mentis: (- | and you go home and you cry)
cнarleѕ "ѕpecтacυlar ѕнιтѕнow" хavιer. ([personal profile] mentis) wrote in [community profile] poly_chromatic2014-01-04 04:17 pm

( o1 video )

[ At first there is nothing but panic. Charles feels it race through his veins and spark out of the edges of him. Too many new minds are pressing in upon him and he cannot feel the ones he needs to the most. There is absence of prickling rage, of worry, of teenage bravery and very real fear and Charles acts on instinct, casting out for his friends and his family. People stop in the streets and wince as though simultaneously struck by a headache. He sees it at the very corner of his eye and immediately drops his fingers from his temple, the pain and worry leaking away from those around him to replaced by a blink and you'll miss it sense of apologetic peace.

He'd woken up slumped against the stone lip of a fountain, a device cradled in his hands, blue and yellow leather leaving a cold prickle against his skin. Now he looks at it for the first time, piercing blue eyes alarmed but severe as they peer into the screen. It's a computer, but not one that he's seen before and he lets himself examine it for a moment. It's almost easy to pluck the information out of a passing stranger, the unusual little box and it's communication methods. Charles doesn't necessarily like the thought, invasion of privacy and the so very obvious broadcasting of his helpless location but if he wants to get back to Erik and the children --.
]

Hello. [ Clipped, English accent and all, Charles still sounds so very young. Like a child trying on his father's suit. His own brow furrows, chastising himself internally. ] My name is Charles Xavier. It would appear I've gotten a little ... turned around. [ Undoubtedly. This feels more of a English-American mix and not the sand of Cuban or the irritated buzz of Russians. He thinks momentarily of the red-skinned teleporter before deciding that's not what happened. ] I don't entirely know how I arrived here but I do know I was with a group. Four teenagers, a young woman and another fellow. If anyone could help me get in contact with them that would be much appreciated.

[ Already he has the sinking sensation of the world sealing itself off. But he can't be a pessimist, that wouldn't do. ]

( ooc: So if you'd like your character to get that little psychic shove of worry off Charles feel free. There's probably little way to figure out that it's him unless you know him but if you want to notice it go ahead. Also I have a permissions post if you want to opt out of him reading you. )
eiremagic: (Eden - doubts it)

[personal profile] eiremagic 2014-01-04 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
They're not here, boyo.
just_displaced: (this is fascinating)

[personal profile] just_displaced 2014-01-04 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... pretty unlikely that they're here. I mean, it's not impossible, people do show up and have people they already know here, but usually not entire groups. It might not be possible to get in contact with them. I'm sorry, telling anyone that always feels really discouraging.
eiremagic: (Eden - I can does magic)

[personal profile] eiremagic 2014-01-04 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
They're the ones who-

[Something changes. Something strange happens, like something huge pushing back at Charles.]

Who are you?
just_displaced: (cats cradle)

[personal profile] just_displaced 2014-01-04 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, um, it's called the City. Which I'm aware is a really stupid, obvious name, and believe me, if I were in charge of naming this place, I'd give it something better, but that's what it is. As far as we can tell, there isn't exactly a way to escape. Not easily, at least. People come and people go, but they don't seem to have any control over it.
eiremagic: (Eden - I've come to loathe)

[personal profile] eiremagic 2014-01-04 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
You woke me up.

[She says it like maybe that doesn't happen often.]

I could just give you the information.
just_displaced: (staring at the table)

[personal profile] just_displaced 2014-01-04 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
No, none of that. Believe me, I'd be on the next plane or car or train or ferry out of here if it were possible, but it's not. I mean, people get brought here from all kinds of worlds, from all different times -- I know it sounds crazy, I thought it was crazy too, when people told me, but it's true.
just_displaced: (ideas)

[personal profile] just_displaced 2014-01-04 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can... try.

[A sigh. Explaining this place is never easy.]

All of us showed up the way you did. One minute we were at home, wherever that might be, and the next minute we were waking up in the City. And once you start talking to the other people here, you start to realize that you're not all from the same place. Me, for example, I'm from New York. Last time I checked, it was 1968. But there're people here from before that time, and after that time, and it's 2014 here.

[He has... literally no idea whether any of this is making sense.]

Oh, and, uh, my name's Michael Ginsberg. Just call me Ginsberg, though.
fe_male: everyone in authority ever (erg: his adoring public)

[personal profile] fe_male 2014-01-04 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a pretty nebulous description of a group. The other guy is right, they're probably not here, but 'another fellow'? Literally could be anybody.
just_displaced: (tell me more)

[personal profile] just_displaced 2014-01-04 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You're from 1963? Really? You have no idea how good it is to meet someone who's from my time. I mean, approximately my time. There're so many people from the future here, and it's interesting, but you have no idea how confusing it gets when you're trying to understand all of their technology and space travel and...

[Okay. Reeling in the excitement, here, to respond to the actual question.]

Um, well, I'm not sure how many, exactly, but a lot of us. People come and go, so it's hard to get an exact idea. And I've heard about people who've been stuck here for five years or so, at this point, so probably longer than that.
fe_male: (lol: pouring chlorophyll nbd snerk)

[personal profile] fe_male 2014-01-04 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh excellent. Good, sassy response. You're already winning points. ] Yeah, that makes sense. Also depending on the day wouldn't have been helpful anyway, but I think in this instance you might have been good. So where did you barge up from?
just_displaced: (i swear)

[personal profile] just_displaced 2014-01-04 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's what I thought, too. I mean, five years. Who could stay anywhere for five years without worrying about all the stuff they'd left at home? But people have told me that, uh...

[A frown.]

... well, I don't understand how it works, but apparently, when you -- if you -- go back home, you return to the same time you left. Time passes here, but it doesn't pass there. So I guess that's an attempt at saying you don't need to worry about your sister or your kids, except you probably will, anyway. I know I do. I mean, not about the same stuff, of course, but you know what I mean.
just_displaced: (ugly sweater)

[personal profile] just_displaced 2014-01-04 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, no, I know, it's a lot to take in, and I kind of have this tendency to just blurt stuff at people without necessarily recognizing just how much information I'm giving them, and that always results in giving people headaches, which isn't my intention here, so uh...

[Seriously, nobody should ever let this man be the welcoming committee.]

How about this -- instead of me just dropping a bunch of extraneous information on you and overwhelming you, you just ask what you want to know, and I'll do my best to be succinct in my answers. If I can provide answers. There're probably people around here that're better at that than I am.
fe_male: 30 seconds later the Asgardians lose their fucking minds. (hah: it's time they heard 'tubthumping')

[personal profile] fe_male 2014-01-04 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ehh. People come from different places. ] Tony Stark. It's not quite Cuba here, but at least there's no missile crisis. [ Just, you know. Like, basically everything else. ]

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