Let's Get Back To Work

[the_civilian]

Who| Tadashi and you!
What| Trying to learn not to light everything on fire
Where| Training gym
When| After diplomacy/disaster mission
Warnings/Notes| PTSD, pyrophobia, will update as necessary

You'd think a guy who was as afraid of his own powers as Tadashi clearly was wouldn't be experimenting with them outside of training. But for all that he'd spent their training sessions thus far failing to control the flames he generated, there he was, sitting cross-legged and concentrating on a target less than a foot away from him.

It did explain, however, why he was dripping wet and the target was in the middle of the pool. Legion flight rings meant never having to balance on a floatie while trying not to have flashbacks to being trapped in a burning building.

"Okay," he muttered under his breath, dialing down the juice on his power suppressor and extending his hand toward the target. "Test thirty-seven. Let's not dump ourselves in the water this time."

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[deafleppard]

Gwen is just casually hanging around, and sticking to the ceiling above the pool. Maybe she'd been spotted before, or maybe not. The point was, she was there now, upside down and as though there was nothing unusual about it.

She looking the show that was going on in the pool. Something about fire and... That was about as much as she'd learned from her spot up there.

"So... what exactly is this supposed to do?" Gwen said.

[the_civilian]

Tadashi jumped in surprise, clapping his other hand down on his extended arm to keep it steady and looking up at the girl on the ceiling.

"Prevent me from lighting anything besides the target on fire, mostly," he said, looking back down and dialing the power back up until he was sure he wasn't dangerous to talk to for the moment. "Because I think everyone would prefer that I get better at that before I go out in the field."

[deafleppard]

"Hey, that's pretty alright." Wanting to learn what is was he could do before finding out the hard way. Gwen could roll with that, especially if... he hadn't exactly had those powers before. Even more if we were dealing with actual fire. Yeah, solid plan all around.

"Go for it, dude." Don't mind her, she's just going to keep on watching from her spot on the ceiling.

[the_civilian]

"All right," Tadashi agreed awkwardly. "Just...say back a bit. I'm not really good at this yet."

He took a deep breath, resisting the urge to close his eyes as he centered himself. With his power dampener dialed down, he felt way too much like he was holding a gun. Or, more realistically, a flame thrower. It wasn't something he really trusted himself to do yet without keeping his eyes on the target.

[deafleppard]

Gwen gave him a wave and nodded, ready to bail out if things got a bit too crazy. But really, she didn't expect that to happen. So she just sort of, kept on hanging around and wishing how she had some food.

Yeah, food sounded good. Maybe after this!

[the_civilian]

FWOOMP

went the floating target as it was completely engulfed in flame and almost immediately extinguished himself in the pool. Tadashi flinched back but, this time, not so hard than he tumbled into the pool.

"O-kay," he said, dialing the suppression back up. "That was not what I was going for. I was going for...not immediate-annihilation."

[deafleppard]

At this point, Gwen just fell from her spot in the ceiling and landed on the floor, close to the pool's edge.

"Yeah that... definitely looks pretty annihilated to me. Uh... give it another try?"

[the_civilian]

Tadashi winced when she hit the deck, though she landed with more grace than he'd have expected most people to. It still kind of reminded him of his and Hiro's early experiments making the whole apartment-above-the-cafe shake when they went rather spectacularly wrong.

"I don't think it's a matter of my powers only having two settings, 'off' and 'on'," he said, retrieving another target and tossing it out into the pool. "Otherwise I'd have already immolated myself. It's purely psychological and a pain in my butt."