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[wecanavenge]

[The video clicks on, and Erik is sitting at his desk, looking calm, but angry. He might start shouting, he might have a reasonable debate. It's hard to tell. He folds his hands on the desk top, and leans toward the camera.]

My name is Erik Lensherr. [Reasonable debate it seems, but there's a challenge in his face, his eyes, his voice as he goes on:] I am a mutant. I am a Jew. [He pauses for a fraction of an instant, like he's daring anyone to say anything. The instant passes, and his jaw tightens.]

I will not be remaining in your prison. You will release me, or we'll have a problem, you and I. Is that clear?

[He reaches off to the side, out of frame, and when his hands come back into view, he's lowering his helmet onto his head. (Still silver, he didn't have time to make it fabulous.)] And Charles? I hope you don't plan to spend your time here blending in. [Guilty spite. Sorry bro. :c]

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Private

[wecanavenge]

I'm not dead, and I don't need a second chance. I have nothing to atone for.

[wecanavenge]

[Not a mutant, just another human, just another enemy.] Then what use are you?

[Video | Private]

[hourglass_twin]

As all inmates have been, yes.

[ Video ]

[wecanavenge]

[Everyone is counting that part, they just don't tell Dean. :c]

Use your imagination.

[ichoosefight]

I make ridiculously delicious waffles.

ALRIGHT, WE'LL GO WITH YOU :U

[wedonot]

I didn't say I found it more difficult, it's just another scientific impossibility we're being asked to accept.

[Private]

It isn't going to be the same, Erik. [Because he knows what you're equating this to. :c] These people mean well, and they don't understand where you're coming from.

[yeahscience]

Jesse.

The, uh, the helmet, though... [...looks way less cool in real life, tbh. :C]

Private/Video

[chlorophylliac]

I could identify about a dozen who've made their talents noticeable - a mixture of vampires, aliens, magic users and metahumans. The actual number may be two or three times that.

[yourunichase]

Apparently you are and just don't know it.

The Admiral decides you deserve to be here, and you have a warden who helps make it happen. It normally takes a fucking while.

Wardens have deals they make in order to stick around here.

[Video]

[impure_tale]

I'm afraid I haven't the faintest idea what a Reich is or the location of 'Auschwitz', so you will have to pardon my ignorance. As I told you, time is complicated here. I can only assume you were born after me or that we never walked the same earth at all -- bizarre as such notions would be anywhere else.

[a sobering glance]

And generally, I don't accept such institutions. However, I also consider institutions to be the product of the living, not the dead or what lies in between. And truly, if you continue to doubt that, all I ask is that you visit the main deck. Look at the sky. Look over the rail.

[scarlet_discord]

[Have a brief image of a young, dark-haired woman with exactly the same color eyes as Erik's. Her expression is one of absolute horror, and she shakes her head once in complete denial. For a moment it looks like she will say something, but then she quickly reaches and cuts off the feed.]

[ Video ]

[surfaceshine]

[That is a true story.]

You are a handsome devil, but I don't swing that way.

[strangehistorian]

We don't really have a say in who comes and goes.

[Private] ARE YOU JUST SAYING THAT BUT REALLY YOU WON'T JOIN ME

[wecanavenge]

The Reich meant well too, Charles, and look what happened.

[wecanavenge]

And this is your punishment? Being told you've been given another chance? [So much disgust. He'd kill a monster like that, no second shots.]

[wecanavenge]

No, you just do your duty and hope for the best, is that it?

[wecanavenge]

And which are you? [Insane seems like a distinct possibility. :|]

[wecanavenge]

Ah. There's the truth of it. One group is rewarded, the other punished.

[wecanavenge]

[THE HELMET IS FABULOUS, DON'T MAKE FUN OF IT.] Doesn't concern you, Jesse.

Private/Video

[wecanavenge]

[That deepens his frown, because he doesn't like this mutant fighting mutant standard that started on the beach. But...] And how many inmates are like us?

[Video]

[wecanavenge]

[That's still a little too hard for him to accept, at least right now. Too many Holocaust deniers back home, it's all he can equate this to, and it makes him too angry.]

I have looked, and we have nothing more to discuss if that's all you can offer.

[Video | Private]

[wecanavenge]

All? All inmates are mutants?

Re: Private/Video

[chlorophylliac]

About the same, maybe a handful fewer - with the same reservations for anyone who's chosen to keep their cards close to their chest or have lost their distinctions entirely.

I saw your demonstration for the Marquis - he gives that speech to most newly arrived Inmates almost word for word, by the way. Telekinesis, or something else?

[wecanavenge]

I am an example of evolution. My mutation gives me control over magnetism, and metal.

[wecanavenge]

[He raises his eyes up, in a GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH way.] None, then.