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Mogtaki said
He should be substituted for now then since we have people waiting.

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Sub'd, or amend the process to only two needed until he's back in action in full.

Just trying to be helpful. ^_^ You guys are doing a great job!

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Schradinger said
Well that's a load off my shoulders. Whew... Lol. Anybody know when Nightrunner usually gets on? It doesn't seem to be particularly frequently...

I don't, but it's not unusual for folks to be scarce on the weekends. I'm usually not much for responses during the weekend, myself. ^_^

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Violet said
No, this is perfect. I've read the IC and this is how I'm going to incorporate Ari. I was waiting for the right time to enter, and this is it.

I totally read this as, "Okay, now that she's out it's a good time for me to enter the IC."

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Schradinger said
...and suddenly I feel pressure to live up to the legend. Lol. I'm not gonna get crucified if my version of Scott isn't the ideal, am I? I mean, you've gotta take some liberties or else it just gets predictable and boring. Amirite?

Of course!

Also, no pressure needed. We're all pretty nice. ^_^

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Mogtaki said
I don't even read the comics anymore because it was very pop-teen drama kinda thing.And what's with this reviving Nightcrawler they're trying to do in it?

Iono. I've been sticking to DC for a little while. ^_^

Poor Nightcrawler.

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Schradinger said
Dang it.... I was really looking forward to meeting Estella once I got approved.

No worries. lol It doesn't seem like she's getting out of it that easily.

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Hillan said
Jeez.Guy can't catch some Z's without you guys turning this into a soap opera? :P

...have you ever, actually, read an X-Men comic?

Just wondering. ^_^

Also, JS, Estella wasn't the one being melodramatic. Unless you count her reaction to the Bamfs. In which case, how would you expect a protective person to react to seeing someone jumped to the ground by wee-devils not knowing they weren't a big deal?

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Hillan said
Oh, haha. That's fair enough.And I am well aware that it's not OOCly, lol.It's their choice if they wanna join the gang, or not. But it's up to you guys to work it out if they don't.

Oh, Estella does. But she's not about to be treated like a child, after all she's gone through. That includes the staff being mature and approachable if there are issues; which I think it's fair to say Logan absolutely was not. (It is weird seeing Logan get upset at someone bristling against strict authority like Erik. Like, really weird. At one point I had to ask myself, while contemplating the response, '...this is Logan, right? Not Scott?' It was fun.)

But as it's an entirely IC decision, I'm all for letting Yoshi bring them back into the fold.

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YoshiSkittlez said
lol Zach, that works XD

Ha. Now they're two of them to go after.

Party!

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Blackthorn said
It's too early to tell, but perhaps she could end up laying the groundwork for the Brotherhood? Or at least go over to Erik's side if he decides to split from the X-men? I think it might be better in that regard for Erik to follow her rather than Charles. But that's just my two cents.Also, like Wolverine has been seeing parallels between him and Atticus, perhaps something about Estella could remind Erik of himself at a younger age. The more I think about it, the more parallels I find.

In her original framework, Estella represented a third option to Charles' and Erik's sides: a place where mutant and human could co-habitat (unlike Erik's vision), but where spilling the blood of a person (mutant or human) for any anti-mutant/anti-human agenda was answered swiftly with blood. (Unlike Charles' vision.)

This is why, in this re-imagining of Estella, she lead a group of any society outcasts that wanted/needed help (mutant, Japanese American, or just a minority tired of the prejudice and violent oppression of Mickey Cohen's organized crime in Los Angeles.) As a nod to this, whoever does talk to her will find her reading about all this talk of a 'Eretz-Israel', and contemplating the concept applied to mutants. A mutant homeland, one where (like Eretz-Israel) would accept those not mutants (or Jewish, in Eretz-Israel's case), but would primarily be a refuge for mutants, or a refuge for Jews in Eretz-Israel's case.

She's an outcast outlaw, by her very nature. A nature she'd admit she never picked, never wanted. Just the one that God decided to inflict on her. But she's a protective, vengeful, outcast outlaw. Hence her violent reaction when she thought a mutant was in trouble. (Estella has no idea what a 'bamf' is, all she knew was someone looked in trouble.) Being true to her nature, she'd dream of a 'thug mansion' for mutants and humans just wanting to live free from persecution. ("This 'Genosha' looks a promising candidate land.")

I explain all of that to highlight the truth of this: it wouldn't matter who went to talk to Estella. At the end of the day, she's a mutant walking her own path, a path with bits of both Charles and Erik's visions but at the end of the day, one independent of either. This is why, along with her high self esteem personality trait, Estella didn't blink to walk out on that bar and never look back.

TL;DR, no kidding, I was just playing Estella true to her character when she walked out. Total IC/OOC separation. And yeah, I put scary amounts of thought into my characters. ^_^