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I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:40 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"Yes, but....I know...." Mars paced back and forth through the gym, talking on her phone. Since her disappearance, her father had decided to keep in touch a bit more.
Mars held the phone away from her ear for a minute. She rolled her eyes as he ranted. When it sounded like he was finally finishing things up, she brought it back to her ear again.
"Okay, sir. Yeah. I love you too. Bye."
Mars closed her phone. Then she made a shrill, frustrated noise.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:22 pmby Altamira Vazquez
Mira was coming from another direction, with a tupperware under one arm.
"Weights not cooperating?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:24 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"No matter how often I ask, they won't stack themselves neatly on my father," Mars says.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:26 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"They're inanimate. You won't have much luck, there."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:35 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"Drat," Mars says. She walks over to retrieve her phone. "Sorry. I do not mean to be so...aggravated."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Tue Apr 22, 2014 11:38 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"It happens. Was it anything in specific?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 12:44 amby Marcie Tiboldt
"No. My father is just being a --- " Mars makes several cruel remarks in French. "He is a very controlling man. It's annoying."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:11 amby Altamira Vazquez
"What does he want you to do?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 11:12 amby Marcie Tiboldt
"Generally? Quit school and take over the family business," Mars says.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:20 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"And what do YOU want to do?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:26 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"I want to join the Avengers someday," Mars says.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:33 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Bold move. You should go for it!"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:42 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"That's sort of what I'm doing here," Mars says. "But my dad..."
"What are your parents like?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:28 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"I...don't really have parents."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:07 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"Oh. I'm sorry," Mars says awkwardly.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:51 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"It's alright; I didn't mean to bring you down.
Cupcake?" she said, offering.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:54 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"Really? Yeah, sure," Mars says, taking one. "Thanks. That's so sweet of you."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:04 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"I made extras, and while I'm keeping most for me and Kevin, I'm giving some to people who need it. It looks like you need it."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:16 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
Mars smiles, "...I'm sorry. I didn't even...ugh, I'm being rude today. I'm Mars. Marcie, actually, but I go by Mars."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:41 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Mars, hrm?" Mira chuckled. "The pleasure is all mine. Altamira."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:44 amby Marcie Tiboldt
"Nice to meet you," Mars says. "Are you one of the University students?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:07 amby Altamira Vazquez
"I was. I suppose you could say I'm an emeritus."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:23 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
Mars blank look said that she didn't know what that was.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 3:25 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"I used to go here, and I keep an office here, but I'm not really 'from' here anymore."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:48 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"Where are you from then?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:54 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Spain, actually. That's where I grew up, mostly. Right on the coast."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:01 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"I've been to Spain. It's beautiful there," Mars says. "Do you miss it at all?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:13 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Sometimes, yes. I've been away for a while, but that's why I've come back here. TO reconnect with my past, you know?
You should value your past--it helped shape who you are."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:07 amby Marcie Tiboldt
"I know, I know," Mars sighs. "And the worst part is that it's not like I would mind that much. I like the work and I'm good at it, but I don't want to wish that I had done something else when I'm older. Something...different."
There was also the issue of the criminals and assassins out for her life, but Mars was the type of person to focus on one problem at a time.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:33 amby Altamira Vazquez
"I know. It can be tough following your own path AND fulfilling your obligations."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:09 amby Marcie Tiboldt
"What do you suggest?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:31 amby Altamira Vazquez
"I...don't know. I ended up giving up a lot to fulfill my function, but it was to save someone's life. I don't know what choice I would have made otherwise, if I even had a choice."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 11:40 amby Marcie Tiboldt
"Maybe that's the problem," Mars says. "Maybe I don't want to lose anything."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:48 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"If you don't risk losing things, you'll never gain anything, though. That's how life works. Change."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 4:44 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"It shouldn't have to be," Mars says.
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:00 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Oh, I don't know about that. A world where everyone could just cling to their old ways would get stagnant pretty quickly, wouldn't you say?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:42 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"I don't mind change, but why should you have to sacrifice things for it?" Mars asks. "Why can everything just be...good..er."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 6:07 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"Gooder in what context? Because what's gooder to you might not be gooder to someone else."
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 6:09 pmby Marcie Tiboldt
"Why not?" Mars asks. "Why do we have to accept that there has to be an inequality? That everything is finite and what one person has, another has to be deprived of?"
"I mean, why don't we ever question that?"
Re: I13DT: Daddy Issues
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Sat Apr 26, 2014 8:13 pmby Altamira Vazquez
"I wish it were that simple. But until everyone agrees what is good, someone will be displeased with any choice you could make. Just make sure it's not YOU who are displeased."