Well, yeah, the kinda stuff Rhodes Island is looking for a cure for doesn't have a lot of fame or money attached to it.
[Corporate espionage followed the money, didn't it? Rhodes Island had some high-grade weaponsmiths in their service but they usually came to the place to get away from that kind of profit-chasing culture. They were there because they wanted to do something. He's not as much of a goodie-goodie to say they wanted to do the right thing but there were plenty of places out there doing the wrong thing.]
[Ethan shifts a bit from one foot to another. What he had started as a humble brag, listen to this cool stuff I can do, suddenly was brushing up against the idea of what this place was and meant to him.]
Off paper, well... [he settles on something to say, bouncing back to a more joking tone,]
If we weren't good guys, we could probably take over a city? Some of the people working for us, y'know, I can hold myself in a fight but some of our operators are like a walking Catastrophe.
"Silent we shall be, should conflict be avoidable— but fight tooth and nail, should it be necessary." [he recites it, clearly not his own words but a creed he's heard stated. It had been necessary. It would continue to be necessary.]
... then again, I'm making it sound all scary. This is also the same kinda workplace where the punishment for stealing from the kitchens is holdin' up one of those signs, like I'm a kid or something!
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[Corporate espionage followed the money, didn't it? Rhodes Island had some high-grade weaponsmiths in their service but they usually came to the place to get away from that kind of profit-chasing culture. They were there because they wanted to do something. He's not as much of a goodie-goodie to say they wanted to do the right thing but there were plenty of places out there doing the wrong thing.]
[Ethan shifts a bit from one foot to another. What he had started as a humble brag, listen to this cool stuff I can do, suddenly was brushing up against the idea of what this place was and meant to him.]
Off paper, well... [he settles on something to say, bouncing back to a more joking tone,]
If we weren't good guys, we could probably take over a city? Some of the people working for us, y'know, I can hold myself in a fight but some of our operators are like a walking Catastrophe.
"Silent we shall be, should conflict be avoidable— but fight tooth and nail, should it be necessary." [he recites it, clearly not his own words but a creed he's heard stated. It had been necessary. It would continue to be necessary.]
... then again, I'm making it sound all scary. This is also the same kinda workplace where the punishment for stealing from the kitchens is holdin' up one of those signs, like I'm a kid or something!