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Hello Glacier, a few questions for you.


1. How does it feel to be a superhero?

2. Any moments that made you facepalm?

3. Any villains that you dread facing?

1: It's grueling, but it should be. Sacrifice is the most important part of the job. Showing off and having fun are the the quickest way to get someone killed. The more I train, the harder I work, the more likely it is that everyone will go home at the end of the day. To me, that's all that matters.

2: Most of the prospective Sentinel Initiates inevitably make some serious mistakes in training. I don't personally attend any of the screening exercises, that's mostly for the support staff to deal with. Without going into too much operational detail, Sgt. Royd handles the physical training exercises and Machiavelli coordinates wargames. We have some former ADDR operatives handling threat response training and specialists getting Initiates to grip with their abilities. Naturally, these are all potential sources of failure.

Take our virtual wargames. Usually, any simulation involving the ADDR Antlion tank ends in tragedy the first time around. Now, normally I don't speak candidly about the threats we face. However, the Antlion has been all over the news lately. The first time most trainees encounter it in our exercises is when it burrows out from under them and sprays them with napalm. They're so volatile that direct attacks risk fatal explosions, and ADDR tactics often involve holding hostages inside of them as a form of psychological warfare. As is, there are no easy answers to them. That's the point. As horrible as it may sound, some people need to be humbled before they start to appreciate the dangers of the job.

Rest assured, we don't send anyone out until we're completely confident that they can defuse the situation.

3: The first thing you get rid of when you agree to uphold the value of life is your selfishness. I'm never afraid of what the enemy throws at me. It's everyone else I'm worried about. Maniacs and madmen have no qualms about collateral damage. I'd sooner fight dozens of assassins than one unpredictable lunatic with a gun in a crowded room.

1. Are there any small quirks and other things about your teammates that you like?

2. What was the single strangest thing you've seen that's just made you take a moment to process?

3. Have you ever had to deal with fangirls?

4. What was the singlemost satisfying day on the job for you?

5. If you could swap out your power with one of your teammates for a day, which would it be?

6. Ever lost a bet with one of your teammates?

1: Working with a team is a lot like spending time with your family. You'll get to know everyone's tendencies and merge them with your own experience. Eventually, you'll all know exactly what to do and when to do it.

Take Cyclone. Claire is smarter than I'll ever be. The way she can look at a complex situation and chart a course through it when her back is to the wall won us more battles than I can count. Once she figures it out, she'll do it before the rest of us even realize what's going on. Some people call that impulsive, but when you've worked together long enough you forge unshakable confidence in your teammates and their decisions. It's what we train for, and it's what we do.

2: I've seen just about everything out there. Most of them are things I'd rather not talk about. I'll just say that ADDR's biological weapons projects are one of the reasons we fight so hard to stop them.

3: I don't like the thought of having fans. I'm a public servant, not a celebrity.

4: Every so often, you'll come across a situation that nobody should have walked away from. That's where we come in. Last month we stopped a plot to release a neurotoxin at a stadium in a case that sprawled months of investigative work and proactive threat response. That's hundreds of graves that don't have to be dug. When people ask what I'm most proud of, it's the work with the least to show for it that matters most.

5: Sometimes I wonder what it must be like to be less powerful than I am. I wonder if I could still make a difference even without my abilities. While Headhunter isn't exactly a member of our team, that man has proven himself over and over again with nothing but grit, defiance, and a satchel of tools that would have been outdated 50 years ago. If that's not heroism, I don't know what is.

6: I don't make bets, but the younger Initiates do. It might be a generational thing. Usually it's friendly wagers over training exercise scores. We strongly discourage treating field work as a game, though. When lives are on the line, anything less that utmost integrity is unacceptable.