Look, sir, Ah’m sorry.
on September 1, 2020 at 12:01 amthat guy’s probably my age now
Honestly, I feel like “I worked at a secret paramilitary anti-alien task force for a few years after being literally bred for combat” might knock out a few prerequisites, I dunno. And, like, this guy should PROBABLY know who Sal is, or he’s probably bad at his job. (Or he DOES know who she is, and would like her to leave.)
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Sal thinks 27 is old hahahahaohno
She’s older than she’s ever been, and now she’s even older.
27 isn’t old, as long as you don’t join the club.
I’m with the “would like her to leave” option.
Yeah.
It would explain why he is so thoroughly unimpressed.
I mean.
I’m pretty sure the CIA is about more…. covert operations.
I don’t think reverse defenestrating yourself is a good point for your application.
Is it still defenestrating though? I thought that was when you got thrown out a window. Wouldn’t this be more… *re*fenestrating or something?
ENfenestrating
Pretty sure that’s just fenestrating.
And the fact that the keyboard gave me suggestions for fenestrating tells me it’s actually in a dictionary somewhere.
You probably need to reread that.
She could always run for political office. You don’t need to have that much smarts for that.
The most believable interpretation here is also the most awkward: that anyone who pulls up “Sal Walters” on their HR database will be directed to a truly damning report on her inability to take orders, with a sidebar on the time she nearly destroyed a continent out of spite. “In summation, Walters’ checkered history includes inarguably heroic acts worthy of recognition, but she is too individualistic and powerful to be trusted in any command structure. It is a minor miracle she does not have the blood of fellow agents on her conscience, and there is no reason to expect any more time she spent in government service would not end in tragedy.”
And there’s pretty much only one person with the authority to write that report. Jason might feel like a dick for deep-sixing his ex’s employment prospects, but he’d feel like a bigger dick if he let sentiment endanger the lives of people in other organizations. But of course, if Sal ever even suspected that was what was going on here, that’d probably be it for any chance of their reconciliation as a couple.
It could have been in the records from before SEMME was shut down.
The counter argument to that is that she’s too individualistic and powerful to be allowed to run loose. Bring her in. Keep her secret. Keep her in the dark and feed her propaganda and set her loose on solo missions where collateral damage doesn’t matter.
There is a reason that, in my It’s Walky game, Sal ended the game in prison. And not just any prison – one of those special prisons designed to detain super powered individuals. She was too dangerous and destructive to allow to go free.
She had a cell next to Anti-Joyce, who in this world was basically a young Carol from DoA who tried to pull a toedad on her original self.
Wow – due to developments in DoA, that is way easier to explain than it was several years ago. And I’ve wandered off topic.
Trying to control Sal by way of lies and shadowy shenanigans is sort of how Sal (and Carol, for that matter) ended up such a friggin’ Sal in the first place. The most Sal there ever was.
Incidentally, I like DoA Sal fine and she’s an excellent character there but I read IW! first and it will never stop being jarring that over there she’s the voice of reason against ridiculous shenanigans*; like okay yes she has perfectly understandable and important real-world-relevant reasons for being that way but the Sal template in my head struggles all the same
*climbing out of windows notwithstanding
I mean she definitely killed some fellow agents back in year zero before Tony
I like that there’s ONE job in the CIA, and that finishing any amount of required schooling would make Sal too old for it
So yeah, saying whatever to get her to leave
*Hands Sal an XCom busness card* “You didn’t get this from me; you never heard of this from me. You’ve never met me.”
GET OUT OF MY OFFICE, YOU WHIPPERSNAPPER
The CIA spies on non-Americans.
The FBI spies on Americans.
Neither of them have lives like a James Bond movie. These days it’s mostly spyware keeping detailed records of your porn habits and browsing history.
One supposes they get a lot of voyeurs applying for work there.