THREE ✖ VOICE

[wedonot]

Although I still don't understand or particularly appreciate - [Understatement of the year and it's evident by his tone of voice that he's still angry about it.] - the Admiral deciding those of us who aren't human to not know hot to act like responsible adults in port, I did appreciate the support from both those who understood from experience and those who simply empathized.

With a few exceptions. [Pink. :V]

I understand it's can be a difficult thing for someone who doesn't abilities of their own to first accept that other people are capable of doing things like reading minds or manipulating matter without physically touching it, and thus it's difficult to imagine what it must be like to not be able to do that, but it truly is like waking up one morning and discovering you've gone deaf. Or blind. And being told it's happened because you're different and this is a way of "fitting in" is demeaning. Just because our genetic coding or biology is slightly different doesn't mean we should be made to change, or to be treated differently.

I've seen this way of thinking come from a place of fear, because "different" often means "unknown", and generally, people are taught - knowingly or not - to fear things they don't understand. But I can promise you, reacting with fear, suspicion and hostility without first coming to understand others will only give those who are different, and who fear persecution because of it evidence that they are right in striking back just as viciously.

Fear and uncertainty, leaping to conclusions and persecuting those different from you is not the solution to anything, and in a place such as this, based around the idea of redemption and second chances, I'd like to hope people understand this, or come to, if they do not already.

[Private to Merlin]

How have you been holding up? I'd meant to check in with you while we were in port.

[Private to Arthur, after Merlin poofs]

Merlin's vanished. I thought you should be the first to know.

Comments

[changemydear]

Don't worry, it's just a human thing. They're remarkably small minded for a species.

[wedonot]

Not all of them.

[changemydear]

Most of them, then.

[officerrenaldi]

Your story reminds me of Kevin the Werewolf. It's a damn good lesson and one I bet the breaches are supposed to teach despite...the way it went about.

I'm sorry it had to happen to you though.

[wedonot]

Kevin the Werewolf? I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that story.

[officerrenaldi]

It's from my world. [she pauses] To make a long story short, about a year ago prior to all of this-vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures made their presence known. We initially had to support really strict views on them. I mean, shoot all zombies on sight, lock up all werewolves and vampires-if we could find them.

[she pauses] that was before Kevin. Kevin was LA County Sheriff's department who responded to a 911 call at a lover's lane in Burbank. A werewolf had flipped his shit, broken out of the then-required restrictions and attacked two women. He fought off the werewolf and escaped without a scratch-until the woman mistook him from another predator and scratched him.

She'd been bitten when she was taken. A month later he was diagnosed with lycanthropy. What were we supposed to do? Here was a cop who was suddenly a werewolf.

a lot of people blamed the woman, but he said he took the job to protect all life-including the lives that were apparently making their presence known in the valley. He became a huge advocate for supernatural rights and it's largely thanks to him that the UTF was established and that the initial peace treaties between supes and humans were signed.

Yes, we still have the law, but now people aren't afraid to seek out jobs. It becomes...well...I won't lie and say that werewolves and vampires aren't minorities. The rest of us are only human but thanks to Kevin...people stopped killing werewolves for sport and the "lock down" was restricted only to periods when the full moon occurred since scientist had proved that werewolves lost all sense of self during those periods and all control.

Private/Voice

[takeyouapart]

[Best speech ever, he will so come and be an x-person :c]

I'm fine. Thank you.

Private/Voice

[wedonot]

[Yesssss join us Merlin. c:]

How was your time in port?

Private/Voice

[takeyouapart]

Quiet, mostly. I just tried to stay out of trouble.

[Read: lots of quiet emo and trying not to curse the Admiral for taking his magic just as it ruined his life D:]

How did you m--

[And that's it. Silence, all trace gone, room restored to Barge normal. BRB.]

Audio:

[acid_rayne]

Hey, I'm all for equal opportunities... I don't trust anyone.

Audio:

[wedonot]

That hardly seems productive.

Re: Audio:

[acid_rayne]

Served me well.

Audio:

[hourglass_twin]

I think I'll have to agree with her on this. I've found it quite productive.

Private - playing nice with Merlin is never an option

[onceandfutureprat]

[Arthur doesn't answer at first. But omg there such conflicting feelings of rage for that derp and simultaneous abandonment]

Merlin is free to go where he wishes.

Private - being horrible to Merlin will not bring you peace :C

[wedonot]

It wasn't his intention to leave at all. His communicator cut off mid sentence.

video;

[trenchcoatedly]

I was under the impression that this limiting was granted by the Admiral, who, from what I've heard, has no interest in anyone's opinions.

Not that I appreciate such matters, of course.

video;

[wedonot]

The fact that he chose to limit us shows he has an opinion of his own about nonhumans and people with abilities.

a new emoticon! usually he gets linefaces.

[likeaprofessional]

Hey, it's what the Admiral does best. Might as well get used to it now.

hooray! \o/

[wedonot]

I'm not just talking about the Admiral.

[strangehistorian]

Very nice, though I fear it will go unheard. Is there much of this on your world?

[wedonot]

It's a bit complicated. But the simple answer is yes.

[mightymorbid]

I haven't viewed it so much an act of the Admiral as passing into a world where such abilities are not yet possible.

[wedonot]

Why should that change our biological structure? It's not as though we're taking the place of actual inhabitants.

[Private]

[wecanavenge]

A fine speech.

[Private]

[wedonot]

It's nothing you haven't heard before.