( the look on quentin's face isn't surprising. of course julian's had doubts. the whole thing with putting the five on a pedestal that's obviously going to put a massive target on their backs? crap idea. crucible in general? also crap. they're making non-combatants fight to die just to regain a piece of themselves they lost a long time ago, and no, it's not fair. but no system is perfect either, and crucible at least feels like an honorable way to go out rather than just, what, killing oneself? asking someone else to put them down?
granted, it's not like the five couldn't just fix crap. they're building entire bodies from scratch, how hard could it be to regenerate a pair of hands on someone already living? all the technological and medical advantages krakoa has given them, and for some reason, they still all have to suffer to be made whole again. quentin's case is a little different, but at the same time, )
I put mine off on purpose. I'm no X-Force member or whatever, but I'm still combat-trained. ( which doesn't necessarily push julian up to the top of the list or whatever, but it's enough that he could have gone earlier, had he wanted to. but he didn't. krakoa is about renewal, and julian didn't want it until tag, wallflower, wither, until the rest of the kids who didn't make it through m-day were brought back. because quentin isn't wrong: he's been fucked to hell and back for mutantkind, julian doesn't even want to know the extent of all the scar tissue inside of him, he's had supplies of emergency antibiotics to cover for his lack of a spleen. but it's not worth it, if they can't all have it. julian's lived through all of the bullshit the x-men have shoved them through, but so many of them never had the opportunity to grow up.
eyes focus on his prosthetics for a moment, before he's refocusing on quentin himself. )
But you're not wrong. Crucible is - stupid. And I don't know why the hell Foley's gone along with it. Or Hope. I don't know the rest of them well enough to call it, but. ( a loose roll of his shoulders, less to shrug off the statement and more to give julian a moment to finagle how he wants to word this. ) Hope's always had the whole damn world on her shoulders, you think she'd approve of murdering mutants to get them back up to one hundred percent, instead of just using the resources we have to fix them? And Foley - that idiot has enough of a complex as is. Even back when we were kids, he was capable of regenerating entire organs, why's he bothering to keep within pre-drawn lines? It doesn't sound like either of them.
( how many people do they have around who can fuck with someone's head? more importantly, how many can fuck with hope and josh's heads? proteus'? xavier is right there. quire's. well. right here. )
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granted, it's not like the five couldn't just fix crap. they're building entire bodies from scratch, how hard could it be to regenerate a pair of hands on someone already living? all the technological and medical advantages krakoa has given them, and for some reason, they still all have to suffer to be made whole again. quentin's case is a little different, but at the same time, )
I put mine off on purpose. I'm no X-Force member or whatever, but I'm still combat-trained. ( which doesn't necessarily push julian up to the top of the list or whatever, but it's enough that he could have gone earlier, had he wanted to. but he didn't. krakoa is about renewal, and julian didn't want it until tag, wallflower, wither, until the rest of the kids who didn't make it through m-day were brought back. because quentin isn't wrong: he's been fucked to hell and back for mutantkind, julian doesn't even want to know the extent of all the scar tissue inside of him, he's had supplies of emergency antibiotics to cover for his lack of a spleen. but it's not worth it, if they can't all have it. julian's lived through all of the bullshit the x-men have shoved them through, but so many of them never had the opportunity to grow up.
eyes focus on his prosthetics for a moment, before he's refocusing on quentin himself. )
But you're not wrong. Crucible is - stupid. And I don't know why the hell Foley's gone along with it. Or Hope. I don't know the rest of them well enough to call it, but. ( a loose roll of his shoulders, less to shrug off the statement and more to give julian a moment to finagle how he wants to word this. ) Hope's always had the whole damn world on her shoulders, you think she'd approve of murdering mutants to get them back up to one hundred percent, instead of just using the resources we have to fix them? And Foley - that idiot has enough of a complex as is. Even back when we were kids, he was capable of regenerating entire organs, why's he bothering to keep within pre-drawn lines? It doesn't sound like either of them.
( how many people do they have around who can fuck with someone's head? more importantly, how many can fuck with hope and josh's heads? proteus'? xavier is right there. quire's. well. right here. )
And why were we all just letting it happen?