capeandcowl | sixteen- voice

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† quentin quire | kid omega

sixteen- voice

Go make a change in the world. Everyone wants to, why not you? Look around you and see the change, be inspired by it. Now's your chance to voice your concerns because I'm going to set you free from those conscious inhibitors that prevent you from speaking your mind.

Go on. Let them know that you've got the power.

[ooc: Related to the Subliminal Message plot! It ends tonight at Midnight!]

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Those "conscious inhibitors" are part of our very selves, our sense of prudence. Freeing us from them won't have us speak our own minds.

It's socially ingrained into you to not speak your mind on what others find unacceptable.

That's certainly never stopped you.

Becauae I don't care what people think about me.

Which isn't quite as rare as you seem to think! Certainly not at your age. Perhaps as a lash against social mores and the general concept of politeness, a self-importance typical of the young man, and it is almost always a young man, who thinks he's the first to have had the ideas he holds, that these ideas are faultless and should be held by all he encounters.

From one former arrogant teenage boy to another, you grow out of it.

I don't see you growing out of our arrogance, to be honest.

Probably because you see me as some rival in a competition I've never even joined.

Because you and I have opposite views.

To call them opposite creates a false dichotomy. I think we want very similar things, but see very different ways to achieve them.

That's what I mean, Henry. Maybe I should have been more specific but I thought your brain would make that leap to the conclusion of achieving mutant rights in different ways.

They're very different statements that are often treated like they aren't. That's what a false dichotomy is, Quirinius, demanding that two differing points must be opposing. And what really can we achieve while we're so busy fighting amongst ourselves?

If you're going to use my full name, at least call me by my first name, Henry.

Not much. But, that's why the X Men had to be split. I'm proud to say that I drove the rift between the X Men but, nothing wold have gotten done if either side opposed the two alpha dog mutants, yeah? Then again, if you ask me, I still say that everyone's still sitting around with their thumbs up their ass. And I, a political prisoner, refuse to take punishments meant to keep me down. Everyone's gotta wake up and hear their own bahing to the tune of the flock.

I like Quirinius better, unless we want to discuss numerical significance again. But every time you call me Henry, that's what you'll get.

I think the major problem comes from one side dominating with an uncompromising stance. You don't see Logan and myself having as much trouble coexisting, do you? Scott set himself up for his own coming fall, he simply can't be worked with.

But, if you recall, you came to us first. We simply had our qualms with allowing you to leave after.

Ugh. Whatever.

Probably because you and Logan are just animals and understand your natural instincts, yeah?

If I may remind you, I came back to Utopia seeking refuge as a mutant. You may also recall, or pretend it didn't happen, that I was forcibly handed over in handcuffs to the fucking Avengers. Summers would have never handed me over but you guys practically kidnapped me from Utopia and then imprisoned me in your school.

Have you considered what would happen if we hadn't? What state you would have been kept in at Scott's whim, with Danger as the warden? You weren't a guest there, Quentin. Being required to attend classes is hardly comparable to being a true prisoner.

My previous holding cell broke. How do you think I escaped the first time?

I was never really sure on that point. I wasn't around, if you remember.

What do you think would have happened if it didn't break?

....I'd have been forgotten?

As for the leadership of the X-Men, I don't know. There's tons of possibilities.

Edited 2013-03-17 00:58 (UTC)

No, I think that conflict was inevitable. All it needed was that one last push, and you provided it. Without you in the picture, the only major difference is you wouldn't be in the picture. Just...slowly whiling away in some dark corner of Utopia.

Well, that's depressing!

My point is that you haven't really considered where you fall in the grand scheme of your supposed brother-in-arms. He may say he cares about the future of mutantkind, but he doesn't really recognize the individual worth of anyone in that group.

While the school may not have been ideal for you, your situation could have been so much worse.

They're both not ideal situations that I want to be in. It's so... boring. Nothing to really stimulate my super cognitive skills, you know? Then again, I did spend a portion of my time in idle slumber. You get bored. I'm bored. At least I would have had a chance to go big with Summers. With Logan it's the same old routine and visits from Captain America and his stupid fat head.

There was never a chance to go big with him. What were you expecting, that he'd call you out of the cell to be the hero mutantkind needs?

I doubt you'd enjoy the rare circumstance that would happen, considering the likely conditions. As far as he would care, there's only one thing you have that Emma doesn't.

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