She listens without commenting and without any kind of judgment. She would never assume that Steph is incapable because of her age -- Laura's peers are all around the same age -- or any other superficial reason, but one thing in particular stands out to her.
"You do not have powers." That's interesting. It is very unusual where she's from for adolescents to pursue this line of work without having already developed superhuman abilities in some way; most are mutants, who find themselves thrust into an increasingly violently hostile world at puberty and mostly need to learn to fight or die early. (The Young Avengers are exceptions, and even then, most of them have powers.)
The X-men round up teenagers and do their best to train them, and managed to not fail miserably at it in spite of Cyclops; the Avengers do, too, lately, she went to their academy for a while. Iron Man's Initiative had that same goal in mind, although he went about it in the most fucked way possible, of course, because... Iron Man. Fuck that guy. Someone that young seeking it out on their own isn't unheard of, but it's not common by any means.
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"You do not have powers." That's interesting. It is very unusual where she's from for adolescents to pursue this line of work without having already developed superhuman abilities in some way; most are mutants, who find themselves thrust into an increasingly violently hostile world at puberty and mostly need to learn to fight or die early. (The Young Avengers are exceptions, and even then, most of them have powers.)
The X-men round up teenagers and do their best to train them, and managed to not fail miserably at it in spite of Cyclops; the Avengers do, too, lately, she went to their academy for a while. Iron Man's Initiative had that same goal in mind, although he went about it in the most fucked way possible, of course, because... Iron Man. Fuck that guy. Someone that young seeking it out on their own isn't unheard of, but it's not common by any means.