Charles Xavier | Professor X (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
excessivehubris) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ataraxion2012-08-14 10:24 am
excessivehubris) wrote in ataraxion2012-08-14 10:24 am
Video
[Charles is sitting in one of Tranquilities mess halls, slowly stirring a mug of tea and staring down at a chess board. His face is pale, expression set in a resigned sort of calm.]
It is with great regret that I must announce that Erik Lehnsherr is no longer on the Tranquility. It would appear that he went among the missing sometime around the last jump.
[His voice is level as he relays these facts. He had hoped that Erik might have surfaced from the jump beds and gone about some project or another but as time had passed, Charles had looked more closely into the matter and found that his hope was for naught.]
I hope this means he is free of all of this and has returned to our world to continue along his path there.
[Even if that path was one that could potentially lead to war, it was better than the other possibility niggling at Charles’ mind; a possibility Charles did not want to consider too closely.
Setting aside the spoon in the mug, Charles reached up and brushed his fingers through his hair, then reached to move a pawn, pausing and then spinning the board around so he could play the other side.]
It is with great regret that I must announce that Erik Lehnsherr is no longer on the Tranquility. It would appear that he went among the missing sometime around the last jump.
[His voice is level as he relays these facts. He had hoped that Erik might have surfaced from the jump beds and gone about some project or another but as time had passed, Charles had looked more closely into the matter and found that his hope was for naught.]
I hope this means he is free of all of this and has returned to our world to continue along his path there.
[Even if that path was one that could potentially lead to war, it was better than the other possibility niggling at Charles’ mind; a possibility Charles did not want to consider too closely.
Setting aside the spoon in the mug, Charles reached up and brushed his fingers through his hair, then reached to move a pawn, pausing and then spinning the board around so he could play the other side.]
action
[Alex frowned and undid the top of the vodka, taking a swig--this stuff was way better than the swill on the ship...but the price he paid for it was way too damn high.]
--you come from a different place, you--you have to know what they say he ends up doing. What he ends up doing, just makes them hate us more.
action
[Charles said quietly, sitting back and cradling his mug of tea.]
I heard things from people, atrocities that will be committed by mankind against mutants as they fight against us.
If he and I were not locked in forty years of war perhaps his vision or my vision would have secured safety for mutant kind. As it stands, we both end up fighting a two front war. One against the humans who would destroy us and one against each other, the result being that neither of us gains any ground.
[Sighing Charles shook his head and sipped his tea.]
Do not get me wrong, Alex I in no way condone the crusade of violence Erik will insist upon embarking on in the name of securing a future for mutants.
Violence only begets violence, nothing can be built on the ashes of constant destruction, he could have stopped those missiles, shown the Americans and the Russians what he was capable of doing without taking that next step to drive the missiles back on them.
action
[Alex stops for a moment, jaw working, before he speaks again.]
I get why he did it. I was so damn angry. I was on that ship--I was trying to protect them, and they just turned their damn guns on me, as if I was the one attacking them...
...I get his side of it. Why he chooses violence. I just don't think it's right.
I just hate that he becomes that. I--
--I just wish things had turned out differently.
action
I will tell you, what I told him, Alex. We have it in us to be the better men.
[Exhaling a deep breath, Charles set aside his tea mug and crossed one leg over the other.]
Of course Erik would argue that we already are by the very nature of our mutations but that is not what I meant. I meant that we had it in us to be the bigger men, to not answer violence with violence, though our anger was roused by the unfairness.
I ... I still believe that, Alex. That violence can not secure peace but of what I know of the future to come, his fears were never unfounded. I was just blind not to give them more consideration than I did at the time.
action
[Alex snorted.]
Shaw had a power, and the guy was a psychopathic asshole.
[He's known some good humans--some really good ones. That made up for the shitty ones he knew. People were people, regardless of abilities.
Taking another drink, he let his eyes drift over to Bozo, who was currently attempting to catch his tail.]
I don't even think it's about being better men. Or bigger. We're all fucked up in one way or another--we just have powers on top of it, that makes it harder.
I mean--if I was human? I wouldn't have a body count behind my name.
[He looked back over at Charles.]
I don't want to be human--I like that I can help people. But I think it's more of a burden than some 'gift' a lot of the time.