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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[ 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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Sucks that he's gone. [ For you, mostly. He's pretty sure that Clint Barton would probably kidnap him and hold him for some kind of random - not that it'd be anything personal but the children of Magnus often the only way to get at the heart of the old bastard... and not that he'd complain. ]
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So... vacation. From time and space. Can't say it couldn't have happened at a better time.
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Tommy, you're not actually relieved to be here. Are you?
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Have you met my mom in your reality?
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[ -- and a whole other version of the woman was in the fleet up until about a month ago. ]
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[ Actually. ]
I can only imagine how bad she is without us, but - the last time I saw her this mad, I set the great hall on fire. There's no talking her down and there'll probably be collateral damage.
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[ that's the weirdest lie she's ever told. the scarlet witch had absolutely not handled things well. but nor had anyone else, really. but back home that wasn't the thrust of the issue. not any longer. as far as kate is concerned, the twins and their mother might have managed something near to a passable relationship. if not a functioning one. ]
But it's been a few years since you and Billy figured out who you really were. [ reincarnated kids! it's weird; kinda headache-y. ] Everyone's had some time to mellow.
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He and Billy had always been there for her. Even at their most bratty and rebellious - ie, now - they'd still move Heaven and Battleworld for their mother. ]
Mellow and my Mom are typically not words I'd put together. And with her being one of the most powerful mutants in all Battleworld, and I'm guessing Earth too, that's not a good thing.
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Well, changed or not - the reason I asked is that she's losing it. That doesn't bode well for anyone, sapien or superior, and if I got some time to think ip a plan before I go back that's a great thing.
[ a beat. ]
Unless she comes here and tears this whole place apart in a fit of rage.
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