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The Xavier Institute Mod Journal ([personal profile] astonishing_xmods) wrote in [community profile] xavier_institute_logs2015-01-10 03:23 pm

The Brink of War [OPEN]

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"... the hashtag has inspired several high profile mutants in the entertainment world, particularly mutant pop star Dazzler, to put up personal accounts of the discriminations they've faced growing up as mutants. However, the Mutant Liberation Front, or at least hackers claiming to be them, have seemingly hijacked the movement on several social media sites, using the hashtag while "doxxing", defined as "sharing the private personal information of an individual or group, anyone that has publicly spoken out against mutants. The internet has become a battleground like any city street..."


"... special diplomat Haller faced many questions arriving back in the United States today. She has stated she had no comments on Genosha's threat of war against the US. President Kelly's diplomatic relations with Genosha have largely been criticized as failures, and many in congress and in the public in general seem to be in favor of preparing for the inevitable..."


"... Reverend William Stryker, uncle to the late Donovan Zane, has lead a vigil lasting several days now on the steps of Congress and refuses to be moved until Mutant Registration has been passed. Public support is turning overwhelmingly in favor of registration as the nation mourns the young man, Donovan Zane, whose life was taken in the midst of a violent protest..."


"... with the coldest temperatures on record. Volunteers are urging everyone in District X to be extra careful as the season progresses, to regularly visit the shelters and soup kitchens, and to not try to brave the winter storms alone. They have also put out a mass call to anyone willing to help out, with food, blankets, and/or warm clothing..."


"... a nation on the brink of war. President Kelly addressed the nation saying that 2019 will not be a repeat of historical mistakes or tragedies. He says he refuses to believe the spirit of the American people are so willing to give in to bigotry and surrender to what is perceived as an inevitable war with Genosha. It can be stopped, he urged. He said we all have to look at ourselves and find the courage to do the right thing and love our fellow person, no matter what the circumstances. President Kelly continues to believe in his vision of hope for humans and mutants..."



[[ ooc: Students and teachers are free to start their own threads in this log in response to one or more of these news clips, or even to things related but not specifically posted here. ]]
tiamaris: Tiamaris is a broad shouldered young man with a stony expression and short blond hair. His eyes, at the moment, are gold (Default)

(I'm so sorry for Tiamaris....)

[personal profile] tiamaris 2015-01-28 03:44 am (UTC)(link)


He stood, dropping his book, his eyes a dangerous livid liquid red. No... he was loosing his temper. No. No. No nonononononono! And there went the clothing as copper-gold scales erupted from his skin, shredding his clothing. He stood there before her, livid red eyes, covered in what looked like antique scale mail armor. There was nothing showing that wouldn't be were he clothed in pants and shirt, but it was all scales that came out of his skin.

He stumbled back from her, growling. The problem was, he was trying to speak, but the rage choked him. He was loosing control. Rage... and because of it.. fear. He was about to kill again, he was about to kill her, and... he could not stop himself, could not stop the monster.....
idkmybfforin: (Looking down)

[personal profile] idkmybfforin 2015-01-28 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Utsuho's mind was swimming with primal, angry thoughts; an animal defending her territory, however arbitrarily that had been decided. Those scales reminded her of her own feathers, her own wings. He was like her, almost just so, and her animalistic mind answered the challenge the only way she knew how.

Her wings fanned out again, the downstrokes scattering snow beneath and in front of her as the air around her almost hummed, growling like a diesel engine warming up. The red glow in her wings persisted this time, rather than flashing away.

She didn't expect the display to deter him from attacking, not anymore; it felt like the right thing to do. The right sort of challenge. She wasn't afraid of him, not at all.

At the moment, she feared nothing.
Edited 2015-01-28 04:05 (UTC)
tiamaris: Tiamaris is a broad shouldered young man with a stony expression and short blond hair. His eyes, at the moment, are gold (Default)

[personal profile] tiamaris 2015-01-28 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
He growled, trying to talk, trying to warn her away. He tried to scream, it came out as a roar that shook snow from the trees around them. One large clump landed right on his head.

The final straw.

With a rage of pure fury, his eyes a vibrant liquid gold, the scales exploded outward in a whirlwind as he grew. Expanded. Transformed. The tree beside him took the worst of the damage, his bulk uprooting it, his wing felling it. His tail scored a gash into a tree behind him, and then he was there, covered here and there with snow, somewhere in size between a minivan and a small house, a very VERY angry fire breathing dragon.
idkmybfforin: (drench their sorrow in flame)

[personal profile] idkmybfforin 2015-01-28 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
The heat shimmer around Utsuho rippled into flames proper as she lifted off the ground, buffeting wind shredding the steam that rose with her. The fire curled around her wings, a visual marker of the air her wings churned up. The instinctual anger in her mind growled into a deep hiss in her chest, a sound like heavy water hitting too-hot metal.

That neck was bunched up, coiled like a snake; she made sure to stay away from it. Utsuho had been around so many overt mutants that his appearance didn't seem terribly strange to her.

Instead, the mutant swooped close--but not too close--and swept her arm forwards, scything flame and sparks from her outstretched claws towards the dragon's face.
tiamaris: Tiamaris is a broad shouldered young man with a stony expression and short blond hair. His eyes, at the moment, are gold (Default)

Um.... how do we stop this....!?

[personal profile] tiamaris 2015-01-28 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Fire? hurt him. The rage in him bubbled like a laugh, even as he cowered in his own mind, hating this, hating being the monster he was. He spun, instinct taking over, but it wasn't to defend himself from the flame, it was to smash his tail across her wing, to cripple her, to ground the prey.


No....no! No! Nononononononononono
idkmybfforin: (to the death)

She'll be able to hold her own for awhile, but I'll ask for a mod if Bad End is Imminent

[personal profile] idkmybfforin 2015-01-28 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
Utsuho had embraced the fire, embraced all she was now--in the face of what she no longer remembered being. In the face of all that emptiness, of that void--this was who she was.

And she was all monster.

The winged mutant hissed and snarled, the sound boiling out of her broad chest like an echo of the fire that burned at the edges of her wings. Now that she had warmed up, her wings responded quickly; she beat them in a downstroke, propelling herself mostly out of the way of that tail. It still clipped the end of her wing--which drove her further into the sky, flipping her wings over to take advantage of the brief thermal she had left behind her and climb into the cold air.
tiamaris: Tiamaris is a broad shouldered young man with a stony expression and short blond hair. His eyes, at the moment, are gold (Default)

Okay, I will follow your lead, when you want us to get a Mod, we get a mod.

[personal profile] tiamaris 2015-01-28 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
(More OOC: I wouldn't mind him getting injured, but not sure we'll be able to pull that off in a fire vs fire battle...)

He didn't take to the air, no room at this point, and even though he was trying to control the monster, part of him, somewhere, was driving the monster. In other words, the dragon that was Tiamaris THINKS, reasons, but it's all strategy, not of it sees the wisdom that the rest of him is screaming - that this is wrong!

Tail failing his neck uncoiled, that head reaching up, snapping at her, trying to pluck her out of the sky as he paced her from the ground, shuddering the earth with every step. Tiamaris the scared boy was horrified and terrified. Tiamaris the dragon... wanted to eat her. And the dragon was in control.

The dragon folded it's great wings tight to it's body as if protecting a vulnerability, either the wings themselves, or under the wings. A ploy, a deliberate lure. There was no weakness there, but strength, his wings could deliver a blow more powerful than his forelegs could.
idkmybfforin: (Looking down)

[personal profile] idkmybfforin 2015-01-29 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
((OOC: I don't think there will be any really awful injuries anyway; maybe some bruising or minor burns.))

The dragon's teeth caught feathers midway down one of her wings, soft ones that nonetheless tugged unpleasantly even as Utsuho shrieked, a birdlike, near-bellowing sound. She responded with a blast of intense heat and flickering flame, yanking her wing back until the feathers tore loose and let her backwing away out of reach. That hurt, leaving a visibly ragged patch and gap in the lower flight surface of her wing, she could still fly.

Talking was hard; fighting was easy. Simpler. Action-reaction-act again.

Did it not want to fly? Utsuho had a slight advantage in that she had already gained some height; she continued to climb after she had escaped, circling higher. More altitude, more speed, more damage when she dropped on that perceived weakness. The dragon seemed to be getting smaller the further up she went, surely squashing it would be easy.
Edited 2015-01-29 19:24 (UTC)
tiamaris: Tiamaris is a broad shouldered young man with a stony expression and short blond hair. His eyes, at the moment, are gold (Default)

[personal profile] tiamaris 2015-01-29 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
He waited for her on the ground, sharp eyes tracking her flight, body constantly moving and shifting to be in the best position to snatch her out of a dive. The boy in Tiamaris wanted to escape, not for fear of what she would do to him, but fear of what he would do to her, and to others... The dragon? The dragon wanted to eat her.

(OOC: we might want to get a mod soon anyway, a - so they don't get expelled, and b - because realistically. SOMEONE should have noticed this by now, lol. Of course, I think they did a decent job of snow removal for this area...)