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Marcus likes how William works.

He calls him passionate to his face and reclusive and obsessive behind his back, but William can tell the man likes the way he functions. Once something gets his focus, once an idea gets in his head, he will stop at nothing to achieve it. Sleeping, eating, and all social interaction are put aside unless someone is there to remind him that those are, unfortunately, things his body requires for him to function properly, long term. But usually, William leaves no wiggle room for distractions.

Wesker has quickly become a distraction.

He still remembers the day Marcus brought him along. Birkin was a fifteen years old college graduate and Wesker, while also a college graduate, was seventeen. William remembers when Marcus brought him into the lab, into William's 'territory', instead of calling William to meet them elsewhere, and introduced him. At first all of his attention had gone to the small age gap the smallest William had so far in this facility, where everybody else was —at the very least— a good ten years older than him. Then, to the guy himself. His name, specifically. William had heard Marcus mention the name Wesker before, whenever he was on the phone with his colleagues, talking as if William wasn't there because the boy looked so engrossed in his work that you could have snuck up with a knife and he'd have been none the wiser. But William wasn't deaf.

So he had figured he'd give Wesker a chance, find out what was so special about him. Now, some years later and still under Marcus' wing, he KNOWS everything about Wesker is special, and William would even dare say they're friends.

Marcus still has many expectations for him, though. Like the fact he keeps complaining about Wesker's veins being so hard to find— which one should expect considering how many samples are taken from the guy.

William knows he's special, his immune system is like no other, but even then, he doesn't understand the obsession with near constantly testing Wesker's blood. Especially when even he, as reclusive as he is, can tell Wesker doesn't exactly enjoy the constant poking.

"May I try?" William finally speaks up. "You always say I must practice acquiring my own samples anyway–"

He barely finishes making up the excuse when Marcus is already stepping back, the syringe dropping back into the tray with a clatter as he declares himself done with such a menial task and tells William to get him the samples once they've been drawn, before stomping marching out.

William watches him go and then turns back to Wesker. "And he says I'm impatient..." he grabs the syringe and replaces the needle for a clean one, disposing of the other one because he deems it's already poked Albert enough. "Which arm do you prefer?"

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He's been sucha pissy li'l minou lately. Don't know if Gambit wanna make him purr or hiss.

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I think he's a character that's been treated SO unfairly by recent writers, and the fandom at large. I hate to be the NOBODY UNDERSTANDS HIM kinda fan, but... I'm not sure the writers do anymore. Like- Okay. Everyone here should know who my favourite X-Man is. If you can't tell how much I love Wolverine, I assume we haven't met. But I feel like a lot of the time, Scott is written as an uncharacteristically horrible person just to make Logan look better.

Like for Jogan, which is a ship - for those who don't know - that I don't personally like. Scott is Jean's husband. They're married with kids (partially through Jean's clone, but that's another absolutely bonkers storyline). But half the time, the narrative seems to imply that she's Logan's soulmate or true love or whatever. Logan, for the record, has also been married with kids. A lot of the time, writers who want the love triangle to happen will make Scott seem like a boring stick in the mud who only loves his work, so Logan can seem like the passionate bad boy with the heart of gold. And sure, Logan is the sweetheart gruff rebel, but Scott's not boring. He's goddamn Cyclops, he's one of the driving forces of the mutant rights revolution, and he loves his family above all else. Fuck, in the Dark Phoenix movie, Scott is killed OFF CAMERA in the opening scene, they don't bring him back for the whole movie, and Logan is the one who has the tragic 'I love you' moment with Jean (where he says he'll die for her but not the other X-Men? What the fuck?). 97, Jean kisses Logan (without his consent, mind, he tells her to stop) and after she's rejected, the writers pull this weird bait and switch to reveal SCOTT'S been cheating the whole time too, which to me always felt like a weird tack-on to make Jean kissing Logan somehow not as bad. And making him walk out on his wife and kid when he grew up in an orphanage? Just????????????????

Or the whole Schism thing. Again, Logan is my pookie, but the fact that the debate between him and Scott was Logan going 'hey, sending teenagers to die is bad' and Scott going 'eh'??????????? Like that moment when Elixir is comatose in the cot shouldn't have ended with Logan decking Scott in the face to get him to realize A TEENAGER IN A COMA is a bad thing. If, and this is an IF, you believe Scott would be fine with getting children involved in the fight, seeing a child unconscious or worse in a hospital bed should be what snaps him out of it or makes him reconsider. Even today, that's a common thread. In one of the X-23 runs, Jubilee makes a comment that Logan has a weird new tradition about 'not letting kids fight'; in one of the new X-Men runs, Rogue pushes the new students too hard in training to the point of putting them at risk, and the others start calling her 'Cyclops'.

...

What the fuck?

Like I'm not saying Scott has to be perfect, and I DEFINITELY don't want the debate switched (so Logan would be sending the child soldiers and Scott would be protesting) - either way, it'd be stupid. What I'm saying is it's wild to me that Scott would be alright with it at all. It's also, from a writing perspective, not a good debate when only one character is morally right.

From a Doylist perspective, there have been teenagers on the X-Men team because teenagers were a big market for the comic books, and the authors wanted them to have characters they could relate to. From a Watsonian standpoint, the initial team was actually all adults. Kitty was the first teenager to be on the team, and she spent ages begging, pleading, bargaining, training, trying to sneak on missions, etc, and being told no, until the story gave the team no choice but to say yes. Jubilee wound up on the team because she was being chased by a giant robot through a crowded mall and was kind of already in the shit. By the time of Schism, there are enough adult mutants who are trained and allied with the X-Men that having teenagers on the team no longer makes sense from an in-universe standpoint, especially when they're still technically a unified team (rather than the three schools they broke into later), so it makes no logical or ethical sense why Scott would want children on the team. It makes a lot of sense as to why Logan wouldn't. This isn't a debate.

In my opinion, Scott and Logan should be FOILS to each other. They're both recognized as leaders of the X-Men. They are both very good generals. They also both have different strengths - Logan can be a strategic genius, but he wears his heart on his sleeve. Scott is very logic-driven and good at sorting out complex problems and dealing with minutiae alike, but can have a hard time expressing his emotions (got the tism). Their personalities are different, but their love for the X-Men is the same. They should clash, but in a way that each character is built upon and could have a point.

Also, I'm gonna say it - if all the other X-Men think Scott is boring, or annoying, or hate him, why the fuck would they listen to him? They're mutant terrorists. They're rebels and criminals and anti-establishment freaks. A lot of them are also parts of other teams, so they have options. If they're listening to Scott, it should be because they trust him, they respect him, and they like him. Evolution does the best job of this of any media I've seen. Not only do we get to see Scott grow into his role as leader, we also see him protecting his teammates, big-brothering the younger ones, working hard to keep them safe, admitting to his shortcomings and apologizing, and being willing to still mess around and have some fun when he thinks it's appropriate. He's not just Cyclops, he's Scott, and he's their friend and teammate. You understand why they listen to him.

he defeated madara uchiha, gai was told, lee also foolishly sacrificed himself, gai was told. ( he had a long conversation with him about that ) and how quickly he fell back into the role of consoling father. lee disrespecting his wishes gave him the opportunity to witness the world he had helped a great deal saving.

he was still supposed to be in the hospital, supervised by shizune, but that was never maito gai. walking back and forth clinging to steel bars, no, the jonin would rather stroll konoha's streets. his prosthetic leg ached and itched with every step, but as if that would have ever stopped him. by the end of the months his resolve would be to race across konoha's rooftops, an idiotic goal, the godaime scolded, but maito gai had made it his habbit to do the impossible, hasn't he? ( making it look easy too ) but alas - technically speaking he was still fleeing from authorities. so a scarred hand gently knocks against kakashi's door. but it wasn't his eternal rival who'd answer. ❝ OBITO!! ❞ he boomed, a smile so bright he might as well outshine the sun.

❝ it's been forever! i missed you! ❞ a quick look over his shoulder, no pursuer. . . yet. ❝ you won't mind me hiding for a bit while the godaime is looking for me, do you? ❞

✦ to see how Itachi feels about you

+POSITIVE:

You make me laugh ║ I am inspired by you ║ I trust you wholeheartedly ║ I consider you a role model ║ I am interested in you romantically ║ I am interested in you sexually ║ I am protective over you ║ I support you ║ In my ideal world, you are happy ║ You give me cute aggression (cheek squishes!!) ║ You have done so much for me ║ Your approval is meaningful to me ║ I think of you often ║ I hope you are a permanent fixture in my life ║ You don't get enough credit ║ Your presence is a mood boost

±NEUTRAL:

We are vibing ║ I like your posts ║ I respect what you've been through ║ I hope you get what you deserve (positive) ║ We may not be close, but I enjoy what we have ║ I wish you would seek help ║ Knowing you has changed me ║ I consider you trustworthy ║ You remind me of myself ║ I like bumping into you at the function ║ I idolize you ║ We share a lot of common interests ║ You're cool

-NEGATIVE:

I'm compelled to antagonize you ║ You grate on me ║ I do not trust you ║ I don't respect your life choices ║ I feel like I have to mask / dull myself around you ║ You've crossed my boundaries multiple times ║ I feel guilty over something I said/did to you ║I am obsessed with you || I have a grudge against you ║ You stress me out ║ You give me cute aggression ║ I envy you and/or covet aspects of your life ║I thinly tolerate you ║ Being around you sometimes opens up old wounds for me