etrayalogs | semi-closed; family and extended family drama

WHO: Scott, Julian, Quentin, Nate's comatose body, and any other mutant that wants to bother them
WHEN: A few days before Camp Etraya ends, after this thread
WHERE: Camp Etraya
WHAT: A comatose Nate and Scott return to the camp after the mission at Solmara
NOTES\WARNINGS: mutants being assholes

[So, there's something happen in the middle of camp.

Mostly Julian and Quentin arguing-- talking to each other, which, probably isn't really all that surprising on a normal day. However, there's that great added bonus of Julian carrying Nate's unconscious body ~~in a princess hold~~, which probably gives the whole grumbling at each other a little more gravitas. Because he definitely is unconscious-- comatose, not twitching at all amongst the commotion.

Scott's standing a little off to the side from them and probably unsurprisingly from the teen, looking grumpy and moody. Also worried. But definitely those first two emotions because a rather big revelation happened thanks to a Mr. Hellion. So, he's just sort of dealing with that little tidbit of information, while also blaming himself slightly for Nate being comatose in the first place. It's also annoying that he can't do much else right now.

What a great time for others to say hi to everyone, right? See what's going on. Welcome back the assholes from Solmara?? And the two that brought them here.]

[ooc: A mutant mingle log to bother everyone. Have fun!]

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(He'll manage to break free, but it kind of just brings that same pose she used on him to get him to pipe down at the barbecue. The authority figure one, before she realizes what she is doing and drops her arms, relaxes her posture. This is not going to help this time. It's not order and a shake-up he needs, it's quite the opposite, but in specifics? Fuck it if she knows.)

What did Hellion do this time?

(Jesus Christ.)

I wanna hear from straight from you, and I'll answer all questions that I can answer myself. I want to help you. Please, come on.

[Something within Scott flares seeing her adapt that pose, an ugly and angry feeling that almost pushes him to that edge to just leave her. Leave all this. Probably not forever, because he can't deep down, but for a while. But Sophie doesn't let that pose last long enough and so he doesn't start turning away, movement forgotten as he instead continues to listen to her.

And well, still be angry. Because it's Scott. This Scott.]

What doesn't he do?

[No, he's not a fan. Getting kicked into the pool without warning didn't help. The amount of disdain that he seems to have towards his other self doesn't help either.]

But fine, help me. [He's giving her the option at least?? But... the attitude.]

(She's gonna start charging Julian for her PR services, that he has no idea she's been doing. Still, she doubts that he babbled on purpose or maliciously; still, convincing Scott? Whole new thing, and she's leaving that to the very end, because if she leads with that is not going to help.

It's fine if he has attitude, although it does tempt her to get her own up. A whole exercise of not throwing hands with a kid, finding inner peace, try to find some patience within her soul, choose it. Okay.)

Okay. Then ask me. What do you wanna know?

[So now she's giving him the option. She's opening the entire floor to him. He can ask whatever the hell he wants and... find out whatever else? Is that what this is about? Finding all potential secrets that the others are hiding from him? Or is it something else, like the fact that he feels like an outsider still. Probably a little bit of both.

For a while, he doesn't even know what to say, how to put forth all these tumultuous feelings into something that's even understandable.

Scott's the first one to break eye contact with her, eyes drawing to the ground. Can't he just continue being angry at her? At everyone? It was easy to get that feeling again when Julian talked about the other Scott, because it felt like he was being compared to someone that he hates. But now Sophie's here, reaching out to him. Like he matters to her.]

Why does everyone hate me-- the other me?

(They're far enough that this conversation isn't going to be picked up on, but just in case? She's concealing their voices from the people in camp, and if she thinks he needs it, she'll conceal them completely. She lets him feel the fact that they're bubbled, before she looks at this kid, who looks completely defeated.

And at the loaded question. She's just going to give him as much as she can, the best way she can.)

Okay, well. First of all, I don't hate him. He's Ms. Frost, my mum's, ex. The Three-in-One stuck with him out of a bit of spite, but we listen to him. I didn't get the chance, you know that, but we're One, so, it's a joint sentiment.

(There, at least one is out.)

Quire doesn't hate him either. He's in his team currently, and every time he told me about his life in there, it's always been positive, so. Quire is insufferable to everyone, so if he is a bitch to you, that's just him.

(But that's not the issue, is it?)

Julian doesn't... Look, I don't wanna talk for him, but it's not hate. You are the original X-Men, which means you preceded our generation, and nothing is ever easy, right? He's gone through a lot; he's jaded.

... And he's a bit of an ass, so, put those two together, there you have it.

[A small part of him notices the way they're concealed, their conversation actually private from any nearby onlookers, and he appreciates it. That small part of him anyway, because the rest of the teen is still struggling with his emotions, the fact he feels like an outcast or some oddity that nobody knows how to deal with.

.....

You know, Sophie's clone mom or whatever might as well have dated his other self. Why not. Scott's heard so much shit in the past hour or so he actually feels kind of numb about that. Or maybe a part of him just wants to laugh about it. Well, at least his asshole self didn't date Sophie?? It almost feels like a victory in a fucked up sense.

The teen just continues to half listen, half acknowledge the stuff she's saying-- Quire really isn't the problem, and Julian is an asshole and... what?]

...You're still comparing me to him, Sophie. 'I'm part of the original X-Men' or how I 'preceded your generation.'

[........] I'm not a X-Man. I'm fucking younger than you. No one really seems to actually get that. It's always 'I had to deal with your bullshit' or whatever.

[Mostly only Julian has said that, but he figures that he's the only mutant that is a dick enough to say it out loud.]

... You're right.

(Because she recognized what she said once he told her, but in general? She really just sees Scott as this little thing that is lost, kind of a baby bird that got thrown out of the nest. He's not Cyclops to her, but perhaps that's easier for her to understand, considering she's not Emma. Not nearly the same thing, but it helps.

Still, all she has is to breathe in, try to refocus, and listen to his thoughts to guide her. She can't do much better than that.)

... It's just Julian, isn't it? Be honest with me, who treated else you shitty?

[Her acknowledgement of his feelings doesn't help as much as he thought it would... the frustration still keeping everything about him tense. Guarded.]

Julian is just saying the stuff that everyone else is thinking.

[At least in Scott's shitty teen perspective.

He feels like everyone is always thinking about that, because everyone so far has recognized him to some degree. And it's never been an outwardly positive reaction, with the possible exception of Jean. And Laura. It's polite at best, like they're definitely holding shit back because they had to deal with his other self's bullshit.

As Julian so politely put it.]

Who the fuck is everyone, Scott, and since when are you the mind reader?

(Coulda put it in a nicer way? Most likely. Did it? Not really, but she just wants to put it through his brain that he's got no way to know what everyone else is thinking, especially when surrounded by people who do. Look, he's got one person being mean, and she can't imagine the rest of them being just as bitchy.

So. Time to force his teen braincells to think.)

You aren't, so you have to give me evidence. What did we, Julian aside, say or do to make you think you're hated?

I don't have to be a stupid mind reader to know, okay?!

[He snaps, slightly pissed off that he feels like he has to justify his own anger and feelings of being left out to her. It probably doesn't help that a part of him is still exhausted from the Solmara mission, that he just wants to just rest and be left alone after dealing with all that shit, but clinging to unresolved anger is something he's very good at.

An anger that will always exist until it's properly dealt with.]

I've been a fucking outcast for most of my life and it's not like this feels any different from that. Just leave me alone.

(Left out, she gets. Hated? Not at all, because it's not what she sees, and trying to put some sense into his head currently feels the most impossible task of the century with words alone. She'll get it one day, but this is the first time she is faced with it, so? At a loss completely.

She did say she wasn't used to it and that she wasn't great. At least they were both aware this was going to happen eventually.

Pushing him isn't going to work right now, so. Fine.)

Go rest. I'll talk to you later.

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