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?
handing: (think of it this way)

[voice - filtered]

[personal profile] handing 2012-12-18 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Pepper appreciates what Billy is trying to say without saying it, and she puts up a filter just to make things a little easier on them both.]

Tony's staying with Howard. I do what I can to help, but right now I'm just another person he's met here. [Which hurts a bit to say, but Pepper knows it's temporary. Reminds herself of that every time she goes over to check on him, in fact.]

Besides, you're someone I will happily make time for, Billy. So where would you like to meet?
wildkotetsu: (... right...)

[voice]

[personal profile] wildkotetsu 2012-12-18 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
Aa.

After all... there's no chance of things getting better if we give up. At least there's a chance if we try, na? Otherwise, instead of fighting for anything, we'll just sit all unhappy with our lot in life.
calmbeforethe: (we should discuss this)

Voice

[personal profile] calmbeforethe 2012-12-18 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
It can get difficult, at times. [She can admit that, at least.] But at the same time, I know what my powers are, and how I use them. What else is left but to show this to those who do not know any better?
asthehawkflies: (Concerned)

[Voice]

[personal profile] asthehawkflies 2012-12-18 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
No, I'm really not. But I know a little of what it's like to be hated by people you love for nothing you can help.

I try to be a good guy and it seems like basic decency.
thefinaljedi: (Brooding)

[Video / Locked]

[personal profile] thefinaljedi 2012-12-18 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Mutants. That word...has a lot of implications.

What is it in you that's...mutated?
isgorgeous: (14)

[voice]

[personal profile] isgorgeous 2012-12-18 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I'm an earth bender. And kind of a metal bender in training, but I'm not very good at it yet.
revoltndevelopment: (pic#4895297)

[action]

[personal profile] revoltndevelopment 2012-12-18 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean....you're gonna want t'sit.

[He's already squeezing the ball of lead into a new shape, thick fingers pressing lines into the dense metal. Ben scrubs his face. Too tired and weary and raw to want to go over it all again.]

She changed the world. Made it 'perfect' for some. Mutant's gett'n depowered came after.
jamesbarnes: (lean in)

Re: [voice]

[personal profile] jamesbarnes 2012-12-19 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Everything alright? You've got an interesting idea of distraction.
cynicism: (07; losing patience)

[Voice]

[personal profile] cynicism 2012-12-19 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[It would be something along the lines of "I told you so." Also yes, that's why it's in his username.]

It's not up to you to measure them.

You think a lot of yourself, don't you? Like your whole life is this story that has to follow certain conventions. Good and evil, black and white -- like it was all staged before you came along to perform the best part of it. Like you're different from everyone else who lives and dies and never gets remembered.
Edited 2012-12-19 00:51 (UTC)
rashness: (And that day was hot)

[voice]

[personal profile] rashness 2012-12-19 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I mean, I kinda get it. There was the Blue Night back when I was a baby and they can hurt people, so... [He sighs] I've been trying to get down controlling it all.
touchofrogue: (Neutral | Wary Listening)

[personal profile] touchofrogue 2012-12-19 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[She straightens.]

I was just settin' up a sim. Wanna come? Or - go somewhere?

[Since this ain't exactly the best place to talk.]

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