dear_mun | mun is feeling inadequate, muse is hardly helpful

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mun is feeling inadequate, muse is hardly helpful

Alright, I understand, now enough!

You are feeling inadequate, that's because you are. If you cannot muster the confidence to give me a voice than stop your attempts; you won't do me any justice and I can't have somebody so ill equipped as a conduit.

Yes, you miss playing in a game, you've said, but I am not here to play some fleeting obsession that you will soon tire of and abandon.

Yes, that sounds familiar, doesn't it? I thought it might.

Now get out of my head, mundane.

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I can see plainly that you're not one to sugarcoat things. Something I can appreciate.

Doing so would only waste my time and hers. I have better things to do than lie to a mundane just to spare her feelings.

Oh? Busy are we? May I be so bold as to ask with what?

I would prefer to keep that to myself. Besides, I will always have something better to do than lie about my confidence in a mundane. Being preoccupied with more important matters has nothing to do with it.

Do you have this trouble with your own?

Mine takes pleasure in the frivolous. These ridiculous memes she's determined to pitch me into are hardly befitting a Princess of Barsoom-...eh, Mars, I mean. That is the Earth term for my planet, I believe.

As you said: I have better things to do and more important matters that require my attention.

...Mars. You're not human, then?

No - does this displease you? You aren't the first to be surprised by that fact.

No, on the contrary-- I would like to know more about you if you'd be so inclined to share.

And yes, those memes...I suppose I should consider myself lucky that this one is picky about them.

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Never one for encouraging words, are you?

Hm, I'm would say I'm discerning. Providing encouragement isn't meant to soothe fragile egos, and I won't coddle anyone's banality.

And people wonder where I get my attitude from.

[His silence is one filled with unpleasant suspicion.] ...Is that supposed to mean something to me?

Do you know something I don't?

[Ah. Of course, he does not know. He should have expected that.]

Forgive me. I am Pietro Maximoff, and in another universe, you would be my father.

Well that's...a surprise. [He's reeling, but recouping quickly.]

Are you a mutant?

I am, as are my sisters.

Your sisters? And are they... [Also his children? Also mutants? He doesn't even know where to begin!]

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They don' tend t' listen when y' tell 'em t' go away. Just... friendly word of advice, y'know?

Have you found a successful alternative method?

I...er...discouragement seems to be the best way ta deal with muns. If it wasn't for that I'd be in prison by now.

Are you saying your mundane would have had you imprisoned?!

...The depths they will sink to is truly astounding.

Yes, Ma...uh, Magneto. Though really I've been in worse places of course. This looked like some posh rehab barge kinda deal.

But you just have to keep being negative and making them wonder how you'd get on with the other inmates. It works.

You know me. Am I supposed to know you? This mundane has been unclear about what point in my life she wants to focus on so my history has been...hazy. It's been frustrating.

You, well, you look and sound very familiar. Your hair isn't white though so maybe you aren't the Magneto I know. This may be one of those alternate reality things. Or time travel. Sorry about that.

Have you...have you led the Brotherhood yet?

...No, my hair isn't white. [He pinches the bridge of his nose, closing his eyes. Time travel, alternate realities, he had hoped he would be done with all that when he'd tossed that interventionist clawed mutant into the Potomac to drown. At the mention of the Brotherhood his expression grows distant before he collects himself.]

The Brotherhood-- Yes, I am in the process of rebuilding it. Do you belong to my Brotherhood?

What is your name?

I... [Dealing with Magneto again is just weird and awkward for him, but at least the man has no memory of Toad's failures. Probably.]

I was in the Brotherhood for quite a while. And various re-incarnations of the Brotherhood as well. I don't know that it was yours. But my name is Toad. Mortimer Toynbee.