mun has been fumbling around the bent bullet website a bit....

[mph]

I know it's not PC for me to say my Grandpa's a badass, but I'm pretty sure that any mutant who says that they've never thought that Magneto was cool as hell at any point in their life is lying through their teeth. You know who I hoped would win out when I was locked up in juvy? Magneto. And this was before I even knew I was related to him! I just thought, hey. If anyone could bust me out of here it would be Magneto. That's what happens when normal people treat you like dirt all your life because you're different; you start to idolize the ones who are willing to fight dirty for your rights.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I'm a hero now. I need to keep my sights on Professor X or Captain America, people fighting for peace and justice. And I do respect them, like a lot, but it's not the same you know?

And now I'm really really really hoping that finding a president killer badass doesn't get me kicked off the team.

If anyone asks, this was all you, mun. You're the one looking through this whole bent bullet page and getting a raging history boner, I'm just along for the ride.

Comments

[greatestheroever]

I've never thought he was cool, but we've never spoken.

How's it different? Because he's your Granpa?

[mph]

You can't honestly tell me you never sat down when you were a kid and thought for even a second that Magneto was totally right. I mean he's not, but still.

And him being my grandpa's got nothing to do with it. I didn't even know he was until like a year ago.

[greatestheroever]

I didn't know who he was really. I was raised in a virtual world.

Then how's he different from the Professor? I mean, aside from ... you know. Um. [Logan would be so mad at him for even asking that question.]

[mph]

There we go, that's why.

...How do you not know the difference between Professor X and Magneto? Did you just come out from your virtual world yesterday?

[greatestheroever]

I know how they're different, the Professor gave a guest lecture. [He took notes!]

I mean why do you idolize Magneto? How can you respect both him and the Professor?

[mph]

I don't. I did, there's a difference. Now I just have a hell of a lot of respect for him. [shrug] and why can't I respect two different people who both stood up for what was right in their own ways? There's no law anywhere that says I can't respect more than one person.

[greatestheroever]

[He has to pause to think about that. He kind of gets it but not really.]

I don't see why you can't, but everyone always picks sides. Like with Wolverine and Cyclops. Cyclops says he's just trying to help mutants, but everyone says he's a terrorist and is just making things worse for us.

[dorkling]

You're totally getting the boot.

[ Yeah, he's kidding. ]

[mph]

[ don't even joke about that, man, this team means the world to him. ]

You know I'm right though. He might be an awful terrorist but he's still a badass.

[mph]

Yeah well, everyone in the City's saying Cyclops has just gone nuts. At least, that's the word on the street.

[greatestheroever]

[He sighs.] Maybe he did, but the headmistress still left with him.

I wish things were simpler.

[spideyfanone]

I've met, like, four cool Magnetos. All of them definitely badass. So, um, if that helps. The multiverse is kinda wacky, but at least there's still causality and stuff.

[mph]

You're telling me. Kind of stuck in multiverse limbo in my own timeline right now, so I've got nothing better to do than hang around here.

[mph]

Simple's why we pick sides, man.

[spideyfanone]

Sounds like a pain in the butt. I've been dropped in so many weird worlds at this point that sounds kind of restful.

[mph]

It's boring as hell is what it is. There's only so many times I can count to 1000 without going nuts.

[greatestheroever]

But you have to get it right, even if it's hard.

[mph]

No you don't. Everyone else is always switching sides, why can't we?

[greatestheroever]

Because people could get hurt!

[spideyfanone]

Yeah, that sounds way more like English class than adventures in the boundless well of potential worlds should.

[thebetterweapon]

[Don't mind him, he's just going to sit here and chuckle.]

Metalhead has his moments.

[magnetic_magpie]

Just be careful who you say that around.

[ But if he had been able to, if he had known, just he would have rescued Tommy. ]

[mph]

[ holy shit it's Sabertooth. A little terrified, but hey, he's pretty good at keeping his cool for an overactive teenager. ]

You know that Metalhead actually means something, right? Unless you're going to tell me that Magneto listens to death metal, because then he's just going to be the coolest grand-dad ever.

[mph]

[ yeah well, what's done is done, and maybe he wouldn't have ended up in Juvy at all if he knew who he was in the first place. No one can change the past, at least not without serious consequences. ]

Yeah, I'm getting that. Doesn't make any of it any less true though.

[thebetterweapon]

[A grunt and he tucks a cigar in his teeth.]

Ain't got nothin' to do with his music tastes.

[Yes, smell like fear. He likes it.]