[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 - 12:20 PM [/b][/color][/center][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=935DB8]Veil[/color] & [color=DBA1DE]Casper[/color] & [color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/b][/h3][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] Various [b]Skills:[/b] [color=DBA1DE]Mediumship[/color][/center][hr][b]The Green Lagoon / the Astral Plane...[/b] David nodded, his eyes tearing up a bit. He gave Harry's hands a grateful squeeze. "Sorry, talking about my da is bad vibes for me," he said, trying to make a slight joke out of it. "What about you? What were your parents like? Did you get your cuteness from them?" he asked, his eyes still watery, even here on the astral plane. [b]The Green Lagoon...[/b] "I never [i]said[/i] that only the X-Men should get to do it - but that's the way it's always been for people like us. We don't matter to them. We're just background characters in their operatic stories," Marrow complained. She sighed slightly though. "Why the fuck not, though? Guess it's time for us to change things." [color=#DAF7A6]"I still think that Ben is going to be in worse shape than Fred was,"[/color] Sunshine said, referencing her deceased pet rat. She had lost Fred before they had made it to Genosha. Even though he had never been alive while she owned him, Sunshine did have a soft spot for that little dead rat. She hadn't had it in her to willingly leave him behind - to leave his dead body to decay without anyone to care. It was one of her regrets from everything that had gone down, that she hadn't been able to retrieve him. "Guess that's why James' an omega," Marrow commented with a shrug. She didn't get too hung up on who was and was not omega level status - it seemed to her like a stupid new version of a class system, a social order she didn't care for. [color=#DAF7A6]"Fine. It'll be weird being in New Orleans, but whatever."[/color] Sunshine had told Marrow about what had happened - about the false reality, where she had grown up in the care of her father, rather than being abandoned as a little kid by her cruel mutant-hating mother. But even now, when Sunshine actually finally wanted something of a relationship with her father, where was he to be found? Nowhere. He had made it clear - he didn't want a relationship with her. He had been distant ever since they got to Genosha and Sunshine wasn't going to keep trying to make the impossible happen. Meanwhile, Veil was doing her best not to grind her teeth too much. James might have been an omega level healer, but she didn't know how he did as a dentist. [color=935DB8]"I see,"[/color] Veil muttered. She knew that she should have been doing a better job controlling her temper, but Veil tended to wear her emotions openly. She was extremely annoyed at the moment with her brother and Legion, and neither of the two Barry's was giving her any sort of indication as to when they would be back from wherever they were off to. [color=935DB8]"Well, if he's not back in the next ten minutes, I'm going to go find the nearest telepath - there's dozens of them on the island - and I'm going to drag him back,"[/color] Veil said bluntly. She didn't know why she was bothering though. Neither Barry seemed to be capable of passing on a message. "Relax the face, luv - you're going to get mad worry lines," Barry aka Legion said, smiling unhelpfully. Veil felt like screaming. [b]Outside the Hospital...[/b] Bee jumped slightly, startled by James' slamming the papers down on her desk. She had been so deep in her own train of thought (really, she was just playing Candy Crush on her phone) that she hadn't noticed him come back. "Oh! You found it - nice!" Bee said. She grabbed a pen that had a frilly pink lace-y thing attached to the top. "If you can make the corrections in pen, I can get a fresh copy made for us," Bee offered. From down the hallway, James would also be able to hear the distant sound of Casper singing a soft [url=https://youtu.be/wQo8vZixklg]"lullaby"[/url] to baby Daniel, "Tardy for the Party" by the Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kim Zolciak: [center][color=DBA1DE]🎵 "Hurry up baby, don't be late I'll meet you at the place I've been waitin' for this day This weekend, let's celebrate Lookin' like a cover girl (whoa-oh-oh) Covered in diamonds and pearls Take the Benz out for a swirl Drop that top, yeah, it's my world" 🎵[/color][/center] [b]The Rebuilt House of M...[/b] Magneto's carefully crafted persona and restraint shattered with Valkyrie's words - how carelessly she mentioned that death was just something that happened. Had they not just faced a gigantic island-wide tragedy, a genocide of their people, perhaps Magneto would have reacted differently. [color=FF5733]"Death. Is. Just. Something. That. Happens?"[/color] he repeated through gritted teeth. [color=FF5733]"Young lady, be you from the realm eternal or not, there is no cheerful afterlife waiting on the other side for us. Our bodies are destroyed, our minds obliterated, our future, our destiny, each little thing that makes you [i]you[/i] is [i]stolen[/i] from you. Death is not something to [i]brush[/i] aside - until [i]all[/i] mutants are eternal, then death remains the [i]ultimate[/i] devastation, the ultimate terror that humanity can inflict upon us, the--"[/color] Mercifully, Magneto was cut off by the arrival of his daughter, Polaris. She was wearing a purple tracksuit, her green hair wildly curly and spilling out in all directions. As much as she looked fashionable and comfy, there was a clear sadness to her, a weariness of her spirit. [color=A9F8C7]"Lay off of them, Dad,"[/color] Polaris interjected. [color=A9F8C7]"They're just kids."[/color] [b]Blackstone...[/b] Selene didn't really seem too bothered by Jack's first two points, about how suspicious it looked for her to talk about him not discovering anything, or about how death didn't phase him. She was an external after all, one of those special mutants whom death could not touch. Hers was life everlasting. [color=CDC0CF]"Mm, well you'll firstly be in charge of running my social medias, particularly my TikTok - I would like to be [i]much[/i] more worshipped and adored than I currently am. Shockingly enough, politics is starting to get a bit dreary, this entire Genosha project is in a real flop era if you ask me."[/color] Selene twirled a bit of her hair around her finger. [color=CDC0CF]"Oh, I would also teach you dark magics, as well as some spells that'll need to be running during the gala. It's going to be the perfect moment to ascend to godhood. Hence the social media presence will need to be sorted, a goddess needs her followers after all. And I'm a bit over my entire mystery-cult era, I want something more mainstream. Like Jesus of Nazareth, he had an [i]excellent[/i] PR team. I want that."[/color] [b]Hellfire Bay...[/b] Purple Mongoose was having fun playing in the trees! Renegade was [i]not[/i] having fun! She did a bit of a double take, uncertain what to make of what Moneta just told her. The Scarlet Witch had remade reality, ending prejudice against mutants? Magneto had been made king? Casper kept this a secret from her? Moneta killed Magneto? None of that made any sense to her. "Okay, I'm just thinking out loud here but... Why the hell would you want to change that back? Even now, chère, humans are still killing us. If Wanda had found a workaround, why didn't you keep things the same?" "Also, what the fuck is even your life that this is just a [i]normal[/i] thing for you to have experienced?" Renegade asked, laughing ever so lightly. They both moved in the same circles, but Renegade had [i]never[/i] had anything like that happen to her before. Her life had always been pretty standard - protect mutants, attack humans. [b]Wales...[/b] Pixie blinked a bit, when Max asked if a demon was going to come claim him when he died - that was incredibly specific and not what she expected. "What? No, you watch too many horror movies. No demon is going to come get you when you die, although... I don't know if you can, like, properly die. Like you can die, but I don't think your spirit will be able to move on... Like we wouldn't need Casper to pull your spirit from the afterlife into our plane of reality, you'd just be stuck there on your own..." "But don't worry about that. That's not the bad part of some of your soul being missing. Whenever you formed that weapon, you must've also made a bloodstone. These bloodstones, demons use them to do the most wicked and horrible of magics... If they get five bloodstones, they can unleash the Elder Gods - think the [i]actual[/i] Cthulu and stuff - on our world... And that would be bye-bye world... So [i]that's[/i] why we need to find your bloodstone as soon as possible, because I like this world quite a bit, and it's not just our reality that would be threatened - all of them would be." [hider=OOC Note - the Ritual]You can use a magic ritual of three to attempt mutant resurrection, provided you can recover their body. You will only be able to bring back [i]one[/i] mutant at this time. At the conclusion of the RP, you may attempt to resurrect other mutants. [i](I will say that not everyone will be resurrect-able, so you'll have about 2-3 resurrections allotted to you.)[/i] Select who you would like to attempt resurrection on and let me know on the Discord - I think the easiest thing to do would be to collab the resurrection ritual and post it as the 'end' of this chapter. [/hider]