THIRTEEN ✖ VOICE

[wedonot]

[Hi Barge. Charles sounds kind of irked when he turns on the feed, which for affected people should not really be all that unfamiliar or surprising. Flood!Charles is kind of an angry, quiet but soapboxy and very anti-human guy.]

In light of recent events, I've been doing a bit of thinking about some of the worlds I've learned about here, and about how people respond when I tell them about my mutation. [Except as far as he's concerned, he does this soapboxing a lot since coming here so. This is really not out of the ordinary. Sort of.] Why should we have to hide what we're capable of for the comfort and convenience of others? Why should we be denied full use of our abilities here, by wardens or by the Admiral when he strands us in port?

We shouldn't have to be afraid of what we're capable of just because it makes other people uncomfortable, and none of us should be denied what's rightfully ours just because we're not human. [Which is coming out a little bit like a curse word. :V]

Frankly, it makes me uncomfortable to know I'm stuck here with a bunch of humans who will never be able to understand what it's like to be one of us, and instead of bothering to try, have just decided we're all a threat to their safety. All that proves to me is that you're all the same, and you wouldn't hesitate to wipe us out, and I, for one, am not willing to give you that chance.

Merlin, Morgana, you should stand up for yourselves. All of you should be willing to fight for what's rightfully ours, instead of blindly following along and hoping these Homo sapiens will realize the error of their ways.

[ooc: Charles is totally affected, and since his most defining trait is the whole KILLING WILL NOT BRING YOU PEACE thing he is now PEACE WAS NEVER AN OPTION. Meaning he is basically Erik this weekend and I'm not sure why he's a warden still >>; and will be apologizing like crazy when all this is over. :C]

Comments

[scarlet_discord]

What are you whining about power restrictions for anyway? YOU aren't under them. I on the other hand am under a goddamn flatscan who has my Goddess given powers at such a low ratio I can barely recognize myself. And for what? To protect the humans? Who's going to protect decent and more highly evolved people from them?

[wedonot]

It's the principle of the thing, Wanda. I don't need to be under restriction to know how difficult it is for those of you who have to suffer through it.

[rass_bestie]

[The Doctor is, as is usual, deeply unimpressed by Charles' attitude.] You're quite certain it's your powers and not your attitude that humanity fears? Threatening people does tend to rile them, I've found.

[wedonot]

They were the ones who threw the first stone, as it were.

[takeyouapart]

Can live my own life. Cheers.

[wedonot]

Because you've been doing such a wonderful job of that already.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Flood Narvin does not try to repress. So what might have been a small rant, or a repressed rant, or a private rant, is instead a large public rant.]

Hearing you talk about the trials of living among humans is a bit rich. Once an ape, always an ape. And the people you address--Merlin, Morgana--more humans. Did you even once stop to think how the real nonhumans feel around here? While you worry about your powers being taken away, I have my entire biology rearranged, my organs ripped out. While you fret about being a misunderstood outcast, not once not once has the Admiral even so much as acknowledged my planets' existence. How many Gallifrey ports have their been compared to Earth ports? How many Gallifreyan holidays celebrated? Everything from the calendar to the standard language is Terran. Your native culture.

So cry me a river, human.

[wedonot]

Yes, how difficult it must be for you all to be temporarily removed from your own home culture, where you're accepted for what you are and don't face constant persecution from your friends and neighbors.

If you're that upset about the Admiral's policies, try doing something about it instead of turning your frustrations on me. Celebrate a Gallifreyan holiday, educate us about your culture. Or go home.

[strangehistorian]

Exactly. Do you know my true form can't even go through the doors here? And people wonder what race the Admiral is.

[onceandfutureprat]

Charles?

[wedonot]

Yes?

[with_discipline]

You're just perpetuating the divide, instead of finding ways to close it. There's too much pain here as it is without inciting such anger. [PEACE AND LOVE, CHARLES, DOES SHE HAVE TO GET IN YOUR HEAD?]

[wedonot]

[YOU STAY OUT OF THE CHARLESES HEADS. >C] There wouldn't be a need to incite anger if humans were better about accepting us for who and what we are.

[twoheadsofcabbage]

[These guys: totally rallied.]

Yeah!

[Scrad agrees, as Charlie also agrees:]

That stuff you said!

Private - Because flood Drake hates drawing attention to himself

[flashy_magic]

...you don't even have any abilities that are being taken away.

[wedonot]

Nice to have a bit more support.

[youwillgotohell]

I have stood up for myself, Charles, but I went about it the wrong way. You're going about it the wrong way.

[wedonot]

Because letting others decide our fate has worked so well for us in the past?

[strangehistorian]

You're a human too, stop getting so excited.

[wedonot]

I'm not a human. We're genetically superior beings.

[darknessb4me]

Humans understand more than you give them credit for. I used to be one.

[wedonot]

Do you miss it?

He's actually trying to help.

[mightymorbid]

You shouldn't be so angry.

Also, you shouldn't tell Morgana and Merlin what to do. Especially not after spitting on the word "human" so readily. We have abilities but we're still not the same as you.

lol Moze

[wedonot]

By the rules of their society, they're somehow less than those who don't possess magic.

Raistlin is so affected, his defining trait is his lust for power

[hourglass_twin]

I must disagree with you. We are simply being placed on the same level as those around us, so that no one has an advantage over anyone else.

Sounds good!

[wedonot]

Yes, stripping people of their natural abilities for the sake of other's comfort is entirely fair.

[ Voice ]

[surfaceshine]

[Sigh. Charles. Your blood pressure.]

You'd be upset, too, if your power were turned on you without your say-so.

[ Voice ]

[wedonot]

[SIGH DEAN, you puny human.] Would I?

[wecanavenge]

Charles, you've got to let this go.

[wedonot]

Mutants are the future.