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I predict this will be a self-indulgent shippy meditation on power and responsibility but it's honestly hard to predict these threads
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Nod.

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"I should find Valentine and get my son back from her at some point anyway."

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Nod. "Was the priest helpful?"

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"Yes, he was."

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"I'm glad."

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"Yeah."

She goes out to find her son. She has a short conversation with Valentine about her niece, who was apparently fathered by a demon, which is really very concerning but given her niece's parentage she's hardly one to talk. She takes her son home, and she tells him a story, and she tucks him into bed and goes to sleep.

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She wakes up early (if there is an early, in her weird timeless demiplane - maybe she should add clocks or something), and flies out her window and looks around for Matt.

" - hey! I should have sent you home earlier, probably, sorry, I keep forgetting stuff and it's not great. First I have another question though."

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"Oh, don't worry, I like it here. What's the question?"

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"So I'm - aware that this is not the most objectively important thing I am working on right now but, uh, I wanna marry Connor, and the main obstacle to this is that I feel weird about getting married without alerting my parents, and if I tell them I'm getting married without telling them anything else they're going to freak out, so we decided that I should go around to lots of hospitals and heal everyone and then someone will notice and probably if I tell my parents that I'm dropping out of school and focusing on helping people and getting married when I am, like, a well-known superhero, or whatever, this'll in some ways be easier for them to accept? And it occurred to me that if I am going to make some of my powers known to the world I should maybe put any thought into how I'm doing it or my presentation or how other people are going to react or something. So, uh, I was wondering if you had any advice on any of this."

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"Hmmm. Uh, are you okay with people figuring out your real identity and bothering your family and digging up anecdotes about you from your teachers and so on?"

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"Hmm. I guess I'm probably going to move my niece and nephew and sister here soon, although I should talk to little Connor first about whether he has strong feelings about continuing traditional schooling? But - I guess maybe it'd be safer to do a secret identity thing so I don't have to deal with everybody right now and can go back to being a sort of normal person if I ever wanna do that for a while? Might also make the superhero thing more legible."

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"That makes sense. In that case I would just shapeshift to look like someone else. You can also wear a mask if you want but masks aren't actually that great."

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"But they're aesthetic. I'll do both, thanks."

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"Sure. Uh, I probably wouldn't announce myself. Just appear and heal everyone and disappear and there'll be lots of speculating and eventually you'll get seen on camera or something."

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"That's what I figured. Easier that way. Do you think I should take Connor? He can't do as much healing as me but he can do some. And I could give him a staff or something."

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"I guess he doesn't mind any of the risks of being on TV at this point. Uh, if you do you should shapeshift him too."

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"Yeah. I guess I'll ask him."

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"I hope it goes well."

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"Thanks. Do you want to stay here while I'm working on that or do you want to go home? I know you have, like, college and stuff. If you're in fact still going to go to college."

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"Nah, I'm gonna drop out."

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"Okay! ...do you want a title, or something? If you're gonna keep hanging out around the demiplane helping me. I'm not completely sure we exactly have any sort of real governmental structures around here yet, but, uh, it seems like it might be good to give you some kind of official position or something. If you wanted one. Insofar as that is within my power at this point."

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"I'd be delighted."

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"Okay! ...I'm going to think about it for longer than five seconds before I decide which one to give you, but I'll get back to you on that. I take suggestions."

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"I'll let you know if I think of anything great."

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"All right! See you later."

She heads back to her room and crawls back into bed and starts making various possible superhero costumes to see which ones she likes. 

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