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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 2012-06-17 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely. My colleagues and I have had some really promising results in creating varieties that grow productively in drought-affected soil. Just recently I've been assisting with a variety of wheat which produces a pheromone that repels aphids and attracts non-destructive insect predators. We've just started trials.

If it's successful then it'll still be a few years before it reaches the commercial market, but it could let farmers in the developing world save huge amounts of money they'd otherwise be spending on dangerous insecticides.
wedonot: (It's an okay mansion I guess.)

[personal profile] wedonot 2012-06-17 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I was in my old room. This one's been unused for years. [Although, as long as we're being honest,] Well, mine has, too, at this point.
scarlet_discord: (hi!)

[spam]

[personal profile] scarlet_discord 2012-06-18 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[That gets him a sad smile. But she also appears to be really thinking about it.]

Ultimately I wish that we would have a chance to prove our trustworthiness before they automatically clamp down on us. I just wonder if I wouldn't have failed that test myself. Back home I'm the girl even other mutants are scared of. And I don't actually want to be. [She is all the ambivalent, but at least she's calming down about it.]

[Fozzie sneaks his head out of his crate and sets it on his paws, wiggling his eyebrows soulfully as he gaaaazes up at them.]

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this. [But he makes sense on a certain level; she can't deny it.]

Sometimes you remind me so much of him that I want to run the other direction. Other times you're exactly the kind of guy I wish I'd known when I was younger.

All right. Compromise. I'll...we should meet more, talk more. There are things I could tell you as well. Might make your future easier.

I just...need a few days.
demigoddess: (she still I won't let go)

[personal profile] demigoddess 2012-06-18 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Well sure, if you've never been in space before. [ Shrug. ]
Edited 2012-06-18 03:49 (UTC)
demigoddess: (all I hear are the flapping of lips)

[personal profile] demigoddess 2012-06-18 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
A couple of times. And I swear sometimes you feel like if you've seen one star you've seen them all.
demigoddess: (that's right keep talking)

[personal profile] demigoddess 2012-06-18 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I guess I kind of felt the same way the first time I left the planet Earth, but now? I'd still take the beach over the rest of the universe.
chlorophylliac: (pamela - timid)

[personal profile] chlorophylliac 2012-06-18 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh-! Well, thank you, Mr. Lensherr. I hope that's true.

What are you planning to do once you have your doctorate?
wedonot: (Can't you see I'm working.)

[personal profile] wedonot 2012-06-19 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Charles shrugs.] I've been in Oxford for quite some time, and I was at Harvard before that. I didn't have much reason to be here.

[Between studying and not really liking his family all that much at all, it was more awesome to stay on campus. Also jetting back and forth to New York and England is kind of insane.]
chlorophylliac: (pamela - profile)

[personal profile] chlorophylliac 2012-06-19 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
That's -

What sort of mutations?
scarlet_discord: (lurk)

[spam]

[personal profile] scarlet_discord 2012-06-19 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm starting to get that. If you want, I will. But...I don't know. You have every right to be pissed off about this situation. Not your fault that your getting pissed off scares me by sheer reflex.

[Another sad smile.] I wish we had met when I was more over things. I'm...working on it.
demigoddess: (from under the chin)

[personal profile] demigoddess 2012-06-20 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I got responsibilities. Priorities. I don't have time for a place like this and frankly I wished this visit could have been over yesterday. [ Defensive much? ]
wedonot: (Smug smug smug.)

[personal profile] wedonot 2012-06-26 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'm willing to set aside football rivalry for the time being.

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