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[expellerhead]

Who: Aizawa & you
Broadcast: text
Action: Starstruck, if so desired!
When: late at night, before the ball


Since we seem to have a fair amount of people from worlds where 'super powers' exist, let me ask something for the sake of sating curiosity: power use regulation by government. Thoughts?

Go ahead and respond to this anonymously if you like, I'm just looking for opinions.



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[aizawa is almost always in the med bay these days, organizing and reorganizing, writing down what looks like curriculum and schedules and trying to brush up on his mathematics.

on the rare occasion that he's not on the starstruck, he can be found on any of the asteroids with shops, looking for...a tuxedo. or an approximation of one, anyway. he doesn't seem very enthusiastic about it, but it's hard to find something in a humanoid shape that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.]

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[willynilly]

oh right this came up when we were trying to get the school started

it's hard to imagine a world where it's not regulated. everyone with powers are vigilantes or something?

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[goldenglasses]

Now, I'm not saying I agree with it, but how would you even go about enforcing that?

[Partly curious if there are any suggestions as even with a bounty of sixty billion on his head and living on a lawless planet where most everyone owns a couple guns hasn't stopped himself yet. And he's not even a bad guy!

At least not on purpose.]

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[helmsplitter]

...What d'you mean by "regulation by government"? How can a government regulate your power use?

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[athru]

I wouldn't trust the government to regulate a garden.

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[ladybro]

It didn't go well for us.

[ -- not that she has super powers. but she fought the war all the same. ]

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[astrobleme]

Sounds like bureaucrats just wanting to exercise whatever power they have.

[passingthrough]

[She can't sleep and it's text and highly relevant to her interests so it makes a decent distraction.]

The governments fell, but before that there were talks of a registry and containment camps.

[expellerhead]

Our own history isn't so different. Second half of the year is usually when your class will cover pre-regulations in depth.

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[expellerhead]

The way our world does it is the same way you'd enforce any other law. Usage itself isn't banned, it's more when it's wielded in a way that metes out justice in place of the police or courts, or in a way that incites violence or chaos.

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[expellerhead]

Power use is just the same as using your fists to strike someone, also generally against the law. Degrees of severity apply, of course.

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[expellerhead]

Don't have good experiences with that, I imagine.

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[expellerhead]

Do you mind elaborating? I'm interested.

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[expellerhead]

There's probably some of that, at the very least. You can't have positions of power without a single person out there to exploit it.

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[expellerhead]

In light of 'containment camps,' that registry sounds a lot less benign.

There was a lot of talk like that when quirks first showed up for us, too.

[ladybro]

I don't mind. I should warn you -- it's not a straightforward thing to tell. [ politics never is. ] Heroes maintained secret identities, back home, since pretty much as long as there were heroes. Or I have to assume.

Registration acts have always been a point of considerable contention in the community.

[athru]

No. People without powers have no right to regulate the people that do.

[expellerhead]

That doesn't surprise me. [though that part about maintaining secret IDs does, the implied longevity of it moreso] So heroism is treated as more of an individual crusade? Must be tough.

[ladybro]

There are teams. And the teams themselves have their own administrative elements in place. The Avengers issue ID cards and I think I heard this guy I know complaining about a morality clause once.

When the word came down the political pipeline about a registration act, however, people started getting squirrely. Some of us have enemies who would just love to figure out where we're most vulnerable.

[ friends. families. civilian pursuits. ]

[expellerhead]

No argument here.

What if the government in question was comprised of people with powers? Would that make the suggestion more amenable to you?

[expellerhead]

Don't want any supervillains following you home. I can understand that.

Could I ask how many heroes you have? In relation to general population.

[ladybro]

Honestly? I couldn't tell you. There must be at least an easy hundred names on the Avengers' rosters, historically speaking. And maybe the same number again who do it on their own or who work for smaller teams.

And that's just the hero-types. I'm not even talking about the people who've got powers but who choose not to put on a costume or a mask.

[expellerhead]

That's actually a much smaller number than I was expecting.

The need for secret identities makes a lot more sense now.

[ladybro]

Yeah. We don't all have them, of course -- mine hasn't been a secret for years. But there are still a few who depend on the anonymity. Younger heroes especially, I think.

[ look, she has no idea who that new spider-man is who's kicking it 'round town. all the power to him. ]

[expellerhead]

Doesn't that put younger heroes in just as much danger? They wouldn't have access to proper training, medical facilities, mentors. Might not even have proper support networks for the emotional difficulties.

[ladybro]

I started young. Not as young as some, mind you. But young enough. I'll be the first to say it wasn't easy -- but it was worthwhile.

There are resources, though. There's a school upstate for Mutants, for one. And some private academies here and there. In our case, my team managed to be there for each other when the old guard wouldn't be.