Shatterstar ✷ Gaveedra-Seven (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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capeandcowl2012-05-13 09:04 pm
entertaining) wrote in capeandcowl2012-05-13 09:04 pm
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x-factor investigations starts off with some great PR
-- unbelievable.
[ there's the sound of clattering as the video comes on, like someone knocked the communicator over but is obviously too preoccupied to notice. even though there's only a crooked view of someone's feet, rictor's voice is raised and clearly audible. ]
What part of this did you think I'd be okay with, exactly? Or weren't you thinking about me at all?
I do not know. [shatterstar sounds defensive, but like he's rather missing the point:] Why would this upset you? You were not here.
Why would it upset me? [ there's a tone of incredulity in rictor's voice. ] Oh, wait. That's right. You wouldn't understand because you have no concept of what it feels like to only want to be with one person.
When I was not in your dimension, you were with others. How is this different? [a beat, heatedly:] And you also wish to be with Rahne.
Rahne is different. I thought she was pregnant with my -- [ hhurghh. ] That's not the point.
[ the camera starts to get unsteady, trembling a little at first, then more as rictor continues to raise his voice. ]
This isn't about me and her. It's about us, or if there even is an us at all --
Of course there is an- [and then, when the shaking becomes too intense to ignore-] Rictor? Julio!
What? [ the whole building lurches one more time.
then stops. because he stops. he realizes. dead silent and still for a long moment. ]
...That was me.
[END FEED]
[ there's the sound of clattering as the video comes on, like someone knocked the communicator over but is obviously too preoccupied to notice. even though there's only a crooked view of someone's feet, rictor's voice is raised and clearly audible. ]
What part of this did you think I'd be okay with, exactly? Or weren't you thinking about me at all?
I do not know. [shatterstar sounds defensive, but like he's rather missing the point:] Why would this upset you? You were not here.
Why would it upset me? [ there's a tone of incredulity in rictor's voice. ] Oh, wait. That's right. You wouldn't understand because you have no concept of what it feels like to only want to be with one person.
When I was not in your dimension, you were with others. How is this different? [a beat, heatedly:] And you also wish to be with Rahne.
Rahne is different. I thought she was pregnant with my -- [ hhurghh. ] That's not the point.
[ the camera starts to get unsteady, trembling a little at first, then more as rictor continues to raise his voice. ]
This isn't about me and her. It's about us, or if there even is an us at all --
Of course there is an- [and then, when the shaking becomes too intense to ignore-] Rictor? Julio!
What? [ the whole building lurches one more time.
then stops. because he stops. he realizes. dead silent and still for a long moment. ]
...That was me.
[END FEED]
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[BC WAIT WHAT]
I- he can trust me.
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I'm saying it's his fault for asking, right?
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... I suppose.
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Mutants have more fun.
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[p...ause....] You are offended by the implication.
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I just don't want any misunderstandings. That's all.
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Why? None here make the distinction here between "mutants" and "imPorts."
Unless they arrive with prior bias.
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Anyway... there is a difference, you know? We get like, aliens and robots and vampires and everything. All kinds here.