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Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Mary Sue kept her satisfaction that dysfunction had infected Zari's team to herself, she knew that eventually, it could come down to the two of them against on another, and as much as she wanted friends, it was tempting to make sure she'd have the advantage. Her head was caught on a few potential vectors of conversation actually, and she didn't quite know what to do. One one hand, people generally like being agreed with, and reinforcing Zari's instinct to self sabotage rather than try to talk things through would probably make them better friends, but it also felt like encouraging that was actively bad. The tension in this choice effectively made it so Mary Sue was stuck, unable to come up with a response that didn't seem in some way fundamentally incorrect. There was visible discomfort on her face, but she finally landed on expressing sympathy.

"I'm sorry you're going through that with your team." She said, which was true, Mary Sue wanted to win, but she wasn't sociopathic. Turning her attention to the topic of the haunted house, Mary Sue would by lying if she didn't admit she had some amount of fear at the topic of going in there, especially after watching people come out of it. Maybe the thought process was that, if they were supposed to be super heroes, then the things that scared them needed to be serious? She guessed that was true, but it was still a lot to take in. "Yeah, if you have horror movies scarier than whatever's in there, I'm pretty sure they're not allowed here." She said, trying to make light of the thing they were planning on walking into.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Mary Sue's entire body tensed as the results were unveiled, and when her teams name was called, she relaxed in a way that she hadn't for months. It's hard to say exactly what it was, but it was like the bulk of the stress she'd been carrying since she got here vanished. A grin spread across her face, and she punched the air, barely keeping herself from crying out loud in excitement. She was absolutely ecstatic, and though thoughts were creeping in on the best ways to prep for the Contest, tonight, she would allow herself to be happy and relish in this accomplishment.

Mary Sue could personally care less about the Savior of the School, but she was happy for them in spirit, she supposed. Instead, she focused on Andy, and said, "I really don't think I've ever seen any horror movies." Which was true, but she wasn't about to let it stop her, she continued, "Maybe you could show me some sometime?" She wasn't sure she'd have the best tolerance for anything too scary, but assuming her teammate wasn't out to traumatize her, she thought it might be fun, and it would give them a chance to spend time together doing something Andy liked.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Mary Sue beamed at Andy wanting to get to know her; her attempts to make friends was working! She quickly started to say, "Um, I really like writing, but I haven't been able to do it in a bit." To be honest, she'd started the hobby when she was small, writing stories about the different heroes she'd heard or read about, but those were luckily all lost to time, as far as she knew. These days, she was much more for poetry, but the idea of sharing any of that made her heart almost jump out of her chest. She should really get back into it, if she got the chance.

"Besides that, I'm a really big hero nerd, I have a list of biographies I still have to chew through when I have the free time. What about you two?" She wanted to know more about Andy, admittedly she knew almost nothing, but she seemed cool. She really liked being on a team with her, and out of all her team members, she probably knew her the best. She gave a quick turn to Zari, as if to try to signal that she wanted to hear from her as well; she didn't want her to feel left out at all, she just couldn't think of a more natural way to extend that to her in that moment.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Mary Sue's ears perked up at being raised an world away, that was something she hadn't heard about, and was very curious to learn more, "You mean Asgard? Or... something else?" She didn't know if that question was insensitive, but her dad was Raynor right? She'd never been off world, this was the furthest from home she'd ever been. She wanted to press for details, but she honestly didn't know how. She quickly responded to Andy in the mean time, "And uh, yeah. I was... homeschooled. I didn't get to see a lot of other kids growing up, friends of my parents or not." She didn't have a better way to put that her dad was way too paranoid to let her go all the way to visit old work friends with him, and didn't feel like trying to explain that mess.

Mary Sue's attention was quickly diverted, however, by the screams of Victoria. She hesitated a bit, she'd never done anything that left her terrified enough to scream before, would she be walking into some kind of living nightmare or something? But, she knew backing out now would make her seem weird, and she really really didn't want that, so she pushed down those feelings and turned her attention back towards Andy and Zari. Unsure of what to say, she just kind of stared awkwardly, not directly commenting on the screams of somebody coming from the thing they were watching towards.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Mary Sue waved at the new girl, and forced a small smile, before nodding "Oh? I don't think I got your last name..." She felt bad for not recognizing this person by her face, but she was also in a costume, so maybe that was it? She hadn't ever been in a haunted house before, but it sounded fun. "Yeah, I'd like that!" Saying yes to what people wanted to das typically, in her experience, the best way to get people to like her. Maybe it was wrong to think about social situations like this, but she did want friends, and so she was willing to engage in some light social mirroring to get that to happen.

It was then she blinked, her dad used to talk about how he got his powers and her eyes widened for a moment, before saying, "Oh, your mom is Sparky, isn't she?" That was what her dad always called her anyway. She was relatively certain her dad almost killed Zari's mom, but now was maybe not the best time to bring that up? "Sorry it took me a second, it's nice to meet you too!" She loosened up a little bit, having a bit more context for this social interaction now. The asymmetry in information scared her for a moment, but the panic from that was melting away now.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Those words pierced Mary Sue a little. For a moment, her face softened, and she nodded. She wasn't sure completely, but... maybe these softer parts were important. She wasn't some Spider-Man type, she knew she'd almost certainly always be working on a team. Maybe she could game this in her head as being about making sure she could be close to people so she worked better with them; maybe the best way to save people was to always remember that she wasa person. She wasn't sure, but smoothing had shifted. She felt a bit more comfortable with the idea that she didn't need to push so hard all the time.

With that, Mary Sue put her hands up at Ser Nemo and said, "He's fine! Don't worry." before turning her attention back to Darius and nodded, "I... think I see your point. Thank you." Before turning off and going to see who she could find to talk to. It wasn't long before she saw Andy, who looked to be going through it, and thought this might be a good opportunity to try to hang out with one of her teammates. "Hey." She said, feeling awkward but trying to push through it, approaching Andy, "This party sure is... a party. What's up?" She had literally no plan for how to do this, and she could feel her anxiety rising, but hoped it would subside.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Mary Sue's brow furrowed at the comment about her age. It was obviously something meant to get under her skin. Children of that age wouldn't be at this school in the first instance. Not that she had to point that out, she realized, given that she was just being made fun of. She did grit her teeth in frustration though; it was like he didn't get it. "We're... Here to save people, right? That's what we wanna learn to do." She was trying to phrase things carefully, because she had complicated feelings. She wanted to be a hero, and she wanted to do well, but for once, this was a thing she wasn't just doing for her. This was a thing she was doing for other people, and that just fueled her more.

"If we mess up, or we aren't strong enough, people will get hurt. I... Can't imagine sending myself out to try and stop that from happening, and not being the best version of myself. I'm not there yet, how can anything else come first?" She knew that sounded preachy, but that was how she felt. For all she wanted to be, she still didn't think that she was enough, and until she was, she had to keep pushing forward. She didn't know how people could see this situation differently, it just didn't fit in her brain.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Mary Sue was surprised by the fact that a Chaperone had decided to take an interest in her lack of a costume. Attention from adults quite frankly wasn't something she was used to getting, especially any that might be even vaguely negative. It was the natural consequence of her perfectionism and limited engagement, there just wasn't anything to remark on if she was doing her job correctly. She shrank back a bit looking away from him for a moment, clearly flustered at what had transpired. She gave a quiet, meek nod, and wasn't sure what to say in response, how bad was this?

She looked back at him and said, "Yeah, I just... didn't really have the time to put one together." She said, not being entirely dishonest. Could she have put together a costume if she put her mind to it? Yeah, of course, but what would the point of that have been? "More important things to focus on, you know?" It felt almost embarrassing to say that for some reason, something about it all hurt. She knew how to be a good student, it seemed, but personhood outside of that felt... unreachable. She had friends and connections, sure, but how did she get more than that? What was it everyone else understood that she didn't?

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: Cafeteria
Skills: N/A
Costume: Avenger's Academy Student.

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Oh god it felt like Mary Sue hadn't so much had thought about anything other than her team's performance. She'd done writeup after write up, critical analysis after critical analysis. She hated the feeling of not knowing whether or not she'd been good enough more than anything, and the stomach-turningly upsetting thing was that there was nothing in the world she could really do to know besides wait. It was a poison to her soul, and resulted in her neglecting to put any thought into a proper Halloween costume. That, paired with the fact that she never even been to a dance before left her unbearably nervous and socially anxious.

That left her costumeless and questioning why she even wanted to go the Monster Mash. The answer being, of course, that this, of all places, was where the results would be announced. She wished she could go as the invisible woman, so she didn't need to deal with the constant voices in her head saying that people would be judging her for showing up in her standard uniform and standing standoffishly in the corner of the cafeteria, punch in hand, and trying desperately to figure out the least intrusive way to get time to pass. Maybe, if she was lucky, she'd get to see Andy or Percy tonight, but everything in her was so nervous and anxious that she wasn't even sure that would make her feel good.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Mary Sue Sullivan

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Location: The Gym- Training Room C
Skills: Friendship

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Mary Sue was not having a good day. She'd had her face beat in by this siren, she was on the cusp of losing her ticket into the Contest of Champions, and on top of all of that, this was happening in front of a panel of Avengers. In this, she channeled a rage that she didn't know she had, and broke herself out of Theda's grasp. It was at this point, she knew exactly what she had to do. She'd made the mistake of underestimating her opponent before, and that wasn't going to happen again. She forced the girls hands together, her vision almost blurry from the damage she'd taken. Theda was going to lose hand privileges now, and Mary Sue didn't even feel a little bad as the handcuffs materialized around the girl's arms.

Shakily separating herself from the now bound and gagged child, she cracked her back and tried to get an assessment of the situation. Her mind was swimming with anger still, but she just managed to push through it. What had to happen, was she needed to protect herself and her teammates. Michaela was clearly gearing up to attack them, and that meant that Mary Sue was the most likely target, having made herself a lynchpin in disabling one of the team members. She didn't know if her constructs dismissed if she lost consciousness, but she was operating on the assumption that they would. She had to stay up, before everything else.

Held Roll

When Michaela attempts to do anything that could harm their team or otherwise help her win, interrupt by pulling the chain that connects them in an attempt to knock her off her balance.