Those With The Greatest Power

[thetruefocus]

Who: Charles Xavier & Others
Where: All around
When: Catch-all for June
What: Continuations from the TDM mostly!

Warnings: Will update if any pop up.



Just putting TDM threads here!

Comments

[carmesi]

( his earnestness and honesty is something that wanda genuinely welcomes, the fact that it's linked to the idea that he doesn't want to lie to her or treat her like she isn't 'ready' to know certain information. he says his students reassure him that he does well enough, but wanda is seeing it now, too, that that much is true.

she drinks some more of her water even after he's done explaining.

being a 'mutant' holds no real significance to her, the word devoid of any kind of impact, personal or cultural or otherwise, but it's interesting to hear, regardless, about the 'unique gifts' one might have as a mutant. it reminds her just very briefly about herself and pietro, how they survived hydra's experiments with the mind stone where countless others did not—what made them able to withstand its influence? )

Hmm.

( so, because being a mutant is neither a good nor bad thing to wanda, her reaction is nonchalant, offering a shrug. )

I think you must be a very intelligent person to study genetics.

( maybe it's those kind of gifts? she adds, hedging away from this conversation a touch. )

—you don't owe me anything for the water, by the way. I don't want you to pay me back.

[thetruefocus]

I'm a 'total scientist nerd,' as my sister liked to tell me.

( Charles smiles fondly. He never minded Raven's ribbing of him, and she did it often, because he never doubted that it came from a place of love. Their relationship has been a struggle and a damned shame for the past decade, but he thinks very fondly of their lives together before that. She was there during all of his education, they never went anywhere without each other. Perhaps that was part of the ultimate problem.

He is a genius-level intellect and it seems pointless to be modest and pretend he's normal, so he doesn't bother, just acknowledges that he loves it and he gets teased about it.)

It's difficult for me to accept help, despite often being the one who offers it.

( He admits. It may be an ego thing, it may be that Charles feels truly helpless in this situation, and it may be that he's a giver by instinct, and taking feels unnatural. But he's not going to fight her on it because he feels like that would be disrespectful too.)