Thomas "Speed" Magnus (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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driftfleet2017-06-04 08:45 pm
mutriarchy) wrote in driftfleet2017-06-04 08:45 pm
01. video.
Who: Tommy Magnus, and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS CAPRINE
When: 06/04
[ So. As far as Tommy's concerned, he's been born for this moment. For every hour Billy had him sit through the von Trapps caterwauling their way through their problems or whatever other corny classic shlock he was into, Tommy had retaliated with an hour of Big Brother and whatever other reality tv show trash had caught his eye.
So, being kidnapped from an impending disaster and being dropped into this seemed only a logical progression of fate. He figured that his mother would be there soon enough, ripping time and space asunder. So after grabbing a cup of pudding and giving a once-over of the ship, he knew what had to be done. Play along, roll with it, and hope that when the Scarlet Witch gets here she doesn't break the universe too hard.
Which leads him here. Stretched out, relaxed as can be. Might as well have some fun. He folds his arms behind his head, a playful smirk on his face. ]
Hello out there my soon to be loyal viewership. It's me - Tommy. But you can call me Speed if that's a little more your style. I'm honored to be part of this, clearly you received my audition tape and were as impressed with me as I am with all this. This is a total game-changer.
I'm in it to win it, and this season's going to be the best one yet.
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS CAPRINE
When: 06/04
[ So. As far as Tommy's concerned, he's been born for this moment. For every hour Billy had him sit through the von Trapps caterwauling their way through their problems or whatever other corny classic shlock he was into, Tommy had retaliated with an hour of Big Brother and whatever other reality tv show trash had caught his eye.
So, being kidnapped from an impending disaster and being dropped into this seemed only a logical progression of fate. He figured that his mother would be there soon enough, ripping time and space asunder. So after grabbing a cup of pudding and giving a once-over of the ship, he knew what had to be done. Play along, roll with it, and hope that when the Scarlet Witch gets here she doesn't break the universe too hard.
Which leads him here. Stretched out, relaxed as can be. Might as well have some fun. He folds his arms behind his head, a playful smirk on his face. ]
Hello out there my soon to be loyal viewership. It's me - Tommy. But you can call me Speed if that's a little more your style. I'm honored to be part of this, clearly you received my audition tape and were as impressed with me as I am with all this. This is a total game-changer.
I'm in it to win it, and this season's going to be the best one yet.
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[ shit shit shit it's not her tommy, is it? kate swallows hard. ]
Quick. Tell me about the Young Avengers.
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[ He'd just had this conversation with Kitty. Hadn't he. He just... hadn't thought too much about it until now.
And now he can't stop. New York is definitely not a place he's been, at least not without an army of guards and an overprotective mother. ]
Kate, you know Genosha, right?
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[ -- kate shakes her head. ] The Avengers are fighting each other. As per usual. What are you talking about -- human liberation?
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If you have to ask we're definitely not from the same Domain.
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But you know me. Some version of me -- wherever you're from? [ it's a strange comfort. ] Look. Stay a while. We can sort this out.
[ she wants so badly to sort this out. ]
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[ Where to... even begin. Doom help him. ]
I have no idea where to even begin. [ Why isn't Billy here. He lives for this. ]
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Maybe you should tell me a bit about you and Billy. [ it sounds innocuous, but that'll help her drive at the heart of the difference. she thinks. especially with how casually tommy had thrown around the names of a few more family members. ]
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Well, uh, as you - probably know? Our Grandfather is Magneto -- Erik Magnus, Baron of Genosha, which makes our mom Wanda Magnus. And keeping up with the tradition of speedy-magic twins, he's the nerd that does magic, I got the much cooler power of super speed. Oh, and I'm older, not that age really matters in the whole line of succession.
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[ she folds her legs underneath her -- leaning forward so she can cross her arms against her knees. erik magnus? wanda magnus? kate shakes her head. ]
Could you tell me, like, your name? Your full name.
[ what do you wanna bet it's not thomas shepherd? ]
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See, I know you as Tommy Shepherd. [ she avoids suggesting that she knows tommy shepherd instead. kate covets this connection; she doesn't want to jeopardize it. ] And I know Billy as Billy Kaplan. You're brothers, yeah, but you didn't know about each other for a damn long time.
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[ He can't fathom it. Honestly can't.
Billy has always been like his other half. They've done all the obnoxious twin things - secret twin language, secret twin hideouts, so in sync that they can finish each other sentences without even thinking about it. Growing up without him just wouldn't be... right. ]
Were we kidnapped?
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Look -- I'll tell you what I know. You grew up in Jersey, but I never held that against you -- [ an almost smile. ] You never told me your parents' names, but I think they split up when you were still a kid.
[ but she rushes to clarify: ] That doesn't mean you're not Wanda's kid, either. The explanation gets a little bumpy.
[ and she'll only give it if he wants it. ]
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[ He's not surprised. There's a reason Wanda Magnus and her sons do as they please... but he can't imagine her without them either. They're her whole world, frustrated and angry as she gets with them in this rebellious phas. She's their mom and she'd do anything for them, absolutely anything.
How had losing them affected her?
There's at least some weird comfort knowing that he and Billy had found each other. And Kate. ]
So... I'm a Young Avenger, with you - and we fight against... what, exactly?
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Against all the things that need to be fought. You know, bad dudes. Conquerors. [ doom, once. ] Invading aliens. We formed at a time when the real Avengers weren't carrying their weight; we stepped up.
[ you stepped up. ]
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But none of that matches what he knows of the Avengers. They were powered people, yeah - he knew them all by name and followed them with something like hero-worship, wanting to do whatever he could to help because he believed in the cause. ]
But you're not fighting against mutants. Like - the societal divide between humans and mutants, or sapiens and superiors, whatever you want to call it. That's not a thing you have to deal with?
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As much as we'd want otherwise, I don't think you can ever fully stamp out that kinda prejudice. [ it's been better during kate's lifetime than it had been in the past; that's for certain. ] But I wouldn't call it a -- jeez, a societal divide?
[ maybe between the mutants and the inhumans, though... ]
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So no... human re-education centers? No Sentinels?
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Human re-education centers?
[ holy shit. ]
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[ But. ]
It's still not right.
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So -- that's a pretty big difference. [ kate's head shakes; she's bewildered. ] Is that just in Genosha? What about the rest of the world? Who's just -- who's fighting?
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[ And that right there is a loaded question. ]
Humans are rebelling against the unfair treatment. They're tired of being second-class citizens, and for good reason. You got the Avengers, or the Human Resistance Movement - Luke Cage, Hawkeye, Black Cat, Misty Night. And then you have whatever the hell is going on with Atlantis and Pietro, since he claimed he killed the old man but there's no way he'd be able to accomplish that.
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[ she trails off. he must mean clint, right? because that sounds like such a clint move. but, god, she's almost afraid to ask. ]
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You just missed him. He was here -- uhm, the Clint that I know. From my version of back home.
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