Pseudo-parenting is...a lot like actual parenting.
Who: makes_asteroids and thecrowingtobe
When: After this convo.
Where: The HoA
Summary: Claudio needs to talk, Mags is willing to listen.
Warnings: None yet ( Read more... )
When: After this convo.
Where: The HoA
Summary: Claudio needs to talk, Mags is willing to listen.
Warnings: None yet ( Read more... )
He gave a small nod about the bread, eyes fixed on the computer though. Another sip and he just mumbled. "I like the soft breads." A bit less distracted sounding and much more pointed he nodded to the computer, asking something a bit more relevant. "Where did you learn to do work like this? You said it was part of your power? Did... it just come to you? Like... suddenly you just knew? Or did you have to learn and focus it?" Another awkward pause for just a moment, the boy looking uneasy as he added. "Any of your power even... did it just.... appear one day. Hi. Hello. Here I am. I can do stuff now. Or..." did he have to train to use it.
Clearly he was having some worries over powers.
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"Some things just came to me. Like throwing metal around. I had to work at it, to gain control and refine them but it just happened. The first wormhole I opened, I just knew how. Later I thought about it, figured out how I did it. But it's all related to my power. I work up one day and could see xrays. Which was...amusing." Because he was completely and utter mature, of course. "Why? Something new happen?"
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His attention though was on what was being said about the mans powers. "X-rays? Like... to the bone of someone? That's weird but kinda... cool." He admitted, leaning on the table, head in his hand and watching the man work. He wanted to think it was like watching his father work, but that thought wasn't one he wanted to think too hard on either.
"Yeah... I guess you could say that. Seems like I blink wrong and something, ah, new... happens." No, he doesn't sound pleased about it.
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"Yes. It's always been more like a CT scan - very detailed. It's not just people either, you might be surprised what reflects Xrays. But I can use them too. Or microwave something without the machine." He had a lot of fun playing with his powers. Which...
"But it was very overwhelming when I was young. I'd blink and my vision would change and...what I was hearing...it was a lot to adapt to."
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With the details of the mans powers... well he just looked a bit more impressed. "So... you can do a lot. I mean a lot with what you got, but how did you handle it when you were younger? I mean... heh, back home I was sorta just... that normal weird boy in a corner at school 'til..." things happened to his family and he ran. Yeah, he rubbed at his neck a bit. "Until a few months before I got yanked over to here."
Frowning he looked into his coffee mug. "They don't generally have powers like mine back home. Not that I know of."
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"Electromagnetism is one of the four basic forces of the universe, and the only one able to influence the other three. It's sort of the order to the chaos of the universe." The scale of it frightened him a bit at times. Someone had given him the power to destroy everything. And trusted him not to. He wasn't sure he had earned that.
"It was very difficult. There aren't many older than me, less than a dozen. And we were alone, mostly. I met Charles in my thirties, but really until my late forties I was alone. It's difficult."
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"But how did you deal with it? I... I mean, that last riot? I..." he shifted, staring at his coffee harder now, mumbling a bit more. "I saw someone die... twice because of my power. Ah, I mean, not the first time. I mean..." He stammered a bit, feeling he lost his point somewhere. "I mean he was hurt by someone else, not me."
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"As best you can. I've witnessed, as a boy, what happens to people when those in power forget about who aren't. It's something I never forget, so that I don't become that. I learned, long before my power awoke, that just because I could do something didn't mean I should. When you are a situation like I am, like a few others - two members of my family, maybe a third, and a handful of others in the Mutant community - you learn that when you have a power that is limitless, you, yourself, have to assign practical limits. It's hard. You make mistakes and missteps. You just have to learn from them and keep going. But it's hard."
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"I don't think it's a could or should thing. I... I mean, I think... well possibly, but maybe I am alright on that? I don't think I use my powers wrong or nothing. I mean I don't do it to harm people. Just... things keep popping up." Agitated, he shifted in his seat, scratching at a bit of boyish stubble at his chin.
"I mean, that night, a guy was laying there bleeding. I actually just stopped to see if I could get him to a hospital. To help or something but he... I guess he died there. But then I..." Again he shifted uncomfortable, not sure how to go on. It wasn't a bad thing but he had some other weird connections that really upset him. "I... think i brought him back to life for a moment. But he was too far wounded to hold on to that. I want to say I never did it before but... I think I might have." Which is the troubling point. If that was so, then it would have to point out the fact that his sister is in fact dead, and he doesn't want to let himself believe it, even if he knows it.
"Weird... shit like that keeps happening. Ain't like I knew i was using it or it was for bad or nothing..."
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"My daughter has to deal with that. It can be quite frightening." He beckoned a chip to him and laid it into place. "And a lot to deal with."
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With a sigh he rubbed his face, shaking his head. "No, I know it can be a power, but it's a real shitty one, along with everything else I've been picking up it seems." He shook his head, just frowning. "I didn't want to hurt that guy. I mean I didn't. But I think bringing him back to life that..." was stupid. he stared at computer parts now, blankly.
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It was a sobering think to think about. Which was why he rarely did.
"I know you didn't. What else is going on?"
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He rubbed at the back of his head, a nervous habit of his, frowning. "It's growing into a long list, that is. When the power problems hit a few months back I got so sick. Like I shut down or something." Which is true, the not human side of him, the micro organism robotic side of him closed off. "I found before i got here that i could haul a ton of weight across a room in a blink. I'm only starting to figure out how to control it but the amount of weight is... well, un-human. That guy in the riot... it was just... just like my sister. And... just the other day I heard this guy got hit by a car after leaving the club I work at and all I could think was that I could go out and help him but... I got no idea how to do that."
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"If the Core shut off your powers, and then turned them back on, you are probably having a power surge. The can be frightening. All of the channels, the different complexities of your powers making a jump in maturity. It's not uncommon with Mutants. The same could be true for you. Sometimes we just know how to use our powers, like we know how to breathe, and learning to play with that is what we need to do."
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"If that was it and it just... made all this shit wake up or something then... I mean, I thought the one or two things I could do was cool, but now it's starting to get ridiculous. And how do I even... figure this shit out? It's not like I got something in my head saying 'Oh, you know how to do this' or nothin'."
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"But I will help you, in every way I can."
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