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Tweak says, "Littering and...?"

ᴘʏʀᴏ (embered) wrote in somerealityrpg,
@ 2019-11-19 15:07:00

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active: john allerdyce, active: kate pryde

WHO: Pyro & Shadowcat (potential Lockheed too)
WHERE: Coffee Shop
WHEN: Recently
WHAT: Two former Institute attendees sit and have a good bitch about the hypocrisies of it all.
WARNINGS/SPOILERS: PGish (will amend)
STATUS: In progress

There was a lot to be said for not being the only person who'd been through the whole spiel at the school, dealt with the double standards and just in general felt like it was all so very contrived. Sure, John understood the idea behind it all; training and protection and understanding, blah blah blah. But there was only so much of that they could control.

Controlling your emotions to control your powers wasn't control, it was suppression. Hiding away from the world wasn't acceptance, it was shielding. Isolating them all from the real world and what those people would there thought of them wasn't going to help anyone, not in the long run. Of course when John brought any of this up with anyone he was just being problematic.

The Kitty at his school probably would've scoffed at him too, told him he was being ridiculous, that he needed to stop making problems. This Kitty seemed to have entirely different experiences, enough that she understood where his ideas came from. "So Summers still has the stick up his ass in your world?" Honestly, John couldn't imagine a world where Summers didn't have a stick up his ass.

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piracies
2019-11-19 04:09 pm UTC (link)

Once upon a time, Kitty had been the poster child for all things Xavier's, but she was no longer the doe-eyed thirteen-year-old that first walked through the Institute's doors. She was ashamed to admit that there was a time where she would have defended the school with every molecule in her body. They were definitely not her proudest moments, but while Kitty did disagree with a great deal that went there? She still found herself missing it sometimes.

It had been months since she had laid her eyes on the school, and she harbored conflicting feelings about the entire situation. She wasn't ready to go back and face any of them, not after the literal mind-fuck that had been Japan, but she knew deep down that was where she was supposed to be. She wasn't too sure they would like the Kitty she was now, though, so Kitty wasn't too keen to return anytime soon.

At least she had John and Rogue here, and John seemed to understand all the things she faulted the Institute for. It was incredibly refreshing since back home, it was either hold all of your complaints in or be chastised for them. No one liked double-edged swords. "Scott doesn't know how to function without the stick up his ass," she said with an arch of her eyebrow and laughed when Lockheed rolled his eyes. "But if he's the same in both of our worlds, I'd bet money he doesn't get any cool variant alter-selves."

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embered
2019-11-19 05:50 pm UTC (link)

God, it was good to not have to bite his tongue around 'little mister hero worship' that was Bobby. Sure, he'd hated the streets; there was only so much that a person could take and while he maybe didn't feel cold the same way other people did, he still hated scrounging for food and the like. So the Institute had seemed almost too perfect from the start for John. And being paired up with Bobby from the start probably opened his eyes to that faster than anything else.

"Seems like it'd be uncomfortable." Honestly, it was still astounding to John that people thought Scott Summers was a good role model for teenagers. "It's a bit unfathomable that he'd ever be 'cool', in any sense of the word." How someone could be that dull all the time, John had no idea. "Still boggles the mind how he ended up with Professor Grey. Like, you'd think a telepath had higher standards, right?"

John had brought it up once with Bobby and immediately been shot down, like he'd just questioned Bobby's OTP or something. "You ever get the 'control your emotions to control your powers' speech?"

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piracies
2019-11-19 06:11 pm UTC (link)

"Maybe he's gotten so accustomed to the uncomfortableness that it has become comfortable for him?" It was Kitty's turn to roll her eyes. Not everyone at the Institute was unbearable, but Scott's holier-than-thou, boring to the point of tears, no-nonsense attitude got old. "Wonder if she's ever tried to loosen him up?" Kitty had always thought Jean would be better with Logan, but that was neither here nor there, and perhaps it was just a bit of the whole wanting to see her father-figure happy. On the other hand, she also thought the Wolverine needed to move on. Giving her head a shake and her eyes another roll, she took a sip of her coffee. "But the relationship drama there is a whole other can of messed up."

Kitty groaned. "That was the first speech I ever got, followed by the 'Everyone is an individual, look at how beautiful we are' sentiment. Sure everyone is free to be an individual, as long as they don't go against the grain."

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embered
2019-11-20 08:17 pm UTC (link)

There was something almost comforting that Summers was a tool in other realities too. "Probably gotten use to it by now." John found it difficult to ever imagine Summers any way but the way he was, like there were times John was sure that Summers just sprouted to life like that. "I mean she's got to have at least tried once. Unless part of her powers is switching off interest." Drumming his fingers on the table a little, John snorted, "Tell me about it."

Never mind the Rogue/Bobby/Kitty drama that he apparently missed, the Logan/Jean/Summers nonsense that was all up in the place. "Guess that's just high school the world over."

The individual speech was almost as annoying as the control speech. The fact that they thought keeping people all in line was 'individual', just because they each had different powers. "Yeah, you do that and you're practically a pariah. Do you know how hard it is to be the 'bad kid' at a place that barely lets you do anything?"

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piracies
2019-11-20 09:22 pm UTC (link)

"High school is the worst," Kitty grumbled, digging into the bag of Cheetos she tried to keep handy now and reaching up to her shoulder where Lockheed was perched to give him one. For the most part, Kitty had liked life at Xavier's, despite her current views, but having so many kids and teenagers in one place was a sure-fire way to guarantee drama. That didn't even take into account the mutant aspect. All of those raging hormones plus powers? Well, it like Russian Roulette every day.

Kitty's eyebrow arched at his words. "You were the 'bad kid'?"

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embered
2019-11-20 09:33 pm UTC (link)

At times, John was glad he skipped a lot of the standard schooling system. By passing all that gossip and popularity shit really helped him not murder people before he was 17 at least. Afterwards, well, it was hard to really halt all the homicidal feels. "Even special kid high school." Mutant high was probably a little bit worse, what with all the powers and all.

"Comparatively." He probably mostly just fell into the 'outcast' role, even in a school full of society outcasts. "I was possibly a little too outspoken with my opinions and my openness to use my powers at will." But John liked his powers, he liked the feel of them when he flicked a light or pulled a fire out, it was why he'd agreed to light up a rose for Bobby to freeze just to impress their version of Rogue -even though Bobby was a total pussy afterwards. "And then I left and was basically the black sheep or whatever."

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piracies
2019-11-20 09:58 pm UTC (link)

"You? Outspoken and opinionated?" She smirked a little and then shook her head. "I'm starting to get a feel for where all of your Xavier's resentment comes from." Kitty couldn't relate to feeling like an outcast at school. No one had ever treated her as such there, but she was a bit angry at the X-Men of his world for making him the black sheep. "They tried to control you? Keep you in check? And when they couldn't, they turned their backs on you?"

She wondered briefly if they would have done the same to her if it had been anyone other than Logan to find her with Ogun.

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embered
2019-11-23 10:16 am UTC (link)

John wasn't the sort that needed someone to pat him on the back, tell him 'good job', he wasn't like Bobby and vying for any kind of parental approval, even if it meant becoming the poster child for Stockholm Syndrome. John's parental experience had been shit enough that he didn't put too much stock in adults and their approval.

"Yeah," for all that John had been grateful for a place to stay, somewhere safe without expectations, he was quickly aware that it came with a price, "you either share their ideology and principals, toe the line and do as you're told." Sure, they hadn't kicked him out, but the attitude was there.

Lost cause, tearaway child, all those eye rolls and sighs, and the apparent need for a 24/7 babysitter. "Kinda puts a new spin on their kumbaya shit." Not that the Brotherhood turned out much better. Different message, same shit.

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