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Tom Sturbridge (timestoodstill) wrote in we_float,
@ 2010-06-20 22:14:00

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character: maxxie delacourt, character: tom sturbridge

Who: Tom Sturbridge and Maxxie Delacourt
When: Sunday, June 20, 2096
Where: Anhalt Building
What: Just talking, as far as I know...
Status: Closed, Complete

Tom had had to get up early to meet his family for Father's Day breakfast. He didn't know why they couldn't do brunch like normal people, but apparently overachieving was so ingrained in his parents that they even had to be up before everyone else on a holiday Sunday. Although the line when they left had been long enough Tom had had to acknowledge there was a method behind their madness.

It had been good to see his family, even though he hadn't been able to say much about what he was up to. There was a part of him that, with his mother's research, hesitated to mention what he'd been hired to do. So it was a relief to be able to leave before they really started to dig at him with questions.

He knocked on Maxxie's door. "Maxxie, I brought you food!" he called cheerfully through the door.

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timestoodstill
2010-06-22 02:35 am UTC (link)

"I'm not sure how to bring it back out into the open without putting ourselves and others in danger, is the trouble. Like, things aren't horrible... yet... but they seem to be devolving and that makes me nervous. I feel like we need to intervene soon, but I'm still really not sure how." Tom shrugged. "I need to pin Del down and bring up the radio show idea again, because I think it's a good one, but we need to get it off the ground."

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maxblinks
2010-06-22 02:48 am UTC (link)

Maxxie drew her knees up, looping her arms around them and propping her chin on her knees. "I think that one's a good idea, too, and I wish I knew how to get all the equipment we need within the budget we were given. Which is a good budget, but isn't anywhere near enough, I think. Not for all of it.

"I think I want to start going out. Patrolling, or something. Getting to know more about how things are out there."

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	timestoodstill 2010-06-22 02:52 am UTC (link)
	"Just seeing what's going on, or talking to people, or what?" Tom asked, cocking his head and studying her. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

maxblinks
2010-06-22 03:04 am UTC (link)

Maxxie wrinkled her nose. "Seeing what's going on. Watching how people are reacting to each other, to jokers, even to me. I saw a commercial for the summer games and they were talking about the possibilities of metahuman influences on the games, and whether there could be another scandal." She rolled her eyes.

"I hear a lot of things on the news, but I haven't been looking at what's really going on. How much of it is hype, or real, and whether there are any places we can nudge good thoughts back into people. Fighting without actually fighting."

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	timestoodstill 2010-06-22 03:09 am UTC (link)
	"And what they're not covering," Tom pointed out. "I've been trying to keep tabs on things online, but there's a lot to sift through and a lot of it is just people spouting off, and it's hard to tell what's just bark and what's bite." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

maxblinks
2010-06-22 05:36 pm UTC (link)

"People are like that, they go with whatever the popular opinion is and they sound off about it because they need to be part of the majority," she said easily. That part of people made sense, the whole herd mentality. "I don't know if there's an easy way to find the ones that are the real troublemakers, except to find people making plans.

"I've seen ones saying we ought to be sterilized. Other ones saying we ought to be killed, because sterilization might not work. Oh, and I read an entire article on how the brains of a Wild Card work differently... that they've mapped our thought processes and we're more prone to instabilities." Maxxie rolled her eyes again. "That's just human nature -- everyone has the chance to go completely bugfuck crazy. We aren't any more special than anyone else that way."

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timestoodstill
2010-06-22 05:42 pm UTC (link)

"Seriously," Tom said. "I mean, one of the least stable people around here is a nat. Or maybe he's just an asshole." He clenched his hands between his knees. "They've been doing research on wild cards for a long time," he said. "Sometimes I wonder what's going to happen with that. Like, will their findings be completely twisted against us, or will they work for us, or what?"

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	maxblinks 2010-06-23 01:58 am UTC (link)
	Maxxie just blinked her eyes a few times. "It'll work against us, I'm sure, if it's the government funded research. The government says we're bad, thus, the research says we're bad. Statistics lie." Everything lied, really, the hard part was getting at the truths that weren't being told. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	timestoodstill 2010-06-23 03:30 am UTC (link)
	"Not all of the research is government funded, though," Tom said. "I don't know if it will continue, if the government could come after the researchers for being sympathizers or something." He shrugged. "Just another thing to add to our list of a million things to worry about." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

maxblinks
2010-06-23 01:49 pm UTC (link)

"I'm making a list of those things. A really long list. I expect it to fill a notebook." Which didn't stop her from physically writing things down, a habit started long ago when it wasn't easy to have an electronic device all the time but she could pack a paper journal in her gym bag. Currently with a bright orange pen.

"We'll get it all done and we'll save the world, right? Researchers and everyone else, too." And maybe themselves along the way, although she wasn't sure how it worked and if they'd have to be martyrs. She didn't like the thought, not wanting to die for a humanity she didn't even like.

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timestoodstill
2010-06-23 11:20 pm UTC (link)

"We'll certainly make a good start of it," Tom said. "I think the big thing is that we really need to get public opinion swung around to our side, and then other people will be working towards savings the world, as well."

He perked up slightly. "You know, that's it. We have to convince people that saving wild cards is saving the world. That if they sit back and allow wild cards to be persecuted, then they could be next. That this is about human rights... which means convincing them, of course, that wild cards are human. Which is, of course, much harder than it sounds."

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