i'm gonna preface this by saying i'm no fucking good at being eloquent. there was a reason i wasn't like, an english major or a polisci major or whatever. but i've got something to say, and i'm sick of secrets and filters and talking behind closed doors - but i guess it's a little too late for me to say shit as publicly as i would like to, isn't it?
i used to fucking hate vols, you know? i called them freaks when they first hit the news, because they were different and strange and fucking
weird. i hated them for what they were. there was one kid in my high school - honestly, i don't even know if he
was a vol, but i was such an asshole to him, he transferred out. i mean, i wasn't ever completely sure if it was because of me, but i'm pretty sure it was.
i fucking regret it now, for obvious reasons.
i joined the vol squad because i know there's a fuckload of kids that are just like me - or what i mean is, just like i used to be, before my powers kicked in, one day when i was hooking up with my girlfriend at the age of 16. that changed fucking everything. i hated myself back then, too, and probably still would if it wasn't for her. i know this all sounds
super fucking gay lame, and you all probably don't give a shit, but bear with me. i joined the squad because i thought doing this humanitarian shit would help
change the way people saw us, you know? that they'd see we aren't just freaks. we aren't just mutants. we aren't just the violent assholes the VR's making us out to be. that we can do good.
maybe the squad did help do that. or maybe i'm just being really fucking idealistic.
either way, with the way the IVF keeps us in the dark about things, not about everything but about mostly fucking everything, i can't help but wonder what the squad's really made for. it's fucking obviously not
all about humanitarian efforts. maybe it's not even
mostly about that. and with the way the IVF's taking away our rights, one by one, and like, forgetting that we're not actually ITS citizens, i'm freaked. i'm fucking
pissed.
i'm quitting the vol squad. i saw the people that died in melbourne, and i know i probably helped save a lot of lives. it's just shitty that i can't keep doing so without wondering if i'm somehow participating in something that's just as bad for vol rights and perception as the VR is.