[Open] The journey thus far...

[aboveangrybees]

Who| Steve and Anyone!
What| This feels too much like sitting around and waiting to die. Or a catchall for before and during the first Hell-rena.
Where| Everywhere.
When| Weeks 1 & 2 (or the week before and week of the first Hell-rena)
Warnings/Notes| Mild language and violence, update as needed.

Watching videos of past arenas can only make someone so prepared for the real thing, but actually being here is far more chaotic and unpredictable than the videos ever depicted. This place is a veritable wonderland of possibilities. Steve really has no idea what to expect.

But still, he didn't expect it to be this, well, calm. Sure, he got attacked on the first day and he's had to fight off some nasty creatures here and there during the days after, even ran had a few peaceful encounters with people, but the fog acts as a blanket over a birdcage, making everything quiet. Too quiet maybe.

He just didn't know exactly what too quiet would lead to, but he was smart enough to know it would be no good.

When the sirens first blare, Steve immediately goes to find his allies, so he can get them somewhere safe; the noise is an all too familiar sound from his days in the war. But then the fog clears and temperature rises with unnatural speed, the walls dissolving instead of the telling sounds of planes and bombs, well, wasn't hard to catch on.


[ooc: I'm going to comment some prompts below, feel free to use them or, if you rather, you can leave me a prompt! I'm open to anything, including some scuffles. Just make sure to specify when it's for so I know where it fits in. You can use the prompts as an idea for what's going on during those times.

Also, prose or bracket RP is fine by me, I don't have a preference, so do which ever you prefer.]

Comments

[helpmeguideit]

It's because of...well, all the negative connotation. The studies now are more of a literal approach to improvement, rather than what it became. Charles thought of the Nazis use of that word in the things that they did. His study in genetics was not without touching on what Eugenics was and what it has become. Of course, he was always more interested in Mutants, a natural evolution, rat her than the forced one that Eugenics implied.

I was born in '32. I was a little young for the war, Charles smiled a little. Did you? he asked. Sure, he could find out, if he had wanted, he was sure. He remembered how mad it made Erik when he dove into the memories like that.

[aboveangrybees]

Perhaps in Charles world eugenics has really changed and mellowed out, but in Steve's, well, there's Bruce after all.

Good words get tainted by bad history, Steve has seen it enough times. Words changed and altered into awful meanings, especially over the years he was frozen.

That was a bit young for the draft, he returns the smile. Yeah, I served during the war, was ripe for the picking when the it rolled around. Sure, ripe but not worth picking, instead left to rot on the vine.

[helpmeguideit]

Steve actually opened up a can of worms with Charles. Humans naturally evolve for the better of a race. Qualities deemed 'negative' by another human is senseless. Nature takes care of itself.

He stopped himself there, not wanting to start in on this. It wasn't really the place. Myself, my friend, my sister, and students all exist like this because of natural evolution.

He sighed. Hopefully there will be no need for it in the future.

[aboveangrybees]

Steve feels so conflicted about this subject when it comes to himself, but he does mostly agree with Charles on it. It's done far too much harm for him to ever agree with the science, but he'd be dead without it, but he could have been dead because of it too. Then would he have really been needed in the war if eugenics hadn't made Schmidt in the first place?

He can't stop the sigh he gives.

Because he knows he should drop it, but he has to ask it.

And what if nature running it's course is condemning a good man to death?

[helpmeguideit]

Then it is a shame, Charles thought. Sure, favorable genetics were preferred in nature, but sometimes all the world needed was a really good person. The unfortunate part of nature is that it is nature. An individual, Steve, is not the species. An individual changing is not the same as what Darwin theorized.

He had to make sure he understood what he was speaking of. Steve's questions were getting more and more specific and regarding individuals, rather than of the species as a whole.

[aboveangrybees]

Probably getting specific because he was thinking more of eugenics than evolution, but Charles makes it clear now. No reason to keep pushing the subject. It's not worth pursuing and possibly outing himself to someone who might just turn around and pity him. He likes Charles, so, better to just avoid that.

You're right, and he leaves it at that. It must be pretty magnificent, seeing the ways people have evolved in your world, Steve won't pry, but he would love to hear about the many different abilities that Charles hinted at.

[helpmeguideit]

Charles tone in his mind was amusement. All sorts of ways. The people like myself I've met at home, they're important. Like family to me, really. As if he needed a reason to be passionate about it to begin with, considering he's a mutant himself.

I hope every day they won't be here. Not having our abilities most of the time is like blinding any other person. It was nothing short of torture for a mutant to be stripped of it.