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[vexant]

Is anyone going to explain who the hell dropped in Xavier's Institute but forgot to bring along - what, literally any mutant?

( most people might start with a hello. julian just starts with a finger pointing back at the manor off behind him. )

Or, fine, anyone but Jean. ( because he's only half counting her as is. )

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[thecodexabides]

If you choose to sit out a war that means your kind's entire annihilation, you are choosing to strengthen the enemy. [Whatever 'side' they're talking about. It's basic survival and no one can sit on the sidelines.]

[waxen_wings]

I don't want anybody annihilated. I just don't want anybody to get hurt. That's all that happens when people fight. They get hurt, or innocent people get hurt because they were standing too close.

Why can't people accept that everybody should get a chance to live in peace?

[thecodexabides]

What do you think I have pledged my life for? There is no peace where I am from. I--my order--fight so that there one day can be peace.

But the Enemy has chosen otherwise. The xenos do not hear our words. Chaos actively seeks suffering and death of all life. And until they cease, peace is nothing but an idea.

[waxen_wings]

[ A small shrug at this. ]

I don't know? You haven't said who you are, what war you're fighting, what xenos are... it's hard to answer without that. You just barrelled in talking about what's wrong with no mutants.

[thecodexabides]

We are fighting a war for the survival of humanity against the xenos and heretics. Xenos are alien species. They annihilate all live on every planet they touch. [We will NOT be talking about the Imperium's own 'exterminatus' protocols here, where they blast an entire planet to glass if they deem it too 'lost'. Nope, genocide is only done by the bad guys. ]

Where I am from, mutants are anathema. On the same level as xenos and sorcerers. [It's just a big old pile of space racism. Don't ask how he feels about elves. ]

[waxen_wings]

[ Jay's voice is quiet. ]

We're not anathema.

[thecodexabides]

[This is text so the other doesn't hear Gadriel punching a wall. He's trying so hard. Maybe he should try less hard to fight what he's been taught and just...do what he was created for. ]

I said
'in my world'.

I have awareness
now [long story, involved an emotional breakdown in Kwik Trip]
that this is
not
my home
and that the rules

are different.

which is
why
I ASKED.

[vexant]

You realize you're talking to a teenager, right? A KID

Who IS a mutant
Who has been HATED by humans, shunned, because he's NOT the same as you stupid fucking flatlines

You want to know what the problem with having no mutants is?
it means people like you have gone around, slaughtering countless innocents just because they were "special" and you decided special was bad

Fuck you

This is why I asked if you wanted to die

Leave Jay alone
He might be an idiot but he's my idiot

[thecodexabides]

as a
teenager
I was already
well into the surgeries that would
remake me
as I am

if you would kill one
over words,
perhaps you are no better
than you judge me to be.

[vexant]

Yeah? As a teenager, I'd already watched almost all of my friends die
Because of people like you, who used their words as weapons to turn the world against us
Because of OTHER people with abilities, who used their words to fuck us all over

You ever see a kid who used to live under water full time drown in his sleep because someone opened their mouth, said a few words, and fucked up his body so badly he couldn't survive anymore?
Ever see child who lived in the skies fall to their death over a few words?
I have

Words are weapons just as much as anything else
You don't need a gun to kill, just a voice others listen to and a platform to speak on

[thecodexabides]

I know the power of
heresy
which is why I do not speak it.

I have seen my own brothers fall
at the hands
of Chaos.

what is the point of this comparison?

[vexant]

What's the problem with having no mutants, is what you asked

The problem is that means someone killed all of us
We are mutants

[thecodexabides]

then save your wrath
for those who deserve it.
Wasting vengeance upon those who
did not earn it
wastes your energy
and creates a new enemy.

I do not kill
children.
I thought we
here
were supposed to be
allies
of sorts. [There was a reason he asked the question, and did not just ask for the location of this mutant house to clear it of mutants himself. ]

[vexant]

Apologize to Jay

[thecodexabides]

for what

[vexant]

for calling him whatever the hell that word was

[thecodexabides]

no.

I will not apologize for explaining the truth
as my world knows it.

[vexant]

forty-seven kids died and the world celebrated on the words of a religious zealot who called it a "miracle"

Apologize to Jay for making it sound like that's what you thought he is

welp guess we're choosing to make things worse

[thecodexabides]

Forty seven.
A mere forty seven.

I have seen entire planets lost. Whole regiments of the Astra Militarum. Dozens of my own brothers lost fighting the twisted perversions of nature.
It is no miracle. It is the purpose of the Adeptus Astartes to wreak vengeance upon those who mean us harm. [Which a lot of the time involves mutants.]

and what if I do not

[vexant]

forty-seven students at our school, when m-day hit
there were millions of us before M-day
after? less than two hundred

Don't, if you don't want to
Just know you'll be making a very, very powerful enemy

[thecodexabides]

I have fought
a Lord of Change himself
in the Immaterium
its own ground

And won.

are you more
powerful
than that?
Because if so
I am up for the challenge.

[waxen_wings]

Noah's dead?

[vexant]

Not anymore

[waxen_wings]

How are two of us not dead anymore?

[ Himself. Hydro. Something's going on. ]

[vexant]

I'll explain later