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[It's Jun's second post on the network within a couple of days. She'd love to go to someone she felt comfortable with about this and save everyone the trouble, but there just isn't anyone in particular she feels that close with yet. So instead Jun is left to make a plea for help on the general net.

Unlike her last post, Jun isn't cleaned up and her room isn't perfect. She's dressed and her hair is back, but she's not terribly neat. It looks more like she was rushing. She may have just woken up recently, and when she speaks it's very quietly.]

"What's happening around here...? I-I keep seeing all this talk about x-teams and riots and danger rooms.. I thought we were supposed to be safe here. I don't understand. Did I make a mistake in coming here..?

[Jun pauses, feeling like she might start crying. Her expression is much more troubled now and her voice is full of emotion.]

"I'm scared. I don't know if I should be here... I've never fought anyone before, I don't know if I could. I can barely control my powers. I don't know what to do...Please..."

[Jun doesn't know what she's begging for. Comfort? Advice? Protection? She just doesn't know. She knows her mother and sister would be disappointed in her if she quit, but maybe she's not made for this place.
Maybe she really did make a mistake. This isn't what she wanted at all.]

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[Oh, boy.]

[Feliks, still dressed in his cutest pajamas (a long, distinctly feminine nightgown with an off-the-shoulder neckline), runs a hand through his hair and tries to blink the sleep out of his eyes.]

Ok, gonna be totally level with you -- you showed up at kinda a weird time.

[Is there any normal time? No? Whatever, moving on.]

There's been some drama with riots and all, and like, we are kinda the base for the X-men, so us being involved has kinda been a thing.

But whatever, listen for a sec. [He transforms his nightgown into his X-men uniform, for extra credibility, because he does sort of look like a teenage girl in his nightgown, which evidently is not the most inspiring of confidence.]

This is a shelter, and we totally do everything we can to keep everyone safe here. For some of us, sometimes, that means fighting, and you're probably going to want to learn basic self-defense, because it does get kinda crazy sometimes?

But we're safer here than we could be just about anywhere else. And no one's gonna make you fight. 'Kay?

[Oh boy. Hopefully he doesn't mind the weird looks she's giving him. She doesn't know he can see her, honest! But she's very confused and a little...interested? Not in a inappropriate way, of course, but he seems so...feminine. That alone is comforting to someone like Jun.

His words...more or less.]

"That is...I can kind of control my powers...? I mean I can use them when I want to, and I guess they're kind of useful for defense?"

[At least, as far as she knows people don't like touching things that are on fire.]

"I don't really know."

[Feliks gets enough weird looks to be more or less immune to them. It doesn't bother him.]

Babe, any power can be defensive if you're creative enough about it.

[He gives her a cheeky grin and a little flip of his hair.]

Don't let the bad press get you all worked up -- we're all here to look after each other, ok? And if you're worried about power control, there's some really great teachers here for that stuff!

[Jun likes this person. This particular person is good. Impressive, actually. Definitely the kind of person Jun could look up to. It's a little nerve-racking.]

"Are you one of those teachers?"

[He laughs a little, shaking his head.]

Not, like... technically? I mean, not yet! But I'm doing some student teaching stuff, and I'm with the X-men, it's just I've got a class to finish up this semester before I graduate and turn into a pumpkin. I mean, an actual teacher.

[...And he just changed his uniform (nightgown?) into Cinderella's ballgown. Feliks abuses his power for the dumbest things ever.]

[Whatever it is he's doing, Jun thinks it's really cool.]

"Are you a magician? Or is that your power? What exactly can you do?"

[Never one to shy away from showing off when he's got something to show off, Feliks beams.]

That's my power!

Like, basically, I can just kind of... temporarily make things how I see them! Just things, not people or anything, and I have to be close to them and stuff, but it's still pretty rad, right?

[Jun claps instinctively.]

"That's really cool, even if you can't make people look different! I can just, um, set things on fire. Including myself."

[Jun only realizes after speaking that it sounds weird.]

"It doesn't hurt or anything!"

That's pretty cool, too! I mean, I can definitely see why you'd need some pretty hardcore power control for pyrokinesis, though.

"It was a big problem when I was little...especially when I threw fits. But it's a little better now. Unless I like...really really panic."

Mine gets out of hand if I get too spaced out and daydream-y? Which happens kind of a lot, so sucks to be me.

"What happens when your powers get out of control?"

[Of course, if Jun's power gets out of control she'd burn everything, but that doesn't occur to her. She just assumes he has it worse because he said so.]

Well, I mean, it totes depends what I'm thinking about?

Like one time I put my math teacher in an outfit from a Lady Gaga video. And one time I kinda got jealous of someone and made her trip 'cause I imagined the floor being too slippery for her shoes. And... well, it's gotten pretty weird once or twice!

[All the time. Being around him is surreal frequently. But then, he's used to it.]

[Jun giggles.]

"That sounds kind of cool, though. It has to be useful."

[She's probably missing the point.]

Yeah, but I have to watch it, or my teachers get mad pissed and it's automatically my fault when something weird happens around someone I don't like? Plus, I always have to go drinking with a friend! Like one time some dude slipped something in my drink, and things got pretty Alice in Wonderland and I freaked everyone out.

...I guess I don't have to worry about accidentally dressing Fai up in class anymore, though!

"Wow. That's incredible...it must be really hard for you to deal with."

[Wow is more fitting for how much he talks compared to Jun.]

[He shakes his head, changing his outfit back to the way it was when he answered her post initially.]

Like, not really? I'm pretty used to it, so I've totally got it under control most of the time!

"When did you lean to control your powers? And...how?"

Well, like, the teachers here helped a lot. And I guess, you know, just kind of getting my stuff together more?

I mean, it's way hard to control your power when you're using most of your effort just to control you. You know? I think a lot of it is about getting more... zen or whatever.

I mean, grain of salt, you're taking this from a guy who got bitched out for dressing half the Friends of Humanity up in dumb costumes 'cause I was mad when they turned up to protest us being in a parade, but actually, doesn't that just prove my point? It's like anything else -- it's easier when you're not freaking out or super pissed or anything.

"So I just have to control myself...?"

[It sounds easy enough. She'd mostly been doing that anyway.]

"Thank you very much for your help!"

If it's not connected with emotional control stuff, I guess practicing how to use it is another good way? The Danger Room's great for that, if, you know, fire's an issue. Like, you'd need someone to supervise, but that'd be a thing you could do, too!

"I've been planning on going there."

[She just hasn't quite gotten that far.]

"I think it has a lot to do with how I feel. I guess I could start a fire any time, but I can't stop it from happening if I get really upset."

[Minor details, really. It's probably not an issue.]

Yeah, I think it's like that for a lot of people, especially when we're still getting used to it or haven't done much training or whatever.

I think you'll probably get used to it fine! No pressure, 'kay? You're totally not the first one to need a little help on that front.

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