genosha? It was nuked, just before I arrived. I'm not looking forward to going back to that." Be he had to.

[thecrowingtobe]

"I guess it can't hurt to look into that. I like Skye. It's a nice place." He wanders it invisible from time to time or chats with people. Or he used to. Now he has two point five jobs to worry about. With this he'll take on less sleep, but it should be worth it. "I'll wander down there later today maybe."

He frowned however. Nuked? That was drastic. Why would anyone ever want to go back to that. "But if you could... if the Core would let us? Wouldn't you want to stay here? I mean... it ain't so bad after you get used to it, right? And you got people here now, kinda."

[makes_asteroids]

"It is."

"I have people here. I people I care about. But people back home? I vowed to protect. My children. I can't just abandon them. I'd go back home. It's where I belong. I understand that not everyone feels the same, but..." And he did understand. But he needed to return home.

[thecrowingtobe]

He frowned still, leaning on the table. "But if it's true, what they say, then nothing back home is in motion. Nothing is changing. You could live your life out here as you might want, if only the Core will keep us here. If we had the choice to stay then go home, wouldn't we just return from when we left? A second chance to continue our true lives?"

Hay, it was something he thought a lot about. He wanted to live to enjoy this life before being thrust back into being alone again.

[makes_asteroids]

"It only matter to me, I suppose. But it's...who I am. Being here isn't going to change that, just delay it. I wouldn't begrudge any one their time here if they wanted to stay." Not even if they wanted to stay permanently. He was sure a few of his kids wanted to.

[thecrowingtobe]

He looked like he considered this then just nodded, taking a moment to sip the last of his coffee before placing the cup on the table again. "I understand, I guess. It's better for some people to return home. I know I should, I just..." don't want to. He's scared, but he can't quite admit that yet. He shook his head. "Still, guess it aint so bad for someone like me. Maybe I'll remember what I learn here when I get sent back."

[makes_asteroids]

"Hopefully you do, yes. Benjamin told me he remembered this place like a dream when he went briefly home." Erik wondered if he was going to remember this place. He would if he had any say about it.

"But I do understand the hesitation."