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[swagneto]

[ 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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[voice]

[swagneto]

Two factions are better than smaller ones. [ Not really though, because he sees it as just one faction since Erik tends to disregard humans as a whole. ]

You and several others have already asked for unity, I'm simply reminding my kind of the same.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Sir, your kind is our kind. [Says the guy with a mutant power now whoops] We're all unified by being in precisely the same position.

[voice]

[swagneto]

[ If Erik finds out that Edgeworth in fact is one of them, any disagreement that he has with him slowly fades away. It's hypocrisy at its finest, but it's not something Erik is willing to acknowledge; in the end, what they can do is to an extent, better than what they did - the exception to that being a very few handful of people that Erik holds grudges against. ]

A temporarily thing, [ Erik concedes. It's not a loss on his part to admit that, just because there's truth that they're all imprisoned. The more he mulls it over though, the less inclined he is to argue, and all Edgeworth gets is a bit of radio silence on Erik's end. Not because of arguments, but his reasoning is the fact that his own kind were imprisoned because of who they were.

The same, clearly no longer holds truth here. ] It is not the defining factor, however. There are still many in it for themselves, and the handful who are in it for their friends, rather than as a whole. Despite all of what you preach, in the end, when we break out, it will be everyone for themselves.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[Edgeworth, though, takes that quiet concession as a victory, and so he presses forward with even more determination. Admittedly, even though he has some strange power now, he still thinks of himself just as a normal person - not as a mutant or a superhero or someone magical, and if it came to taking sides then he would take the side of the normal people. The people he's always been a part of.

But he hopes that it won't ever come to that. Because, ultimately, that consideration of powers versus normalcy - he thinks it's irrelevant. As important as having a facility with machines, or a natural affinity for chess.]

Only inasmuch as it will be everyone returning to their own homes. Answer me this, if you will, sir: did something I say make you just change your mode of thinking in some small way?