maskormenacelogs | Catchall for July

WHO: Charles Xavier, Charles!clone and You!
WHERE: A bit of everywhere.
WHEN: July
WHAT: Meetings, powers training, random encounters, clone-a-rama.
WARNINGS: TBA, Charles clone is likely to use telepathy without IC consent. Here is my telepathy permission post if you want to opt out of that.

MEET CHARLES

a. home, still at Nonah
Charles lives in Nonah, in individual housing with Erik, Jean and Wanda. It's a two story building but with no stairs at the front and no thresholds that would make it hard to navigate with a wheelchair. If he has invited you into his home, he'll be waiting with a pot of tea and a tin of cookies. But if you're a chance visitor, he will welcome you just as warmly.

He's gathering his bearings finally and actually made a home for himself in the bedroom that used to be his, claimed some space around the house by piles of books often forgotten onto the tables and good scotch in a reachable cupboard in the kitchen. He's no longer red as a lobster what was going on after the beach episode of Swear-ins and Erik finally convinced him to have a haircut. Gone is the mullet and back is the 60's floppy hair-do. You might even catch him wearing a t-shirt, maybe with an X-men logo on it or a silly slogan, he got a few of those from Fanport.

Let's have a cup of tea or a game of chess, or just good conversation.

b. powers training at the danger room / Maria-Francis Foundation
The Maria-Francis Foundation building resides in ~~Nonah~~ De Chima. In the basement there is a wide space that Erik has been working with all month to get up and running as a powers training centre. The building is modern and tall, and Charles has taken a habit of waiting the people he's made appointments with at the front lobby.

He's excited to get the actual training started, get those hours in and grind some practice into people who have contacted him.

If you're not here for powers training, you can find him in the office, going through the Foundation's paperwork. You're damn right he's snooping on his own business. What of it?

c. interview, wherever seems convenient
Perhaps you're meeting him in a cafe or a park, he'll even agree to go the beach if that's convenient for you. What he's interested in is learning about what you have to say after all. Charles is very curious about what has aspired in this world before his time and how to put the details together into a cohesive picture in his mind.

He's quick to greet you with a smile and a warm handshake. Please, sit down. Would you like a cup of tea or coffee first? Do you mind if he makes some quick notes while you're discussing?

d. wildcard
Would you like something else? Perhaps run into him in the library or find him feeding pigeons one fine morning in the park? Maybe he was supposed to come to you? Are you having a dinner out? Are you one of the people he keeps an eye on and something is going awfully wrong? He would find a way to contact you. Throw me a bone, I'll run with it.

MEET THE CLONE

e. random encounter
Charles, the clone, looks and sounds exactly like the original but he doesn't have the stylish wheelchair with big X-symbols on the wheels. A big giveaway? Maybe not. His flippant attitude is probably the big neon sign that you weren't expecting. Wherever you meet - cafe, library, school, even the Foundation building - he's going to greet you with a sunny smile and a warm handshake, introduce himself if necessary and especially if you're a pretty brunette, he will flirt playfully while falling short with playing the caring and concerned game that Charles excels at.

He's going to be a little bit impatient, unlikely to avoid using his gifts even if you ask him to and multitasking to the max. Good luck catching all of his attention at any given time. But he's new to his powers, and easily overwhelmed.

f. for those he's interacted with before
As time goes by, he will start targeting Charles' friends and family. He'll find them at their work places or stage a random meeting elsewhere. Once or twice he'll even wander into the house in Nonah. You might find him at the kitchen having a cup of tea and leafing a genetics book, or perhaps wandering around, looking at pictures and fingering everything with curiosity. Or rolling into your workplace with a sunny smile and a suggestion to grab an early lunch.

g. wildcard
Something else you had in your mind? I'm an open book, come at me, bruh!

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[ Yusuke gives an apologetic nod, before reaching into his bag for his communicator to pull up an a news story from July 7th, an office building and its accompanying parking lot mysteriously ripped apart. The aftermath in the video shows windows and bricks in pieces, speared through by something supernatural, asphalt torn from the ground and thrown every which way. ]

That isn't an illusion. Physical evidence. The person who took the video watched me do it with my Persona, but I never told him anything about it.

[ Property damage is one thing, it could have been done by any sorts of powers. It could be Kaneki's powers for all Charles knows.

But the idea that there was an eye witness makes his brows furrow. Occam's razor and all that. It's getting a little difficult to think that if someone saw him do this-- ]

Who? Could they have been lying to you?

No. No, I am sure that he was not lying.

[ There was no possible way he could have known, described it back to him if he hadn't seen it himself. It's not the kind of thing someone could make up. "Your samurai soul-monster tried to spear me with ice" would be a hell of a lucky guess... ]

Brendan Frye. He arrived here around the same time that I did. Our relationship is strained. [ understatement! ] But he did not make it up.

[ He doesn't say that he think Brendan is well capable of lying when he feels like it's going to spare someone's feelings. But it doesn't seem to be the case here. ]

I see. Why is your relationship strained? [ A related question? Maybe not... Honestly, Charles doesn't see why Brendan would lie about something so elaborate and strange but maybe if the boys are in bad terms. ]

[ Sparing Yusuke's feelings was probably the last thing on his mind when he confronted him about it.

Still, the question makes him pause, makes him rub at his temple through his glove. It's a more personal question than he thinks Charles realizes, and he isn't sure how to answer it honestly without speaking ill of him. As messy as their relationship has been, Brendan doesn't deserve that. At least not towards a stranger. ]

We are both sensitive people prone to dire mistakes. It was a bad match.

[ He seems uncomfortable but he doesn't launch into an explanation about how Brendan is a bad person one way or another. Charles concludes that this is probably the boy Brendan has some feelings for.

Even more likely that he would lie but not out of ill will, not to hurt him definitely.

Charles nods. ] I see. Well, I'll be honest with you, I don't have answers for you at all. I'm quite sure someone could have made Brendan believe he saw what he saw while the situation could have been something else, but I can't think of a reason why someone would do that. I've only ever met people who are capable of either shapeshifting or loaning powers, not both. That doesn't mean it's not possible, of course. I'm not all knowing.

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