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etraya2025-10-25 05:18 pm
sophielicious) wrote in etraya2025-10-25 05:18 pm
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time for the bimonthly NYX report. introductions, i'm sophie cuckoo, your resident telepathic mutant barbie, hopefully it's nice to meet you. anyway, if you're new here, there's a gigantic building in charronway that i run for community strengthening purposes, called NYX. we have classes from swordfighting to demonic magic 101, and we serve homemade lunch and dinner made by our people.
so, as per usual, if there is a class you'd like to take or teach, please let me know and i'll see what i can do. second thing, we need more cooks, so if you want to help out, also just let me know.
place is also available for meetings, gatherings, parties if you're fun and know how to throw one, lectures, or whatever. i'm there during the afternoon, chrissy takes the morning shift, and always go through her first if you need me during that time.
as the end of it, as per usual, as a building exercise, let's do the usual. it goes over so well whenever i do it. tell me your problems, and i'll tell you how to fix them*.
*Neither NYX nor Sophie Cuckoo can be held liable or responsible if you listen to a random person on the internet and do it.
so, as per usual, if there is a class you'd like to take or teach, please let me know and i'll see what i can do. second thing, we need more cooks, so if you want to help out, also just let me know.
place is also available for meetings, gatherings, parties if you're fun and know how to throw one, lectures, or whatever. i'm there during the afternoon, chrissy takes the morning shift, and always go through her first if you need me during that time.
as the end of it, as per usual, as a building exercise, let's do the usual. it goes over so well whenever i do it. tell me your problems, and i'll tell you how to fix them*.
*Neither NYX nor Sophie Cuckoo can be held liable or responsible if you listen to a random person on the internet and do it.
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(Not her first rodeo. Peter Parker, for one, had no idea what she meant. Okay.)
To sum up as fast as I possibly can, we're basically a population of people who have a specific gene in our DNA — it's called the X-Gene. It gives us abilities and powers, like, you know, some of us have wings, some of us are shark-shaped, some of us teleport, the list goes on forever. I'm a telepath, for instance.
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[ He just assumed she meant that she wasn't proportioned like a barbie, or something. Not that anyone is, really. ]
But, thanks for explaining. Do you - get to choose? Your abilities.
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Oh, no. The gene develops differently in each person. So, you get what you get.
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[ He thinks about that for a second. He supposes it's kind of the luck of the draw in the way that the serum is, only, he signed up for this. ]
Then I guess it's a good thing there's a place for people to hone their powers. I'd like to help.
[ And there, that's settled. ]
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[ But his French is a little bit affected by him learning it during World War II. ]
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(Wait for it.)
Me.
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[ Look, he's rolling with the situation. ]
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(Is that a good enough explanation? Probably not.)
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Oh. Is it... like a telepathic link?
[ Wait. ]
Sorry, is it rude to assume your sisters have the same powers?
[ Or are even mutants? It's genetic, right? ]
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(Why doesn't his world have Emma Frost? Mysteries she hasn't managed to put a finger on.)
We're a telepathic hivemind of five clones. So, yes, we're identical. I did mention we come from the Weapon program, so, that's what it is.
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[ He pauses. ]
And you're not super-soldiers.
[ Because she'd mentioned the Weapon program, but also that the hivemind was learning Martial Arts - they'd have mastered it by now if they split up and studied. If they were super soldiers, it wouldn't take too long. ]
cw genocide
(She's 105lbs, who is she even managing to punch? She wants to learn, so she can actually not eat shit. Her thing is telepathy, her body a mortal vessel.)
Eh. Everyone hates mutants and tries to kill us off constantly, so the whole thing was 1000 of me, so we could link up and murder a bunch of us, five got released — not that we knew a thing, anyway? No memories. Their plan didn't pan out; five are left, not evil at all, members of the mutant community, etc. Any questions?
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[ Yeah, several. ]
-- Why is everyone trying to kill you?
[ He does not understand this mutant-human dynamic at all, Sophie. Not only does he not understand it from an outside point of view, but even if she explains, he really just won't understand the why. ]
cw racism??? i'm sorry
(Don't worry, Cap. Civil War will come for you, too.)
Which, I mean, kind of generalizing, right? I can give someone Alzheimer's, but some of us have way too many eyes. It's different from you guys, nobody is gonna give you that same amount of shit, but if the little girl playing in the sandbox can sonic scream, wow, definitely a danger to society, we can be anywhere, be anyone. So, they hate us, we're abominations, so forth, so forth.
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Sounds like they just haven't met anybody with special abilities. I'm - sorry's not a strong enough word for it.
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(Not that the numbers remained that way. Genocide, Decimation, Genocide, so forth, so forth.)
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[ Because that's not too many. Sure, it's the population of the larger New York area, but it's also about the population of the general Kinshasa area. ]
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[ It'd be pretty obvious he guesses, if they were. Or they're so rare that they just attribute their powers to something else. ]
It doesn't matter, anyway. But I'm glad you're here.
[ Both because the attitude here seems more relaxed and also because should they actually save all the worlds, the mutant contribution shouldn't be forgotten. ]
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(Good job, Steve. Not that she expected anything different from Captain fucking America.)
Anyway. I can throw a punch, but I'm not a field action person. I provide telepathic support, most of the time. Except, last mission, Echo took away all our powers, so, you know, I'm starting to think learning how to throw more punches must be a good skill to have. So, you're up. Think you can teach individuals and general classes? I think the interest will be high.
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Though - to be fair, if Steve lost his powers, he wouldn't throw nearly as good of a punch as he does now, so he should definitely brush up on some martial arts that don't require strength, stamina, or a decent constitution. ]
Definitely. I'll put together a couple curriculums, based on how much time people want to dedicate.
[ He knows that he would've served in the war regardless of whether or not the serum worked, so he never really sat on the sidelines and felt 'useless,' but he can sympathize with losing one's specialty and how much that might really get to them. ]
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(Does it feel absolutely weird to call Steve Rogers by the first name, when she calls her own mother Ms. Frost sometimes? Yes. Still, though. Her hand pats his shoulder a few times before she speaks again.)
Good luck with me, by the way. You're gonna need it.
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[ He rewards effort, not talent. ]
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