Magic Box | Tuesday

[scarlet_chaos]

Wanda had remembered to put on people clothes when she came into work (late) today. Sweats and flip flops counted as people clothes, right? There wasn't a cape involved, so it counted.

She had spent the last week or so on a Darkhold bender, and even she had to tap out eventually. So she actually came into work, threw her hair up in a messy bun, and got to looking at the growing pile of paperwork that she had been neglecting.

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[defenderofdesmoines]

"Oh, that's kind of awesome," Annie noted, eyes wide at the gesture. "Like a halo or something. Probably pretty fun to watch people who aren't worthy pick it up."

It was entirely possible Maeve had tried while drunk last September and Annie hadn't seen, just saying.

[scarlet_chaos]

"I was always too afraid to try," Wanda admitted. "Kind of crappy knowing you're not worthy. Makes you wonder what's wrong with yourself."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Maybe it's kind of an arbitrary test," Annie suggested, leaning her hip on the counter as she thought. "Like maybe you have to have proven yourself worthy, and not all of us get that kind of opportunity, you know?"

That seemed better than being definitively unworthy, right?

[scarlet_chaos]

"That is a better way of looking at it," Wanda agreed. "It shouldn't surprise you that Steve can lift it."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Of course he can," Annie sighed. "I mean, where I'm from? This would be something to look out for -- Vought would definitely figure out a way to circumvent that or like...get a fake one so that Homelander could pick it up and look super, super trustworthy to the public."

[scarlet_chaos]

"Oh. You know it never occurred to me for someone to do that." That was because villains in the MCU are usually a little more obvious, Wanda. "It's really good you left that place."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"You don't even know the half of it," Annie admitted, smiling a little. "It's made me think like that, instead of -- like, I wonder if I could pick up the hammer."

Probably not, but if anyone from her universe could....

[scarlet_chaos]

"Between the two of us, you definitely have a better chance of pulling it off," Wanda said. "Or up, rather."