Yeah, that’s seriously my username! Why wouldn’t it be? Speed is my name and my game - well, back home it is, at least.
[he sighs loudly. being tommy without his powers is suffering.]
And I just don’t get why people get so hung up on thinking kids can’t do anything just ‘cause we’re young. Me an’ Billy started doing hero stuff when we were sixteen. Some kids get into it even younger than that! And it’s not like it’s all that weird, lots of kids do the hero thing and they’re great at it! And yeah, maybe sometimes bad things happen to us, too -
[he stops abruptly, overpowered by the memory of cassie’s death. that sucked a lot. he quickly pushes that thought and the resulting feelings about it away.]
We’re not dumb, [he continues, tone notably more somber.] We know what the risks are, what we’re getting into. But if we all quit fighting just ‘cause we’re young, the bad guys win.
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Yeah, that’s seriously my username! Why wouldn’t it be? Speed is my name and my game - well, back home it is, at least.
[he sighs loudly. being tommy without his powers is suffering.]
And I just don’t get why people get so hung up on thinking kids can’t do anything just ‘cause we’re young. Me an’ Billy started doing hero stuff when we were sixteen. Some kids get into it even younger than that! And it’s not like it’s all that weird, lots of kids do the hero thing and they’re great at it! And yeah, maybe sometimes bad things happen to us, too -
[he stops abruptly, overpowered by the memory of cassie’s death. that sucked a lot. he quickly pushes that thought and the resulting feelings about it away.]
We’re not dumb, [he continues, tone notably more somber.] We know what the risks are, what we’re getting into. But if we all quit fighting just ‘cause we’re young, the bad guys win.