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?
asthehawkflies: (Amused Smirk)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-02-04 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone gossips. SHIELD is no different. I mean, we still have half a million accountants and bureaucrats. They have to do something to fill their days.
touchofrogue: (Pleasant and Earnest Conversation)

[personal profile] touchofrogue 2013-02-05 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
There's nothin' wrong with wanting to do something. Especially when you've got the power ta do so much.

[Her gaze flickered down to her gloves and she stared at them for a long moment.]

But you've got to recognize that, no matter what, there are some things no amount of power can change. Even yours. You can't take her choices away from her, Billy. You can't make her be okay. Even if she was here, you couldn't do that - or if you were back home. I don't know what happened that has you so torn up, but it's just as true with big things as small ones.
asthehawkflies: (Job well done)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-02-05 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[clint laughed softly.]

Someone has to keep me in weaponry. And to be fair, those accountants also make sure that I pay my taxes instead of getting money deposited into anonymous Swiss bank accounts or wads of fifties handed over in briefcases by dangerous looking men in tailored suits.
handing: (thoughts kept to myself)

[personal profile] handing 2013-02-05 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. I’d heard that. [Twenty years instead of two, and can’t predict how the burden Tony’s taken on will change him, because although there has been definite good, Pepper’s all too aware of the dangers he’s faced too. If she’s truly honest with herself, there’s no way to know if Tony will even live that long—how many times has he almost died already?

But she’s not being honest then. Pepper is very deliberately not thinking about what Tony might be like in twenty years, dead or disillusioned or somehow worse.]


You think so? [Pepper’s been told things like that before, that she’s good for Tony--too good for him, by certain people. Still, it’s hard not to wonder just what happened in that other world that kept the relationship she has from occurring there.]

You know, I think we’ve gotten pretty severely off-topic.
asthehawkflies: (Master Thief)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-02-06 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[That makes him frown slightly.]

Ouch, I'm hurt. Trust me, if they sent me after one of our own people like that... as a way of, what, keeping people in line... I'd be out of there pretty quickly.
asthehawkflies: (In Pain)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-02-07 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He offers a small smile.]

It's okay. Just... had one too many people call me a soulless killer before now. Kinda stings.
handing: (ha ha)

[personal profile] handing 2013-02-07 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
Are you? [Well, far be it from Pepper to undo the good, however unintentional the method is. Billy does look more relaxed, and that had been her goal.] Good.

[And better, since Billy seems ready to veer to a new topic. Pepper's glad for it, and she easily matches Billy's smile as she counters his question.]

Are you sure you want to hear about my love life? Which is apparently more important than I realized, considering the fate of superheroes everywhere apparently hinges on my continued relationship with Tony Stark.
asthehawkflies: (Default)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-02-07 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
That's nice to hear. Really it is. Guess I don't always comes across at my best though.
handing: (smug)

[personal profile] handing 2013-02-07 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
There's not much new on that front, I'm afraid. Not while Tony's still nine. [But at least he's back, and that's something. Better than him being with the Malnosso.]

We were good before that, though. Things were going well.
asthehawkflies: (Watchful)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-02-07 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably for the best really. I don't like the feeling I have to live up to some guy I'm never likely to meet.
handing: (thoughts kept to myself)

[personal profile] handing 2013-02-08 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I guess. [Even if it’s hard to see when the person she loves is, for all intents and purposes, still gone.] And the effects will wear off. I can be patient until then—and possibly gather material to tease Tony about later. He’s a pretty cute kid.
asthehawkflies: (Spotting Targets)

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[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2013-02-09 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Might never happen. I figure we're already running a good few years behind. Don't worry about it too much. Way I've heard it, it doesn't make a damn bit of difference when we get home.

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