wecanavenge: (Shut up Alex I'm an excellent teacher)
Erik Lensherr | ( Magneto ) ([personal profile] wecanavenge) wrote2012-06-13 10:52 pm

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[Spam for Wanda]

[Perhaps he should have pressed Brown for more details, but the simplicity of the situation was that he did not trust her. He did not trust many people on this ship, and he certainly didn't trust some human to have the best interests of his - of Wanda in mind. They were both children, still, and didn't matter to him that they had both been through things most children hadn't; but so had he. And he remembered being that age, too, even after everything he'd survived.

They were still children. And children needed looking after. If he hadn't believed that, he never would have pushed to train Alex and Sean and Hank. And Raven. He didn't want to think about her, now.

No, no he wanted to think about Wanda, and the last conversation they'd had. Months ago - months, and that was his failing, he was sure. He hadn't contacted her, he'd avoided her, because
Anya still filled his thoughts, still featured in his nightmares. She was the daughter he had memories of, the daughter who had drawn pictures for him and taken her first wobbling steps into his arms, and laughed when he tickled her.

But she hadn't looked so different from Wanda, really, and it was easy to take those memories (memories that weren't even his, but memories he refused to let fade, memories he did not want to lose, even though sometimes he desperately did), and imagine that Wanda's father held them, too. Which made him wonder, constantly,
constantly, what had gone wrong. What would he have done in that world, if he'd had his powers and Anya was a mutant? He still can't conceive of a situation where making his daughter a prisoner, abandoning her to the childhood he'd had, would ever be an option.

His stomach clenched at the thought, and not for the first time, as he made his way to Wanda's door. She didn't want to see him, but he had to know what was wrong with her. So he knocked.]


[Video]

[And here is flood!affected Erik, who escaped the Holocaust, who was never tortured or experimented on by Shaw. He can't really control his powers, but he's kind of a chill guy, now, and that isn't actually a problem. He only sort of notices the dampening effect that's on him. So when the video flicks on, he's smiling, looking fairly pleasant and very very curious.]

Hello, I'm Erik Lensherr. I'm a graduate student at Yale, pursuing a degree in genetics. And this - well this isn't the vacation to Hawaii I'd been hoping for, but I'm not certain I can complain, really. The view is utterly spectacular. [He pauses, looking around the room - because this Erik has never been to Charles' mansion upstate.] Are all the accommodations as lavish as this? It's much more than I'm used to, really. I'm afraid I could get used to it.

((OOC: Yup, Flood!Erik had Shaw picked out of his life, so he's actually a very chill, easy going guy. He'll be your best pal for the next few days. And then hate you for it.
chlorophylliac: (pamela - chitchat)

[personal profile] chlorophylliac 2012-06-15 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, that's fine. I have a chair and a bed and that's really enough for me.

May -- I ask if you have a title for your thesis yet? My PhD specialism was in plant hybridization, so you could say I've dabbled in genetics.
hourglass_twin: (Young Raistlin)

[personal profile] hourglass_twin 2012-06-15 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I am no criminal.
hourglass_twin: (Young Raistlin)

[personal profile] hourglass_twin 2012-06-16 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
What is the purpose of having us 'visit' against our will?
chlorophylliac: (pamela - dr. isley)

CORRECT he later goes on to whine at batman that he forgot his wife's name.

[personal profile] chlorophylliac 2012-06-16 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds fascinating, Mr. Lensherr. I do hope it goes well.
scarlet_discord: (doorway)

[spam]

[personal profile] scarlet_discord 2012-06-16 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I? He didn't advocate for anyone else.

[She glances at the mirror, and after a moment the odd effects still entirely. The dog stops whining. She looks down at her hands.]

No, we shouldn't have to. But we do. Not because it is fair, not because even half of us would intentionally abuse our powers, but because of the rest. Including some of the ones you named. We would be dealing with another takeover or attack or attempt to destroy the Barge every goddamned day. And no, I don't automatically assume you'd be in on that. But even some of my friends are too dangerous at full power.

[She finally looks up at him, with tears in her eyes.] It's the most frustrating thing about being here, and I still resent it. But I also know that before I came here I didn't care enough about people's lives to learn to rein in my power, and here...well. I could really make a mess of things.

It is true, though. I don't want you or anyone else to live without our birthrights. I just don't know...what a workable alternative would look like.
wedonot: (Me bald can you imagine.)

[personal profile] wedonot 2012-06-16 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Charles chuckles a little, but picks up on the actual thought behind the words, the latent anxiety and gently smooths it over. It's alright.]

I was more worried about being put in a mental facility, honestly.
demigoddess: (don't tell me to relax man)

[personal profile] demigoddess 2012-06-17 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'd still rather be in Hawaii.
chlorophylliac: (pamela - profile)

[personal profile] chlorophylliac 2012-06-17 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Dr. Pamela Isley. It's a pleasure to meet you.
chlorophylliac: (pamela - timid)

[personal profile] chlorophylliac 2012-06-17 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, no, don't worry about it! I think I have a few years on you, it took me a little while to adjust when I was filling in forms and things like that.
wedonot: (These keywords are laughably bad.)

[personal profile] wedonot 2012-06-17 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't say I blame you. [Since you know. He gets it.

He looks around the room, curious and assessing. He recognizes it, but it's still strange to see after being away from this place for so long.]


Why do you suppose you wound up in my family's old house? I haven't been back here in ages.
chlorophylliac: (pamela - profile)

[personal profile] chlorophylliac 2012-06-17 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, my research concentrates on genetic engineering for the improvement of major crops.

[Not animal/plant hybridization. So she never met that dick Jason Woodrue.]

By developing plants with genes from hardier non-crop plants, we can improve uptake of water and nutrients so that crops can grow in poorer soil, or introduce natural desalination functions so that crops can grow in saline soil reclaimed from flooding. I believe that we can double or even treble food production, by creating new hybrids that can grow in soil that farmers would consider completely infertile now.

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