closed prompts for may

[flowlikewater]

who: genji + various
what: closed prompts for specific characters
when: backdated and all throughout the month
where: all throughout quarantine
warnings: none yet! genji's mingle top level is here!

Comments

[franciscoramon]

Sounds like you both got out while the getting was good.

[ Cisco thinks about asking about the mission that Genji alludes to, what it was that made McCree become so disillusioned. But then he thinks better of it. From the sound of it, McCree was a pretty hardened dude; for something to shock him out of loyalty to Overwatch, it must have been pretty messed up, and probably violent and awful. Genji was there, it sounds like. Cisco knows that Genji killed people, back then. But he's happier not thinking about it, and not knowing too many of the details. It makes things easier, probably for both of them. ]

If he ever shows up here, I'd like to meet him. McCree, I mean.

[ He... would also want to meet Reyes, but only to keep an eye on him in case he tried to start shit or did anything to make Genji unhappy or unsafe. Cisco doesn't care how scary the guy is. Nobody fucks with his friends. ]

Yeah. I can see how that'd be kinda tricky. Since... Reyes really did change, sounds like. I mean, with Dr. Wells, I'm pretty sure I'd condemn any version of him that showed up. Like, the reason he got stuck in the past ten years before I even met him was he was trying to pull a Terminator and wanted to murder a fucking little kid, so. Kinda think he's just a sick evil bastard and always has been.

[ Some logical part of Cisco's brain knows that Eobard probably wasn't always quite as awful and homicidal as the version he'd known, for his whole life, but he doesn't really care. He's not interested in the backstory. He just wants to not ever have to deal with him again.

He pulls out his phone, taps at the screen a few times. Convenient, that all his files can be accessed remotely, and he'd taken some time a few weeks back to scan that photo album he'd gotten in the maze, in case anything ever happened to it. (Considering all the disasters and monsters and chaos in this place, you can't be too careful). Cisco flips through to the selfie Barry snapped of all of them after he caught the Royal Flush gang, and holds his phone out mutely for Genji to take, pouring the both of them a little more tea once his hands are free. Cisco looks younger in it - not just the one year that he's aged since then. It seems like more than that. ]

[flowlikewater]

[ Genji nods to that. ]

Indeed. I've never felt particularly guilty about it either, truthfully. There was nothing that I, or he, could have done to try to "change" anything.

[ And that's a nice thought. He definitely thinks McCree would get along with Cisco nicely; goodness knows they'd have plenty to talk about. McCree isn't a scientist, but he's plenty intelligent. (Plus, all those old pop culture referenes.)

Genji smiles. ]

I think you would like him. I am sure that one day he'll show up, tumbleweed and all.

[ Genji listens and his expression hardens a tad as Cisco talks about Wells. Or Thawne, whoever that sociopath he dealt with was. ]

Some people are just bad and there isn't anything that can be done about it. Not everyone is capable of changing.

[ Genji takes the phone and examines it. Ah, yes, a sentiment he can understand. Easier times, happier times. Less complicated. Cisco does look younger.

He points to the man at the bottom. ]

So that is him, then?

[franciscoramon]

Damn, Genji. Why you always gotta make having a healthy attitude look so damn easy?

[ There's clear fondness in Cisco's voice as he teases, laughing a little at his own joke, even though it makes him cough for a minute or so after. He takes a sip of his tea once he catches his breath, then goes on: ]

No reason you should feel guilty, as far as I can tell. You'd already given them plenty.

[ Again, that temptation to ask what it was that had happened on that Venice mission, or that had convinced Genji to leave Overwatch. But is it really worth the risk of upsetting Genji, and possibly upsetting himself, just to satisfy his curiosity? ]

Yeah.

[ It's stupid, how much it still hurts looking at that picture. Cisco tries to tell himself the tugging in his chest is just from the coughing, but he's not fooling himself. Then, realizing some context might be needed: ]

He, uh- pretended to be paralyzed from the waist down, after the particle accelerator exploded. I mean, for a year and a half he had us thinking he had to use a wheelchair. I guess... at some point, what's one more lie.

[ Cisco feels a twinge of nausea remembering those first awful weeks after the explosion, when he thought Ronnie was dead and it was all his fault, when Wells 'recovering' in the hospital and Cisco went to visit him every day. He doesn't know how he'd managed to hoodwink the doctors. Just one of those questions he was never going to get answered.

Suddenly, though, it seems important to make sure Genji knows, the extent of it. How much devastation he'd left in his wake. So he points to Barry, says in a slightly choked voice. ]

He came back in time trying to kill him, when he was a little kid, but he fucked it up, so instead he just murdered his mom and framed his dad. He was in prison for twelve years. [ He points to Caitlin, next: ] She was my best friend back home. Kinda like you and McCree. She lost her fiancé 'cause of Wells. She cried herself to sleep for weeks. And he just- used her grief to make her even more loyal.

[ It wasn't just Cisco, who he'd hurt. Not by a long shot. And, in a sick way, it's easier to hate him for the things he'd done to other people. People Cisco cares about more than he cares about himself. ]

He tortured Eddie. Kept him tied up in the dark all alone for weeks, and starved him, and told him all this shit about- about how he didn't matter, and his life wasn't worth anything, and he was a failure.

[ He... probably shouldn't tell people all that without Eddie's permission, but, well, it's Genji. Cisco trusts him not to go spreading it around, or to be weird about it. And if he's listing off Eobard's crimes, well, it would be wrong not to include those two weeks as one of the biggest. ]