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MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2017-05-08 11:56:00

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:jaden, :mary wesson, :mingle, aidan reilly, alex karev, ianto jones, jack harkness, james howlett/logan, keith, malcolm reynolds, martha jones, nico di angelo, peter parker (stnas), pidge, prompto argentum, sara lance, sarah williams, spencer reid, spike, wade wilson

427 - Group Therapy Mingle

THERAPY GROUPS
More linked as they come up!

Turning a New Leaf
Polyamorous Individuals
PTSD and You
Murderers Anonymous
Addicts Anonymous
Counting Days - Managing Life with a Chronic Illness
Phobias and You
Impostor Syndrome
Abandonment Issues

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	Counting Days - Managing Life with a Terminal Illness. marinanova_npc 2017-05-08 10:04 am UTC (link)
	Whether you're coping with the concept of your own mortality, or recovering from a near brush with death, you're welcome. (Reply to this) (Thread)

maximumeffort
2017-05-11 09:54 am UTC (link)

[ He debated going for a laugh, dress up in the suit and steal all the donuts, but half-way through something stopped him. He knows he's crazy by now, knows that everything that's happened to him, Francis, cancer, everything that came before that - he's a mess. He's a garbage fire of a human being and he only ever found one person who could love him despite all that and this can be virtual all it wants to be but in a way, he still betrayed her. He left her, and then he left her again and while he's not exactly ashamed of anything he's done here, it lingers like a bad smell.

Gotta start somewhere. Might as well be with the cancer he doesn't have anymore, though who knows if it's still lurking like a ticking time bomb. How long can the mutation keep up? If it does, how long until he's forgotten what it was like to not be immortal? How long until this throbbing ball of self loathing and hatred erupts and it's no longer a matter of not being a hero but rather of not being a full on comic book villain? Kitty already looked at him like he was, for a moment. It wasn't great.

So, yes. Issues. Opting for jeans, t-shirt and a hoodie with the hood pulled as far forward as possible, Wade enters the room, finds a seat and proceeds to wait for someone else to start a conversation. Cracking wise comes too easily to him - if he goes first, nothing of value will be said. ]

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knewaguy
2017-05-11 05:58 pm UTC (link)

[When he first arrived he was really pissed off. He'd finally had that chance to fade away and say goodbye to a world he'd been dragged through for too long. He never pulled the trigger but he did choose the moment he wanted to say goodbye to and for what... he gets pulled into this hell hole again. He thought maybe he could hide away once more and wait it out, but it doesn't look like that's the option for such tight quarters. Now when people care too much, when they're nosy and not when he's still coughing up blood and suffering through this shit.

He still has the instinct to shrug it off but he remembers the look on her face, giving him pause in a morning drink. He thought he said goodbye to her too but figures the brat still haunts his thoughts, making him dwell on the shred of humanity still in him. It's likely the only reason he walks by the therapy rooms not once but twice, grumpily peering into this one with a scruffy beard and yesterday's shirt on.]

You again. [He can still smell you, even at this age.]

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	maximumeffort 2017-05-14 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	[ He looks up out of instinct when he hears that voice, back straight and senses on alert, before slumping back again when he sees who it is. Figures. Can't keep a secret identity secret around here, can you? ] Me again. And you. Didn't think this was your kind of thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

knewaguy
2017-05-15 01:56 am UTC (link)

It's not. [He says gruffly, looking at the seating. Where he might've stood before he needs to sit now, pulling a chair away from a few others to give him some space. Not that he imagines there's many people here on the verge of dying, but you never know. Wade's here, after all. That's interesting news.]

But what else are you going to do when you're going to kick it? [He snorts, fishing a cigar out from his inside pocket. Old habits die hard and when you're dying? Why not die harder, and faster too.]

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maximumeffort
2017-05-16 07:51 am UTC (link)

I don't know, I always figured being handed a death sentence meant you could do whatever the fuck you want.

[ So not therapy, though he's here and he's not even actively dying as far as he knows so who is he to talk? ]

The ironic thing is I don't even smoke. Maybe I should pick it up — if I'm going to be sitting in on support groups I should at least get to do a cool Marla Singer thing.

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	knewaguy 2017-05-17 02:57 am UTC (link)
	A cool what? [He asks, teeth chomping down on the cigar.] Also dying isn't an excuse for being a dick. That's just a side effect. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

maximumeffort
2017-05-19 07:34 am UTC (link)

Kind of what you're doing except less sexy. [ Sorry, Marla. ] Funny, people who are dicks never really seem to need an excuse for it. They just piss on other people because they can.

There's a difference of dicks, of course. Eating someone's chocolate pudding that they saved for a rainy Friday night in front of Netflix is, naturally. the worst offence.

[ He's done this, you know he has. ]

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	knewaguy 2017-05-21 02:24 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, and then there's the dickheads who don't shut up, who talk a mile a minute. [He rubs his fingers over his Old Man Beard, sitting in the chair the right way around for a change. Cigar chomp.] We all day some day, some sooner than others. Some later. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maximumeffort 2017-05-21 09:52 am UTC (link)
	Pretty sure this is the one place where I'm expected and encouraged to talk, hombre. [ Scoff. ] And some people just refuse to die, apparently. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

knewaguy
2017-05-21 05:10 pm UTC (link)

[He looks like he may respond to that but instead begins to cough, turning his head away to do so into a handkerchief from his pocket. It takes effort to keep the rough, wet cough from becoming a fit. He manages, but looks worse for wear - spitting red into someone's abandoned coffee up sitting on a table.]

Death finds everyone eventually. Doesn't matter who the fuck you are, or were.

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	maximumeffort 2017-05-24 08:21 am UTC (link)
	[ Gross, buddy. You're all old and deteriorating. What even happened to you? ] You sure about that? Because I'm pretty sure I should be dead thirtytwo times over by now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knewaguy 2017-05-25 04:33 am UTC (link)
	Give it two hundred years. [A little more, a little less.] Do I call you Wade now that you're out of the stupid suit? [He remembers. Vaguely, though at his age it all starts to conflict.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maximumeffort 2017-05-28 05:44 pm UTC (link)
	Ugh. That's too depressing to even think about. [ Seriously. ] And yeah. Wade's fine. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knewaguy 2017-05-29 07:22 am UTC (link)
	You'd rather live forever, bub? [Not that much fun.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maximumeffort 2017-06-01 08:09 am UTC (link)
	Nah. I would've been happy to get to sixty... maybe even seventy. Get a few years of nice retirement under my belt before calling it quits. [ Even that seemed idyllic before he got together with Vanessa. ] And now... well. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knewaguy 2017-06-01 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	Seventy would've been fucking nice. [Alas. He leans back in his chair. This is kind of depressing.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maximumeffort 2017-06-01 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	Guess we'll see. I'm 39 now. If I'm still kicking in forty years, I guess it worked. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knewaguy 2017-06-01 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	Guess all you have to do is wait and see. [But if you're anything like him, well. Give it an additional 200 or so years.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maximumeffort 2017-06-02 08:11 am UTC (link)
	Yaaaay, I can't wait. [ With the least amount of enthusiasm. He slides down in his chair. ] Hey so, I just realised this isn't the bummed-out-about-immortality group. What're you in for? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knewaguy 2017-06-02 08:15 am UTC (link)
	Remember that whole dying thing? [Hn.] Turns out this shit? [He extends his claws just an inch past the skin, grimacing before retracting them. The wounds remain, taking much longer to heal now.] Ain't that good for you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	maximumeffort 2017-06-02 08:28 am UTC (link)
	Damn. Should've known that was too good to be true. [ He pauses, brows furrowed. Shit sucks. ] Cancer for me. Liver, lungs, balls, brain. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	knewaguy 2017-06-02 08:35 am UTC (link)
	And you're what, healing ahead of the curve? [Kind of like what he was doing for a while? Before everything got worse.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

maximumeffort
2017-06-02 08:50 am UTC (link)

Something like that. [ He needs bad coffee for this. Or booze. Stay put while he gets some of the former and wishes for the latter. ]

So, I got the death sentence, right? El cancer. Nothing I could do — my girl was sending off all for all these brochures from Tijuana and China about experimental trials and all I wanted to do was slip away while she'd still remember me as a person and not a vegetable.

[ He takes a sip of awful coffee. ] Then this guy shows up. Tells me about this... genetic treatment they're working on. I have nothing to lose so I sign up and about five minutes after they strap me to a gurney I find out that it's not quite what they've been advertising. Instead, it's some bullshit super soldier program where they torture you until you trigger a mutation, so that was fun.

It worked. Here I am. A testicle with teeth that can't die.

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knewaguy
2017-06-02 08:54 am UTC (link)

[Different backstory but when you've lived as long as you have as an X-Man as he has, you kinda get used to fucked up timelines and things that get erased as if they never were. And hell, he really has been through a fuck ton of timeline changes so he's not really going to comment on it. But he is a bit thankful you're not the abomination you could've been thanks to Stryker.]

And the whole suit thing?

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