And frankly, Scott, I don't know if we have the right to tell them not to kill the people who have been making everyone's lives miserable. People have undoubtedly died because of their corruption.
We don't have the right to tell them how to do anything.
But strategically, the less blood the better. Containing it to the people most responsible, as opposed to letting it spiral into whole-city warfare. There's going to be violence and they're going to oust those people one way or another. It's just a matter of how surgically it happens, and what comes after.
I do think we need to push an agenda where every solution happens behind closed doors. I want positive propaganda, something that can inspire people.
What I don't want is people being executed because they became a part of a corrupt system. It sends the wrong message. People may argue that they'll feel stronger when they see the stronger people defeated.
But I'd hazard a guess that it never works that way. Not when there's that much death involved.
I think if they do we'll just feel responsible for failing to stop them. They're our team. We're not leaders here, but we're still a part of what happens. We'll be complicit in some way.
We're a team. What happens to the team reflects on the people within the team. Even if no one's fully responsible for the ultimate actions of the team while in the field.
Champions is six, including me. The team of X-Men I'm working with is 7 people plus two people keeping it running/funded and two people serving as teachers/back-up. But there are dozens of X-Men total, we just don't all work all together all the time.
You want to control the actions of sixty people all for the sake of saying it reflects on us. We can only do what we're able to in the face of all of this.
[Veronica Lodge doesn't need to be asked to do anything she already wants to do.]
Just because you're trying to be a different man than the other Scott Summers, that doesn't mean you don't share traits with him. I'm not completely unlike my father, and we're not genetically identical twins, so to speak.
You were expected to do that because you were capable of it all along.
The real question was ever it was good to give in to your worst traits.
And clearly, that isn't the case. But that's precisely how it is with me, as well.
[ But why would she want to do it at all, is the thing Scott will struggle to understand. Not generally. Just, for him. ]
That's not
[ Actually, he doesn't know what to say to this. All the statements that come to mind just sound terrible, like no that's not my worst trait. Or arguing about temporal continuity. Also, it would be stupid? ]
That's not one of the things about him I was avoiding.
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And frankly, Scott, I don't know if we have the right to tell them not to kill the people who have been making everyone's lives miserable. People have undoubtedly died because of their corruption.
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But strategically, the less blood the better. Containing it to the people most responsible, as opposed to letting it spiral into whole-city warfare. There's going to be violence and they're going to oust those people one way or another. It's just a matter of how surgically it happens, and what comes after.
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I do think we need to push an agenda where every solution happens behind closed doors. I want positive propaganda, something that can inspire people.
What I don't want is people being executed because they became a part of a corrupt system. It sends the wrong message. People may argue that they'll feel stronger when they see the stronger people defeated.
But I'd hazard a guess that it never works that way. Not when there's that much death involved.
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Don't give people the satisfaction of seeing anyone murdered.
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[ Even if Scott isn't so certain it can be done. ]
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I may be here to stop my father. I am here to stop my father. But my father's actions aren't mine.
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How many people?
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That's my point, and you knew it was my point all along.
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You want to control the actions of sixty people all for the sake of saying it reflects on us. We can only do what we're able to in the face of all of this.
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I didn't say I wanted control. And it's not about reflecting on me. It's about wanting people to not do something stupid.
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I just also like having realistic expectations of what it is that I can accomplish.
You don't.
[Calling him out is like, her full-time job at the moment.]
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Okay, no. That's completely unfair. This is the exact thing I am supposed to be capable of accomplishing. It's the thing I was supposed to be doing.
Eventually.
Before I got stuck in the future.
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Just because you're trying to be a different man than the other Scott Summers, that doesn't mean you don't share traits with him. I'm not completely unlike my father, and we're not genetically identical twins, so to speak.
You were expected to do that because you were capable of it all along.
The real question was ever it was good to give in to your worst traits.
And clearly, that isn't the case. But that's precisely how it is with me, as well.
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That's not
[ Actually, he doesn't know what to say to this. All the statements that come to mind just sound terrible, like no that's not my worst trait. Or arguing about temporal continuity. Also, it would be stupid? ]
That's not one of the things about him I was avoiding.
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