Brigitte tilts her head at that strong reaction. There's clearly some context she's missing here, but she goes ahead and explains, "It takes away someone else's physical pain or emotional pain, and you take it on for them. Like, it transfers it from them to you?" It wasn't exactly pleasant, but she could still understand how she'd wound up with that ability. Her whole goal in battles back home, after all, was to field the hits for her teammates to protect them.

Then, "Why do you ask?"