X05 | Text | UN: D33

[d33tached]

Given what you've experienced in this world, would you return to your own if given the choice?

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[magneticxman]

That's a hard question. Probably not, honestly.

[d33tached]

Why?

[If his response sounds impatient it's because it is.]

[magneticxman]

Because I'm tired It's so hard to be a mutant back home, so heartbreaking. I don't think I could do it, knowing it's not that way in every universe.

[d33tached]

[Ah. Another mutant, then.]

Your kind is persecuted in your home world. Is that correct?

[He's met a mutant or two in his time here.]

[magneticxman]

Yeah. It's been pretty bad, historically.

[d33tached]

So I have been told.

I take it that you find your status as an ImPort to be more tolerable.

[magneticxman]

It's tolerable, yeah. I'm not thrilled about being, I dunno, put on a pedestal or whatever, but it's better than knowing my friends might die because someone thinks it's their duty to cleanse the world.

[d33tached]

Remind me, if you will.

Why exactly is it that mutants are persecuted in your world? Is the possession of powers the only differentiating factor?

[magneticxman]

For the most part it's fear that we're what's next for humanity. But the way the world learned about us was suitably traumatic. Magneto carries some of the blame, but it's an unfortunate truth about humans that we hate what we don't understand.

[d33tached]

[Well, that's a rather interesting standpoint, he thinks - that humans hate what they do not understand. D33 has always found what he cannot understand to be more fascinating than frustrating - that is, until he attempts to learn about it and still finds himself in the dark.]

Do you think so?

There would appear, in this world, to be a great deal of things which some humans especially would not understand. However, you seem to consider it to be a less hateful place.

Would that be a fair assumption?

[magneticxman]

It's less hateful toward me. I think the difference, honestly, is that we're new and novel. And the mutant population here is better behaved.

There's also the way mutation works. It manifests without prior warning in some cases,
turning what was once a 'normal' child into a potentially dangerous person. We're not a threat to their children, because they know their precious babies won't grow up into us.

[d33tached]

I see.

I must admit, I was not aware that such mutation could manifest later in one's life.

I do see where that might be alarming to the non-mutant population.

[Sorry, but. It's true.]

There are certainly some natives who rather dislike ImPorts as well, though. Have you been so affected in that way?

[magneticxman]

That's totally fair. I mean, when I first manifested I tore a plane apart, mutant powers can be dangerous. But criminalizing and ostracizing mutants isn't an effective way to deal with this problem.

And no, I haven't dealt with it first hand, but my sister has.

[d33tached]

I see. You have family here as well, then.

It would seem that a great many mutants from your world have similar connections. I suppose the Porter must favor your kind in some way.

[magneticxman]

It's because my father gets around a lot. Or got around a lot? I don't know how much he sleeps around at this point, he's over ninety.

But yes, we tend to group up, it's safer to live together than alone. Sometimes.