selfhelp: ([billy] seriously? you're calling a cab?)
William "Billy" Kaplan (Wiccan) ([personal profile] selfhelp) wrote2012-12-13 09:38 am

[Voice/Action]

[Today is a good day for serious business, apparently. There's a certain something he's been putting off for a while, and after one-too-many dreams interrupting his sleep, he's had enough: this morning when Billy wakes up, the first thing he does is jot out a note in the journal-]

[Private to Ben Grimm]

Hey, would it be okay if I swung by to ask you a few things?

[He'll work through his morning routine until he gets a response, after which he'll go for a visit and get a hell of a lot more than he bargained for.

After that, his mood for the day is drastically altered; he'll skip out on school, trying to sort out his feelings on the matter. Tommy's still AWOL, and he's trying not to worry Teddy, but what he's just been told has really got him thinking- about people, and heroes, and the unfairness of mankind in general. And eventually he'll just go ahead and return to his journal for it. He's kind of in over his head here.]


[Open to All]

I know Luceti's full of heroes- seems kind of a standard trait for most of us, for whatever reason. Back on my world, super-humans aren't that uncommon, and in general they're revered for everything they do for the world. Some of them were born that way, and some of them are from other planets, and some were altered to get their powers, and some have a lot of talent or skill instead of powers. But they're all considered to be super heroes. There's bad guys, too- just as diverse and unique as the heroes they fight. People fear them and celebrate their defeat.

There's another group, though... humans who got their powers because of evolution. It's much more natural, in a lot of ways. Some are heroes, some are villains. Some are just trying to get by without becoming one or the other. But regular humans fear them, and hate them for it, even if they save the world just as much as the heroes they love. They're called criminals or monsters, no matter how innocent they might be.

[He hesitates- it's probably obvious to some, what he's talking about, and he's not sure if he should lock it from the mutant population, or apologize, or something, but it relates to them even if it's not by name. Hiding it wouldn't be right.

In the end he just leaves it be.]


...Sorry for the ramble. But it's not fair, and... I just can't understand why. Why hate one and love the other, when they're basically the same?
rashness: (Continue with that force)

[voice]

[personal profile] rashness 2012-12-13 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know man, that's messed up.

[Said the son of Satan in the most helpful reply ever]
wildbluevagner: (poof)

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[personal profile] wildbluevagner 2012-12-13 11:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[After hearing this message, Nightcrawler will be immediately teleporting into Billy's room.]
rocketpunch: (Always number one)

[personal profile] rocketpunch 2012-12-13 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hold on, hold on. You're forgetting the best kind of hero. The kind of hero who uses their own hands to build super awesome machines! ...though maybe that's what you meant by a lot of talent, huh.

I understand why, though. People are just afraid of change. That's how it always is, right? [She can relate.]
not_a_troll: (you talk shite)

[voice]

[personal profile] not_a_troll 2012-12-13 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

[He pauses for a moment. Yes, this seems to be an accurate question...]

Why are you so full of sadness lately, Billy?
complicatedliar: (he's made one for himself)

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[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-12-14 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[He is silent for another long moment.] I did not feel that I had a choice, on Midgard. There is no turning back.

But I do not believe in heroes and villains the way that you do.
250mhzwabl: (glamorous radio lifestyle)

[voice]

[personal profile] 250mhzwabl 2012-12-14 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, no-! Sorry, I should have made that- God, sorry, that wasn't what I meant at all.

[In retrospect, he really could have been clearer with the target of the analogy, and Jack catches himself waving his hands at the screen in a gesture of stop stop pull back wrong turn that goes entirely unappreciated. Probably. He doesn't know the exact timing of the little reaction-camera.]

I meant, maybe it's the same bit of wiring gone buggy. Human nature. In your case it's still completely deplorable, absolutely . . .
wildkotetsu: (Nilbog backwards is...)

[voice]

[personal profile] wildkotetsu 2012-12-14 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
[... It's hard to reply at first, because hero talk has been a sore topic for him lately. He hasn't lived up to expectations--ones placed by himself, by the people he'd left behind back in Sternbild--and it's hurt him more than he'd admit. At the same time... imagining people with powers being looked down on... it's his biggest issue, aside from hurting people.]

When I was little, it was a lot like that... I used to hide my power, and I was alone a lot. But I've noticed that--well, I got older, and I noticed people started being better to us. Think they realized we weren't gonna blow up their houses or something with what we could do.

...

Maybe the more they see the good we can do, the more they'll start to see us as equals. Sometimes it's hard for 'em to believe it without seeing it.
snikting: (Stop! Snikting Time.)

[personal profile] snikting 2012-12-14 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'm an X-Man, remember? Doin' that's part of the job. Only I leave the questionin' to folks like Chuck.
complicatedliar: (head tilt)

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[personal profile] complicatedliar 2012-12-14 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki considers pointing out to Billy that he also does not believe in good and bad the way Billy does. That he considers economies of scale. That he thinks it's quite pathetic that the humans obsess about an invasion from outside that killed relatively few of their number when every day they are murdering each other in far greater numbers through a combination of ignorance, hatred, and uncaring neglect.

No, this is not the time for such discussions. Billy is simply trying to frame this conversation in a way he thinks will include Loki, he surmises. He will let it go for now.]


Oh?
relictusdeus: (Lowered eyelid)

filtered [warning for religious irreverence]

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2012-12-14 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
'tis naught but a foolish waste of time. [He answers firmly -- and after a beat, a crooked smile quirks his lips.]

No better than those who entrust their lives to God, hoping, waiting, begging that He might answer their desperate pleas and do something more than sit back and laugh.
z_jay: (Checking on my pal here)

[Voice]

[personal profile] z_jay 2012-12-14 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Feel like I'm really just the average joe type around here but if you ever need friendly company, me and Jack always have an open door policy. So long as it's not cold outside, that is.
rashness: (Silvermoon)

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[personal profile] rashness 2012-12-14 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, it doesn't even make any sense, does it? It's not like... well, I dunno. Those evolved guys gon't go 'round killing people, right?
reminded: (pokerface)

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[personal profile] reminded 2012-12-14 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
Similarities strengthen relationships. In the same way, differences, no matter how superficial, can destroy them. It isn't right, but it is human nature. I'm sorry, lad.

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