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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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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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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.

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[ 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?

You said fighting with heaven doesn't make an angel a demon, right? So what if I was just like "yeah well, I heard it does so I'm gonna call you demon from now on, demon. You're a demon to me and that's what matters." Wouldn't it piss you off?

It would be... annoying, and factually inaccurate, but it wouldn't change anything. Demons and angels have a completely different physiology from one another. That's what makes us different species.

Oh, okay. You wanna see what makes me a different species from humans?

[Arguing identity while Castiel's hung up on literal meaning probably isn't the best move, but Gen will make one last attempt to win him over. She pulls out the lighter that's been clutched in one hand and strikes it, then holds her other hand over the flame and pulls it into that hand's open palm. When she turns it palm-up, the fire sits there like a dog at heel and flickers in a slightly too-controlled way.

Then she pockets the lighter and switches the flame back to that hand in a shimmering stream.]

[ his eyes follow her movements with a careful, controlled tic, his eyebrows raising a twitch at the way she yokes the fire with her power. he feels no push of magic, so it must be a natural ability, or at least he assumes that it is. he wonders how it functions. ]

Pyromancy? Impressive. And you were born able to do this?

We call it pyrokinesis, but yeah, basically. Not like I only use my mind anyway - I can feel it all through me, all the time.

[There’s definitely a new light in her eyes now that she’s got a little pool of flame in her hand, and her smile has taken on a certain feral energy.]

It’s like having infra-red senses. Anything hot enough that it could catch fire, I can give it that little push… and then it’ll do whatever I want.

So, this ability is a part of you.

[ he's intrigued by the possibilities; he has a similar capability himself, to be able to control fire, but it isn't so deeply imbedded beneath his skin as it seems to be beneath hers. it clearly has some deeper meaning, and he can't help but wonder why. ]

Do you use it to do battle?

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