[HYDRA was not a place that offered much in the way of comfort, but it was made up of people who had all endured the same. There was no shame in being broken down, to be reduced to trembling or crying messes on the floor now and again. They all had to go through it to serve, and many of them who served in the more dangerous positions had comforted the very victims that they were involved in breaking. It was part of the game, brothers and sisters in arms.
So comforting her and viewing her memories was nothing he hadn't done before. She seemed to take to his age old mantra easily, and for people like them, it might be the only truth that they could find in the dark of their own memories.] You had your mission and I expect that you followed it. That's the most important detail here.
[The memory plodded forward without a jump, and Rumlow had seen many people beaten and electrocuted in his lifetime. Hell, he'd experienced it more than once himself, so he knew that it was often one of the most painful experiences that left a person trembling and aching all over. It blanked the mind and left only agony in its wake, and one of the few times it had ever bothered him was to watch the Asset ground to nothing with electricity for refusing an order that the Soldier shouldn't have been placed on first and foremost.
That she was tied like an animal and tormented was more a method of common torture than any exotic. It was effective if rudimentary. Ivan was clearly enjoying himself, clearly pushing Ava to be something more than what she was displaying. He also understood the lesson well, and he didn't condone it. People needed to know where they stood and what would happen if they went against orders.]
You were kept like a weapon in a drawer in 7B, under-utilized because they didn't think you were ready. They wanted you trained more, but they always seem to forget that young women can lead in other capacities. [And she would have been better off learning in the world than stuck in a little room. They had done their best, but they too were forced to follow orders. That's just the way things were, and it was a necessary evil they had all had to face.]
Seems to me that Ivan guy enjoyed breaking you, and that ain't the place of a true instructor. It just becomes torture at that point and loses the value of the lesson.
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So comforting her and viewing her memories was nothing he hadn't done before. She seemed to take to his age old mantra easily, and for people like them, it might be the only truth that they could find in the dark of their own memories.] You had your mission and I expect that you followed it. That's the most important detail here.
[The memory plodded forward without a jump, and Rumlow had seen many people beaten and electrocuted in his lifetime. Hell, he'd experienced it more than once himself, so he knew that it was often one of the most painful experiences that left a person trembling and aching all over. It blanked the mind and left only agony in its wake, and one of the few times it had ever bothered him was to watch the Asset ground to nothing with electricity for refusing an order that the Soldier shouldn't have been placed on first and foremost.
That she was tied like an animal and tormented was more a method of common torture than any exotic. It was effective if rudimentary. Ivan was clearly enjoying himself, clearly pushing Ava to be something more than what she was displaying. He also understood the lesson well, and he didn't condone it. People needed to know where they stood and what would happen if they went against orders.]
You were kept like a weapon in a drawer in 7B, under-utilized because they didn't think you were ready. They wanted you trained more, but they always seem to forget that young women can lead in other capacities. [And she would have been better off learning in the world than stuck in a little room. They had done their best, but they too were forced to follow orders. That's just the way things were, and it was a necessary evil they had all had to face.]
Seems to me that Ivan guy enjoyed breaking you, and that ain't the place of a true instructor. It just becomes torture at that point and loses the value of the lesson.