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Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue forced a smile and rubbed the back of her head. It was something, but it wasn't an idea she was particularly proud of. She just really didn't know enough about what she could or couldn't do. The other major issue was that she knew nothing about the physics of electricity, which prevented her from coming up with clever ways to integrate with Andy. She wanted to push herself still though, and tried to make armor over the two of them.

And it worked! Soon, Andy and Mary Sue were engulfed in balls of light, growing bright as can be, before appearing in the magical outfits of their dreams, something that, hypothetically, should protect them from attacks. Mary Sue looked around, surprised that thst had worked, and moves around, making what she could of this new application of her powers. She was satisfied, but not surprised, so she tried something harder. Sticking her hand out, she watched as a small strand of wire and element were engulfed by a small bulb of glass. She gingerly handed it to Andy, saying, "I uh... I. Know this isn't a weapon, but see if you can pass electricity through it an make it glow? Just as a proof of concept." She had no idea of that would work or not, but if it did, that gave the two of them serious options.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue was frozen as Andy spoke to her. She had no idea what they could do here, she simply didn't know enough about her powers. As Andy asked her if she could do anything else, she just sheepishly shook her head. "I... Don't know if there's anything more." She said, scratching the back of her head. She hoped that that didn't sound dumb, but everything she thought she knew about what she could do changed at that audition, and she still hasn't had enough time to experiment. She unconsciously took a step backwards at hearing that Andy was obstensibly some kind of life vampire, deciding that that wasn't the thing to try to use.

"Um, I might have an idea." She said, putting her hands out. She'd really only made rigid things up until this point, but if her powers were more flexible than that, she might have a lot of utility. Light gathered up in her hands, before condensing into a lasso. She allowed herself a small, self satisfied smile, and presented it to her. "If you can pass your electricity through my constructs, like you did with my sword, then you might be able to do the same with this. If you can use this properly, you can have a lot finer control than just firing off lightning bolts." She said this with what happened with Mothman and Lady Nimue in mind, this could help reduce collateral damage.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: N/A

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Mary Sue pursed her lips at Mads' answer. She wasn't wrong, but that wasn't satisfactory to her personally. She wanted to be able to say something that she herself could have personally done differently. To that end, she looked between her teammates and said, "We... might have avoided you getting grabbed if we actually listened to your initial command." She said, and felt her heart jump in her chest at what she was about to say, "Um. Teamwork is important, but we need to actually know what we're working towards before we can even think about working together."

She really hoped that that wasn't too contrarian. She had her own ideas about how to do things right, but she didn't want to cause friction unecessarily. She just... really wanted to be able to do this hero thing. She wanted to make this world better, and that meant learning here, and constantly trying to improve. She was caught between worrying about seeming like a try hard, and actually wanting to try hard. It seemed that, at least for a little whule, she would be uncomfortable, and all she could really hope was that she could learn to thrive in discomfort.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue had to keep herself from face palming as the group of them, in their attempts to save Lady Nimue, attacked her instead. She wasn't very concerned for the Lady's wellbeing, being fairly confident that she'd be able to survive just about anything they could throw at her, even if they wanted to kill her, but in any case, if they had been trying to save somebody who wasn't nigh immortal, they would have just murdered the person they were supposed to save. They needed to improve, desperately, and she had no idea what more she could do to make sure that happened.

As the Mothman was dealt with, Mary Sue approached the scene, unsure of where to go from here. She didn't want to say anything, instead reliant on the feedback from their leader, once she decided to stop playing possum. If this persisted, she might feel a bit unease, but as it stood, all they could really do was see if April was going to try anything to "heal" her. Clearing her throat, she said, "Um, I might be wrong about this, so we should try to help anyway, but Lady Nimue should be fine. It wouldn't be a strict overstatement to say she's a goddess, so I'm not confident we could kill her." Her voice was small, but if anything, she was looking to provide some degree of reassurance to her teammates.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Okay, this was just about Mary Sue's nightmare scenario. Everything that was going wronmg right now felt as if it was tied directly to the fact that she couldn't follow a simple instruction from her teacher. That alone was enought to make her drop her barrier; she was struggling to keep herself together, much less a quasimagical construct of hopes and dreams. As the cage flickered into nothingness, her mind was scrambled, looking for anything sher could do to stop this from spiraling towards an all out failure. This hellish beast had stolen their Lady, and it was about to get away with it.

Shakily pulling herself together, she mustered up all the force of will she had, and forced a solid wall of force to appear in front of the exit. This was of course, a workplace safety violation of the highest order, but the core of superheroing was exchanging lives for code violations and property damage. She didn't know if there was much else she could do, the idea of trying to manifest something through the beast came to mind, but that sounded risky, and even then, her mind flicered through the possibilty of impaling Lady Nimue on accident, and she wouldn't allow herself the chance to mess up that badly.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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A smile flickered across Mary Sue's face for the first time in this excercise, it felt like they were handling this much better than the Questing Beast, but her lips faltered for a moment as she caught the stony expression on Lady Nimue's face. Exhaling, she tried to reasses where they could have gone wrong, and they words she had cried out at the start echoed in her head. Was this sufficient protection? Sure, they were focused on eliminating the threat, but what had they actually done to directly protect her? All Mary Sue had done, was protect her and her team mates.

Since it seemed like offense was being appropriately handled by everyone else, she turned her attention to trying to remedy her percieved error. She imagined a bubble appearing artound Lady Nimue, soemthing that would hopefully protect her from stray attacks, but she couldn't pull that into reality. Gritting her teeth, she thoughtshe might be able to dismiss things she'd already made in an attempt to make the process easier for her, but she felt nothing change. It was moments like this where she felt like she was still over her head with her powers. She shook her head, and said, "I'm not sure, but I think we're not doing the right thing right now. Lady Nimue said to protect her, but all we're really doing at present is protecting ourselves..." Her void trailing off, as she tried to come up with some kind of solution for the situation they found themselves in.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue's eyes were stuck on Lady Nimue as she healed her team and crtiqued them. Her lips twitched as she was caught reflecting on what she said. Was she impressed with Mary Sue? She didn't know. There was some part of her psyche that wouldn't let her make that assumption, the feeling that, even if it was true, it wasn't a useful belief for her to have at this moment. She has to be better. Andy was stabbed by the bery blade she made, and she couldn't help but feel some accountability for that. If they were actually being attacked by the questing Beast, they'd have, in all likelihood, died. Silently, she nnodded at Andy, and took her blazer back, unwilling to put it back on her though, given the amount of blood.

Soon after, bats were swarming them, and she watched as Andy and Mads started their attack against the swarm. Still slow to act, she watched the situation unfuld. She wasn't interested in being the first combatant in any situation, she needed to know what cards to play, so she could be sure to minimize risk and harm to herself and those she worked with. A bead of sweat rolled down her forehead, and she realized she'd been keeping up actual, tangible things for longer than she'd even thought possible. She still had so much to understand about her own abilities, but all she could do now was see how much further she could push them.

Her mind flashed back to her audition, and thought that, maybe, if she could do that again, that would be the most effective method to deal with such a large swarm. She tried once more to pull something out of nothing, and construct a mist to choke the bats, but nothing came of it. Making that many things at once, along with the swords she'd been maintaining, was just infeasable. Instead, she thought a bit more clever, and realzied that all her team members could attack at range, whereas the bats would need to get close to them to attack them. Shortly after, a cage with openings throughout, not unlike a kennel, formed around them, hopefully allowing for a one-sided slaughter of the beasts.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue watched with a dropped jaw as the sword she summoned was used to stab one of her teammates. How on earth these things she made kept ending up inside people, she had no idea, but she wasn't a fan. Even more so, Mads pulled the sword out, putting the girl at risk of bleeding out. This girl was either a sociopathic loose cannon, or an idiot; either way, Mary Sue would be slow to trust her, if ever now. Instead, she focused on getting this done, and rushed past the beast, making to to the sword rack and grabbing a sword for herself with Andy, she had yet another plan.

Zipping back to the scene of the attempted murder, Mary Sue quickly found herself by the bleeding out Andy, but held her tongue at reprimanding Mads. That sor tof talk about and team fighting wouldn't get them anywhere right now. Instead, she laid the spare sword gently by her side, and made herself let go of Andy's constructed sword, it fizzling off into where ever the things she made went when they were done existing. She briefly tried to summon up some gauze, but apparently between all the stress, blood, and confusion, Mary Sue wasn't quite able to do that.

Thinking on her feat, she slid her jacket off, and felt her heart jump in her chest. She didn't like what she was about to do at all. She was, technically, now in violation of her dress code, but she assumed it was preferable to Andy dying on the floor. Quickly, she wrapped the blazer around Andy's wound, and looked over to her teacher, almost pleadingly. "Okay, Okay." She said, speaking quickly, an obvious tremor in her voice, "We've all got swords, can the monster go away now?" That wasn't originally how she wanted to pitch it in her head, and she was already beating herself up for her delivery, but she was shaken and wanted this to end.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
Skills: Friendship, super hero knowledge

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Mary Sue took a step back in shock at the summoning of the Questing Beast. Facing something so dangerous so suddenly was absolutely terrifying, and her careful nature quickly took over, almost as a self defence mechanism. Her first thought was to see if she obfuscate the vision of the beast, but that surely would offer issues if her try out was any indication of how her powers worked. She quickly broke the situation down in her head into the constituent pieces: Herself and her teammates, Nimue and her beast, and the objective, the swords. Step one of victory was knowing your enemy, and Lady Nimue was actually somebody she knew a good deal about.

The Otherworld from which she hailed was a place where logic and reason flowed from an almost narrative frame, rather than from grounded first principles. Perhaps, Mary Sue thought, she could leverage this to her advantage. Tales from ages past were full of clever people tricking others through linguistic sleight of hand: No man of woman born could kill Macbeth and all. With that in mind, Mary Sue had an idea. Drawing up that power that lived inside of her, she conjured three swords in front of her team mates. How viable they'd be, she didn't know, but she had a plan now.

"Those should be solid? I think" She called out, hope in her voice, "Lady Nimue never said we had to get out swords from the rack, just that we needed to get swords." She explained, dashing towards the goal, "Now we just need one mo-" She started, before the beast caught up with her and knocked her back. She grunted, surprised and annoyed she caught the beasts ire. "One more." She finished, bracing herself for more attacks, "Then we win."

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room A
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If there was one thing Mary Sue was absolutely sure of today, it was that she would be dressed impeccably. School uniforms were so her thing, it was a set of defined clothes that had to be worn in a certain way. Essentially, she say it as a way to never be wrong about her dress, and never have to think about it at the same time. Truly, it was a perfectionist's dream. All other things though? She was deeply uncertain of after the massive fuck up that was her audition. She was left with the idea that she had no idea about the true nature of her abilities, and that made life at a school where she was meant to hone them terrifying.

Purple as a good color on her, and given the season, she was wearing the skirt, plain white top and tie. Hurrying into the training room, Mary Sue could see that she was the last of her team to arrive, something that left her face a bit red. "Hopefully, I'm not late." She said hurriedly, as she joined the amassing group of students. She didn't know how much other people may have heard of how her audition has gone, but, maybe, maybe, that didn't matter anymore? They were all here, of course, so they could be, possibly, all about equal. That was at least a comforting truth to soak herself in. She gave a brief wave to April, wondering if she recognized her at all, their parents used to work together, right?