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[ Perhaps it a bit too late for this sort of conversation, but Erik necessitates its need anyway; the Tranquility has nearly always been a bastion for acceptance and tolerance, and the idea was constantly perpetuated throughout his previous stay here, something that deeply unsettled him. He's in a deserted room, particularly one that Alex Summers might be familiar with from their training sessions long ago, but his reason for being there is more along the need for silence. ]

For those of you who remember my face, I can assure you, you're not mistaken. [ He pauses for a moment, because while it needs to be said, it still angers him that he's back here. ] The ship has brought me back since then. For those of you who don't, [ welllllll. ] I expect we'll be acquaintances soon enough. [ But not really. ] In the meantime, you can call me Magneto. [ Except the fifty billion people that still call him Erik. ]

No doubt all the lectures have made it clear that the ship is not, in any way, safe, and this is hardly any different. I won't speak on false pretenses that unity is what matters, but my issue at hand is this: if you are non-human of any sort, vampires, werewolves, mutants, what have you, I urge you to seek solidarity only among your own kind. It is our strengths that will allow us to survive, our own inherited abilities, and we must use these to secure the ship against its ongoing threats.

We must defend ourselves by striking out towards the enemy and to an equal degree, protect the sections of the ship we have acquired. While the Security team has this under control, the ship's size makes this difficult. [ Considering Erik is on SEC, this is just asking for double protection. ] Your offense is our best defense.

PRIVATE » Alex Summers [ All that he gets is a ping to notice this, because the location should be familiar to him: its where Alex and he had trained a while ago and there are some things better discussed in person than over these. ]

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[He probably shouldn't answer this but, Davesprite and sense haven't always been friends. So here he is glowing raidoactive orange with bird wings extending from his shoulders.]

You know I think the last thing we need is our own brand of civil war. There's shit out there in the dark already after the whole lot of us.

[ Well, that much is at least going to get a civil response out of Erik. While Erik may be a hypocrite over matters like these, he makes no attempt to hide the fact that someone who isn't normal is going to get all the brutal honesty from him. ]

I don't disagree, [ Erik says, nodding. ] though I'm not insisting on a civil war; there have been too many of those in the past where I'm from. I could care less what the humans do, they're just simply none of my concern.

There's not that many people left in general where I'm from. [He's going to get brutal honesty right back.] If they're not your concern, that's fine. No one is twisting your arm. But there are those of us who do care, who aren't 'normal'.

And why exactly do you care about humans in particular? [ It's something he's never understood, despite Charles' near constant arguments. Why anyone at all would ever find anything interesting about humans seemed to constantly elude him. ]

What have they done for you?

I have tons of reasons. [Bro could be argued to be human. And he'd died. A lot of people had.]

[He was just really tired of mass murders and stupid shit.] I don't see the point in dragging your world's politics/racism/whatever, and all that crap into a survival situation filled with people from more worlds than yours. How is that going to make anything better, or less complicated? We've been banding together just fine to survive diseases and anything the ship, or space throws at us.

Sometimes non-powered people have the advantage in a situation that knocks us out, and other times it's the other way around. And maybe I have friends in both non-existent camps because until you opened your mouth there hasn't been an issue.

[ Were it any other reasonable person, Davesprite might have a point, but Erik is anything but reasonable, and certainly not the kind of person to even acknowledge someone else's perceptions are justified. With him, it's his narrow view that means everyone else has to conform. ]

And you're projecting. [ He retorts, bitter as ever. ] It doesn't matter what world you're from; humans are, and always will, remain an inherently simple species with the desire to dominate. Just because you get along in a non combatant situation does not mean the same will happen when things go wrong.

Your friends and allies will only go so far.

The one that's projecting here, is you. Let me repeat myself, this ship and space have put us in combat and non-situations. No one gives a fuck if we have powers or not when we're grouping up to survive. But hey you want to go on a crusade, knock yourself out.

It will only go so far.

And I suppose you're the one who's going to keep us all together?

[ Another scoff, because Erik is just going to constantly deflect. ]

Do I have to have some ulterior motive to be heard, is that it? Let me introduce you to reality. Everyone has an opinion. Even the little old lady with the binoculars watching you at night.

[ Keep telling yourself that Davesprite. Erik is of the opinion that the only words that matter are his own. ]

Some arguments are not meant to be heard, unless they come with a valid reasoning. [ For the sake of being polite, he'll explain. ] So far all I've heard are simple claims that humans are not all that bad, but you see, that's exactly it. One voice does not undo centuries of damage.

Man you're going to run this into ground, aren't you? You know what? Keep your weird little delusion despite the fact no one has made any laws/bias/etc restricting people with powers in the entire time this ship has been a thing.

[He's not even giving you a chance to say the last word, he just clicks the device right off.]

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