[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/FKJKRczH/the-gifted-591b350cc9ba7.png[/img][/center][hr][center][@Nallore][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@Kirah][/center][hr][hr][center][color=f7941d][b]Genosha: August 3rd, 2021 - 9:40 AM [/b][/color][/center][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=935DB8]Veil[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://64.media.tumblr.com/69b5c82a83925ad6daa97ba324af2888/tumblr_ngpm6wgHde1u4gz2oo4_250.gif[/img][hr][hr][color=935DB8][b]Location:[/b][/color] [url=https://static3.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/X-Men-The-10-Most-Powerful-Mutants-On-The-Quiet-Council-of-Krakoa-Ranked-2-1.jpg]The Grove[/url] 
[color=935DB8][b]Skills:[/b][/color] N/A [/center][hr]	Esme opened her mouth, about to harshly rebuke Spark Plug that she didn't need her aid, before it dawned on the telepath again - while she had her sisters and mother's consciousness alive inside of her mind, mentally keeping them from death, they couldn't aid her in the physical work of putting on a gala. [color=3D5DC3]"That would be... nice,"[/color] Esme said, tasting the last word like it was foreign on her tongue. Her eyes flickered over to Mister Sinister. He had promises to her family that needed to be kept. [color=3D5DC3]"I have business to attend to, but I'll send for you when I'm ready to begin,"[/color] Esme explained. She also needed to check in on the telepathic grief support team. 

	Veil nodded as James explained he was going to go off, find Casper, and adopt a child. She hoped James was ready to be a parent of two, rather than just one (namely, of his boyfriend). It was sweet though, watching them create a small little family. It brought a slight smile to her face. She then turned, seeing that Magneto and Polaris were in deep conversation, whereas Sinister and Selene seemed to be bickering over fashion choices. It was such a surreal feeling, seeing all of these mutants working [i]together[/i] - people from different backgrounds and experiences, some cast as villains and others heroes, all just working to create something together. 

	It occurred to Veil that that was the failure of Xavier's dream - that his dream of assimilation into human society prevented the rise of mutant cultures, that it isolated mutants from one another, rather than allowing them to come together and see what they might create. [color=935DB8]"Do you... Do you ever feel like you woke up in a different era?"[/color] Veil asked Spark Plug, referring to their missing time. [color=935DB8]"When we went to fight the X-Cutioner, we were in a world that hated and feared us, one that kept us divided... But now... Mutants have a place to call home. One for all mutants."[/color] It wasn't lost on her that the X-Men had never once visited Genosha, that the team supposedly fighting for mutant rights had seemingly shunned the mutant nation. She wondered if they had made that choice themselves - or if Professor X had made it for them. 

[hr]	Mystique and Destiny had left the Grove, going to a hidden place on the island where they could not be seen or observed.  

	[color=5997A9]"Before, what did you see?"[/color] Mystique asked. She knew her wife had had a vision of some sorts, as she had voted against the Hellfire Gala, cryptically claiming that it would not heal the broken land. Mystique didn't particularly care about the survival of mutants at large - she mostly enjoyed Genosha because of the amnesty offered to her. Most other countries in the world wanted to put the shapeshifter in prison. 

	"The birth of a goddess," Destiny replied cryptically, "a goddess of death."

	[color=5997A9]"Do we survive?"[/color] Mystique asked.

	"No one does."[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=DBA1DE]Casper[/color] & [color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/b][/h3][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] the Green Lagoon 
[b]Skills:[/b] [color=DBA1DE]Mediumship[/color][/center][hr]	Casper snorted when he saw the first card was [i]Death[/i]. People usually thought the [i]Death[/i] card would follow him around, but it was usually [i]the Hanged Man[/i] that chased Casper through readings, signifying being stuck in time, an uncertainty, never moving forward nor moving backwards, just [i]frozen[/i]. He guessed that had been quite literal with his entire experience as a popsicle (did that make him a runner up Captain America? He'd love to wear a slutty outfit and toss a shield around. It seemed like fun). He didn't know much about the middle card, which he thought was the Magician, and he knew even less about the final card, Justice?

	Max's intepretation was interesting. Casper leaned forward, his elbows on the table and his hands clasped together as if in prayer. [color=DBA1DE]"What if all I want is to be near our family and see James smile?"[/color] Casper asked Max. He didn't care where in the world he lived (well, as long as it wasn't Westchester New York), as long as the people who mattered to them were there. He liked Genosha, but he would've been equally happy anywhere, it was the people who mattered, not the place. And James was the person who mattered most of all. 

	[color=DBA1DE]"And you sure you don't want a reading Jackie?"[/color]

	Marrow smirked when Echo asked if Sunshine had been this open about her feelings. "We U-hauled it," Marrow explained, little hints of mischief and remembrance sparking in her eyes. She had first met Sunshine at a fight club the younger crowd on the island had set up, where mutants could blow off some steam and a healer or two stood on by, meaning things could get ugly without anyone dying. Sunshine and Marrow's passionate [i]fight[/i] led to a passionate [i]night[/i] and the beginning of a relationship, one that Sunshine didn't inform her 'goody two shoes' friends about. 

	[color=#DAF7A6]"You started it,"[/color] Sunshine said, rolling her eyes and punching her wife playfully in the arm, careful to avoid one of the shoulder spikes. She snickered though at Zarina's explanation that she was [i]friends[/i] with lots of people... and things! At Andy's suggestion though that Zarina was asexual, Sunshine pouted slightly, but that didn't deter her - people could still be in relationships and be ace, but she wasn't going to press on the Zari of it all too much. Maybe Andy would vibe with that one girl, Pixie. [color=#DAF7A6]"If you are ace, that's cool - and if you want us to set you up with a girlfriend, Andy, just let me know. Playing matchmaker sounds fun."[/color]