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orderfromchaos) wrote2014-06-16 09:57 pm
orderfromchaos) wrote2014-06-16 09:57 pm
8. Public + messages
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So, uh. Some of you who frequent the eighth floor common room might have noticed. An extremely geometrical tree where your coffee table used to be.
I can fix that. I mean, I'm going to. Fix that. Unless you guys like it? I mean. Whatever. It's not my floor. Let me know.
[Private to Vin]
[There's a long period of silence. Okay, it's only like ten seconds, but that feels like a lot.]
So. That. Happened.
[Private to Elsa]
...have fun?
[Private to Rogue]
A while back you offered to help people work with their powers. Is that still a thing?
[Private to Helena]
You, uh. Don't have to respond to this at all if you aren't comfortable, or anything. But if there's anything you want to ask me, I'll try my best to answer. And I won't be mad or anything.
So, uh. Some of you who frequent the eighth floor common room might have noticed. An extremely geometrical tree where your coffee table used to be.
I can fix that. I mean, I'm going to. Fix that. Unless you guys like it? I mean. Whatever. It's not my floor. Let me know.
[Private to Vin]
[There's a long period of silence. Okay, it's only like ten seconds, but that feels like a lot.]
So. That. Happened.
[Private to Elsa]
...have fun?
[Private to Rogue]
A while back you offered to help people work with their powers. Is that still a thing?
[Private to Helena]
You, uh. Don't have to respond to this at all if you aren't comfortable, or anything. But if there's anything you want to ask me, I'll try my best to answer. And I won't be mad or anything.
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I can see people's possible futures, I ever tell you that?
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She had friends, people who understood! I'm the only person I know of in my world with powers, and I can't control them! Everyone's afraid of me, and there's no school I can hide at with people like me until I know how to. Even if I could control them, that doesn't change what people are going to think of me, after what I did.
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And, you know, you're hiding out with people kind of like you right now. Rogue and Jean are from that world. Morgana does all kinds of things. There's others. There's Arthas, he does ice in particular. There's me. And no one's going to hate you or fear you in the meantime.
[He looks strained, suddenly, looks away.]
I don't know your world. But I killed over three hundred people in one incident, back in mine. I'm a mass murderer, okay?
Some people won't ever forgive me, and they shouldn't. But some people have. People's minds are one of the most changeable things around.
[He looks back up, just - raw with it, with guilt and grief he mostly keeps suppressed. You can't kill something that's already dead. But Okoya got to them because of him. It's all on him, in the end.]
You can't be her, you can't have her life. But - control, friends, happiness? That's possible. It is. It's all possible.
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No, it isn't. And that's fine, I know I have things now, but I can't have that at home.
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Don't think about her, or home, or anything, just - I don't know, how the stars look on deck. Think about that.
[He breathes in slow, to a count of eight, and out.]
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I- She did this for Lydia. During the flood.
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[She had the right idea, that Elsa, because she was taught, because she was lucky. Tell me about how you helped someone, he doesn't say, just follows the thought along, prompts her to keep thinking about that.]
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[Her powers had been completely different, but just as dangerous. Maybe even more so. She'd be lying if she said she wasn't curious if there were more parallels there than they realized.]
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