A Rally in Support of the Hungry Few

[baedalites.livejournal.com]

Who: The City
What: A Rally in Support of Cruorvores.
Where: Mercer's Square, Aspic
When: AT A CLEVER TIME
Notes: Everyone is welcome, including curious neutrals. NPCs available on request. OOC post.
Warnings: A general spirit of solidarity may be present.

Word has been spreading over the network and on the street. Leaflets have been available at open minded public houses and restaurants. A few of the city's more prominent inhabitants have organized a rally to show support for cruorvore citizens. It is going to be a public event; sanctioned, the leaflet assures, by the state. Speeches will be made, the true colours of the city will be shown. There is a lot of talk about standing up to the sowers of discord.

As the evening of the rally approaches, more and more people gather in the square. All sorts have come out for the event, xenians, humans and people who defy categorization mingle peacefully. A cat watches the proceedings from on top the stage has been erected to one end. The stage has been draped in banners promoting tolerance and acceptance, and small sign near the bottom proclaims it was built with the kind donations from Bloody Sunday, The Zygoda, Howl's Market and certain private citizens, of which there is a list. Some attendees have brought instruments and casually strike up a tune every now and then. Others have brought food, signs or torches as the rally promises to continue well into the night.

Comments

[hareapparent.livejournal.com]

He's grateful for the brief support - and lack of awkward exposition - and then he just. Laughs, briefly, because - yes, that's funny. Horribly inappropriate, but hey, he's used to Tommy's sense of humour by this point, too.

"Sure, but when one of those in-laws is Magneto... I think I'd rather deal with alien invasions."

[bangyoudead.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty sure he's over the worst of his impulses to murder me," Remy remarks, just to one side of flippancy, "I should be okay."

... Then again, there's a world of difference between 'dating someone Magneto is jealous over' and 'dating Magneto's daughter.' "Seems like he's about my age or younger here, though, so ... who knows how that'll go."

[hareapparent.livejournal.com]

"If he tries to murder you I'm pretty sure I can turn him into a frog. Possibly a frog with powers over magnetism, but."

Billy makes... an interesting face. "The age thing is kind of weird. I was just getting used to dealing with him at age... white-haired and kidnappy." Precise.

[bangyoudead.livejournal.com]

Letting that thought simmer for a bit, Remy looks out over the crowd, and then, nearly under his breath, like a stray thought: "Frogneto."

... Anyway.

"X-gene'll mess with aging anyway," he remarks, idle. "'Bout, what, seventy-five?" He sticks his hands in his pockets. Gambit is very familiar with Magneto and his current activities. "No matter how young he is, we still gotta keep an eye on him."

[hareapparent.livejournal.com]

He's just... going to blink at Frogneto, get a slightly distant look, and let it drop - although the thought is planted that hey, that would make a really weird kids' cartoon. Frogneto versus the... X-Amphibians? It needs work.

Work that he is not putting in.

"Seventy-five, really? At least I know I'll age well." If he survives being a teen hero, anyway. "I know, we should. ... Although that was never a Young Avengers thing until recently, the keeping an eye on Magneto and working out just how he's using us to take over the world today... thing." A Thing which is all his fault, of course.

[bangyoudead.livejournal.com]

The thought of Frogneto is going to stay with him, don't even lie.

"It's an everybody thing, when we're shorthanded and in closed spaces," he says, easy. "It ain't any fist fights I worry 'bout, though."

No, while Erik can be deadly, especially if he really gets momentum, it's old strategy. Instead: "He gets people close. He uses 'em. The things he did - does - to people." Remy shakes his head. That's the worst part; Magnus can manipulate people like nothing else. Of course he's going to worry with the man in inescapable close proximity to people he loves.

[hareapparent.livejournal.com]

It will haunt his dreams every night. If something happens with his powers and cartoon animals like Frogneto pop out, he has only himself to blame, really.

"Yeah... I know - I've heard about a few things, I mean. I doubt I know the whole story. Probably no-one but Magneto does. But, yeah, I know he likes to use people. I'm just not sure how to translate knowing that into stopping him from doing it, still. I mean... we knew he was bad news, but we still took him with us to Latveria. Of course, it was that or leave him to fight the Avengers and have... even more people angry with us. Why is nothing ever simple?"

He is maybe worried about Wanda and Tommy. Okay, especially Tommy, all things considered.

[bangyoudead.livejournal.com]

"Because we're stuck." Not just in Baedal, either. The mutant population at home is so small - even without M Day, the mutant super hero population would still be small - that there's just no avoiding interaction with the man.

Especially for his family.

"... We're all connected. Blood or not." Mutants, vigilantes. ...Boyfriends.

"It's not like fightin' somebody. You can't ever stop someone who uses people from tryin'. All you can do is refuse to play along."

[hareapparent.livejournal.com]

"When you put it like that." He sighs - it's a little bit of a depressing thought, that he'll never be able to really get away from this man he can't trust, who's supposed to be family. Who seemed to want to be family, back home, but again with the not trusting thing - and here, where he's young and had no idea he even had a family, that's even more complicated. Because maybe he hasn't started thinking of using them yet, any of them, but isn't it inevitable? Even if he's from a different world.

But everyone has connections that maybe they don't like, that cause them trouble even if they do, and they just have to deal with it. Although at home, sometimes that dealing with it would involve magicking himself and his friends the heck away from whatever, at least long enough to get some breathing space, and that's not exactly an option here.

"I guess we just have to show him we're not going to play along, from the start. And that I'll totally magic him into Frogneto if he steps out of line."

"At least there are some good connections we have here."

[bangyoudead.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, and it's not like any of us gotta have to deal with it alone. 'Specially you two."

He sounds more upbeat at that, and shoots Billy a look, giving him a bit of an encouraging smile. Between being aware and having the four of them to support each other, it's not gonna be that bad.

"You know, my last pseudo-parent-in-law as Mystique. She tried actively to kill my ass for years and she couldn't get it done. Erik's like what, thirty? We'll all be fiiine."

(It can always be worse.)

[hareapparent.livejournal.com]

"... Alright, point. I am really glad it's not just me stuck here, dealing with him. ... Or just me and Tommy." Because that would actually be somewhat worse than being stuck on his own, what with... Tommy being Tommy. At least in regards to Magneto. Although this one does seem to have managed to bypass the sociopathic fanboying and cut right to hurting Tommy's feelings.

Billy is happy about approximately none of that.

"We totally have him outclassed in terms of experience, don't we? I bet he hasn't even faced any alien invasions." Pause - slightly awed realisation sinks in. "Oh my god, we're more badass than Magneto."