Voicetesting; Civil War-era.

[ex_medals553]

I'm not a mutant, in case you couldn't tell. Not only that, but it's illegal to use mutant powers in Olympic competitions.

Some of us decide not to put on tights and capes and beat people up. Even though we're exceptional.

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[the_gerber_baby]

*Have a duck smoking a cigar*

Don't get me started on those nutcases in funny tights, kid.

[ex_medals553]

Oh, go ahead. Get started.

[the_gerber_baby]

Crazy. The whole bunch of them. Gettin' so a regular guy can't even make an honest buck without some super-nut gettin' into a fight outside his door.

[arach_nerd]

Oh, like your life isn't equally as bizarre.

[the_gerber_baby]

That is through entirely no fault of my own! Crazies keep findin' me!

[nobodysbishie]

Ev'ryone always bashes the funny tights.

[the_gerber_baby]

Well, yeah. What kinda nut wears tights outside of the ballet?

[nobodysbishie]

Gymnasts, boxers, pro wrestlers... basically folks who needs to be gettin' seriously physical and needs their clothing to stay outta their way. For my money, baseball players would count too; those pants they got are goddamn ridiculous.

As for all the primary colors, well. Some'a it might just be tryin' to show off... [He's looking at YOU, Spidey.] But a big part of it is so's people know that the heroes have arrived. And that can be a valuable thing, at times.

[arach_nerd]

And your point is?

[ex_medals553]

My point is I worked hard to get here. And I'm tired of you -- of supers making that mean nothing.

[arach_nerd]

Well, it's not like we did it on purpose.

And a good chunk of us are just really well-trained people anyways.

[ex_medals553]

When I was fourteen, I lost two teammates to a growing young superheroes group in Boulder, Colorado. Two months later, they busted one of the other ones for taking drugs reported to be a variation on Captain America's super-soldier serum.

Last year, the Worlds competition was busted because the entire Chinese national team was suspected of superhuman influences. Turns out that was probably a mad move -- because one of them combusted and burned the hotel down.

Maybe it's time the rest of the world learned a little of the paranoia we have to live with.

[nobodysbishie]

Gotta say, I c'n see the point on disallowing powers that way; what good's a hurdle race if one contestant can just phase through 'em?

That said, it always seemed a damn shame that our kind never developed our own sporting competition- but considerin' the way people would blow up school buses for having ex-mutants on 'em, coming together for somethin' like that would just be giving folks one big target.

[ex_medals553]

Maybe you should. If registration goes forward, there's no reason not to implement that kind of program.

[nobodysbishie]

If...

Okay, three things. One, there's not even 200 mutants left in the world anymore. Two, how the hell do you think registration is gonna stop domestic terrorists? They don't follow the law, that's pretty much the whole point. An' three...

Kid, I backed the registration. I supported it, an' I was in on its enforcement. An' then I found about Project 42, where they stashed th' heroes that didn't toe the line.

They threw them in a dimension that literally sucked out their will to live, because they didn't trust people to have their personal info an' not abuse it. Because they fought for your liberty while I fought for your security. An' when we won, what did my side do? They threw away the key.

Meanwhile, everything we all worked an' fought for got handed over to Norman Goddamn Osborne, a serial killer who used to fly around as the Green Goblin. Fuck's sake, he killed a reporter an' shot an ambassador, both on live TV, yet he STILL got pushed to the top spot!

I got no problems with oversight for supers, kiddo. From a normal person's perspective, we probably SHOULD be watched. But who the hell is gonna watch the watcher?

[catiana]

Some of us didn't get to go to the Olympics.

[ex_medals553]

That's not my fault.