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- Parts 3
""No." He turns toward me, eyes focused. "No, that's a gift. If you can take in that much and somehow protect people with it, that's strength. That's humanity." He takes a breath. "That's you.""
Vessel's lives and breathes empathy. When she touches anyone, she absorbs all of their physical and mental agony and repurposes it as energy, numbing the wounded. Caring for a person more means feeling their pain more, so when Vessel numbs those she loves, she becomes the most dangerous person on the planet.
When a trip to Washington pushes her away from her mentor and past her breaking point, she's forced into the orbit of Mark; and for the first time in her life, she has a choice: the man who shaped her, or the one who might finally understand her.
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(I started writing this story when I first discovered Invincible in May of 2025. Since then, I'd gone on to finish my undergrad in creative writing, and focused on other writing projects, leaving this one behind. Season four reignited my inspiration for Vessel so I came back and made many changes to the writing itself. If you've already read the older version: don't fret! The underlying story will remain the same, but I do encourage you to reread if you enjoyed it, because it'll definitely have way more going on)!