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!

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[thetruefocus]

Oh yes, very hard, and for a very long time. (He smiles proudly.) I studied genetics, specifically genetic mutation, although in general spent a great amount of time in a science lab with my beakers and microscopes.

( Charles does in many ways miss that part of his life. It might be dull to others but to him it was always fascinating and a passion project. He wanted to understand what was happening to him and Raven, and then discovering all the other mutants in the world was proof of his own theories. The only thing that could get him out of the lab and his books was finding his own kind and becoming the head of the school he founded.)

I founded a school as headmaster though, so I shifted to a different type of teacher.

( That feels so far away from him now. Infinitely far than where he felt before when back home.)

I ... see. I have heard about the mobile telephones. It's extraordinary.

( Charles is years from those becoming a reality and many years away from it becoming commonplace. It will take him time before he understands how to text properly. He can't afford a phone yet, but eventually he will try his best.)

If you have any, I'll take it. The water at the motel is ... questionable.

[carmesi]

( spending time in a science lab with beakers and microscopes tells wanda everything she needs to know. this man is a scientist, and the title of 'professor' probably stands to the extent of his education—though perhaps it is now a term of endearment used by his students in this school of his.

school for those with 'gifts', as he had said. )

Mhmm.

( wanda's hardly educated, especially not in comparison to someone like charles, so she doesn't want to put her foot in her mouth by saying something that would sound stupid otherwise. she does more of internal pondering, in a way.

abruptly, she says, )

Wait here.

( and heads back towards the store to buy them both bottled water. it's on discount, two for the price of one, so it's not like this is putting a dent on her current savings. when she returns with the bottles, she offers him one, and, in her walking there and back, she's figured what to tell him next. )

I stopped going to school when I was ten. ( she shrugs, wording this carefully, doing her best to not sound flippant. ) I don't know that I would have learned anything helpful if I did. You sound like you'd be a nice headmaster, though.

( he's kind, and seems patient enough with her, even if she's the one helping him out with food samples and a water bottle. )

...why the interest in genetic mutation, though? I knew some people who were. They weren't exactly — good people.

( hydra et al )