late night group text

[seeingred]

you all have weird taste in ice cream

MARCH 28, 2025 ▪ 3:14 AM

Scott added Illyana Rasputin to the group

Scott changed the group name: Marked Individuals

Team meeting in the kitchen. Now.

Comments

Emma/Manuel

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

[...] We are. But [...] these are glimpses into what we're capable of being. Capable of doing. No?

I don't think so. I don't remember him acting any differently.

Emma/Manuel

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Technically, but it's all just probabilities and nature versus nurture, isn't it? If there are infinite universes, there are infinite iterations of us, and different environments breed different results. I don't think our selves are so rigid that we can only be one sort of person.

I wish this made more sense. I wonder what he's helping the entity do.

Emma/Manuel

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

[......] Perhaps you're right.

They're a mutant, no? He could be trying to teach them about using their powers, whether practically or ethically. Like he did with us. What troubles me more is how it's connected to everything else, the Otherworld and these connections we have, and why Xavier hasn't gotten in touch with us.

Emma/Manuel

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

[...] Are we bad people, in yours?

They are, but there's something so off about them. I don't know what to make of it. If they're capable of manipulating realities it could be that, but also [...] I don't know. Charles better be unable to contact us, or I'm going to have quite a few words for him.

Emma/Manuel

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

[...] Bad feels inadequate. But yes. You and I are.

If they can manipulate realities, uncanny dreams are going to be the least of our problems. But until we find them, it's all speculation.

Emma/Manuel

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

[...] And it bothers you. Which means you're already better than him. You're not whoever he is, Manny.

Agreed. Their mind is so expansive, too. The amount of potential is frightening. Even when we find them [...] Even with us annoying them they haven't done anything too terrible to us. Maybe that should give us a little bit of reassurance.

Emma/Manuel

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

[......] I know that.

Maybe. Though, if all of this is happening due to a lack of control or as the collateral damage of some other aim, that's still troubling.

Emma/Manuel

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

[...] You and I have a complicated relationship with other people because of our powers. It's so easy to be terrible. But we're not.

Absolutely. I just worry about the eventual confrontation. I wish I had the time to reach out to Charles my first time in Cerebro.

Emma/Manuel

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

It's so easy. Easy to do it. Easy not to care. In the dream, no matter what I did, I didn't care at all. [...] I always thought Xavier was unfair to me. With the constant judgement and the lessons and the insistence that I needed to be better. But if this is what he saw in me, I can't even blame him.

If anyone could've reached Xavier, Emma, you would've. We'll just have to work with what we have.

Emma/Manuel

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Charles isn't a saint. And he went about things the wrong way with you. It was unfair. [...] Darling, we just have to work a little harder than others. And we do. All I meant by what I said is that us being like that is the path of least resistance. Of course we'll see it more often than we'll see it in the others. They're not immune to being terrible too, though.

I know. I just want this to be over.

Emma/Manuel

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

[...] I know. And I know you're right, Emma. [...] I just don't want to feel like that. Ever. I need time to clear my head. If you still want to know, if the others need to know, maybe then.

I do too. But we're getting closer, at least. Back to Cerebro and then off to Antarctica and then perhaps this is done.

Emma/Manuel

[frost_queen Emma Frost ♕ White Queen]

Of course. [...] I'm always so impatient for everyone to feel better. But of course it will take time. I will want to know, when you're ready. I think telling any of us isn't strictly necessary, though.

I am going to tell Scott about Monday, though. I kept meaning to, given how things escalated, but I kept getting distracted.

It is something to have a plan at least. [...] I wish I had used Cerebro earlier. But I don't think waiting was unreasonable.

Emma/Manuel

[empata Manuel de la Rocha (Empath)]

You're going to hate it.

[...] I understand. [...] Did Scott tell you about Thursday?

You were right to be cautious. And things might've gone differently the second time with Illyana, anyway.