Prompt #202 - If life's a game, who do you think is winning?

[john_ispyro]

Mutants are losing.

I hate admitting that, but it's true. Which means that everybody else - the humans, the homo sapiens - are winning.

But that's why I chose to fight. Why I'm with the underdog team that no one thinks has a chance at winning, that no one wants to see win. Because, when we win? That means they lose

Comments

[tm_rogue]

Glad ya still remember why ya joined.

An' you're right, its time for mutants ta start winnin'.

[john_ispyro]

Of course. I never forgot.

Hells yeah.

[mutantwatch]

There are days when stalemate really isn't a bad option.

[locked to Pyro]

I'm sorry for what happened to you and your family. I would never do that to anyone... and I know you don't believe me, but I mean it.

[john_ispyro]

No, there isn't. Stalemate means that nothing happens - and so the losers are still losing.

[locked to Kelly]

You don't even know what happened to my family. But, you are right, I don't believe you. Those sort of things happen without your registration act. Having one will only make them worse.

[kara_marie]

Slayers fight from the time they can. I've met an eleven year old who was out fighting. It makes me sick.

If I were a grown-up I wouldn't have let sixteen year old you fight either. I would have protected you until I couldn't anymore, until you really WERE a man. I would have told you to stay on the fucking plane, too. Sixteen is too young. Sixteen and you're still a baby - or you should be. I think.

[john_ispyro]

Maybe that's the way it should be, but it's not. With the lives some kids live, they grow up way to fast, and there's nothing they can do to stop it. My childhood ended when I was thirteen. And that day on the plane, I was mad at them at the time for it, but making me stay was probably the best thing they could have done - I rebelled and left the plane, and that's when I went with Magneto and the Brotherhood. Life changing day, and for the better.

When did you become a slayer, Kara? Was it when you were sixteen too, or younger? Did you have to grow up too fast? I don't know your slayer story.

[kara_marie]

I don't think it was.

I was thirteen, though I didn't understand what that meant till I was fourteen or so. Either way - I'd grown up some before then, and I'm still a kid now.

[john_ispyro]

You don't think it was what?

I don't quite get how the slayer thing works I've asked before and you ignored it, but. I don't know. Sounds pretty rough. I don't feel like a kid anymore, but it's cool you feel that way.