Sept 4th: Eating is Essential

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:14 pm

"I spent, like, six hours in the common room yesterday, just listening to people talk, and I spent a bunch of time in the rec center the day before."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:16 pm

"And I guess it's worth it to be around people who won't think you're weird, aye? Or if they do, they'll get over it."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:21 pm

"Well, some of the people I met did think I was strange, but they didn't lock me in a room or anything, so things are going better."

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:34 pm

"Why would they lock you in a room for that?"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:36 pm

"When the people on the base first found out who I was, they immediately locked me up for security reasons. I think they were just scared that I had been there for so long without them realizing, though."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:38 pm

"I think a lot of people had some trust issues with people they knew when their powers came out."

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:40 pm

"Not exactly grounds for locking somebody up. Well, if it's a military base maybe... Is that where your power manifested?" she asks Will.

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:45 pm

"I'm...not quite sure when I...'manifested', as you put it. I've been like this for as long as I can remember.

When they found me, they poked and prodded me for a while, and I didn't like it, so I escaped. I spent...a long time in there getting to know them, though, and they're all really nice people. I spent years watching them, and then I found I could be helpful, so I spent years helping them. It was really...fulfilling, I think.

And then they found out I was there, and they didn't want me to be helpful anymore, so they sold me here. But it's OK; lieutenant Van Buren explained it all to me, and I think this is best."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:48 pm

"So you just... weren't yourself for awhile?"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 8:50 pm

"I'm always myself," Will said, confused.

"Oh! You mean, like this. No, this is new--I only started looking like this four years or so ago. It's still a little weird--like a negative image of what I'm used to.

I spent my first time in the base as the break room couch, and then moved up to a pool table, and went off from there," he said, as if this was the only natural progression.

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:08 pm

"How did you end up at the base in the first place?" she asks curiously.

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:12 pm

"They found me in Antarctica.

I don't remember how I ended up there. I'd been there for as long as I can remember."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:14 pm

"That's... really rather odd. I'm not saying that to make you feel bad or anything, I just can't wrap my head around it."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:15 pm

"Oh? Is it that unusual?

THat's not how you got your powers?"

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:19 pm

"It just... kind of happened." she says, kind of voiding the topic of the circumstances of her own mutation manifesting. "Though I suppose if things had gone a little differently I might have forgotten about my life before that point as well."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:20 pm

"Aye. Mine came out one night. It took a long while to learn how to control it."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:25 pm

"You mean, it wasn't instinctive?" he said, looking back between the two of them.

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:27 pm

"No. It took a lot of work to get it under control."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:29 pm

"That's so strange to me.

I mean, I've gotten better, but I can't imagine not being able to just...change," he said, a little perturbed.

"That's really rather odd. I'm not saying that to make you feel bad or anything, I just can't wrap my head around it," he smiled.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:29 pm

"Holding one form was really hard for awhile, especially around people."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:34 pm

"Why did you pick this form?" he said, gesturing to her. "I mean, it's really nice, but why?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:44 pm

"Well this is, you know, me. This is what I looked like before my powers came out. I mean, I'm older and all but..."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:46 pm

"Huh," Will said. "Well, that makes that easy, then. That must be convenient."

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:25 pm

"Nice humble-brag." Miriam smirks faintly. "Oh I'm a shapeshifter but I was actually born naturally gorgeous."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:33 pm

"What? No, I wasn't... saying that," she says as a blush quickly spreads on her face.

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:34 pm

"Well, natural or not, it suits you. I don't know how to explain it. It's a weird feeling."

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:36 pm

Miriam laughs. "Oh relax. I'm just jealous."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:38 pm

"I'm not trying to do anything other than be me, honest."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:39 pm

"What else would you be?" Will said. "As long as you're you up here," Will said, tapping Sam on the forehead, "you're you."

by **Miriam Bell** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 10:43 pm

"He's got a point."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 11:32 pm

"Thank you!" He grinned.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 11:57 pm

"He can have a lot of points if he wants," she smirks faintly.

"But aye, you're probably right. Get a little touchy about it because it took work to get back to this."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 11:59 pm

"Maybe you just need more practice. I'm sure we could work together on that; they'll probably have us as a team anyway, as we are clearly the cool ones here."

by **Miriam Bell** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:28 am

"Oh, you're part of the teams?" she asks the two of them.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:29 am

"I tried out today. They didn't cut me or anything, so I guess so."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:34 am

"I'm not. Do you think I should try out for them?"

by **Miriam Bell** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:40 am

"Depends, do you feel like putting your ass on the line for the kind of people who would lock you in a closet for being weird?"

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:41 am

"I like being helpful."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:41 am

"Well not all the people would, aye?"

by **Miriam Bell** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 3:47 am

"Not as long as you're useful to them, I guess."

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