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Kitty 'Call me Kate' Pryde ([info]piracies) wrote in [info]somerealityweb,
@ 2019-10-25 11:09:00

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I always thought I'd be super excited to exit my teen years, but I have to say, the snow aside? Twenty feels pretty anti-climatic.

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I've been told if I need something I can put in a request? I don't need many things, I don't take up that much space, and I pride myself on being able to adapt quickly, but I'm struggling to do that here without my dragon, Lockheed. He's my companion and my best friend.

I realize when one hears 'dragon' their knee jerk reaction is to probably say 'no'. But, he is cat-sized and doesn't breathe fire unless he's defending himself. He can also take care of himself because he comes from an advanced planet of intelligent life. This may seem like a ridiculous request to you, because of dragon, but it's my birthday, and it never hurts to ask questions.


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[info]weapon_hex
2019-10-25 06:20 pm UTC (link)
I never feel any different on my birthday. Except

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[info]piracies
2019-10-25 06:28 pm UTC (link)
I don't think anyone ever really does.

I normally love birthdays, but I'm kind of glad I'm not at the Institute for this one.

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[info]weapon_hex
2019-10-25 06:30 pm UTC (link)
The one I had here was good. Why don't you want to be there?

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[info]piracies
2019-10-25 06:42 pm UTC (link)
I'm glad you had a good one here.

I had some stuff happen recently and I am not ready to face everyone need some time to clear my head.

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[info]weapon_hex
2019-10-25 06:51 pm UTC (link)
I guess there's a lot of that here.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-25 06:55 pm UTC (link)
It seems like it. I wasn't sure about this Goodland detour at first, but I appreciate the reprieve.

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[info]weapon_hex
2019-10-25 06:59 pm UTC (link)
I like meeting all the different people. There isn't really anyone my age at home.

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[info]somerealitymods
2019-10-26 11:10 pm UTC (link)
[Lockheed will appear in her bedroom]

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 06:30 pm UTC (link)
Eh, aside from being able to buy alcohol soon (if you want) there's nothing superb about getting older. People who make a fuss about it are kind odd.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 06:39 pm UTC (link)
I am strangely okay with everything about this.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 06:54 pm UTC (link)
Plus side, when you exit your teens people are less inclined to treat you like a kid.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 07:23 pm UTC (link)
That's a definite plus. I've had a hard time convincing people to not treat me as a kid. I think they still see me as a 14-year-old.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 07:27 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, they have a thing about that at the Institute, right? Convinced we're all the same 15/16 year old kid the entire time.

Gotta admit, it's weird you being younger than me. You're the same age as me where I'm from.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 07:43 pm UTC (link)
It's pretty annoying. The Professor actually tried to demote me once. He wanted to throw me into strictly training with the X-Babies.

Uh....yeah, I'd say that ranks pretty high on the weird scale. Also, weird that are different versions of us wandering around in different universes.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 07:52 pm UTC (link)
Why? Did you talk out in class? Use some initiative when doing something? Have a free thought?

The multiverse is just way too complex to think about. I'd probably pop a brain aneurysm if I got into it too much.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 08:07 pm UTC (link)
It was probably the talking out in class with a dash of free thought. I was pissed. I threw a tantrum, which in hindsight probably didn't help my "I'm not a kid" case, and then I had to prove myself. Lockheed helped, but it was ridiculous and never should have had to happen in the first place. All because they were more my age, which I thought was bullshit because I had already been in plenty of combat. But, was that a hint of Institue resentment I sensed from you?

Yeah. Agreed. I'd rather not think about it too much either.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 08:34 pm UTC (link)
They never want to factor in what we've been through, or what we've done, to our age. Physical age and emotional age aren't the same. And they freak out about the pettiest of things. Clearly, you can go out and fight killer robots, but you have one emotional outburst and you need to have a time out in the kiddy corner.

Just a tiny bit. My time there wasn't that great. Kinda the same bullshit.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 09:23 pm UTC (link)
That's...possibly the best description I've ever read. We're mutants in a world where we aren't always accepted. We've all started going through some heavy stuff the moment our abilities began to manifest. This has always been my only problem with the Institute, they think they know what's best for us without even considering our thoughts.

I hate it wasn't great, it wasn't all bullshit for me. But there was bullshit.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 09:29 pm UTC (link)
Exactly. The fact that they don't change their approach for each person is just stupid, it's not a copy and paste kind of thing. A lot of my problems stemmed from that. They tried to treat me like a carbon copy of the kids from perfect homes just with new powers, and that wasn't me.

I figured out enough to move on okay. Of course everything went to shit after I left.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 09:51 pm UTC (link)
Yeah...they want so badly to be one big happy family. But so many of our problems come from within, because of the approach.

Everything went to shit at the Institute? Sounds like a typical Tuesday.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 10:10 pm UTC (link)
And god forbid we be a little bit too rigid towards instant change and bonding.

Everything went to shit with the world, so more like a Friday-Saturday shit storm.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 10:18 pm UTC (link)
It isn't exactly easy for everyone, and I don't think they know how to handle it. It was easy for me when I was 14, but I feel like if I went back now, I'd have that rigid toward instant change and bonding thing. Japan was...well we'll just stick to the whole 'bullshit' theme.

Oh! Well, yeah. Friday-Saturday shit storm it is.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 10:24 pm UTC (link)
That's something else the teachers all seem oblivious to. How our experiences with them and their bullshit team affects us. Like yeah, I was just almost murdered by mutant hating generals, I feel totally fine with still working to save the world. I don't need a break or therapy at all.

Good intentions poorly executed.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-27 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Yeah it's totally fine. Just give us a bandaid and then we're good to go. Everything is peachy. You know, I've never actually had the chance to say any of this before. It is kind of cathartic. Imagine if everyone at the Institute felt like they could talk about this shit and not get backlash from anyone there.

Ah. That happens a lot.

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[info]embered
2019-10-27 11:57 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, there's a certain degree of 'don't look under the sheet' at the Institute where everything is just pretend okay. And I guess we all buy into it because we're getting all that shit y'know. The roof and the training and the education and all the protection. But we never really think about how we're paying for it.

There's just a lot of stuff we're expected to just deal with quietly on our own.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-28 12:25 am UTC (link)
And with that, we've come full circle back around to it all being bullshit.

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[info]embered
2019-10-28 11:37 am UTC (link)
Yup, but we should get a coffee some time and bitch about the shitty things at the institute we put up with.

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[info]piracies
2019-10-28 08:49 pm UTC (link)
I am definitely down for more therapeutic bitching.

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