For a moment, Wash simply doesn't react - his poker face is intact, but wow is it ever a struggle to keep it in place. Well, he'd asked. "Right up there with Justin Time, huh," he says as levelly as he can manage.
Well, he'd been planning on a 'be Yuuri on your own time; when you're out here, you're Codename' speech, but there's absolutely no way he can make Mr. Ice Guy sound good in that context. It sounds more like a shitty Schwarzenegger pun than an actual superhero codename, but-
Fuck it. They're here now. He hates improvising, but that doesn't mean he can't do it.
"Yuuri, I don't know what the Legion oath meant to you the day you took it, but right now it means you're the only thing between those people out there and the fucking maniac trying to wreck their planet. You have abilities they don't, and you've promised to use them to help others, and right now they need that help." He pauses for a moment as another blast goes off - close enough to be heard but far enough not to rattle the shop - and continues. "Look, it's a shitshow out there. You know it as well as I do. But it's a shitshow no one asked for, and it's one we promised to clean up, and the people out there who can't fend for themselves are counting on us to do it for them."
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For a moment, Wash simply doesn't react - his poker face is intact, but wow is it ever a struggle to keep it in place. Well, he'd asked. "Right up there with Justin Time, huh," he says as levelly as he can manage.
Well, he'd been planning on a 'be Yuuri on your own time; when you're out here, you're Codename' speech, but there's absolutely no way he can make Mr. Ice Guy sound good in that context. It sounds more like a shitty Schwarzenegger pun than an actual superhero codename, but-
Fuck it. They're here now. He hates improvising, but that doesn't mean he can't do it.
"Yuuri, I don't know what the Legion oath meant to you the day you took it, but right now it means you're the only thing between those people out there and the fucking maniac trying to wreck their planet. You have abilities they don't, and you've promised to use them to help others, and right now they need that help." He pauses for a moment as another blast goes off - close enough to be heard but far enough not to rattle the shop - and continues. "Look, it's a shitshow out there. You know it as well as I do. But it's a shitshow no one asked for, and it's one we promised to clean up, and the people out there who can't fend for themselves are counting on us to do it for them."