st_igmatized: (Blaxploitation)
st_igmatized ([personal profile] st_igmatized) wrote in [community profile] strangetrip2018-05-15 12:18 am

[GP/EP] Check-in Day

It was a musical day at the Madonna Inn, both inside and out. Curnen had taken her usual place up on the roof and was singing charms to the sky to keep any wanderers from getting lost (though that part of it was not immediately obvious). Unrelated to that, Sunny was on the dance floor in the bar, summoning songs of her own with her knife to keep her moving before she went to do her shift at the library later. It was one of those days where if she thought about it too hard she’d start thinking about that empty bed in her shitty room and the person she most wanted to be there.

This of course eventually seeped into her magic. She knew better. Maybe she’d even wanted that to happen.

Because just once, between different pop hits and dance beats came a rather unexpected French love song. She sighed and rolled her eyes, but the exasperation didn’t last. Before the lyrics started up she was waltzing. By herself and not caring how it might have looked. And for those three and a half minutes, she dared let herself hope for the slimmest chance that Orlu might come through that door.

She didn’t let herself hope too hard, though. There was admitting to feeling things and there was setting yourself up for certain disappointment. She’d lived too long with disappointment to do that to herself.
st_arkintern: (Smile.)

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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-05-22 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Peter tries to think what he'd do if he ever got that famous. He's pretty sure that outside of the Superhero Chan and the few people who followed Spider-Man videos on Youtube and the people in Queens who were already mostly used to seeing him around, he wasn't really well-known. Not Iron Man or Captain America well-known. Even the people in Queens didn't glom onto him like fans.

"That must have felt good," Peter says, smiling. "Sometimes people would ask me to do a backflip or ask if they could take a picture of me. That was fun."
st_eelyourself: (pensive)

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[personal profile] st_eelyourself 2018-06-06 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
"It was...odd," Piotr's brow wrinkled, "My whole life before that had been about hiding. I was hopeful that their enthusiasm would be sign of times changing. I was wrong."
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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-06-06 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
"So things haven't changed?" Peter asks, frowning.
st_eelyourself: (date night)

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[personal profile] st_eelyourself 2018-06-06 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
“Not for the better,” he shook his head, “In the years that followed, fear and hatred of mutants only grew. Colossus of the X-Men became more of a criminal than Piotr Rasputin the Russian mob enforcer ever was.”

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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-06-06 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry," Peter says, because he is. "I just hate that this is happening to you, and to the others. I just wish there was something I could do sometimes."

Peter knows that his life has been peachy until now. More people loved superheroes than hated them. Even when he had been responsible for the ferry breaking in half, people still cheered for him when he tried to pull it back together -- at least until Mr. Stark showed up and saved the day and they were chanting his name instead.

He was grateful that he didn't live in a world like that, but frustrated and sad that there wasn't anything he could do about it.
st_eelyourself: (blue eyebrow)

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[personal profile] st_eelyourself 2018-06-07 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you, but do not worry. It is over, for now." He truly appreciated the concern, but the last thing he wanted to do was burden anyone with the weight of his trauma. Piotr's shoulders were strong enough to bear that weight alone.

"The best thing you can do is to pay attention." So many people liked to think that mutant issues were not their problem because it didn't apply to them. The pushed aside all of the 'freaks' and then assumed everyone was human. "Oppression does usually not start with big noise, but with small things like laws disguised as being 'for the greater good.' Layer by layer, things change without most people realizing. Make sure you are not bystander while others become victims."
st_arkintern: (Looking down.)

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[personal profile] st_arkintern 2018-06-08 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, no, I won't," Peter says, solemnly. He feels that he has a bigger responsibility than a normal 16-year old boy by virtue of having powers. It might be difficult for a normal 16-year old to have any impact in a situation like that, but he was capable of doing more.

"When's my next art lesson? Liz's shown me some of the stuff she's been working on. I think she's doing really good."