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[While there's a part of him still worried that Phoenix somehow snapped his mind or something, or that he's just hallucinating all this, Logan has been more or less talked down from the notion that this is all in his head.

Which means he attacked and threatened a lot of 'figments of his imagination' who ...weren't after all.   Way to make friends, Logan.  He's hardly about to apologize for it, or explain himself to anybody over the journals.  He's suffered enough public humiliation thanks to Julian's pranking.  

The pain of hearing about Jean's death - even if it was in a world apparently somehow unlike his own - intensifies his own claustrophobic sense of  despondency, stuck here with no plan for how to save her, even if he did get back home.

The whole alternate universe thing is still bugging him.  He knows the possibilities of what he could be like, given different circumstances, different choices.  Seems like other-Wolverine wound up with the X-Men too, though, and that thought's a little heartening.  

Still no word from anyone he remotely recognizes, which leaves him to feel the need to figure out exactly what kind of 'chain of command' he's dealing with around here.  He sits up on the roof, one arm slung across his knee as he looks out over the beautiful landscape.  It's breathtaking out there, he'll give it that.]

This is Wolverine.  [He feels like an idiot, talking to a book, but he sucks it up.]   I wanna hear from any X-Men stuck here, see what kinda numbers we're dealing with.  Who's in charge of the team?

[He sounds much more level-headed now, as if he hadn't shown up and trashed the place, or broken Julian's nose, etc, etc.  

He'd be happy with never speaking about his arrival in general again.  After a moment he adds:]

[Laura / X-23]

I wasn't trying to kill him.

[ooc; open over the journals, or action!spam on the roof]

Comments

[molotov]

I do not think most of us do. My world certainly does not.

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Maybe you do, and you just don't know it.

[molotov]

Hm, in my world, mutants would become villains almost by default -- there are plenty of people in that career field who have powers or other interesting quirks. Or else they would be recruited by the government.

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Happens in our world too.

[molotov]

It works a little differently in my world, I have found.

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And how's that?

[molotov]

Being a villain where I live is simply a career choice. You join one of the organizations, get assigned an arch, and go about your life doing the back and forth with them, and them only. If you break the rules, you are punished, usually by your own organization.

From what I was told, "villains" in most other worlds would be considered more of a "terrorist" in mine.

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What, so morality never figures into it?

[molotov]

I suppose there is an element of morality, but proper villains are contractually bound to hating only a few people.

Actual evil is a different story altogether.

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Contractual hatred.

Thought I'd heard everything.

[molotov]

The red tape keeps the idiots in check.

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I could use some of that tape for my students.

[molotov]

It does not work unless the people you are fighting have their own red tape.

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[Logan got lost somewhere along metaphor alley.] Hmph.

[molotov]

[Molotov just smirks at him.]

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So there a reason you came up here?

[molotov]

I like rooftops. There is tactical advantage to high places.

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Always on the lookout for that leg up, I take it.

[molotov]

I do not need it, but why turn it down?

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A good instinct to have, either way.

[molotov]

If your balance is good.

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I usually manage.

[molotov]

Of course. Wolverines are known for that skill, aren't they.

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You're not the only one who likes the high ground.

[molotov]

Are there really people who prefer the opposite?