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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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[ 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?

It does seem... unfair. [ he sighs. ] But humans have a history of this kind of behavior, so it isn't exactly surprising.

Just full up with love, right?

They're pitiable creatures. But they are capable of quite astounding acts of selflessness.

Yeah, well, no wonder they like you. Around here you just prove them all right.

Prove them right about... what?

That they're special or whatever. Put here by some higher power. God's children.

Well, they are. And so are you.

Yeah, that's definitely not what humans who believe in all that shit say about us.

It doesn't mean they're right. You're human, just same as they are. God wanted you to exist.

[Gen's hand clenches around something in her jacket pocket and she juts her chin out defiantly as she steps closer to Castiel, posture as threatening as she can manage with her just-over-five-feet frame.

This is harder to do without fire but she honestly doesn't know if she can burn an angel, and that pisses her off even more.]

Don't you ever call me a human.

Edited 2022-08-31 17:28 (UTC)

[ fortunately or unfortunately, fire won't affect him the way she wants it to, and in response to her words, he simply looks— confused. baffled, really, although the way the lines settle into his face, it must be a familiar expression. ]

But you are. You told me yourself, your kind are on humanity's evolutionary tree. And your abilities aside, you seem to be fundamentally of the same construction.

They threw us out of the human club. They say we're just freaks and mistakes and too dangerous to be among them. And y'know what? I don't usually stay somewhere I'm not wanted.

Mutants aren't humans.

You're certainly not the first group they've treated in such a way, and none of them have had the distinction of being on a different evolutionary branch altogether. Does it really make a difference?

Yeah. It really makes a difference.

Why?