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Scott 'has zero self-respect' Summers ([personal profile] laserguy) wrote in [community profile] expiationlogs2024-07-07 07:23 pm

me and all my other mes

Who: Scott Summers and you
Where: Around Aldrip
What: Scott glitching into different versions of himself, such as 97, James Marsden, time displaced teen Scott from the comics, etc...
Warnings: Maybe some possible spoilers for X-Men 97??


I’m Totally Buggin (X-Men 97);
[Walking around Aldrip? You may notice a slightly familiar, but also pretty different version of one Scott Summers. Mostly, just the fact that he's an adult that's wearing a bright and colorful X-Men uniform. Look, who would wear black leather?? There's definitely a certain serious countenance to him as he looks around, because this place is new and unfamiliar and where is his team? Hell, he'll even be glad to see Magneto around, since the older mutant has shown that he's capable of letting humans go despite their crimes against them. Second chances and all. It's what the late Professor wanted.

...He still wonders if he didn't do a good enough job if the Professor left everything to Magneto.

But no thoughts for that right now. He has to find the other X-Men or help out any mutants if they are in this city. So, once again, he tries to communicate with the other members of his team, pressing the communicator on his uniform to contact them.]


It's Cyclops, report.

[Once that message is sent, however, Scott will continue his exploration, perhaps even resorting to stopping someone else to ask for information. This doesn't look like an elaborate kidnapping ploy, so he's willing to hear out any of the people walking around.] Can you tell me where we're at?

[Maybe you'll catch Scott walking around one of the more crime infested areas, just casually blasting a robber from across the street with the lowest power setting so that they collapse to the ground, mostly uninjured. It sure is nice to have a visor where he can control the output of his blasts.]

I was basically a cameo (X3: Last Stand);
[Enjoying the beach? Well, maybe not anymore, because there is a scream that echoes throughout the area before two familiar red blasts shoot through the sea for a few seconds, the water breaking apart before instantly converging once more as Scott falls to his knees a respectable distance away (look, he wasn't going to blast right next to someone, he has just enough sense for that). And it's definitely some version of Scott as he stares out at the ocean with an expression that seems haunted and exhausted, despite the shades covering his eyes. Maybe it's the fact that he clearly hasn't shaven in a hot minute.

Normally, Scott wouldn't even think to act this way out in public. But Jean is gone. He can't even hear her in his mind now. She's been dead for a year and he still can't come to grips with it. It's just. He should've done more for her. He should've been there. He should've done something. He... he doesn't know what to do and all that training and self-control is not helping him right now.

He can only just look at the water in front of him, so unlike the lake that claimed her, teeth clenching as her name falls from him.]


Jean...

I stole Wolverine's bike (All New X-Men comics);
[Well, isn't this great.

This Scott half expects Hank to pop out of nowhere and tell him that he's been brought to somewhere else to stop his future self, even if it doesn't make any sense. Nothing has made sense though in the past few days. Look, learning that he kills Charles Xavier in the future, that his future self is a mutant revolutionary hanging out with Magneto, and that everyone pretty much hates him has been a lot. He... he didn't do that. He doesn't want to do any of that.

But Hank hasn't come out to tell him his new idea. And people aren't looking at him with utter contempt or distrust. It's kind of nice. Sure, he only experienced that for just a few days now, but it has been enough. It's not like he can really forget how even Jean looked at him when everyone learned what his future self is like. Probably didn't help that he literally attacked him and the others and promptly disappeared with his new best friend Magneto.

God, this sucks still. Because he doesn't know where he's at and no one is familiar. He'd still rather have the other young X-Men here, because even if it's Bobby or Warren looking at him with distrust, at least they're still his friends.

Scott stares up at the sky for a moment, closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. He can handle this. He can--]


This might as well happen!

[He shouts into the sky before promptly collapsing back on the grass and staring upward still. Maybe that feral man with the claws will come out of nowhere to kill him. He wonders if it would be that bad.]

wildcard;
[Want a different Scott? Just let me know and I'll try to swing it! Feel free to plot with me at [plurk.com profile] currykirby]
orphne: (Kotone 1)

i'll start with the comics boy but no promises i won't come back for the others

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-08 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Impressive shout! And that sounds like a new arrival to her, which is a little strange because hadn't they just had a bunch of new Chosen show up? Then again, things around the city have been glitching worse than usual, so maybe this is another symptom of that. Either way, it's weird enough to merit her interest, so she changes course (she'd been planning to head home) and instead ventures onto the grass and peers down at the guy on the ground.

Those glasses... she can't quite hide a jolt of confused recognition, but she wipes it from her face quickly enough and instead gives him her best smile.]


You okay down there?
mightymorphin: (C; stuck in the permafrost)

'97!

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-07-08 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Morph had kept their communicator on them, but despite all their attempts to call the team after their arrival, it had remained dead silent. Until now. They're so startled that they nearly fumble the thing out of their hands before they can transmit a message back.]

Cyke, is that you?! I mean - this is Morph, reporting in!
entreats: (reach out and hold back)

basically a cameo

[personal profile] entreats 2024-07-08 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Honestly, if it wasn't for the beams, Ange may not even have realised that this is Scott.

He looks just different enough, after all. Older? Kind of.. more ragged, maybe? There's a part of Ange that feels like labeling this Scott some random divorced dad, but she's pretty sure that there's only one person in this city who's capable of blasting beams like that from their eyes.

It does make the differences about this guy compared to her housemate more stark though, and Ange's eyebrows knit themselves together into a frown as she tries to figure all of this out in her mind. ]


.. Scott..?

[ She even sounds so puzzled. It's just weird thinking of this unshaven guy as him. What kind of weird stuff is this place doing this time around? ]
orphne: (Kotone 250)

show me a scott who's not sad and maybe that'll be the one koto doesn't go for--

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-09 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah?

[Her voice is light and cheerful, even as something tugs at her heart. He sounds like the Scott she'd danced with that night at the inn when they'd first met, all bitter and angry. Nothing like the Scott who's (hopefully) waiting for her at home. Is her Scott waiting for her? There's a sudden panic that maybe her Scott is gone, but- don't panic. Don't think like that. The boy in front of her, maybe-Scott, needs help right now. She'll text her Scott after.

> Help him up
> Tease him
> Join him]


I've never tried that from the grass before! [And without further ado, she plops down beside him and lays flat on her back, gazing up at the sky above.] I usually have my crises on the roof.
orphne: (Kotone 198)

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-09 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately for him, Kotone's never been one to leave anybody be. Turning her head against the grass, she gives him a brief smile, though it doesn't quite reach her eyes. She's out of practice lying to make people feel better, huh...? It's a good thing Dazai's back; maybe he can help her out.

In any case, she's here with someone who sounds a little like how Scott used to be, and wearing-]


It was your glasses, actually! [she admits, tapping her temple as if she had glasses of her own.] One of my best friends has glasses just like yours.
mightymorphin: (C; i used to be a real go-getter)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-07-10 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just me and Rogue. We've been here a few weeks. We went looking for the others, with no luck. You're the only other one to call in.

[As relieved as they are to hear from Scott, Morph isn't thrilled to have to break it to him. They could only hope that the rest of the team was safely at home instead of being who-knows-where.]

Rogue's around but she won't be easy to contact. She doesn't have her communicator, and she's been hanging out on rooftops since her costume got torn up.
orphne: (Kotone 263)

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-11 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[She can't help but giggle a bit. He's funny like her Scott is, if a little dryer and more sarcastic. Maybe that's part of his circumstances, though. Besides, she doesn't actually know if he's Scott, or just somebody who talks like him and wears glasses like him. Nothing for that but to ask--]

Oooh, so I'm the one who's behind the times, huh? [Her eyes sparkle with a bit of amused mischief as her own brand of sarcasm to match his. It's also just very funny in general considering her Scott is from 40 years before her.] So what should I call a trendsetter like you? I'm Kotone.

[Without getting up, she offers her hand across to him. Shake on it?]
mightymorphin: (C; what would you trade the pain for?)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-07-11 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Define 'subtle'.

[Because Morph sure hasn't been, and no one's tried throwing rocks at them yet. They're pretty sure Rogue's also been using her powers in public, but she had good reason to be wary about civilians brushing up against her.]

There's no immediate threats here. This place is more weird than dangerous. I've met people with powers, but they aren't mutants and they don't know what mutants are. There's - there were a couple of mutant teenagers here already, and they seem to be doing fine.

[Sure, Morph could fill him in on the whole alternate-reality wonky timeline stuff... but it would be way more fun for Scott to find that out on his own.]
orphne: (Kotone 264)

[personal profile] orphne 2024-07-12 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[It is a really, really good thing she's been thinking about her training with Dazai since her mentor's return, because it's the only thing that keeps a smile on her face when Scott introduces himself. She'd be lying to herself if there weren't an undercurrent of fear that snakes through her veins, a genuine worry that her Scott is gone, replaced by somebody else. Then again, hadn't there been those two guys called Matt Murdock on the OkCinder app? So maybe it's fine. Maybe her Scott is still waiting for her.

She keeps her hand in his as long as he wants to hold it, though, tilting her head a little to try to make her smile look as genuine as possible.]


Nice to meet you, Scott! Did you just get here?

[Read: has anybody else noticed there's a totally different Scott wandering around. Also, once he lets go of her hand (if he lets go), she wants to message her own Scott to see if he responds.]
incorrigibles: (( 23 ))

the dead gf one. u know

[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-07-13 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it's not that the beach really holds much appeal for charles, given that he can hardly swim or enjoy the sun or anything of the sort, despite how very normal and corporeal he looks — maybe a little out of place there in his normal outfit, black jacket and all. he's... well, truthfully, he's moping and he's man enough to admit that that's exactly what he's doing here; he stops to pick up a few rocks, throws them to the water, watches them skip across the surface with a sigh —

and then there's a scream and charles stops in his tracks, prepares to run wherever it's coming from in case someone needs help — except it's not in that way, is it? he sees the man, falling to his knees in what looks painfully like despair, and charles clocks the anguish in the scream that still echoes inside his mind, not least because he feels the same kind of anguish inside his head, all hours of the day, worse the longer he stays here.

so he walks closer, his feet leaving no imprints in the sand.
]

Hey, [ he says, pausing a respectable distance away, and there's an aching sympathy in his tone. ] Uh, maybe you don't exactly want company right now, especially some bloke you don't even know, but... just, wanted to say sorry for your loss.

[ because that's what this is, isn't it — mourning. he can recognise it all too well. ]
mightymorphin: (C; i used to be a real go-getter)

[personal profile] mightymorphin 2024-07-14 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Like the Avengers without the skintights, maybe. Not too many people here are walking around in costumes.

[There was such an eclectic group of people here that Morph couldn't even say they were all civilians. Just being in street clothes didn't seem to be a sign that anyone here was lacking in special abilities.]

Yeah, agreed. Rouge and I are holed up in an inn that gives free room and board to newcomers, but we'll be looking for a place soon. We decided it was better to stay together than to go at it alone.

[Then, after a brief pause Morph asked,] Are you holding up okay, Cyke?
entreats: (to my weakness and won't let go)

[personal profile] entreats 2024-07-14 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[ Never has a person's expression gone all the way from thoroughly confused to disgruntled in as short of a time as what is happening with Ange's face right now. Sure, technically she's still a little confused as to what's going on here, but his reaction and lack of recognition are actually telling her a few things.

Just enough to make the first few puzzle pieces fall into place. ]


Seriously? [ She first says - even though it's aimed more at this place than at this weird other Scott.

Good luck figuring that one out though as she starts to approach him, taking steps in his direction. ]


Hold on.

[ Ange says in the middle of that process. She fishes her tablet out of her pocket, scrolling through it to find Scott's username, and then presses the button to call him. It's one way to figure out whether this is the Scott she knows - somehow - or if it's just that a different Scott showed up.

So soon after their conversation about alternate selves too. It's almost like they jinxed it, but that thought only makes Ange more disgruntled. Can the people in charge here stop listening in on their conversations? They're private for a reason! ]
incorrigibles: (( 69 ))

hahajgkdhf

[personal profile] incorrigibles 2024-07-14 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Hard not to, mate, [ charles answers with a half-grimace, and then immediately realises that it's an absolute shit answer. ]

Let's just say I've dealt with a lot of death.

[ in the past thirty-five years, how many times have they looked into a case, just to see the client's family mourning, or their client themselves mourning for the life they've lost, or someone else, long passed — through it all, charles is far more familiar with the sadness of loss than he is with most other things.

but, in the end, that's not entirely the whole truth, is it? no; it's something far, far more personal than that. and so he stuffs his hands in his pockets and adds,
] And honestly? Because I feel that way, too. Like a part of me's just — gone.

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