Re: Warning: Geek speaki_hungerDecember 1 2008, 18:55:31 UTC
LOL! Mental image of Victorian era Nathanial Essex sipping his earl grey and contemplating nature vs nurture in pre-mutated humans. It probably drives his modern self crazy with desire and frustration, all that potential that would be possible or possibly wasted. Which makes me think that the very points you made about Scott's mutation may be the reason Sinister has such an obsession with him. Perhaps the Summers gene has a blank slate quality that makes almost any mutation possible?
You make a really good point about nature/nurture though. The Darkholme-Wagner clan is a perfect example of it. Was it nature that made them all able to hide so well? Mystique is able to change her form into anyone she wants; Nightcrawler can bamf away and melt into the shadows; and Nocturne can possess people's bodies, fully hiding from view. Becoming inconspicuous in various ways seems to be a genetic trait, but then again, so it being blue. Could their own shame of being an abnormal pigmentation result in their own individual mutations? Being seen as a freak would make them want to hide, so nurturing could be the reason their mutations are similar.
You make a really good point about nature/nurture though. The Darkholme-Wagner clan is a perfect example of it. Was it nature that made them all able to hide so well? Mystique is able to change her form into anyone she wants; Nightcrawler can bamf away and melt into the shadows; and Nocturne can possess people's bodies, fully hiding from view. Becoming inconspicuous in various ways seems to be a genetic trait, but then again, so it being blue. Could their own shame of being an abnormal pigmentation result in their own individual mutations? Being seen as a freak would make them want to hide, so nurturing could be the reason their mutations are similar.
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