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xavier_institute2015-03-18 10:24 pm
whatsatisfiesme) wrote in xavier_institute2015-03-18 10:24 pm
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[First rule of cutting classes: Don't post on the school network that you're cutting classes.
No one's told Gilbert that one apparently, however, because here he is well into the morning - it's around second or third period - still in bed and capturing video of himself on his school-provided laptop. With just a long night-shirt draping off him still, he's nestled himself against the headboard and pillows with a book on Renaissance art and a small bowl of sliced fruit he's nibbling from.
After the strain that the riots put on his empathic powers, he'd been given nearly a week of recovery time...and now that's more than come and gone, and he's decided simply not to go back.]
It must be so tedious - burning through all your time in classes here, studying the same things a human school would be making you learn. It's a marvelous sham, isn't it? Do this work for a diploma so you can attend university, find a career, "become a member of society..."
As if society is going to want us any more then than it does now! But you can guess what the real lesson is, can't you?
[The smile he's turning on the camera now can really only be described as "flirtatious."]
This entire school is just one long class in how to pretend. How to play along and make nice for the humans, like we're all cats they've de-clawed. I hope you all have a lovely afternoon, sitting and listening to that. [He kicks back on the bed then, looking so comfortable it's almost a sin.]
I'll be right here.
No one's told Gilbert that one apparently, however, because here he is well into the morning - it's around second or third period - still in bed and capturing video of himself on his school-provided laptop. With just a long night-shirt draping off him still, he's nestled himself against the headboard and pillows with a book on Renaissance art and a small bowl of sliced fruit he's nibbling from.
After the strain that the riots put on his empathic powers, he'd been given nearly a week of recovery time...and now that's more than come and gone, and he's decided simply not to go back.]
It must be so tedious - burning through all your time in classes here, studying the same things a human school would be making you learn. It's a marvelous sham, isn't it? Do this work for a diploma so you can attend university, find a career, "become a member of society..."
As if society is going to want us any more then than it does now! But you can guess what the real lesson is, can't you?
[The smile he's turning on the camera now can really only be described as "flirtatious."]
This entire school is just one long class in how to pretend. How to play along and make nice for the humans, like we're all cats they've de-clawed. I hope you all have a lovely afternoon, sitting and listening to that. [He kicks back on the bed then, looking so comfortable it's almost a sin.]
I'll be right here.
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[The tone is calm, even a bit curious rather than sarcastic. If they're meant to make nice and just fit in, where does the combat training come in? Do they teach that at human schools too?
So many questions just come to mind, but he'll throw them out one at a time.]
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[He shrugs, cool and dismissive.]
We should be learning how to fight off being oppressed, not taught to make nice so the humans decide we're all harmless. The teachers talk about "control" and "safety," but all they mean is "keep quiet" and "keep hidden." "Don't fight for anything, unless we say."
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[He supposed that made some sense.]
I thought we were learning how to fight too. That's why Miss Ororo said there would be more X-teams.
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[And then Skaar's next question prompts a high, dubious laugh.]
Oui, they'll let you fight. Against Magneto or the MLF or anyone else who frightens humanity too much. If you want to learn to be a trained attack dog, this school is wonderful!
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[The only experience he has with normal school is what he sees no TV and, aside from appearances (school versus mansion), the actual classes seem more or less the same.]
But we fight the FoH too, not just other mutants. We fight so that no one gets hurt, mutants or humans.
[Yeah, it's pretty much a repeat of what Xavier repeats, but he likes the idea of it. It sounds heroic, like what his father does.]
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So, he glides over it and homes in on Skaar's second point.]
They don't, though. They may let you defend yourself, but what have they done to stop humans from attacking us? What happened after the riots?
The Friends all scattered, and Xavier put the MLF's leader in a cell.
[That's a... liberal reading of what happened, but whatever.]
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[Or so he assumes. Again, Xavier and the rest of the staff said so.]
If we were really that bad, wouldn't we have given her to them?
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He just wants us to be just like them.
[Which, feigned moderation notwithstanding, he says as if it's just as horrible a fate.]
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[He...doesn't think that's what they're there for, but apparently this person seems to think so.]
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[He is entirely, one-hundred percent convinced.]