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Raven Darkholme | Mystique ([personal profile] permutates) wrote2013-07-25 05:05 pm

2nd Transformation . spam :: gym

[ Instead of asking the network, she goes to the gym herself, wanting to see if there's any likely teachers, or people who are worth watching. (Raven can learn a lot from watching, she's found.)

So she ventures into the gym, blue-skinned, dressed in a tank top and loose sweatpants, and she sees the balance beam.

She part-remembers being a child, stepping out into a playground and playing along one. She always had the best balance. And she thinks of what Azazel has been teaching her, and she wonders...

She hops up onto it, a smooth movement, and extends her arms, testing her balance one way or another. She seems steady, so she dashes from one end to the other, every footstep sure. She tips backwards, then, folds until she's standing on her hands. It's hard to keep her grip, exactly; she shifts her fingers and stretches her legs out, a split, one forward, one backward. Rolls onto the forward one, moving herself back to her feet. And she does the whole movement again, quicker this time.

It's easy.

Part of her wants to laugh with the thrill of it, with realizing how innate her own physical abilities are. How graceful she is when she's not pretending to be someone else.

She balances on the end, debating attempting some sort of flip off of it. ]
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid wants a hug secretly (╳ take your time; don't live too fast)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-01 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
She's - yeah, she is, kind of, and other things. A vigilante, I guess?

[He slows and squints, not sure if that's the right word.]

She's a friend, anyway. She's a good person. And she likes milkshakes.
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid is kinda sick of this bunker (╳ of a crust of bread)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-02 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Uh.

[Yeah, basically.]

Kind of. She's had a bad month.

[And he trusts Raven to be kind to her. Whatever else Raven is, she can be a good friend.]
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid questions your logic, mom (╳ sell your soul just to buy buy buy)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-02 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[He visibly relaxes. It's not much, he can't do that much for Cass, but it's something.]
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid's just double checking (╳ johnny wanted to run)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-03 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
[He chews the inside of his cheek, just briefly. He'd say Anya but - no. Raven upset Anya, unsettled her. Which reminds him, he needs to talk to her. He's less angry, now.]

My best friend - here, anyway - is Ben. He just graduated. But he'll probably talk to you again in his own time.

. . . Oliver. Oliver Queen. You might like him. [A quick smile.] Or hate him, I'm not sure. It depends on the day and how surly he's feeling.

He's my inmate. My second one. I don't know if I told you that.
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid would like you to try harder (Default)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-03 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's Ben. [There's a fond smile here that's probably totally incongruous with what she's seen of Ben so far. Which is creepiness.] He grows on you.

[He stops with the weights completely at her hesitation. He doesn't know if she thinks he's stupid or what, but.]

I'm still here. Bruce stayed on for a while, and then he had to go take care of some things at home. Make things right. This really wasn't a good place for him to stay long-term.

[Which doesn't answer the unspoken question, it doesn't tell her why, but it's somewhere to start, anyway.]
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid is kinda sick of this bunker (╳ of a crust of bread)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-03 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a stupid question. It's - complicated.

[He sighs, and runs his hands through his hair. How to put this . . .]

The one thing is, Erik's here. And this place - he doesn't deserve to be here.

The other thing is, Charles is here, and he's not leaving until Erik does.

And then the other big reason is . . . there are people here I need to be here for. Not just them, but Bruce, when he was here, he needed me, even after he graduated. [And Alex needed him, but that's not the point.] Jean, you might've met Jean, she's important. I couldn't leave Ben. And Pietro.

[Anya. Snow. Cass. Even Chris. There was no way he was just leaving them.]

This place makes me angry, the way it's set up, the way it's structured. The way things work around here sometimes. I'm not okay with not being here when people are locked up with nobody to advocate for them.

. . . I thought about staying home. But I think people could see [Darwin could see] I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I did.
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid will do this or die trying (╳ won't somebody come & rescue me)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-08 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
No! No way. It's not fair, I don't think it's fair to anybody. Not with the things that happen, with no warning. No way. I just want him to come home.

[Which. Is not the right thing to say. Probably. But it's out now, and - whatever, he does mean it. He wants things to be the way they were, or as close as they can be.]

[She doesn't.]

[Alex shrugs, shoulders tight.]


That's on him, though. [His choice. Not Alex's or Charles's or Raven's. Erik's.]
tolaywaste: ▶ x-kid wants someone else to go first (╳ & switchblades preferred)

[personal profile] tolaywaste 2013-08-11 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't know if it'll change anything. Doesn't know if he wants it to. He didn't want Erik to come home when he first got here; things have changed since then. Time changes a lot of things.]

[He'll wait and see.]

[He gets up abruptly, towels off the machines he's used fastidiously, and turns to go.]


I gotta go for a run. I'll see you later.