The Xavier Institute Mod Journal (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
astonishing_xmods) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
xavier_institute_logs2014-09-24 04:53 pm
astonishing_xmods) wrote in xavier_institute_logs2014-09-24 04:53 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- !mingle,
- !newsreel,
- air gear: kaito wanajima,
- avatar: toph beifong,
- bioshock: jack ryan,
- borderlands: mad moxxi,
- hetalia: feliks lukasiewicz,
- inazuma eleven: shindou takuto,
- liar liar: koshi tanaka,
- marvel: laura kinney (x-23),
- naruto: hanabi hyuuga,
- npc: robert kelly,
- original: alric caelegart,
- original: caelius demetriou,
- rwby: sun wukong,
- samurai warriors: takakage kobayakawa,
- tmnt: leonardo hamato,
- touhou project: kaguya houraisan,
- touhou project: koakuma
Looking to the future... [OPEN]
WHO: Everyone
WHAT: Two things, first the President's Address, and then the news of the world, brought right to your school!
WHERE: On any television, radio, or computer screen (assuming they're on a news site)
WHEN: The presidential address happened on Monday, the news events are more current
WARNING(S): mentions of school violence in one of the news posts, and as always, if a thread goes into warning label territory, either throw it in the subject line or take it to a separate log.
WHAT: Two things, first the President's Address, and then the news of the world, brought right to your school!
WHERE: On any television, radio, or computer screen (assuming they're on a news site)
WHEN: The presidential address happened on Monday, the news events are more current
WARNING(S): mentions of school violence in one of the news posts, and as always, if a thread goes into warning label territory, either throw it in the subject line or take it to a separate log.
[On a small, raised stage set up in the White House gardens, there’s a polished wood podium with the presidential seal on the front. President Kelly, with more gray in his hair than he had as a senator, approaches it, adjusting his glasses and viewing the assembled members of the press in thoughtful silence for a moment before he speaks.]
My fellow Americans.
We stand once again at a crossroads, faced with choices of great importance. At home and abroad, we have been faced new challenges with the rise of the mutant population - challenges in our military, in our courtrooms, in our society, in our homes and our families. We are in a perilous place, and our unity as Americans under question. It is crucial, at this juncture, to take a firm stance on these matters, and position ourselves towards the future.
The Mutant Registration Act… is not what our path forward should look like.
[There’s murmuring among the press, indistinct, but fairly shocked in tone. He holds up his hand for quiet.]
Five years ago, I stood in support of Project Wideawake, an initiative which purported to improve our nation’s security. Instead, as a direct result, many Americans were robbed of their dignity, of the due process to which each of us has a right. Innocent lives were put in danger, and some lost, because we allowed ourselves to be blinded by power and fear. We are a nation founded in the promise of freedom, and in creating second-class citizens, we betrayed that promise... I cannot in good conscience support such measures again, and if this bill passes, it is my intention to veto it immediately.
Looking to the future, we must focus on developing inclusive solutions for these real issues, ones which affect all Americans and all people in our world today -- solutions will which protect our society, without sacrificing the freedom or dignity of any of its members. Together, we can create a better America, one that is safe for all its citizens.
Thank you, and good night.
"... shocked the entertainment world today by coming out at a live show in Los Angeles that she was, in fact, mutant. Dazzler, real name Alison Blaire, used the opportunity in front of thousands of fans and millions watching at as the show was broadcast live on HBO, to finally 'come out of the closet', as she said. She demonstrated her powers by performing a cover of the classic pop tune "Born this Way", with slightly altered lyrics, and a custom light show produced by her mutant powers. Dazzler later told the press 'The era where we all have to hide who we are is ending. Mutants don't have to be afraid anymore' She said that it was President Kelly's words than inspired her to finally have the courage to come out..."
"... controversial radio host Hunter Hellquist reported a record breaking amount of call-in traffic for his radio program. 'The country fed up with a goverment that is refusing to stand by its people. President Kelly betrayed us with his aims to veto the Mutant Registration Act and my listeners had a lot to say about it', Hellquist quoted towards the end of his broadcast that day..."
"... a huge success in Central Park with massive turnout. Sublime told the press that he was honored that so many people have taken up his banner. He was further honored that President Kelly has moved away from the Mutant Registration Act and has said he would gladly speak before congress to propose alternative solutions to mutant related legal issues..."
"... new details of the bombing in London reveal that the explosive was most likely constructed using mutant abilities. The casing for the bomb, in particular, was made from what investigators claimed was 'extremely dense bone matter'. One of the proposed suspects, The Vanisher, is still at large and has not been located by investigating authorities..."
"... shot and killed by police after holding up a school assembly at gunpoint and resisting arrest. The young man, claiming to be joining a group called the 'U-Men' had only moments ago killed and mutilated another student, a closeted mutant. Before police became involved, he also claimed he was going to use parts of the other student's body to gain his mutant powers. We warn our viewers that the following gruesome footage is very graphic, and that they should take discretion... "
b
Which he seems to think is stealthy. And, while his footsteps are quiet, he is 6'2.]
Is it normal to be open about it? [He asks in full earnesty because it's not like he knows anything about it.]
no subject
[He doesn't know that Jack's, you know, 4, but luckily for Jack, Feliks doesn't tend to couch his rhetoric in too many fancy words.]
If we try to keep quiet about who we are, it looks more like some kind of big, sketchy secret. And why should we? Who should get to make us feel like the way we were born is less than the way they were?
[His tone is light and cheerful enough, but there's always a bit of a flash in his eyes when he talks about things like this.]
no subject
You're right. You're completely right.
[...The grin falls off of his face.]
But isn't it... dangerous? Don't mutants get... hurt?
no subject
[Seriously. He's spending a lot of his free time on a foundation to provide services for homeless queer and mutant teens back in Poland. He knows.]
But the more of us are up front about it, the more those people can see they're not alone! It lets us work together and support each other, too -- and it shows other people that we can be mutants and it doesn't take away from everything else we are. Same as with LGBTQ people, you know?
no subject
[You've lost him.
Enough that he's just staring questioningly.]
no subject
no subject
[Watch a grown-ass, buff, tall man make an expression exactly like a child lost in a crowd.]
What?
no subject
no subject
[He says very slowly because the rest of it is blowing his mind.]
...And they scare me.
no subject
Well, at least you're up honest about it, I guess? Better than just throwing bricks or tying me to a tree in the woods and leaving me there.
[That's not a hypothetical example, but he sounds pretty unfazed about it. The past is in the past, right?]
no subject
And then he guiltily averts his eyes.]
....Back in my... uh... where I'm from... one of them- a gay man, he... uhhh.... [How does he word this in a way that isn't completely awkward?]
...............He wouldn't let me leave until I killed the four men he was with and took pictures of the bodies.
[Good job, Jack. Excellent wording.]
no subject
[Well, that's... sure as Hell special, Jack.]
[Feliks just gapes for a second.]
Dude.
Dude, that's not a normal gay man, that's a complete psycho.
no subject
[He's genuinely surprised. And quite comforted.]
....That's good, then. [He frowns.] If they were all like Cohen...
no subject
Yeah, I. No?
No.
[What else is he supposed to say to that???]
That's. That's, like... legit crazy. No.
no subject
[That is not helping, Jack. He grimaces.]
What are the rest like, then? The... not psychotic ones.
no subject
Well... What are straight people like? The not psychotic ones.
no subject
[His gaze lowers slowly.]
I only knew one before I came here.
no subject
So I guess I'm gonna educate you, then!
[WOW what a great TA! He grabs a notepad and pen, and turns them into a little handheld chalkboard and chalk, because he doesn't want to waste paper on this.]
Ok. So gays and lesbians are basically just like everybody else, except we fall in love with or wanna get with people the same sex as us. Bisexuals are like that, except they're cool with either one. Pansexuals are kinda like bisexuals, except they're more like "no seriously, whatever, who even cares about gender?" Trans people are just... people, except their sex and gender don't match up the way they do for other people.
[Who else is there...? Actually, this list is getting long.]
Okay, you know what? We're actually all just people. Like, some of us are nice and some are assholes and some are just kinda boring. Some like girls, some like guys, and like, most of us don't murder anybody.
no subject
At the very end he tips his head and scrunches his nose.]
...I might be gay.
[Which is a lot easier to admit to such a nice educational person than anyone else.]
no subject
Wait, weren't you scared of The Gays, like, 3 seconds ago?
no subject
[He rubs the back of his neck awkwardly.]
I wasn't thinking of it as... liking men. I was thinking of it as.... uhhh...
[He grimaces.]
...What Cohen did to men.
no subject
no subject
[He sighs and shakes his head.]
But I don't want to talk about him. Or the... man I used to love. [He almost starts shaking when he says that. That man is dead. He killed him. He killed him justly, because he would have died otherwise. And it hurts.]
no subject
Sure, no big deal, then! The point is, if we hide it, it keeps seeming like something that needs hiding. But if we don't, we can stick together and support each other more, right?
Anyway, what do you wanna talk about?
no subject
What if they get too comfortable about us? What if they start... [His hands clench.] What if they start thinking it's fashionable to have powers? People like Sublime...
[God, thinking about Sublime fills him with loathing, the same kind of loathing he harbored for Fontaine.]
Maybe it's better to hide it than have people get hurt because it's normal.
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)
(no subject)