capeandcowl | seven- video

[cue the brief roar of a shower before the sound of the water being shut off.]

Keeping up a profile is hard work sometimes. Not in an everyday sense of style and appearance but with notable features, like your face. [the feed clicks on to Quentin drying his hair out with a towel. it's relatively normal, until you take a closer look at the pink stains in the towel and streaked across his white shirt.] Since the first impressions come from the face, we look for a couple of key traits. But, no matter the judgement, we use these keys to support our impressions and info of the person.

Say you take a guy in glasses with well kept hair who dresses sharply. What would you think of him? Now take the same guy, shave his hair and dye it, and give him faded and raggedy clothing. Would your opinion change? [he pauses briefly to remove the towel around his head, unveiling his newly dyed pink hair.] Come on, don't lie. We're all a little biased.

It's the very principle of being judged or having that distinct face that we strive for appearances.

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Ah.

I don't think I need shit like that. Isn't there a way to make that...without it being a drug?

Maybe hard work?

It wouldn't work for you.

It's a designer drug for mutants.

Yeah, and do mutants have to have this to unlock this mysterious full potential?

Because no offense, but this sounds like a hard way versus the easy way kind of thing.

No. Not really. But it had an adrenaline rush that doesn't match any other kind of drug.

No wonder it killed you.

Hey, don't tell me you haven't done stupid shit when you were young.

Spent all my money from working on a rare comic issue? Sure. Did some things I probably shouldn't have? Sure. Something like that? No.

Don't be judgmental, Mitch. Aren't you politicians supposed to be the supportive type? Support the people, and the youth, yadda yadda.

I am supportive, but not of doing drugs to the point of death. The support comes in community programs, encouraging kids that there are other things than drugs to turn to. Not encouraging it.

It's not like I did it intentionally, and it's not like I do it currently, Mitch.

I'm two months clean of anything.

Two months, huh? Congratulations. You working on a full six now?

Should I be working on a full six?

You should be working on a drug-free lifestyle!

But that's boring.

What, and spending your whole life blazed out of your mind is exciting?

Not my whole fucking life.

Just, once in a fucking blue moon.

Hm. There's a reason drugs are illegal.

Because people like you have giant sticks up your ass?

No! Because there are serious consequences, and because it's highly illegal!

Don't be such a baby, Mitchell.

I'm sure there's something you've done.

What, in the past? Shit, I went to college, but that means I grew out of it.

"Grew out" of it.

You know, got a job, went through a horrific accident, went through a superhero career, became a politician? Went on to have a fucking life, is what I'm saying.

I don't believe it. Mitch.

Don't believe what?

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