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Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: July Planet!
When: The month of July!

[This is another planet mingle since the first one has nearly hit captcha! Feel free to continue threads or start brand new ones!]

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[ecclesiophobic]

[Kurt catches himself in the middle of his lips drawing back to snarl and presses them together, his tail lashing behind him.]

You and I may be family, but we are not on good terms. I don't like accepting gifts from people I don't get along with; it feels like a bribe or a trap. And before you get angry, that wasn't an accusation. You haven't done anything to warrant it, and you certainly don't need anything I have.

[Well, he might have done one thing, but Kurt's not that stupid.]

[axiomed]

[ It takes him a few minutes to digest this. It's something Erik often had trouble with. It doesn't surprise him that much. ]

So isn't the point moot? It's not as though I can retract my help.

[ecclesiophobic]

Not needing something and not wanting it are different things.

I was.. intending to offer to show you memories of my mother, how she raised me. [He shrugs.] Or I could tell you what I know about her specific ability; she expected me to be a shape-shifter like her, so she taught me as much as she could.

[axiomed]

I'd be happy to see and learn of her, but not because I gave some advice.

But perhaps . . . a little more about yourself?

[ecclesiophobic]

[Kurt blinks, surprised.]

..Okay. What do you want to know?

[axiomed]

[ Charles shrugs. ]

Whatever you feel comfortable telling me about.

[ecclesiophobic]

[Kurt remains silent and still for a minute, save for his tail tracing confusing loops in the air.]

So much of my life involves being an X-Man, and you don't seem to care for hearing about that. [He pauses.] ..My wife's favorite flowers were sunflowers. When I proposed to her, I bought a bit of land away from everyone and built her a home. Not by myself, the others helped. Did a fairly good job, except for putting the stove where I'd crack my toes on it once a week. The hardest part was getting sunflowers to grow along the walkway to the house; Bobby and Ororo had to talk me out of ripping the damn things up more than once.

[He pauses again, this time to smile, small but warm.] It was worth every bit of it, seeing her smile the first time I brought her home.

[axiomed]

[ He sighs a little. Charles never did fully explain himself and that was his fault. ]

It's not that I didn't care for it. It's what was implied when we discussed. The X-Men are my ideal, Kurt. I'm glad Erik carried it out but it was my dream.

Honestly, I'm still surprised he used it at all.

[ecclesiophobic]

Of course it was your idea. The entire team, protecting humanity, that was all to keep your ideals alive. It was only later that he turned the X-Men into soldiers; around the time I joined, and only out of necessity.

He never took credit for it. Even through the last war he would ask himself what you would have done. Believe me, other than Rogue I'm the one who heard it the most.

[axiomed]

I don't think Erik would. He's not that kind of man, to take credit for someone else's work.

[ The part about asking what Charles would do - he doesn't respond to that. He couldn't. ]

But it had felt like - when we discussed it - Hank and I weren't X-Men. Which is far from the truth. I was being petty but that was important to me.

[ecclesiophobic]

I'll admit, even having met two versions of Hank McCoy trusted to be X-Men, it's still difficult to wrap my head around. The man is an absolute monster in my world, it's impossible to reconcile him with.. this one.

You not being an X-Man is preposterous.

[axiomed]

[ He shakes his head, a bitter twist. ]

There's a lot you don't know about me.

[ecclesiophobic]

Maybe less than you think.

Tell me, do you have a stepbrother named Cain?

[axiomed]

[ He blinks. ]

No. Other than Raven, I was an only child.

[ecclesiophobic]

Hm. In my world, you did. By his own telling, a very violent mountain of a man who liked to pick on his little brother. Then one day, has a complete change of heart. Became so opposed to violence that when his sanctuary and the the people in it were burning to the ground, my prompting him to fight caused a fatal aneurysm. Last word out of his mouth was his brother's name.

[axiomed]

I'm . . . sorry to hear that. Honestly, the only family I truly had was Raven.

[ He feels comfortable admitting that now. Claiming Erik as part of it too would probably give Kurt an aneurysm. ]

[ecclesiophobic]

I only knew Cain as the sanctimonious monk who guided refugees to Avalon. He wasn't an X-Man, we weren't close.

..Mom was the only family I had too, growing up. Man named Creed helped raise me when I was small, but the two of them had a falling out. After that it was just us until I was fourteen. [And Irene for a brief time, but he damn well won't be divulging that secret of his mother's. Even if, based on what Wrath told him, Charles would understand.]

[axiomed]

I don't know anyone named Creed.

[ Charles considers telling him what he's heard from Mystique but dismisses it. They've lived different lives. ]

Though I've touched on many mutants through Cerebro, I haven't met that many in person.

[ecclesiophobic]

Victor Creed, alias Sabertooth. Accelerated healing factor, enhanced sensory perception, and amazingly long-lived. In my world he was a complicated man who struggled to do the right thing, but in most others he was a monster who walked like a man. Also has a human son named Graydon in most worlds who despises mutants. Might want to keep an eye on that one.

[A son that happens to be Kurt's half-brother, but he'll be keeping that to himself until he speaks with Charles' Raven--not that he intends to. He recites all of it off with the air of someone giving an action report.]

[axiomed]

That sounds like Logan, actually. Though Logan was far from being monstrous.

[ He could have learned better manners, but Charles wasn't too picky. ]

I don't think everyone on your world will necessary be in mine. We've already seen that it's very different.

[ecclesiophobic]

Our Logan wasn't either, at first. Prone to violent outbursts, but given the damage done to his brain I couldn't fault him. It took everything Jean had to pull a man out of that wreckage.

[Kurt shrugs, gesturing with an open palm and a matching movement with his tail.]

For which I'm grateful, but given the lengths Graydon went to in another world to destroy us, figured he was worth mentioning. In mine his little group was too occupied with destroying Weapon Omega.

[axiomed]

[ Simply. ] I trust Logan.

But I'll keep an eye on those names.

[ecclesiophobic]

And if he remains entirely himself, you're probably safe to. Both versions I've known were willing to do whatever it took to protect the X-Men and mutant kind. [Including run a secret assassin team whose stated goal was to take out threats to humanity and mutant kind in a more permanent capacity than the X-Men were willing to. Kurt had almost felt at home, fighting with that team in a funhouse mirror of his own world.]

It's when he wasn't entirely himself any more that he became a danger. Doubt you'll have to worry about that.

[axiomed]

What do you mean, not himself?

[ The only issues Logan suffered had something to do with the time travel. That much, Charles was sure of. ]

[ecclesiophobic]

..What have I told you about Apocalypse?