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RUBILYKSKOYE INBOX.
TELEPATHY • HOLOGRAM • LETTERS • DELIVERIES • ACTION
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| ✿ Rubi-telepathy (easy mode) feels different to ✦ Wanda-telepathy (hard mode). |
He wasn't psychic like me.
[ Good lord, the world wouldn't be able to cope with that.
Although she misses Pietro fiercely, and feels that familiar discomfort when talking about him like he isn't here to interject (how can he when he's dead?), there's warmth to her thoughts. Even though he's gone where Wanda couldn't follow when Snapped, she always recalls him with undeniable fondness. ]
But he was fast—very fast. He moved fast, thought fast, spoke fast. He was always impatient, so it made sense his powers were impatient.
[ Good lord, the world wouldn't be able to cope with that.
Although she misses Pietro fiercely, and feels that familiar discomfort when talking about him like he isn't here to interject (how can he when he's dead?), there's warmth to her thoughts. Even though he's gone where Wanda couldn't follow when Snapped, she always recalls him with undeniable fondness. ]
But he was fast—very fast. He moved fast, thought fast, spoke fast. He was always impatient, so it made sense his powers were impatient.
Ooh, that is a classic, actually. Do I get a fairy tale clause? You know, if I'm kissed by a princess or I learn your real name...
Hm.
I think so. If a princess kisses you, you will spend your days as a very annoying frog and your nights as a man dressed in very bright, obnoxious pink. No one will be able to look at you. If you speak of this to anyone, I will turn you into a very old, dilapidated carriage no one wishes to use.
I told you. I'm a very mean witch who happens to be very fond of fairy tale clauses.
I think so. If a princess kisses you, you will spend your days as a very annoying frog and your nights as a man dressed in very bright, obnoxious pink. No one will be able to look at you. If you speak of this to anyone, I will turn you into a very old, dilapidated carriage no one wishes to use.
I told you. I'm a very mean witch who happens to be very fond of fairy tale clauses.
No kissing princesses, got it.
[ He tentatively sends her a trickle of his deep amusement at this message, since he's tickled by it but can't send laughing emojis and refuses to think "lol". ]
[ He tentatively sends her a trickle of his deep amusement at this message, since he's tickled by it but can't send laughing emojis and refuses to think "lol". ]
Honestly, the strangest part is how differently everyone's minds work. When people send pictures it's like being shown shrimp colours. Were you all just seeing things in your head the whole time?
[ You guys were getting paid? ]
[ You guys were getting paid? ]
[ She can't help but laugh. ]
I hear and see things. I can walk by someone and hear their thoughts and see what they daydream. It's sometimes very distracting if I'm not paying attention.
It can be easy to forget who you are. But the telepathy here is… different.
I hear and see things. I can walk by someone and hear their thoughts and see what they daydream. It's sometimes very distracting if I'm not paying attention.
It can be easy to forget who you are. But the telepathy here is… different.
Sounds like a tough guy to have as a brother.
[ Despite that fondness and warmth, House knows the score. Or at least he thinks he does. ]
Able to run circles around you to pull your pigtails. Always bugging you and you couldn't keep up or talk to him how you wanted to.
[ A pause. He doesn't have any siblings. Maybe it would have been an easier childhood if he'd had someone to share it with. ]
You must miss him a lot.
[ Despite that fondness and warmth, House knows the score. Or at least he thinks he does. ]
Able to run circles around you to pull your pigtails. Always bugging you and you couldn't keep up or talk to him how you wanted to.
[ A pause. He doesn't have any siblings. Maybe it would have been an easier childhood if he'd had someone to share it with. ]
You must miss him a lot.
He was very annoying.
[ Wanda considers downplaying it, but: ]
I miss him annoying me every day.
[ Ten years without Pietro—or close to it. Wanda's not quite sure what the math is anymore, what with the Blip stealing five years from her. But is it really theft if she preferred it? ]
You would have liked him. He was a smartass like you. He would've told me he hated you but then he would have sought you out all the time to try and one-up you. [ She laughs. ] You both would've been very insufferable together.
[ Maybe that's why she likes House so much. Not because he reminds her of Pietro—not at all; he's not quite as impatient as he is, and there's too much of a strange undertone to that if she was to claim that he reminds her of Pietro—but because he fills a void Pietro left behind: it's simply too easy to be around him. The reckless energy obscuring a deep compassion for other people. ]
[ Wanda considers downplaying it, but: ]
I miss him annoying me every day.
[ Ten years without Pietro—or close to it. Wanda's not quite sure what the math is anymore, what with the Blip stealing five years from her. But is it really theft if she preferred it? ]
You would have liked him. He was a smartass like you. He would've told me he hated you but then he would have sought you out all the time to try and one-up you. [ She laughs. ] You both would've been very insufferable together.
[ Maybe that's why she likes House so much. Not because he reminds her of Pietro—not at all; he's not quite as impatient as he is, and there's too much of a strange undertone to that if she was to claim that he reminds her of Pietro—but because he fills a void Pietro left behind: it's simply too easy to be around him. The reckless energy obscuring a deep compassion for other people. ]
You were a telepath even before you came here, weren't you. Such a different magical skillset from anything my own world possesses. But the way the curse joins us all, mentally, does that not feel the same? Can you distinguish one kind from another?
I still am one.
[ The use of "were" makes it seem as though that's stopped being true. But Wanda knows her telepathy is different to those in Rubilysk. Incredibly different—dangerous. ]
It's different. It's like swimming in a shallow pool. You can feel the bottom of the pool at your feet. It's softer. Everyone's inexperience is like being gently splashed. But telepathy for me has always felt like an ocean. Sometimes I'm swimming above the Mariana Trench and sometimes I sink to the very bottom.
It's like being an Olympic swimmer in a pool with people learning how to swim. Everyone is wearing floaties. Yours are very cute.
[ She doesn't mean for it to sound so arrogant, but it's the easiest way to describe something that's so intrinsically her. ]
[ The use of "were" makes it seem as though that's stopped being true. But Wanda knows her telepathy is different to those in Rubilysk. Incredibly different—dangerous. ]
It's different. It's like swimming in a shallow pool. You can feel the bottom of the pool at your feet. It's softer. Everyone's inexperience is like being gently splashed. But telepathy for me has always felt like an ocean. Sometimes I'm swimming above the Mariana Trench and sometimes I sink to the very bottom.
It's like being an Olympic swimmer in a pool with people learning how to swim. Everyone is wearing floaties. Yours are very cute.
[ She doesn't mean for it to sound so arrogant, but it's the easiest way to describe something that's so intrinsically her. ]
It sounds like he would have been a challenge.
[ They definitely would have been insufferable. And might have caused considerable property damage. But he's focusing on something else right now. ]
I like it when you laugh. I think it's been a while since you let yourself be like this. It's nice.
[ They definitely would have been insufferable. And might have caused considerable property damage. But he's focusing on something else right now. ]
I like it when you laugh. I think it's been a while since you let yourself be like this. It's nice.
[ She's grateful he can't see her. She's blushing. ]
I come from a town where laughter has been outlawed.
[ It's not a complete lie. Most people who make her laugh are dead (Sam Wilson and Clint Barton being notably alive exceptions). It feels like the same thing. ]
I'm sure you'll come to regret saying that soon. I have a very ugly laugh.
I come from a town where laughter has been outlawed.
[ It's not a complete lie. Most people who make her laugh are dead (Sam Wilson and Clint Barton being notably alive exceptions). It feels like the same thing. ]
I'm sure you'll come to regret saying that soon. I have a very ugly laugh.
You have a great laugh. You should do it more often. As well as other noises of delight and orgasmic pleasure.
[ #justsaying ]
[ #justsaying ]
Wow, thanks.
Weird, thinking you're probably more powerful than me. I'm not used to that.
[ Like, at all. Like he can feel himself feeling unreasonably stressed by it, just another thing out of his control. At least Wanda's a sweetheart, and it's easy to let it go. ]
For me it's just like... you know the ticker tape underneath news broadcasts where all the headlines scroll past? Like that.
Weird, thinking you're probably more powerful than me. I'm not used to that.
[ Like, at all. Like he can feel himself feeling unreasonably stressed by it, just another thing out of his control. At least Wanda's a sweetheart, and it's easy to let it go. ]
For me it's just like... you know the ticker tape underneath news broadcasts where all the headlines scroll past? Like that.
[ He really is trying to kill her via blushing. ]
If only someone would give me a reason to make any of those sounds.
[ She sighs dramatically. Wanda thinks to leave it at that, but this is House, and he's nothing if not a bad influence. ]
It's so hard to find a funny man who can make me laugh and come.
If only someone would give me a reason to make any of those sounds.
[ She sighs dramatically. Wanda thinks to leave it at that, but this is House, and he's nothing if not a bad influence. ]
It's so hard to find a funny man who can make me laugh and come.
Now I clearly need to make you do both at the same time.
It used to be like that for me, and then it became one of those windows where there were several televisions all running at the same time.
I don't think that will happen here for you.
[ And then it became louder and louder and louder until it became the ocean. But those are boring details, and do nothing to help John navigate his own mind reading capabilities. ]
I'm sure you're still very powerful. There are some things I can't do that I'm sure you could do.
I don't think that will happen here for you.
[ And then it became louder and louder and louder until it became the ocean. But those are boring details, and do nothing to help John navigate his own mind reading capabilities. ]
I'm sure you're still very powerful. There are some things I can't do that I'm sure you could do.
Not sure that's actually true, but my ego thanks you for saying it.
Yeah, you know, I mean, couldn't hurt.
[ Don't mind him just preening at being called pretty. John Gaius Will Remember This. ]
[ Don't mind him just preening at being called pretty. John Gaius Will Remember This. ]
Oh, I can be incredibly focused when a woman's pleasure is on the line.
[ He says -- thinks -- it with real conviction. This is important! ]
[ He says -- thinks -- it with real conviction. This is important! ]
You are very, very, very, very pretty.
I'll tell everyone that I have a pretty friend and his name is John.
But then they'll want to be your friend rather than mine. I don't think we can have that. I might have to tell everyone you're ugly instead.
I'll tell everyone that I have a pretty friend and his name is John.
But then they'll want to be your friend rather than mine. I don't think we can have that. I might have to tell everyone you're ugly instead.
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