We're never going to be normal or left alone. One of the guys, Mettle? He's basically this laid back surfer-dude from Hawaii. Yeah, well, he's also got no skin and a giant red indestructible skeleton. And Jen's basically stuck wearing a special hazmat suit for the rest of her life because she causes cancer just by being on the same, I don't know, continent as people.
[He hasn't said much about the people back home, and until that moment he didn't realize that he actually almost missed them.]
We're never going to be normal, and no one's ever going to let us be normal. We'd be painting targets on our backs if we were ever stupid enough to go outside and hang out with --
[He looks at her, and it's... briefly indecipherable.]
'Normal' people. And I don't mean-- I know you aren't like that, but lots of people are. I'm not a mutant but I don't think people care about genetics when they're building Sentinels or passing bills in the senate that restrict the jobs we can get or the people we can marry or what we can do with our abilities or not. I'm lucky. Me? I could pass. The others? Not so much. And the Avengers... they're the only people even trying to help us.
[His brow furrows. All he can think of is Tigra telling him to get out, that he was expelled-- all because of Hood, what he'd done.]
But the Avengers aren't going to be around forever, and-- we aren't gonna be teenagers forever either. If the war's already on my doorstep, I want to know how to fight it.
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[He hasn't said much about the people back home, and until that moment he didn't realize that he actually almost missed them.]
We're never going to be normal, and no one's ever going to let us be normal. We'd be painting targets on our backs if we were ever stupid enough to go outside and hang out with --
[He looks at her, and it's... briefly indecipherable.]
'Normal' people. And I don't mean-- I know you aren't like that, but lots of people are. I'm not a mutant but I don't think people care about genetics when they're building Sentinels or passing bills in the senate that restrict the jobs we can get or the people we can marry or what we can do with our abilities or not. I'm lucky. Me? I could pass. The others? Not so much. And the Avengers... they're the only people even trying to help us.
[His brow furrows. All he can think of is Tigra telling him to get out, that he was expelled-- all because of Hood, what he'd done.]
But the Avengers aren't going to be around forever, and-- we aren't gonna be teenagers forever either. If the war's already on my doorstep, I want to know how to fight it.