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Colossus By Design: Employee Records

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  1. [User Account: maximoff_better-twin]
  2. [User Access Granted: maximoff_better-twin]
  3. [Password Override Accepted: philo-reality101]
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  7. [Personal Log: Entry #92]
  8. [Log Date: April 24, 2166]
  9. [Log Ownership: Dr. Anna Maximoff]
  10. [Log Topic: Employee Interview Reflections]
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  14. Let's see........ what do I want to record now? Perhaps a commentary on the recent greenlight for Jacob Hargrove's Androids? Nahhhh.
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  16. Ah! I know!
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  18. I'll make some reflections on some of the interviews I've conducted within the past few years. But where to start....... I know!
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  20. I'll start with my star pupil, Eobard Thawne. It was a dark and stormy night and.......... no, that sounds too cliched, despite how it was true. He came into my office one day, nearly twenty years back, along with two friends of his. What were their names again..... Ah, yes, now I remember! Ripley Hunter, and Jay Garrick.
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  22. That Hunter kid was quite boisterous, always talking about how he'd invent time travel and become its master, going on grand adventures to change the timeline for his own amusement, only to eventually put it all back together. The other one, though..... he was a strange one.
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  24. Always so quiet. Brilliant, but utterly lacking in confidence. As it turns out, he'd previously been associated with shady underground experiments headed by none other than the man out of time, Vandal Savage. Those two got out before things got really heated, bringing with them enough research to eventually jump start the production of Savage's Velocity formula, but young Jay never really got over it.
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  26. I turned him down so that he could seek therapy and perhaps return for a second interview, but he never did return. Ripley, I turned down simply because he was too clumsy around the equipment to keep around. I asked Thawne about what happened to Jay, but he said that his friend simply vanished without a trace, not even leaving a message to his half-brother, Hunter Zolomon.
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  28. Still, I made the right choice by letting Eobard in on my specially picked research team. He's made many valuable contributions to my work, helping us to understand what we now refer to as Chi, and its application as Ki.
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  30. And since I covered his transition into vigilante superhero in some of my footnotes for the book I was writing, I'll leave it at that.
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  32. What was another memorable interviewee........
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  34. Oh, I know now! Larry Potler!
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  36. Dear Godzilla, that young man was a mess when he first came in just three years ago. Reminded me of the Hunter kid, except he wasn't as rude and clumsy. He WAS quite shy like Garrick, though. I guess because, at the time, he'd only just confessed his feelings to the man who would become his boyfriend a few months later.
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  38. That confession did help him along, though. Potler seemed to be much more lively and confident in himself after getting together with that guy..... I think Dawud was his name.
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  40. Either way, young Larry had a lot of talent, though he was always seeking my approval as an intern. Even after I repeatedly told him that his findings were sound, he'd always triple check the data just to be sure. Reminds me of my younger days, back when I didn't need surgical hip augments.
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  42. He really showed his expertise when it came to deciphering how the biology of Post-Humans worked. Of course, it helps that Dawud happened to be one of the better ones of that group, allowing himself to be examined by Larry in ways that only true love would allow.
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  44. I obviously caught wind of that, but Potler surprised me once again. He confronted me about it himself, so I managed to get the G.U.D. to take his boyfriend into our reintegration program as part of an effort to understand Post-Human powers to allow such people to work properly. Larry was particularly happy with that outcome.
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  46. Thawne and Potler are both a delight, each in their own way. Eobard is teaching me new things everyday, usually when he takes his occasional breaks from superhero shenanigans to conduct research on the properties of Harmony Theory like he initially set out to do under my wing.
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  48. And Potler? He's basically become a younger version of myself, so I've been grooming him to take my place when I retire. Not that I'll be retiring anytime soon, of course.
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  50. Huh........ didn't expect to run out of memorable people I've interviewed in the past few decades of my life. I guess Eobard Thawne and Larry Potler were just that exceptional to me. Still, it's better than being reminded that I helped to make Hargrove's dream a reality. A reality I had constantly been berating ever since I heard the idea.
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  52. I will admit though..... those Androids are quite nice folk when you really get to know em. Better than most "real" people, for one thing.
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