Are you even still alive, then? How is it cheating if you're not trying to, you know, live til then to see it? [ She's assuming he's discussing the far future instead of his own future - in which case.. yes, probably best to avoid. Changing the flow of space and time with knowldge ahead of time generally serves to mess things up royally from all the works of fiction she's ever read. Not that they were the best gauges of what would happen, really, but it was better than absolutely nothing so far as she was concerned.
Her own 'family' - it's a little bit of a thing, really. Sure, she'd had Donov Mayer, but they weren't genetically related, and though he'd been her only family that shared her name, she only really saw him when she'd behaved in a way he didn't approve of and wanted to lecture her about it. Daedalus could probably, technically, be counted as well if she wanted to be technical, but even then it's a deeper story than probably even Asgardians. Of course Jim asks - she can't blame him for wanting to know, considering how little she mentions her family at all, and she gives a quiet, almost weary sigh. It would probably be good to get this off of her chest, really, even if telling it in the first place is kind of ...
Pulling at an already salty wound. ]
It's hard to miss Grandfather, really. He was the only 'blood' - [ Note the finger quotes, here, Jim. ] - relative I had, and he was often more concerned with his status as Regent and how I behaved as his granddaughter than anything to do with how I.. felt on the matter.
[ Emotions were unnecessary, after all. ]
He also sent knight autoreivs to murder me after I had been outside and challenged him about lying to me, so..
[ She shrugs, as if that's the most casual thing to admit, really. ] No, I don't really miss him.
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Are you even still alive, then? How is it cheating if you're not trying to, you know, live til then to see it? [ She's assuming he's discussing the far future instead of his own future - in which case.. yes, probably best to avoid. Changing the flow of space and time with knowldge ahead of time generally serves to mess things up royally from all the works of fiction she's ever read. Not that they were the best gauges of what would happen, really, but it was better than absolutely nothing so far as she was concerned.
Her own 'family' - it's a little bit of a thing, really. Sure, she'd had Donov Mayer, but they weren't genetically related, and though he'd been her only family that shared her name, she only really saw him when she'd behaved in a way he didn't approve of and wanted to lecture her about it. Daedalus could probably, technically, be counted as well if she wanted to be technical, but even then it's a deeper story than probably even Asgardians. Of course Jim asks - she can't blame him for wanting to know, considering how little she mentions her family at all, and she gives a quiet, almost weary sigh. It would probably be good to get this off of her chest, really, even if telling it in the first place is kind of ...
Pulling at an already salty wound. ]
It's hard to miss Grandfather, really. He was the only 'blood' - [ Note the finger quotes, here, Jim. ] - relative I had, and he was often more concerned with his status as Regent and how I behaved as his granddaughter than anything to do with how I.. felt on the matter.
[ Emotions were unnecessary, after all. ]
He also sent knight autoreivs to murder me after I had been outside and challenged him about lying to me, so..
[ She shrugs, as if that's the most casual thing to admit, really. ] No, I don't really miss him.