I'm Scott Summers and yeah I always need to wear these sunglasses, thanks for asking.
My Future Plans
Going back home.
My Talents
A lot of things.
Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and Food
Stuff that doesn't suck.
My Ideal Partner
...
Height
5'8"
Body Type
Lean, athletic build
Smokes
No
Drinks
No (mostly because underage)
Drugs
No
Sign
Libra
Education
Xavier's Institute
Occupation
Student
Income
None
Children
No
Pets
No
Hobbies
Normal things
No... I was just thinking of leaving before I came here. Sorcerers start going on missions freshman year, especially a Special Grade like me and one of my my classmates. There aren't enough of us to go around, so it's a necessity. You're only supposed to take missions your rank or lower, but it isn't foolproof.
No, you shouldn't. But it sounds complicated, being public. How much influence do the humans have over your society?
wait you guys are sent on missions, no matter what? that's kind of fucked up. like it's one thing if you volunteer for it, but as a requirement?? do you work in a team at all??
['There's not enough of us to go around.' There's far less Sorcerers than mutants, huh? Still, it feels wrong, and as such, he can't help but type something back.]
we live in one society, so we're not really separated. and humans have control over most governments, i'm pretty sure. so, guess you can say all the influence.
Freshman and lower ranks are often paired or chaperoned, but it's part of the curriculum. Why? It's not like normal students get out of doing homework or going on educational field trips. Being a sorcerer means dealing with death no matter what. Even before we're scouted, we're usually
[ what's the word... "traumatized"? ]
haunted. Exposed. Our powers manifest around 4-6, and there's no place on earth that hasn't been touched by evil.
And how do you feel about that? Should the ignorant majority have control over you and your kin?
okay but when students go on field trips they aren't usually asked to kill curses or be prepared to die. can't believe i had to type that out.
look the mutants at my school. most of them aren't expected to fight like that. that falls on me and my team. some of them shouldn't be fighting, especially if they don't want to.
no. but we're going to make sure they don't put out policies that will hurt mutants.
I've already explained to you why it isn't an equivalent comparison. Sorcerers are faced with violence and death regardless of whether or not they decide to join a school, so the moral outrage isn't relevant. There are irrefutable truths to being a sorcerer, as I'm sure there are to being a mutant. One of them is death. Most of us don't live to 30, school or otherwise.
Sure. Some don't. They still die. Maybe things are better where you're from and you know more than 3 mutants who made it to middle age.
And how will you do that? They have greater numbers, greater influence in their world. What happens when they don't listen? You bribe them? Manipulate them?
well i can still think that it sucks for you and the other sorcerers in your world. something obviously needs to be changed. so that there's more than just 3 of you guys that make it to their 50s.
it shouldn't be some fucking expectation or something set in stone.
and i'll keep on showing that they're better with us than against us. we can do things they're fully incapable of doing.
the line? when they start putting out policies or whatever that hurts mutants. but i'm not going to punish all the humans just for that. we'll. we'll deal with whoever if that happens.
[This conversation is so uncomfortable and Scott doesn't like it. But in a stupid strange way, he can't help but really think about this too.]
You're right, it isn't much. The method you find so distasteful is a way of fixing it. No humans, no curses. No need for our children to run the same rat race. If you can come up with something better, I'm all ears.
A reactive response. "When" they do it, "after" it happens... People die before the bills get passed. Sacrifices you're willing to make, even when we are so few.
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what? like him trying to rule the world himself? he knows that we'd kick his ass if he tried that.
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I'd have stayed forever if I could.
Sounds like there are a lot of you.
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yeah, i guess. probably helps that mutants are known to the public at home, they have been for ten years. we don't need to hide. and we shouldn't.
[...Even if tensions are rising back home.]
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Sorcerers start going on missions freshman year, especially a Special Grade like me and one of my my classmates. There aren't enough of us to go around, so it's a necessity.
You're only supposed to take missions your rank or lower, but it isn't foolproof.
No, you shouldn't. But it sounds complicated, being public.
How much influence do the humans have over your society?
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['There's not enough of us to go around.' There's far less Sorcerers than mutants, huh? Still, it feels wrong, and as such, he can't help but type something back.]
we live in one society, so we're not really separated. and humans have control over most governments, i'm pretty sure. so, guess you can say all the influence.
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Why? It's not like normal students get out of doing homework or going on educational field trips. Being a sorcerer means dealing with death no matter what. Even before we're scouted, we're usually
[ what's the word... "traumatized"? ]
haunted. Exposed. Our powers manifest around 4-6, and there's no place on earth that hasn't been touched by evil.
And how do you feel about that?
Should the ignorant majority have control over you and your kin?
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look the mutants at my school. most of them aren't expected to fight like that. that falls on me and my team. some of them shouldn't be fighting, especially if they don't want to.
no. but we're going to make sure they don't put out policies that will hurt mutants.
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There are irrefutable truths to being a sorcerer, as I'm sure there are to being a mutant.
One of them is death.
Most of us don't live to 30, school or otherwise.
Sure. Some don't. They still die.
Maybe things are better where you're from and you know more than 3 mutants who made it to middle age.
And how will you do that? They have greater numbers, greater influence in their world.
What happens when they don't listen? You bribe them? Manipulate them?
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it shouldn't be some fucking expectation or something set in stone.
and i'll keep on showing that they're better with us than against us. we can do things they're fully incapable of doing.
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You're not wrong, it does suck.
To be fair, attending the schools is voluntary. We're informed of this when we join.
Sometimes the big clans teach and train their own.
Where's the line? That's what I'm asking you specifically.
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the line? when they start putting out policies or whatever that hurts mutants. but i'm not going to punish all the humans just for that. we'll. we'll deal with whoever if that happens.
[This conversation is so uncomfortable and Scott doesn't like it. But in a stupid strange way, he can't help but really think about this too.]
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The method you find so distasteful is a way of fixing it. No humans, no curses.
No need for our children to run the same rat race.
If you can come up with something better, I'm all ears.
A reactive response. "When" they do it, "after" it happens... People die before the bills get passed.
Sacrifices you're willing to make, even when we are so few.
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[He'll come back to Getou about a solution though. Later on.]
i don't want mutants to die, obviously! [...He is just reacting though, isn't he?] we'll just stop those bills from being passed. we'll have to.
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Well, it's all just hypothetical anyway.
The house has our souls now.
If I'm black and you're white, maybe we cancel each other out in the end.
The way is probably somewhere between us.
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no i think the correct way is still towards my end. [...] but being prepared for the worst isn't a bad idea either.