The wink took Brainy completely off guard. For a moment, he'd been about to protest (after all, Niels certainly could "light up the whole lab" -- by making it explode) but then Robbie winked at him, and his eyes went a little wide.
Brainy was not a person who people winked at. The last person he could even remember winking at him had been Lyle. Lyle was a winker to the core, it went with that whole devil-may-care vibe he tried to cultivate.
Lyle was also an irrepressible flirt and as a result Brainy associated winking with that.
His cheeks flushed ever-so-slightly greener, but he ignored it as he got up and went over to a console, working on dealing with some of the residual damage from the machine he'd just fixed.
"The cat can only stay if he's capable of not destroying everything. The tiny person can only stay if she's capable of being quiet. (Highly unlikely.)" He gestured to Robbie without looking up. "And you can stay if you can make yourself useful and don't have aspirations of leaving the Legion to form your own society."
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Brainy was not a person who people winked at. The last person he could even remember winking at him had been Lyle. Lyle was a winker to the core, it went with that whole devil-may-care vibe he tried to cultivate.
Lyle was also an irrepressible flirt and as a result Brainy associated winking with that.
His cheeks flushed ever-so-slightly greener, but he ignored it as he got up and went over to a console, working on dealing with some of the residual damage from the machine he'd just fixed.
"The cat can only stay if he's capable of not destroying everything. The tiny person can only stay if she's capable of being quiet. (Highly unlikely.)" He gestured to Robbie without looking up. "And you can stay if you can make yourself useful and don't have aspirations of leaving the Legion to form your own society."