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asgardmeridiem2013-06-02 12:33 am
asgardmods) wrote in asgardmeridiem2013-06-02 12:33 am
Entry tags:
- !intro mingle,
- alastair stara,
- allen walker,
- altaïr ibn-la'ahad,
- asahi yuki,
- data!roxas,
- dirk strider,
- echo,
- erica reyes,
- euridice taverna,
- ezio auditore da firenze,
- grower,
- gwaine,
- inara serra,
- jack frost,
- jamie mccrimmon,
- maria thorpe,
- mel bush,
- natasha romanova,
- sam evans,
- shinji ikari,
- stiles stilinski,
- thor odinson
JUNE INTRO MINGLE
Who: Newbies and anyone who wishes to greet them!
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 274 and forward
Where: Anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! If it gets worse, move to a private log please.
[Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 275) in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! It can be any welcome hall, major attraction, or just out an about in any district. For newbies making a top-level thread, you may include your character's name/canon/house in your subject line if you'd like, to make housemates easy to find! :) If a God is needed or wanted, please ping the mods and depending on availability we might be able to throw them in where asked.
Also, keep an eye on the event schedule for June! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!
Have fun!]
What: Getting used to the city
When: Days 274 and forward
Where: Anywhere in town!
Rating: PG-13 tops! If it gets worse, move to a private log please.
[Please include your location and the IC day (ex. Day 275) in your top-level comment or your subject line when starting a thread! It can be any welcome hall, major attraction, or just out an about in any district. For newbies making a top-level thread, you may include your character's name/canon/house in your subject line if you'd like, to make housemates easy to find! :) If a God is needed or wanted, please ping the mods and depending on availability we might be able to throw them in where asked.
Also, keep an eye on the event schedule for June! If you're ICly introing during an event, make sure you take that into account. Thank you!
Have fun!]
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"We all do. It's more important to some of us than others." There's clear disdain in his voice when he says that. "It's our break from humanity when our mutations manifest. Human names usually don't mean much after that."
The mix of emotions in that final statement could take hours to pick apart: there's anger, certainly, but also hurt, betrayal, resignation, and a good deal of pride. And then there's something so far beyond simple anger that, if plucked from the web and examined, most would find it deeply unsettling.
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"You don't consider yourself to be human, because of a mutation?"
It sounds rather strange to her. She is something quite removed from most people, but she still sees herself as human.
That complicated tangle of emotions does not go unnoticed, and it makes her curious. A mystery for her agile mind to unfold and perhaps solve. She will think of him after they have parted, that much is certain.
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"So your parents were also mutants?"
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"I don't have parents." His voice is pure anger now, and it's all that dark, dangerous anger which hints at a very dangerous side to him.
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"I see. I'm sorry if my question offended, you just made me curious."
She studies him thoughtfully, very calm and still now.
"The term 'mutant' leads me to believe that at least some of you were born by human parents, since it is a term used to describe a deviation from the norm and thus sounds more like a label put on your by others rather than something you would choose to call yourselves. That in turn makes me wonder how you separate your mutation from other variations of the human genetic material to define your species. Do all who are like you have the same mutation? Is a person born with a tail part of your species, or is it a human with a tail? Are the colorblind mutants like you, or do you look upon them with that same anger you are now directing towards me and I suspect the rest of mankind as well?
Though I suppose what I'm really asking is what humans did to make a whole group of people want to be seen as something separate from them."
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At this point, he doesn't know whether to despise or admire her.
"How much time have you got?" His tone is brusque, but nowhere near as furious as earlier. He'll give her all the history he knows from Xavier's, if she really wants it.
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And she knows what it means to be shunned. To be feared simply because of what you were born being.
"I have been informed that I won't be going anywhere in the foreseeable future."
Said with a small smile and a touch of dry humor.
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"Most of what I know's from my own lifetime, but there's some stuff I've heard about before. Bigtime experimentation - one guy who taught on and off at our school has crazy regeneration, so some mad scientist grafted an adamantium skeleton to his regular one. He doesn't remember any of it either, so they were probably messing with forced amnesia at the same time."
He passes his lighter from hand to hand, occasionally opening it and flicking it on with deft grace.
"My leader apparently worked with the government for awhile, but I don't know much about that. Didn't want to know after what they did to us. But considering what he does now, I'm figuring they turned on the mutant bureau fast and hard."
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"The first thing you should know is that the mutant school is not only disguised as a prep school for the gifted, it's also a boarding school. 'Cause that many kids end up with nowhere to go once their family finds out what they are. And it usually happens at puberty. So that's a start." He'll let her put those pieces together.
"I've got plenty of stories form when I was a kid, but let's start with the big stuff. When I was about 16, they figured mutants needed to be registered with the government: names, addresses, powers, all that kinda stuff. Doesn't sound so bad until you know that the only other people they usually register that thoroughly are sex offenders.
That was shot down, but one guy decided he had a better idea anyway - after attacking a school full of kids with a SWAT team, he brainwashed the most powerful telepath in the world and tried to use him to wipe us all out. You have no idea how fucking close they got." The colour drains from his face for a moment. "I've seen policemen shoot mutants in the head point blank when they were surrendering, and the police were only called in the first place because mutants were there. Getting the idea?"
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"Yes, I am."
She almost reaches out to put a hand on his arm, but stops herself before actual physical contact happens and pulls her hand back again.
"People always fear what they do not understand. Often it makes them do terrible things."
She sighs and uncurls from her position to stretch her legs out, shaking her head a little at the foolishness of people.
"Fear is the mind-killer. I am sorry that it has caused such suffering in your world."
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"You're close. You got that they're scared of us and that's why they hate us, but it's not because they don't understand. The gene's been mapped and everything, they understand us perfectly. The reason they're scared is because we're better than them."
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Oh, how familiar she is with arrogance. A particular brand of it runs in her own family. The kind of arrogance that makes you think you know what is best for people, that makes you think yourself capable of governing not just your own fate, but everyone else's as well.
She knows this kind too, the kind that comes with a large side-order of loathing.
"I could explain to you, for example, how I came to be what I am, but I doubt you would understand it."
Is that a challenge?
Why yes, yes it is.
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As to the challenge, he just sits back, eyebrows arched. "Try me."
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But really, Pyro can feel good about himself too because he has just goaded her into revealing more about herself than she was planning to.
"My mother had to adjust her diet to one that contained a very high concentration of Spice for medical reasons, and perhaps it was also the combination with my father's somewhat special lineage that led to it having this effect on me. I was awakened to full consciousness before I was even born. While still in the womb my mind was opened to the world around me, and assaulted by the memories and personalities of all of my ancestors. I did not know who I was, and many of these egos would have me be them."
She taps one of her temples lightly with one of her index fingers.
"They hover here, all of them, at the edges of my consciousness. I know things that I have never been taught because of it. I remember things that I have never experienced. Tell me, do you understand what that is like? Would it help you understand to know more exactly the why of it?"
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No, definitely disturbing.
"All of your ancestors, going back to the beginning of mankind, live in your head." Briefly, he thinks that he's got to tell Echo about this. "Is it just memories, or are they actually there? I mean, can you talk with them?"
He's proving her point very effectively with all of this questioning, isn't he? He doesn't understand at all.
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"It's not just their memories. It's what they were like as well, their personalities, how their minds worked. So yes, in a sense I could talk to them. But it's dangerous."
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"Someone with a stronger personality than you -" He doesn't finish the thought, looking to her for confirmation, but he's pretty sure he's right.
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"Exactly. The temptation to have a body to inhabit is... very great. Even good people find it hard to resist, so as I'm sure you can imagine someone less honorable would not even see a need to try."
She doesn't try to hide her deep sadness as she thinks of her poor aunt Alia, who had succumbed to the will of a malevolent relative. One who wished to bring destruction to the Atreides family.
Vladimir Harkonnen.
"It is referred to as Abomination."
Said with a somewhat bitter quirk of her lips, since it's not exactly a nice word to have attached to yourself even as just a possibility, or a suspicion.
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"Abomination." He snorts, but he's not laughing at her; it's more of a bitter sound, commiseration. "They broke out the thesaurus for you guys. We just get 'freak.'"
His discomfort seems to have passed for now, although the idea still makes his skin crawl - in truth, hearing that word, that epithet for them, has reminded him how similar he and this woman are. Like Sam, a variant on Ghani could exist in the mutant world easily enough.
In place of the discomfort is a dark understanding, the first signs of a potential bond. Very early for him, but then, he doesn't often have so much in common with someone so early.
"So how do you stop it?"
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For all that she is mysterious and not just a little bit strange, Ghanima is still rather easy to get along with once you get used to her.
She too, feels the potential for a more lasting connection between them. They do seem to have rather a lot in common, even if she has not forgotten his minor displays of a possibly quite dangerous temperament.
"As for stopping it... you find a way to create a space within your mind where there is no one but you. It helps if you have a benign presence within who can protect you from the others."
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A space within your mind where there's no one but you... that statement gives him pause, but he doesn't know why. With a bit more self-awareness, he might realize that it's because his mind is completely consumed with himself, so that's an alien struggle to him. As it is, it just inspires a brief, thoughtful silence.
"That gives them a lot of power, though. You think anyone's that benign?"
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She doesn't mention the faith she has in the memory-selves of her parents, since Pyro doesn't seem to be overly fond of that subject. Instead she chooses to move on to the explanation he requested.
"The Bene Gesserit are a very old political organization where I come from. It consists only of women, and they train for years to attain a number of abilities that have caused them to be called witches by some who don't understand them. An acolyte who has achieved the full breadth of these abilities is called a Reverend Mother. Like me they have access to their ancestral memories, though only the female line. The difference is that while it happened to me before I was born, they achieve it through a ceremony as adults with fully developed personalities and highly trained minds."
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As is the Bene Gesserit explanation, which - despite trolls and werewolves and witches - has to be the strangest thing he's heard yet. Maybe because it's totally based in humanity, so it could exist in his own world if Spice did as well. Still, it doesn't surprise him; they deliberately do it to one another, but if it happens out of their control, the product is suddenly rejected and scorned. That's humans all over.
"So how'd you end up with all of them? 'Cause you were still a baby?"
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"Oh, I'm not a Bene Gesserit, never have been. I have Reverend Mothers in my family line and possess many of their skills because of it, but I've never been part of the organization. I just mentioned them since they were the ones to coin the phrase 'abomination'. I don't think they would allow me to enter the sisterhood even if I should wish it."
Not only because of what she is, of course, but who she is. But she leaves that out of the conversation for now. One long and complicated explanation at a time seems to be the way to go.
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