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meme [gen]

unpopular opinions

Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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with your characters’ unpopular and/or controversial opinion. Or share few of them at once. In person or via text. Prepare for disagreement.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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What— What makes you say that? Humans have such a large capacity for love.

... are you serious?

You're telling me that when they find out you're not a human even though you look exactly like one, they're just like "wow that's so fuckin' cool, I love you, I hope there are more of you out there so I can love them too, we're so alike but different, this is great."

"Find out"?

My friends knew I wasn't human the moment we met. Their positive estimation of my species didn't last for long, but I don't think they had any choice but to change their opinion. We aren't particularly kind. Or... good, for that matter.

Ohhh, I get it now. They got in your head. They love you 'cause you hate yourself and what you are and as far as they're concerned, that's how it should be.

And you call them friends. Fuckin' bleak.

They— No, that's not how— They don't want me to hate myself. I just— I've made... mistakes. [ which is really besides the point. ] I'm not like most of my kind.

[Gen's mollified, if only slightly, by the man's assertion that his entire kind aren't as bad as he first said. But it does raise the question.]

What is your kind? I get the feeling it's not the same as mine.

[ that may not be quite what he meant, but... it's Complicated with a capital C. ]

I'm an angel. What're you?

A mutant.

[And then his words sink in.]

The fuck you are. An angel? Like from the Bible?

A mutant. What does that entail? I've never heard of such a thing.

[ cas pauses, tilting his head. ]

Yes. As in, "of the Lord". Granted, I rebelled, but it doesn't make me any less an angel.

Holy shit, doesn't that make you a demon or something?

[Give her a moment, she'll explain the mutant thing eventually. Right now she's busy developing a deep fascination with the person she was just insulting seconds prior.]

[ it's all right, he's patient. he'll wait for the explanation— in the meantime, he rolls his eyes. ]

No. It does not. Don't believe everything you read— Demons are former humans. When an angel falls, nothing about us changes, except that we no longer have access to Heaven.

And. Well. Betraying one's orders isn't taken lightly.

To be fair, I never read it. Think I heard that in a movie or something.

[Demons being former humans makes a whole lot more sense to Gen, quite frankly, but they'll get back to the inherent shittiness of humans in a bit.]

Nothing changes... so you always looked like young Columbo? Not what I would've pictured. And your whole family hates you now, ha, join the club.

Ah, I see.

[ his brow arches with something like disdain. movies are even less accurate, but he's not going to get into the dubious quality of human entertainment right now. ]

... No, this isn't my true form. This is a vessel. [ hm. ] Your family hates you?

I mean, I assume they do. They just fucked off after my mutation manifested so I never got it from the asshole's mouth or anything, but when you leave the state and don't tell your 12 year old kid? Gotta assume that's why.

[She's clearly trying to sound casual about it, but her eyes are lit from within with smouldering hatred.]

It's a mutant thing. We're a new evolution on the homo sapiens line, homo sapiens superior, and humans hate us for it. [After a pause.] Wait. If you're... does that mean... creationists were right about God but wrong about everything else? That would be fuckin' hilarious, please say yes.

Perhaps he was protecting you from something? My friends' father used to leave them alone all the time.

[ he has no idea her situation, though, of course. ]

Interesting. And you're in a struggle for power with them? [ his head gives a tilt. ] All religions have some threads of truth in them, but they're mostly wildly inaccurate. I suppose Creationism was right about God creating the universe and the Earth through... natural means. Science, evolution, they're all mostly accurate as far as you understand them.

Bullshit. They were protecting themselves from me.

The boarding school where I live is full of kids that were kicked out, abandoned, abused, experimented on... Professor Xavier started it because there's always so many of us. Human parents don't care once we turn out to be mutants. And you call that a power struggle? Pretty fuckin' unbalanced in their favour, isn't it?