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Jan. 28th, 2018 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
god_of_hellfireMake sure you dress nice, that text had said. Right. Because he had so many options.
John had gotten smarter, on his own. Without someone like Magneto backing him, he couldn't very well walk around with a flame thrower on his back. He had to dress lowkey, blend in. But getting snatched up once, early on, had taught him a valuable lesson about being powerless. So when he went to meet Esme, he did so prepared. Superficially, it was jeans, a graphic tee, and a hoodie over Chucks. They were clean, without holes, and that was the nicest he was going to get.
The bomber glasses reflected the decaying, abandoned strip mall back. It had once been the site of a number of mutant businesses, before.
That's how he kept thinking about it. Before, and After. He gave himself a shake, tugging his lighter out of his pocket to fidget with as he leaned against the shell of a payphone.
John had gotten smarter, on his own. Without someone like Magneto backing him, he couldn't very well walk around with a flame thrower on his back. He had to dress lowkey, blend in. But getting snatched up once, early on, had taught him a valuable lesson about being powerless. So when he went to meet Esme, he did so prepared. Superficially, it was jeans, a graphic tee, and a hoodie over Chucks. They were clean, without holes, and that was the nicest he was going to get.
The bomber glasses reflected the decaying, abandoned strip mall back. It had once been the site of a number of mutant businesses, before.
That's how he kept thinking about it. Before, and After. He gave himself a shake, tugging his lighter out of his pocket to fidget with as he leaned against the shell of a payphone.
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Date: 2018-02-06 10:17 pm (UTC)[ like right now, for instance. ]
[ john certainly seems far more easy to win over than some. say, for example, marcos diaz who fought her at every turn after the revelation that she wasn't the bumbling, sweet, unassuming, new telepath with tentative control over her powers she first falsely presented herself to be. but then, she never wanted marcos on her side. why would she when she could see into his mind and know his limits? true, he might've made for a highly desirable ally had he let his darker side eclipse him completely as he did when he worked for the guerra cartel, known to all simply as “marcos who liked to burn things”, but not anymore. a pity, really. perhaps in another life, he and john might've been kindred pyromaniac spirits — and what a deadly threat against the humans that would have been. ]
[ as for the world going to shit … honestly? esme's not so sure it has. at least not for her. ]
[ yes, things are bad for their kind. the anti-mutant propaganda and hate groups and unabashed racism now more rife than ever with people like the purifiers openly roaming about and the government opting to back despicable and inhumane programs like doctor campbell's as well as funding a mutant response division that suddenly seems a lot more intent on killing than capturing. something she's partly to blame for, but whatever. the point is, for her, with the way the world is now, it's created an opportunity: a chance to be someone she wasn't and couldn't be before. ]
[ what can she say? it feels good to be young, rich, and powerful. having all of her mother's beauty is quite the plus as well, her blonde hair and blue-eyed looks just as much a tool in her arsenal as her cunning and mutant gifts. ]