[Talking about guns is easy, but the very fact that it is easy hints at a tragedy. Because they are not people that collect guns to put in a rack on their wall, whose only use comes at a range. They're soldiers, children of war each in their own way, and that always comes with tragedy. But at least it's one they don't have to address, or think about. Not now anyway, and that's what counts. They've definitely done enough of that so far.
Instead, she gets to listen as he talks, and boy, aliens with plasma rifles. It's strange, the way that she knows that their worlds are different, and yet there is somehow enough similarity that when he talks about things, she understands, has a story that's similar enough. That's not something she can say even for most people from her own world. She smiles lightly, letting herself slide into the ease of it, to ignore the tales told about men of vision.]
Yeah, when they invaded New York City they had plasma rifles, it's sort of the basis for it, to be honest. I fired a few, like you said- pick them up on the battlefield. But they were certainly nice. I caught one of the Chitauri at close range and it cut straight through. They're still working on figuring out the tech. Most of it stopped working after the battle, but there's been at least one case of people being able to reactivate the dormant models. But, none of it quite seems to be intuitive to any of the techs I've seen working on it -- I'll admit I enjoy seeing Tony struggle.
[There's a flash of a grin there, amused and just a touch mean, but in a vaguely good-natured way.] You have shields? [It's an easy question, and right now they're taking the easy route. Not the one about casualties of the attack and what those plasma rifles did to civilians. Because she's sure he's seen it too, maybe worse, maybe more than she has.] Yeah, I can imagine. We'd like to make inroads with the Asgardians for tech, but even with Thor being on our team they're not really interested. I get the impression they're not too impressed with humans in general though, so we sort of leave things be.
No shame in standard-issue. [She realizes, sort of belatedly that she hadn't actually explained what any of the guns were.] The Colt M4A1 was SHIELD's standard-issue automatic carbine. The M249 was a portable machine gun, ammo drum, telescoping stock, heat shield. The Barrett's my sniper rifle, .50 caliber, effective range of 1800 meters by the book, though I've pushed it out further in the right terrain with good wind conditions and the right bullet.
[She smiles. It's a little edged, but in a good sort of way, more or less. That same sort of way she'd talked about her sniper rifle.] Knives are fun if you know how to use them.
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Instead, she gets to listen as he talks, and boy, aliens with plasma rifles. It's strange, the way that she knows that their worlds are different, and yet there is somehow enough similarity that when he talks about things, she understands, has a story that's similar enough. That's not something she can say even for most people from her own world. She smiles lightly, letting herself slide into the ease of it, to ignore the tales told about men of vision.]
Yeah, when they invaded New York City they had plasma rifles, it's sort of the basis for it, to be honest. I fired a few, like you said- pick them up on the battlefield. But they were certainly nice. I caught one of the Chitauri at close range and it cut straight through. They're still working on figuring out the tech. Most of it stopped working after the battle, but there's been at least one case of people being able to reactivate the dormant models. But, none of it quite seems to be intuitive to any of the techs I've seen working on it -- I'll admit I enjoy seeing Tony struggle.
[There's a flash of a grin there, amused and just a touch mean, but in a vaguely good-natured way.] You have shields? [It's an easy question, and right now they're taking the easy route. Not the one about casualties of the attack and what those plasma rifles did to civilians. Because she's sure he's seen it too, maybe worse, maybe more than she has.] Yeah, I can imagine. We'd like to make inroads with the Asgardians for tech, but even with Thor being on our team they're not really interested. I get the impression they're not too impressed with humans in general though, so we sort of leave things be.
No shame in standard-issue. [She realizes, sort of belatedly that she hadn't actually explained what any of the guns were.] The Colt M4A1 was SHIELD's standard-issue automatic carbine. The M249 was a portable machine gun, ammo drum, telescoping stock, heat shield. The Barrett's my sniper rifle, .50 caliber, effective range of 1800 meters by the book, though I've pushed it out further in the right terrain with good wind conditions and the right bullet.
[She smiles. It's a little edged, but in a good sort of way, more or less. That same sort of way she'd talked about her sniper rifle.] Knives are fun if you know how to use them.