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[notrosecolored]

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[notrosecolored]

I've had other people in my mind with varying degrees of frequency since I was... eight. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's a nightmare. There's never really been anything between the two.

[overconfidently]

i want to help people with their nightmares. make them go away.

[notrosecolored]

Jean and Emma are both good at that. Mostly by just... pushing, I think.

[overconfidently]

i tried with wade. he told me he gets nightmares sometimes. so i gave him a sweet dream instead. admittedly i hadn't tried that before but it worked.

[notrosecolored]

That sounds like something he'd appreciate. I'm usually just going for 'loss of consciousness'.... nothing

[overconfidently]

( something something nate learning [more] about his potential with every little thing he does. )

you don't like to dream? not even nice ones?

[notrosecolored]

[ Scott hesitates only slightly, because. Hey, conversation with his son and also he's still low (high) key panicking in the back of his mind. ]

No. File that under lines I draw for having my head messed with.
I don't want a pleasant dream... inserted into my mind.

[overconfidently]

what about pleasant memories? if you needed one, would you want it?

[notrosecolored]

If I needed a pleasant memory for what?

[overconfidently]

i don't know. what if something happened? what if they did something here? what if you got lost within a darkness they subject you to here? needed something bright and good to hold onto? if you needed help finding one.

[notrosecolored]

No. Stick with a sense of purpose and the people who need me. I don't mind telepathy for communication. I don't mind having my mind read in most instances, even deeply. With a subset of people, a good cause or specific circumstance I will share sensation and emotion. I cannot stand my mind being manipulated any more elaborately than 'shut it down'.

[overconfidently]

not even to save you?

[notrosecolored]

You know about Apocalypse. Has anyone mentioned Sinister - Essex - to you?

[overconfidently]

i know who he is. he killed forge. he told me things. i killed him.

[notrosecolored]

I meant the one that exists in the timeline I am from, but I'm going to take that as a no and explain briefly.

He is who raised me from 7 to 16.

[overconfidently]

he's like your father?

[notrosecolored]

Absolutely fucking not.

[overconfidently]

( telepathy or not, he sure felt that. )

what is he then?

[notrosecolored]

A psychotic, sadistic, meglomaniac.

[overconfidently]

sounds like the one i knew. why did he raise you?

[notrosecolored]

You mean why did he raise me or how did he get me? Those are two separate questions.

[overconfidently]

both.

[notrosecolored]

My parents plane got forced out of the sky by the Shi'ar.
They got taken but were presumed dead. I was in a coma for a year. In that time my brother got adopted out.

Sinister 'raised' me because... he's got a Thing for my genetics. Don't ask me why. I don't know and have never known..

[overconfidently]

( the what now? but that part about genetics... he knows that part — he'd been told that himself by that megalomaniac. )

yours and jean's. he told me that.

[notrosecolored]

Mostly mine, here. Possibly for more than one generation, but Jean's too.