Orientation - Alex's room.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:06 pm

"That's okay. If there's a blur and suddenly he's crying, I'll know what got him," Alex said with a grin.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:52 pm

"Damn right. I didn't grow up with him without learning how to hold my own."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:59 pm

"Yeah, totally going to be taking the power training seriously, because no way am I going to catch up to you in self-defense training or whatever it is they call it," Alex mused. Noooo, don't find it intimidating AT ALL...

by **Brigid Plunder** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:01 pm

"Oooorrrr we could just not fight?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:11 pm

"Well no, not us. But... well, I mean, I've heard stories about this place."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:15 pm

"But that doesn't really have anything to do with catching up to me, does it?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:18 pm

"Call it a competitive nature."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:25 pm

"Oy, forget I said anything then."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:36 pm

Way to look like a dumbass. "Sorry," he said. "Just... y'know. You're worried about people knowing who your dad is and all the stuff that could bring, well most of the staff here do know my uncle, so... yeah, I don't know what people are going to be expecting from me."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:59 pm

"Probably not that, right? I mean, not unless you really want to."

"You're from the suburbs, not Genosha."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:23 am

"Yeah, well, he was just some kid from New York when he came here, too," he pointed out. "And the way my mom starts flipping out about anything like this... yeah. I don't know."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:25 am

"But that's what he chose to do, right? It's not like they just poured him into an X-uniform and sent him off to save the day."

"Or, well, run off and join Magneto. As the case may be."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:37 am

"Yeah, I know. It's just... weird. I think my mom's freaking out that I'll end up like my other uncle, so she keeps pushing me to be like him, minus the whole 'Magneto' thing, so... ugh. Yeah."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:43 am

"Do you want to be a superhero?"

"And I'm asking that honestly. It's okay if you do."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:51 am

"Well, I was thinking that I did, but after watching all those videos of that alien stuff, I'm not so sure," he admitted.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:53 am

"It's not like you have to decide now, right? I mean, what they do is years down that road."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:18 am

"Yeah, I know. It's just one of those things that even years down the road just looks big, you know?"

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:21 am

"But not to them, I'll bet."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:38 am

"Yeah, probably not," he sighed. "So I try not to think about it too much. Just... it doesn't always work, you know?"

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:19 am

"Well I'd bet the kids in London probably feel the same way when they see what the Avengers do, right?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:54 pm

"Eh, the X-Men could beat the Avengers," Alex said with a smirk.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:13 pm

"Maybe collectively. There's more of them," she smirked.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:36 pm

"That's because they know what the winning team is," Alex said, smirking back.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:14 am

"I meant X-Men, but whatever works." She chuckled.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:28 am

"Yeah, yeah not my fault the Avengers seem to have a quota on how many mutants they can have active."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:30 am

"Kind of seems like tokenism, doesn't it?"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:59 am

"I know, right? One mutant, one android, one patriot, one alcoholic, you get the picture."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:02 am

"And of course the mutant gets asked all the political questions in press conferences."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:14 am

"Well yeah. THey have to have someone to take the blame for things, right?"

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:15 am

"Guess they assume you don't have a position on anything if you got bitten by a radioactive hedgehog."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:44 am

"The Spectacular Hedgehog Man, I want to see that. There's some childrens' cartoon potential there, I think," Alex chuckled.

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:04 am

"With a superhuman ability to curl up and hope the bad guy loses interest."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:56 am

"Actually, I think I might know the guy with that power," Alex reflected. "Or a few of them, really..."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:53 pm

"Really? Didn't think you knew that many mutants."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:30 am

"Curling up and hoping the bad guy loses interest? Hell, I know a lot of humans with that power."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:52 am

"Doesn't work that well without powers."

"Okay, maybe with a bear, but not with a supervillain."

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:02 am

"Well I don't know! I mean picture you're a supervillian, and you're all geared up for something, I dunno, villiany, and in the middle of your monologue the hero just curls up on the ground and hopes you don't notice him. I mean... it wouldn't always work, but I think that it would be just awkward enough that maybe a third of the time the villian'd go find someone else to be villiany at."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:22 am

"Yeah, I guess it would be like... 'You're really doing this? Seriously? Whatever, I'm going to go stomp New York City, then.'"

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:28 am

"Exactly! It's like... his power would be to be so pitiful that he can save the day by making the villian not have the heart to curb-stomp him!"

by **Brigid Plunder** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:28 am

"Maybe he also has, like, super puppydog eyes and lower lip?"

"Engage those and it's all 'Hey, no, don't be like that...'"

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