Security - America Chavez & Rogue & Open
Sometimes it was easy for mutants to shut people out of their affairs. Not all mutants got along but Xavier's school had given them all a lot of that camaraderie and unity. It tied them together. Being a mutant did that too because it was like this unspoken understanding. We're different. We're not made by other people to be this way, nature just put this on us. Or God. Whoever or whatever was responsible didn't matter as much as being a mutant meant you were never going to be considered normal. You couldn't blame it on an accident or anything, but you weren't really given a choice either. If you were a mutant, you were born as one. And since mutants started appearing, you never forgot you were one, even if nobody else around you knew.
Other people in minorities could share sympathies though. Every small group who stood outside the general norms and mores of society ended up ostracized in some manner. Sometimes they were hung from trees and other times they were taken into the streets and beaten to death. So it separated them and sometimes made mutants close ranks. It was a little easier to deal with the initial raw emotions of losing someone so violently who had done so much for you.
Gather together and remember and share the burden of what they were because while being a mutant did have its perks, there were always drawbacks to everything. Especially if you made stupid choices. But it was a good reminder, this sort of thing, to see that mutants weren't entirely alone in this matter and that they had people who cared enough about them to show their support. Even if there were people willing to show up to show how much they hated mutants.
"Ah know," Rogue said, not surprised by America's often short sentences that were her responses. America could talk more when you got her on the right topic, but this wasn't really an event where a lot of talking was going to happen. But America's presence was enough and Rogue took that and held onto it.
"You'd think they'd have somethin' better to do today," Rogue added, glancing at the crowd and adjusting the hat on her head a little.