( Honestly, that's just... her. Kate doesn't get all that emotional sounding about things all that often, and it's easier to see things in her actions. Easier to tell how she does feel about this unintentional career path when she's caught in the middle of a crisis at work, or when she solves a particular problem with hard work.
But they're not there, and Kate's only got drinks and her own words to explain. So she takes a breath. Stays quiet for a moment. She needs to think. She didn't get her parents' abilities with words - her mother's craft for stories or her dad's ability at breaking things down - or even absorbed any of Marc's intelligence that would allow her to do this easily. )
It's... a challenge. ( She thinks back to the first day she started at Dagny's training clinic, at all the things she overcame there. Learning just what her powers could really do, figuring out how to stand in the middle of bloody chaos and keep a cool head - not just to try and ignore it and grit her teeth through it. ) ... Wasn't exactly something I expected to end up doing with my life. ( Her words are measured and that is an understatement. As a child, she expected athletics, the Olympics, always to be running. As a teenager, anything that paid would do. Once she joined The Agency, she began to believe that would be it. She'd always be fighting, always be stuck with them.
Moving into medicine is something Marc should have done, had he been alive, but she doesn't hate it. )
I get to help people. Do something constructive with my powers. ( While before it felt like it was always leading to the destruction of something. ) Get to meet a lot of people too. ( She forgets, sometimes, how much she actually likes that. She'd grown to used to the isolation, to being too busy to really know anyone outside of her work team. Even after all this time, with so much that's needed doing, it's easy to fall into those habits of those formative years. ) Can't exactly go on for hours 'bout how exciting sitting and staring all them colours are - ( Most people don't understand it, unless they'd get to see it as well. Another world around her. Sometimes headache inducing, but just... more ) - but I can't imagine not doing it.
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Date: 2017-09-10 07:44 pm (UTC)But they're not there, and Kate's only got drinks and her own words to explain. So she takes a breath. Stays quiet for a moment. She needs to think. She didn't get her parents' abilities with words - her mother's craft for stories or her dad's ability at breaking things down - or even absorbed any of Marc's intelligence that would allow her to do this easily. )
It's... a challenge. ( She thinks back to the first day she started at Dagny's training clinic, at all the things she overcame there. Learning just what her powers could really do, figuring out how to stand in the middle of bloody chaos and keep a cool head - not just to try and ignore it and grit her teeth through it. ) ... Wasn't exactly something I expected to end up doing with my life. ( Her words are measured and that is an understatement. As a child, she expected athletics, the Olympics, always to be running. As a teenager, anything that paid would do. Once she joined The Agency, she began to believe that would be it. She'd always be fighting, always be stuck with them.
Moving into medicine is something Marc should have done, had he been alive, but she doesn't hate it. )
I get to help people. Do something constructive with my powers. ( While before it felt like it was always leading to the destruction of something. ) Get to meet a lot of people too. ( She forgets, sometimes, how much she actually likes that. She'd grown to used to the isolation, to being too busy to really know anyone outside of her work team. Even after all this time, with so much that's needed doing, it's easy to fall into those habits of those formative years. ) Can't exactly go on for hours 'bout how exciting sitting and staring all them colours are - ( Most people don't understand it, unless they'd get to see it as well. Another world around her. Sometimes headache inducing, but just... more ) - but I can't imagine not doing it.