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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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Charles is not -- [ Erik says, but he hesitates almost instantly, because that's not the truth. He remembers a Charles here before, one in a wheelchair, and Erik remembers the bullet shattering Charles' back. It might not be the same as what Tony Stark is referring to, but the implication was there, and the damage was done. ]

He refused to acknowledge that mankind wasn't trying to cheat us. Charles was naive enough to believe that mankind would launch missiles at us and were honest men.

[ His words are deliberate enough that he doesn't take accountability for paralyzing Charles. ]

[The thought that Charles Xavier is naive had never crossed his mind.]

A rather disproportionate response to mere naivety.

Because he was foolish enough to make certain statements to me.

[He's dripping with sarcasm here.]

Well of course, he was being mean so you saw fit to hit him. Did that help your sensitive feelings? It's nice to see that you don't get worse, no you're exactly the same now and in the future.

You're just as naïve as he is. [ He narrows his eyes in response, his own tone full of aggression. ]

If you know me as well as you claim, tell me would you tell me that “innocent men were just following orders?” Do you have any idea of what I have been through?

[ It is perhaps, the first time Erik has conceded his past to anyone. ]

[Magneto's past was largely unknown that Tony doesn't understand his reference and instead mistakes it for mutant prejudice.]

People will always fear what is different and the unknown, but there's a difference between defending yourself and advocating the death of everyone else.

You are single-handedly responsible for the conditions mutants face today. Your actions have made them the most hated group in the world.

[And since this worked last time...]

Homo Sapiens Superior isn't even the next step in evolution. You're the product of a US government project. The very humans you deride are responsible for your existence.

[ The admission that Tony made about Erik being responsible would have held sway; it’s been the kind of argument that he’s inclined to listen to, if it wasn’t for the fact that Tony called his entire existence a farce.

He retreats from the screen, almost comically, if it wasn’t for the look of outrage at the suggestion that Tony made: that he was a product of government testing. ]

Bullshit. You tell me I’m the product of a fucking government project, when every single government from then until now turned their back on me? Poland, 1940. Auschwitz. You think you know everything about me, but you don’t.

[Mutants were the product of research into the super soldier project, that Tony knows for certain. Hell, his whole world knew that now. But being in the position that he is, he did know a little bit more than that. The super soldier project wasn't started until a couple of years after 1940. Maybe under better circumstances he might have considered the possibility that things might have been different in Erik's world, but at the moment it was all too easy to just assume the dates were brought forward slightly.]

You're the product of a top secret government project that managed to get out. No politician is ever going to admit experiments were done on humans.

[Tony is the worst person to ever talk about oppression with. He understands theoretically where Erik is coming from, but it's far too easy for him to underplay it.]

I don't need to know everything. You are a genocidal terrorist who is using the Holocaust as an excuse to try and do the exact same thing to others.

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