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WHO: Amanda Waller and Hank McCoy
WHERE: Out in the city! Leaving a ballet performance.
WHEN: S-sometime this week?
WARNINGS: NOPE
SUMMARY: A woman in black ops and a hypergenius walk home.
FORMAT: WHATEVER

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It had been a fine performance, and Hank found Amanda to be delightful company, if perhaps a little out of her element. But she seemed to him to have enjoyed herself, even if it might not quite have been her thing.

But it was a lovely evening, the air crisp but not too cool, and spring noticeably on the horizon. It felt good to have a splendid time for once.

"With my workload? I'm lucky that my choice of occupation tends to overlap with my hobbies. But the arts in all their forms are typically a good fallback for when I need some time away. And yours?"

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"Honestly? Not a lot. I've gotten in the habit of doing so much work that I don't leave myself a lot of free time for hobbies. So it's like having to start all over again."

She takes a few steps, thoughts bouncing around in her head, looking for what she could call a hobby. Surely, if an overworked guy with at least three PHDs could have some, she could too.

"Reading. I do a lot of reading. Mostly non-fiction, historical. I like to know everything I can that has lead us to where the world is now. That whole idea of 'those who don't learn from history...' has been demonstrably true in my lifetime."

"Course, with people from a hundred different universes out there all curling up here, I'd have a lot more reading to do. I hear yours isn't too fond of metahumans - or, mutants, as you call them."

"Which is new to me."

Of course, her universe had Superman for people to grow fond of.

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"Ah, history can indeed be vital to the future of any society, it's important to recognize our mistakes and abuses, to not simply sweep them under the rug. Most of my time poking into the subject while I've been here has been a little illuminating. It's more notable for its absences than its inclusions compared to the history of my world. I find hat very curious."

He took off his glasses and rubbed them clean with a cloth from his pocket.

"One could make some case from a standpoint of 'evolutionary psychology', that humans are acting in defense of their own future, but frankly I find the assertion ridiculous. There's also the idea that it's a practical fear of the dangers of mutant abilities, but given the harmlessness of a fair number of them, this too is only an excuse.

"The fact of the matter is that a normative and homogeneous culture cannot tolerate something new, and feels it must stamp it out to maintain the status quo."

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"That it hates mutants and not some of the other superheroes, that also bugs me. Just doesn't make any sense. But, I suppose it's not in humanity to be rational about hate."

Never was.

"It's a whole... community, where I'm from. Has magazines, websites, clubs dedicated to just metas. You can even list it on a dating profile. I mean, after all, not everybody who gets the power to lift a few tons decides to uses it to put on a costume and fight crime."

Tried to think of a different topic. They had such a good time at the ballet, and now wasn't the time to bringing it down with her trademark constant seriousness.

"Like that fur must be pretty handy in the winter." Amanda tacks on with a smile.