[ Nodding, she pushes the napkin a little further away from her and towards him. She doesn't really understand why he wants it, but she isn't about to tell him no.
An ally. A grumpy, cigar-chomping ally. It reminds her of Butcher. They even have similar hair. And that—
Kimiko gestures to herself, mimes stabbing Scott's arm with a single thrust of her fist downward, and then toward the picture. It's followed up by steepling her fingers and then lacing them together. She's trying to explain that she stabbed Logan in the arm and it healed almost immediately, both puzzling her and not. The word mutant is so different from supe — it's biological, not derogatory. It takes the fact of the too-powerful other and makes them a product of natural evolution. If it's a circle they want to include her in, they won't when they find out about Compound V. She's convinced of this.
And maybe the reminder of Billy Butcher is what had thrown her into a tailspin in the barbershop. Even in the face of Scott's smile, his kindness, she feels clumsy and stupid and dangerous. ]
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An ally. A grumpy, cigar-chomping ally. It reminds her of Butcher. They even have similar hair. And that—
Kimiko gestures to herself, mimes stabbing Scott's arm with a single thrust of her fist downward, and then toward the picture. It's followed up by steepling her fingers and then lacing them together. She's trying to explain that she stabbed Logan in the arm and it healed almost immediately, both puzzling her and not. The word mutant is so different from supe — it's biological, not derogatory. It takes the fact of the too-powerful other and makes them a product of natural evolution. If it's a circle they want to include her in, they won't when they find out about Compound V. She's convinced of this.
And maybe the reminder of Billy Butcher is what had thrown her into a tailspin in the barbershop. Even in the face of Scott's smile, his kindness, she feels clumsy and stupid and dangerous. ]