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[goldtoxicity]

Hey, so... kind of just thought of something.

How many of us here were-slash-are teen superheroes? And, like, why is that a thing that's even allowed. Like, you're not old enough to drink but you're definitely old enough to stop a bank robbery. That's messed up, right?

Second question - because the answer to that is definitely because being a superhero looks cooler than it actually is and obligation and blah blah - how many of you actually know how to do first-aid on yourselves? Because anyone who doesn't should touch base with me, like, ASAP.

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[gigue]

It's extremely messed up.

[She says it flatly, and maybe it's ironic, but maybe it's bitter. Vanya couldn't really name the emotion herself if she tried.]

[goldtoxicity]

Right? I think they just make teenagers do it 'cause it's easy to tell them what to do. Especially if they already feel like they've got something to prove.

[gigue]

[Just @ her next time.]

They? Were there a lot, where you're from?

[thepowerofthor]

Aye.

I've been out fighting since I was younger than you, lad.

This is a thing that I never understood about Midgardians and their laws.

[ He cocks his head as he thinks on the second question. ]

First aid? What is that?

[goldtoxicity]

[ there's a beat. because holy shit is that thor. ]

Uh - wait, what? You don't know what first aid is?

[thepowerofthor]

No, you Midgardians seem to have many odd phrases. what does it mean?

[ Don't ask him to use the search function. He hates that thing. It does not like him much, either. ]

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[hellogoodhigh]

whoever said you weren't old enough to do both?
because i definitely was drinking and stopping bank robberies at 13
and i turned out great wonderful fantastic okay

[ No he didn't. ]

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[goldtoxicity]

[ he's honestly just too lazy to type right now. and kind of burned his hands but that's beside the point. ]

I mean, I guess, technically you can but legally you shouldn't be? In one case you're gonna mess up your liver and in the other you're probably gonna mess up your mind. Like, I started at sixteen and bit it twice before I hit twenty. Underage drinking was way less screwed up than that.

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[hellogoodhigh]

[ There's a blink, and Klaus accidentally turns on the video as he's peering at the screen. ]

Bit it? What, like he died?

Christ on a crutch, how many people here have died...

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[melodramagic]

Is that something that's actively encouraged where you're from?

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[goldtoxicity]

Less encouraged and more just, like, you're going to have to fight for your life eventually so why not wear some logos while doing it.

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[melodramagic]

[ Delicately: ]

Because of the mutant thing?

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[nightfallallegro]

Well, it's certainly messed up when it's not a choice, or when someone isn't being offered the training they need to carry out the missions safely, but for a lot of us it's how we help the world.

Maybe in my world it is a little different, since we have training programs, and no one is allowed on the field until they are at the very youngest ten years old. Anyone under eighteen, and sometimes beyond 18 if they aren't seen as ready, are trained in the Junior Leagues. We're given active help and training from our seniors, and have backup available at any given time.

While I don't think that anyone untrained should be allowed on the field, I think that our abilities should be able to speak for themselves once we're of a skill level to be effective and safe. A lot of the time we're held back from situations we might be able to help with when we're pulled into other worlds because our age is belittled. We save lives. We help the world. Our age's shouldn't matter so long as we know what we're doing.

As for the second question, if you need help teaching first-aid please let me know! One of the areas we train in the most is in first aid and other first responder skills. If you need a second set of hands for training, I am well-versed and happy to help!

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[goldtoxicity]

[ that is a lot of info and josh listens quietly, scratching his head. ]

Yeah, my world had training programs too and I still spent more time putting my classmates back together than I did actually, like... studying.

[ nobody ask him how he passed any of his classes, it was absolutely all out of pity. ]

I dunno when I'll do it but any help I could get would be great. Like I said to, uh, Thor up there, I can teach you what you need to do but because my powers are healing, I haven't had to actually do it myself. So experience helps.

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[nightfallallegro]

I'm sorry. I don't know your whole situation, but it sounds like the adults in charge failed you in a large number of ways. You deserved better, and I hope you find it here.

[ There is no hint of this being a canned response. Her voice is genuinely filled with sympathy for his situation, as little of it as she understands. Her team spends a decent amount of time stitching each other back together, both mentally and physically - not that she'd ever admit it, or admit that the Junior Hero League program was not nearly as properly overseen as she said it was - but at least they had time for schooling and training. She didn't know if that time management issue was due to circumstances, or just due to incompetent adults, but she knew he was paying the price either way. ]

As for aid, what level of first aid will you be teaching?

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[bodilesswarrior]

I was twenty when I started out, but I knew a lot of vigilantes who were younger. Because they had powers and felt like they needed to use them, or they - and their guardians - felt like it was the best way to deal with some kind of trauma. Some did come from cultures where fighting that young was standard. Others didn't have anyone at all.

I questioned it, at first, but they saved my life too many times. It felt unfair, to turn around and say they shouldn't be allowed to do this.

Everything seemed safer back then, too, but maybe we were just fooling ourselves.

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[goldtoxicity]

[ Well if all of that doesn't hit close to home he doesn't know what does. Josh scratches his head, tilting his head to the side. ]

That's pretty much my story. I mean, like - my folks kicked me out when they found out I was a mutant. School took me in, and we were taught self-defense, and then it kind of just became using our powers to save the world.

[ maybe not for everyone. he knows not for everyone, really. they all just started doing what they had to do to survive. but after being put on the x-force? that really colors his view on everything he were taught.]

I'm just not a huge fan of anyone under twenty wearing spandex, I guess? Seems to just, like... make a lot of dead kids.

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[liverletdie]

You know...

I have a lot of opinions about unregulated teen superheroes.

And I agree with you 100%.

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[goldtoxicity]

[ that's... a familiar voice. josh visibly pauses when he hears it, face scrunching as he tries to place it. ]

Oh yeah?

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[deadlycurves]

[This hits so many familiar beats that he can't ignore it. Especially when he skims through the rest of the post-- and boy, does he not miss the fact that no less than two of his siblings are already on it. The kid obviously grew up in some situation not too unlike the Hargreeves' own. Specifics may be different, but the broadstrokes sound similar enough. Diego considers for a long moment what to say, exactly, before he actually responds, though he switches to an audio reply, instead of video.] Seems to be more common of a thing that I would have expected. [Which is... concerning, to say the least.] But I guess it's allowed because somebody, or maybe a lot of somebody's, out there think it's the best or only way. Not that it makes it, or them and their choices, right, by any means. It's a twisted thing, putting that kind of pressure on kids.... [He didn't even mean it that way, didn't remotely have his mind anywhere tilted toward that direction at all, but his own last words make him think of the niece he never knew. How easily he could picture Reginald trying to pluck her straight from Allison to study her, the first of the second generation of the special kids with powers, and what he might have chosen to do with that, with Claire, if the inclination had ever truly struck him. Diego has to wonder why it didn't-- or maybe it did, maybe he tried and Allison shut him down and Diego would have never known anyway-- now that he's on that particular thought-track, but... he knows there's no point in following it. Shakes his head and tries to derail it altogether. It doesn't help anyone to think that way, even if he can't help that it popped into his mind, for nothing more than the conversation at hand.]

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[goldtoxicity]

[ It sucks. It seriously, seriously sucks. But it's also kind of heartening to hear what are definitely not teenagers speaking up. He's barely squeaked by into his twenties and he still died twice. Kind of horribly. But hell, most make it past that point and still bite it permanantly before they hit thirty. ]

Seriously. Its like welcome to puberty, you might die before you're done of it but hey, at least you've got a sick costume.

[ which, despite all his complicated feelings towards the x-men, he can't blame them for. he knew what was happening, what they were up against. he knew how few of them were left and how people just wouldn't let them live.

but he can be mad as hell that they put him in the ground and didn't think twice about it, or what it'd do ti him if he wasn't all the way dead. ]

But you're right. Like, in my experience, sometimes there's seriously no choice. And sometimes they're definitely just grabbing for the first option they see... but still, like, if you're gonna put kids in that situation, it's like don't still treat them like they know nothing, y'know?

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[obediences]

[ SURPRISE SURPRISE, the Hargreeves all have thoughts on this.

Unfortunately, this is the one who's been the slowest to learn how messed up it all was. ]


Used to be. And first aid was part of the programme, though I didn't always get injured enough to need it. Extra-durable.

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[goldtoxicity]

[ 'Used to be' can mean so many things. And most of them aren't good in his experience. He rubs the back of his neck. ]

Dude, I'm sorry. I mean - cool on the durability, but it still sucks.

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[honeybadgered]

[Gabby raises her hand.]

Being a superhero is cooler and less messed up than being an assassin. Just sayin'.

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[goldtoxicity]

[ GABBY ]

Yeah but being a normal kid is like, best case scenario?