![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
- alex summers,
- aragorn,
- bela talbot,
- christian,
- dean winchester,
- dist,
- eridan ampora,
- erik lehnsherr,
- gabriel "chapel hill" sinclair,
- gabriel "sylar" gray,
- georgette "buffy" meissonier,
- hallah "aberdeen" tawse,
- heather mason,
- ianto jones,
- james moriarty,
- james t. kirk (xi),
- jason "red hood" todd,
- jenna sommers,
- john watson,
- margaret "peggy" carter,
- megamind,
- natasha romanoff,
- nathan petrelli,
- patrick "kitten" braden,
- peter petrelli,
- raven darkholme,
- remus lupin,
- sawyer "soysauce" sciarrino,
- sherlock holmes,
- skulduggery pleasant,
- spock (xi),
- statsraaden,
- tali'zorah vas normandy,
- taylor "tyke" kee,
- wesley gibson
001. video; Public Service Announcement
Guessing everyone's feeling a little closer to compos mentis now. Great, that's gonna make this a whole lot easier.
My name is Nathan Petrelli. I'm Senator for New York, elected representative of the people, and recently made Head of Homeland Security by the President himself. It's my job to do what's in the best interests of the people, and in this case I figure that's gonna be easier said than done.
I don't want any of you to worry. Once I get up to speed on the details of what's going on here, I intend to get to the bottom of how we got here, why we were brought here, and how to go about getting back. And I mean how and why, not the bullshit they've been feeding you about jumping and wormholes and the ship needing a crew. There's a malicious intent here I'm gonna address, and then I'm getting everyone back where we belong.
I realise we're not all Americans here, and maybe you think I have no jurisdiction, but I earned the right to intervene the moment I woke up with a tube shoved down my throat, just like everyone else. I want to speak to people who know the most about this place, or be directed toward them. Captain Kirk: you're on my list for starters, but I'd rather speak to the real Captain, rather than some washed up wannabe.
Oh, and before I wrap this up, there's one other thing. A few of you will have spoken to my brother, Peter; he got here during the 'jump' previous to this one, and as I understand it he's been pretty liberal with his imagination ever since. Some time ago my brother convinced himself that he could fly. He stood on top of a twelve story building one day, called me up and told me he was going to show me he could do it. He jumped, and he fell - fortunately only as far as the fire escape - and a couple days later woke up in the hospital with minor injuries. It wasn't long after my father's death, right in the middle of my run for Congress, and I guess he was desperate for attention.
What I'm trying to say is that he's had brushes with depression before - it runs in the family - and he's not exactly stable right now. All of this doesn't make it any easier. If everyone could please be delicate with him, take what he says with a grain of salt, and inform me if it sounds like he's planning to do something that might hurt himself or others. I appreciate it.
My name is Nathan Petrelli. I'm Senator for New York, elected representative of the people, and recently made Head of Homeland Security by the President himself. It's my job to do what's in the best interests of the people, and in this case I figure that's gonna be easier said than done.
I don't want any of you to worry. Once I get up to speed on the details of what's going on here, I intend to get to the bottom of how we got here, why we were brought here, and how to go about getting back. And I mean how and why, not the bullshit they've been feeding you about jumping and wormholes and the ship needing a crew. There's a malicious intent here I'm gonna address, and then I'm getting everyone back where we belong.
I realise we're not all Americans here, and maybe you think I have no jurisdiction, but I earned the right to intervene the moment I woke up with a tube shoved down my throat, just like everyone else. I want to speak to people who know the most about this place, or be directed toward them. Captain Kirk: you're on my list for starters, but I'd rather speak to the real Captain, rather than some washed up wannabe.
Oh, and before I wrap this up, there's one other thing. A few of you will have spoken to my brother, Peter; he got here during the 'jump' previous to this one, and as I understand it he's been pretty liberal with his imagination ever since. Some time ago my brother convinced himself that he could fly. He stood on top of a twelve story building one day, called me up and told me he was going to show me he could do it. He jumped, and he fell - fortunately only as far as the fire escape - and a couple days later woke up in the hospital with minor injuries. It wasn't long after my father's death, right in the middle of my run for Congress, and I guess he was desperate for attention.
What I'm trying to say is that he's had brushes with depression before - it runs in the family - and he's not exactly stable right now. All of this doesn't make it any easier. If everyone could please be delicate with him, take what he says with a grain of salt, and inform me if it sounds like he's planning to do something that might hurt himself or others. I appreciate it.
video; encrypted 100%
If you truly realize that things are different here, then... Just be careful, okay? I'm sure you know how to handle different people, judging by your position and all, but I'm- I'm friends with most of the people that you need to be careful around. [ This is so strange, trying to warn someone against Erik. But really its for everyone's sake; the last thing the ship needs is a true rivalry between its passengers. She'll do whatever it takes to keep things calm. ] And I know that certain things, certain subjects about mutants, specials, and how they fit into society... it's like a trigger for animosity. Just a bad idea, you know?
Where we're from, a group of us just put a stop to World War III, we did it, hand in hand with the government, but as soon as things were done with, they turned their weapons on us just because they saw just how powerful our abilities made us. Even after we used them to do good, after we put our lives on the line for the huma-- the world. [ a small sigh. ]
I'm only telling you this because I hope you understand when I say that you have to be careful. I'm not trying to tell you what to do or what to think, but trust me when I say that yes, there are people here that are afraid someone might come along and try to lock us up here. And that fear translates to anger very quickly in some. I'm just trying to avoid conflict, that's all.
video; encrypted 100%
I hear what you're saying.
I think the moment you end up with people with powers, all kinds of questions come up. Who's gonna take responsibility when people get hurt, what's the law gonna do, how's anyone gonna keep any measure of control when people can phase their way right out of a net. There's fear on both sides, that's what it's most important to remember.
I can't promise to back down on what I was trying to achieve back at home. I believe in it, otherwise I wouldn't have taken it to the President in the first place. I own it, and I'm not gonna do a U-turn or make excuses for myself.
But I do understand, and the last thing I want to do it start a fight when we got other things to worry about.