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This past year has been life changing for everyone, there’s no mistake about that, however, Franklin was changed beyond what he imagined. Franklin and Valeria always had to grow up fast but it feels like what was already a sprint to maturity turned into what felt like to be a particle in the Hadron Collider with the loss of their father.
They were always encouraged to still live a life as teenagers despite their fantastic origins and adventures but everything seemed to have changed. Without their father they needed to step up in both the hero business and the genius business.
While Franklin had always technically been a genius that’s not what he was known for by others or himself. Valeria was the genius. She was the one that was meant to grow up and be like their father and solve all the worlds problems with her mind, not Franklin. Franklin was the one who would sit in his room and just project his imagination on the walls, creating an intangible world within his own. Put on shows and makes sights know one could ever see. Play out his stories like movies in characters of his own imagination. Valeria was the intellect and Franklin was the Imagination. If only the two could realize that by working together they’d create miracles, but that was the subject for another family therapy session.
Despite Franklin accepting the fact that he’d always have to settle for second best brain behind Valeria for the rest of his life he still chose to flourish, to be the best second best he could possibly be. Looking through his fathers notes, attempting to remedy failed experiments and using means so outlandish that his father wouldn’t have thought of them or using his mutation to compensate for the difference in their intellects. Most recently he had the challenge of trying to remedy molecular disequilibrium; a phrase like that had to have been invented by someone with the same knack for naming as his late father.
Speaking of which he could feel a familiar mind approaching. Preemptively pulling a chair out and pouring a glass of water out for Ava with his mind he projected lightly, “You’re early.” As he faced where she was going to be phasing in from.