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[ex_outofcontrol435]

No. No. NO!

[The video is an absolute blur, but there is definitely destruction happening. The tinkle of broken glass, loud thumps and cracks that sound a lot like furniture being hit with blunt objects - anything you'd associate with a house being utterly totalled from the inside can be heard through the maelstrom.

Then it stills, and one red-faced, absolutely apoplectic Pyro is visible in the middle of his path of destruction.]

You assholes. You stupid fucking assholes. If you were so almighty, we wouldn't be any threat to you, would we? So why the hell take them away? Curse me. Make me think I'm Stryker, I don't care. Just bring them back, and do it now.

[It doesn't matter how many times he's told others that people come back. That's it's random. That they're better off. This is his fucking leader and second-in-command, two of the mutants he admires above all others, and they're both gone. If someone doesn't talk him down soon, he'll be paying off the damages on a burnt-down paid residence for the rest of his time in Asgard.]

((ooc: backtags are coming, but this huge of a drop had to be referenced. also, if any gods want to garnish his wages for the damage or anything, consequences are obviously expected for this.))

Comments

[daddyissues]

Now, the world screwed you, so you're throwing a tantrum.

You know what I think? They can't control it either, or they wouldn't bring in people that don't want to help. Don't let this place win.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

"Tantrum" nearly makes him throw the biggest thing he can find - they've got to have a waffle iron or something - but those last words do give him pause. He used to say, when the curses were being piled on so heavily, that he'd never let them see how badly it affected him. So what is he doing now?]

How do I win, then?

[daddyissues]

You get your anger out on something they won't charge you to fix, and you stick to your plan.

[ somehow there's the meaning that your means the brotherhood ]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Oh god, how much does he hate to admit this?]

Magneto's the brains. I'm just the firepower. I can't do it on my own.

[daddyissues]

What can you do?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

You tell me, man. You've obviously got all the answers right now.

[Yes, he is reduced to a child when he's angry. But surely Connor has noticed that by now.]

[daddyissues]

I can't, you never told me the plan. You were waiting on the boss -- who I'm pretty sure would agree that trashing the house is useless.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He glares even more furiously at that, but reluctantly starts to talk.]

At first it was a terror attack. Firebombing buildings, that kinda thing. Make our demands. But when it was obvious that wouldn't work, we were gonna work our way onto the good side. Get a presence in the city guard, work Magneto up to leader. Make the city depend on us for safety, then threaten to pull out unless they'd listen.

[daddyissues]

[ Connor wisely decides that it would be best not to tell Pyro that neither plan would have ever worked. ]

...there's a city guard?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

That guy, the king who talks too much with the gay manservant - Arthur, he said something about it. We were gonna start our own, but infiltration's way easier. It'd be a snap if Mystique wasn't trapped in one body, but we can still -

[Fuck. Damnit.]

We could've done it.

[daddyissues]

And now you have to adapt.

Come on. Let's get out of this mess.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Where? I've got no home now.

[Choice of words is very important here - home, not house.]

[daddyissues]

Wherever you want -- except a bar, that didn't end well last time. My place?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He actually snorts, although it doesn't sound all that amused.]

Not in the mood to drink anyway. [He just got sloppy last time he drank over a disappearance.] Fine, sure.

[daddyissues]

Great. Go grab some clothes, let's get out of here before a god shows up to curse you.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

I don't see curses coming from this one. Probably something more practical, like garnishing my wages.

[He glares around at the room, only just resisting the urge to wreck one more thing.]

I'll just be a sec. [And he disappears up the stairs, his footfalls heavy as a child's stomping off after being sent to their room.]

[daddyissues]

[ Connor goes to wait by the door, sending Sophie a quick message that he has an angry puppy coming home with him. If Pyro takes too long he's going to go up to make sure he didn't flee out the window. ]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[No worries, he'll be coming down with a couple of duffel bags in just a few minutes. One's slung over a shoulder, while the other he keeps in his hand, and visibly handles with more delicacy.]

Got what I need for now. As long as the lecture's over.