video| un: polaris

[ferrokinetically]

[ If the first question you have when you see Lorna is "does she spend all her money at Hot Topic?" then you're asking the right questions. She's got on an asymmetrical leather jacket with metal spikes on the sleeve, black leather pants with straps that kept her collection of metal knives secure, and bright green hair from root to tip. The green theme is one she's clearly fully on board with. Accenting the bright green hair she's also got some deep green lipstick on and sparkling green nail polish. To fully tie it all together she's also wearing a metallic green headpiece. Nobody can ever say she's not coordinated. ]

Hello fellow inmates. Since I'm brand new here I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Polaris. [ Every word she speaks is practically dripping with sarcasm and she's got an equally sardonic smile to match. ] Just wanted to see how everyone was doing in our beautiful underwater prison today. [ Because that is exactly what it is. A prison. Nobody was going to convince her otherwise without some damn impressive skills. For a moment she looks like that might be all she actually has to say. Then she leans back and folds her arms over her chest. ]

Actually, I've got a question. I've been looking through these archives and looks like some of you have been here a long time. I get it, it's got some nice amenities. Love the view. But I gotta ask, how'd you all just collectively give up on trying to find a way out? [ And with that question she does, rather abruptly, end things there. ]

Comments

[ferrokinetically]

Not really. From what Tommy's said that version of me sounds different.

[madeofmirrors]

I'm sure she is. That's usually the way of things, from what I've been told. How is it you differ?

[ferrokinetically]

She knew her dad.

[madeofmirrors]

And do you think that changed her for better or worse?

[ferrokinetically]

Don't know, so how can I say?

[madeofmirrors]

Would you have been better off knowing your father?

[ferrokinetically]

[ She'd be a lot less angry. But she's not admitting that to a stranger. ] Would have been a very different life.

[madeofmirrors]

Naturally, but would being raised by a terrorist have improved your life?

[ferrokinetically]

[ Considering she kinda turned into one anyway... ] Probably.

[madeofmirrors]

I can see the allure of waging war on a world that hates and fears you, but in the end, all it's really succeeded in doing is inspiring the Sentinel program, the WEAPON program, WEAPON+...

Hatred upon hatred. Is that the legacy you desire?

[ferrokinetically]

I desire a legacy that involves me not being lectured by a stranger.

[madeofmirrors]

I wasn't preaching, I assure you. More than anything, I was curious as to whether or not your father was as...notorious in your universe as mine.

[ferrokinetically]

He's got a lot of people that really hate him.

[madeofmirrors]

He does, and many who've grown to trust him. He joined the X-Men, you know.

[ferrokinetically]

Our X-Men disappeared. Not sure if he ever really joined back with them or not.

[madeofmirrors]

They disappeared? Well, there's a rub. Well, from what I've heard, your counterpart fairs well enough apart from her father.

[ferrokinetically]

Both them and the Brotherhood just up and went poof.

[madeofmirrors]

I doubt that had much effect on the general populous.

[ferrokinetically]

It had a pretty big ripple effect actually.

[madeofmirrors]

I'm sure. They do enjoy finding any reason possible to hate you all.

[ferrokinetically]

Everyone's got to have a hobby.

[madeofmirrors]

True, and they did get to build big robots because of it.

[ferrokinetically]

I don't even want to know.

[madeofmirrors]

No one does. [A pause.] Did they run the Sentinel program in your world?

[ferrokinetically]

There's Sentinel Services.