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

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[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?
rocketpunch: (Let me know more)

[personal profile] rocketpunch 2013-01-22 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Huh, I wonder. I wouldn't lose, but I wonder how he feels about a robot showdown between himself and a cute seventeen year old girl.
complicatedliar: (wings)

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[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-01-22 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Loki smiles crookedly.] Everything is.
z_jay: (Security is key)

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[personal profile] z_jay 2013-01-22 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Chuckles to himself and wrings his hands together]

The really unfortunate thing is even if we did have aliens, I am pretty sure they wouldn't be interested in us. Unless out of scientific curiosity but the majority of people in my world are zombies. Literally, so no real intelligent life, there.

It is weird-- sorry. I'm not thinking any less of you for being that way in my world. For all I know, the same could be said of me in another world somewhere.

But am I personally acquainted with or have had an alien experience? No, afraid not.

[But since they were on the topic]

How about you? Got any X-Files you care to share?
knightofratatosk: (Happy smile)

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[personal profile] knightofratatosk 2013-01-22 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
Have you seen Shiemi's Pokemon? I forget what she called it, but it's a giant metal bird. She can even ride on it when it flies around.

[IT'S THE COOLEST THING EVER OKAY.]
asthehawkflies: (Contemplating coffee)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-01-23 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
In all honesty?

...Coulson's probably seen me in more compromising positions.

[Which translates as 'please god Billy, no' but he doesn't want to admit he has a weakness.]
rocketpunch: (What big eyes you have.)

[personal profile] rocketpunch 2013-01-23 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'll see if I can arrange something. Just make sure you're there when it happens, alright?

[She has no idea he's taken, oops.]
complicatedliar: (head tilt)

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[personal profile] complicatedliar 2013-01-23 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Really, is that a cynical thing?

I'd always thought it more... hopeful. 'This too shall pass.'
asthehawkflies: (Brainwashed and Crazy)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-01-23 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, course not. This is nothing after that time with the 'massage parlour' in Thailand.
z_jay: (here come the zoms)

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[personal profile] z_jay 2013-01-23 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Teddy is an alien?

[Seriously, Luceti had really dampened the whole shock factor of these sort of revelations. Instead of nearly falling out of his chair as he might have done upon arrival, he only looked impressed. Gave an inward sort of 'huh' and tipped his head]

Y'know, I wasn't entirely sure if he was as normal as he looked. Guess I'm getting a sense-- or maybe it's just all making sense now that you mentioned something and... heh.

I can't imagine one alien encounter, much less multiple alien encounters. So tell me, is the military of earth really so inept in those situations like they show on movies-- or are they in better command, so to speak?
rocketpunch: (Totally me)

[personal profile] rocketpunch 2013-01-23 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[No one ever is. Except her. She always is...to an extent.]

Okay! I'll save a front row seat for you, then. So, I guess I'll see you later, yeah?
z_jay: (Security is key)

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[personal profile] z_jay 2013-01-23 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
And I am very certain that the people of earth are very grateful-- unless they're a lot of ignorant masses who wind up inadvertently blaming their benefactors?

[Smiles when Billy spoke of dating Teddy, the two of them young but... given his own situation, he had a sense they knew what they were doing.]

I wouldn't say inhumanly perfect, but he did seem like a model for beach wear or something-- not that I'm looking, I just... noticed.

[Honest. He could appreciate without being a creep right? He wasn't too old to claim that...]
handing: (his heart in her hands)

[personal profile] handing 2013-01-23 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Well, no. It's just very blunt.

[Despite the fact that Billy has been called worse, or that Pepper is certain Rogue didn't say it maliciously.

Or that it's entirely true.]


You'll prove them wrong, though.

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