Necessary Rebellion [Incredibles]
Ficmas, #4, for rienna_the_red. Hope you like it, dear.
Title: Necessary Rebellion
Fandom: Incredibles
Words: 469
Rating: FRK
Summary: "On Saturday afternoons, Mirea Gutierrez breaks the law."
On Saturday afternoons, Mirea Gutierrez breaks the law.
She catches the bus into town, slips into a particular bathroom stall in the public library, and changes. When she leaves the library ten minutes later, she is a different person; the only similarity between her and the silver-haired girl who entered the building is her sex and her nondescript black bag.
What she does varies, depending on the week. Sometimes she helps old ladies across the street, sometimes she feeds the ducks in the park, sometimes she goes to the movies. What matters is not the activity itself, but the fact that she does it as someone else.
Who she becomes also varies; like any teenaged girl, she is both never happy with her own appearance and fickle about what would make it better. Unlike most teenaged girls, she has the power to change it.
Mirea is a super, and using her powers, even for something as innocuous as this, is illegal. She considers it a necessary rebellion.
On Wednesday evenings, Robert Parr breaks the law.
His wife thinks he is bowling, as he and his best friend drive to a deserted alleyway and turn on the police scanner.
What they do varies, depending on the week. They save families from burning buildings, stop purse snatchers, foil bank robbers. He is strong, and his friend is clever, and they are never caught, though they have a few close shaves.
He does it because not doing it would drive him crazy, forced into mundanity and mediocrity both. He considers it a necessary rebellion.
Once or twice a month, Edna Mode breaks the law.
She puts pencil to paper and designs suits for supers she hasn't met yet. She envisions the powers and develops a suit to meet the need.
She does it because not doing it would drive her crazy, forced to live full-time in the ultimately shallow world of fashion. She considers it a necessary rebellion.
Karl von Straussen breaks the law every day.
Modern medicine has rendered his power less necessary, but it is easier to look at a patient before he sends them down for X-rays or CT scans as evidence for the insurance companies.
He does it because he refuses to neglect patients just because some arbitrary politician in a country not his own has decided that he should. He considers it a necessary rebellion.
Buddy Pine breaks the law every day after school.
He doesn’t even know he's doing it, but every time he puts pencil to paper and designs something new, something beyond what his ten-year-old mind should be able to comprehend, he is using his powers.
He does it because he has done it for as long as he can remember, and he can't imagine stopping - or needing to. It is a necessary rebellion.
Title: Necessary Rebellion
Fandom: Incredibles
Words: 469
Rating: FRK
Summary: "On Saturday afternoons, Mirea Gutierrez breaks the law."
On Saturday afternoons, Mirea Gutierrez breaks the law.
She catches the bus into town, slips into a particular bathroom stall in the public library, and changes. When she leaves the library ten minutes later, she is a different person; the only similarity between her and the silver-haired girl who entered the building is her sex and her nondescript black bag.
What she does varies, depending on the week. Sometimes she helps old ladies across the street, sometimes she feeds the ducks in the park, sometimes she goes to the movies. What matters is not the activity itself, but the fact that she does it as someone else.
Who she becomes also varies; like any teenaged girl, she is both never happy with her own appearance and fickle about what would make it better. Unlike most teenaged girls, she has the power to change it.
Mirea is a super, and using her powers, even for something as innocuous as this, is illegal. She considers it a necessary rebellion.
On Wednesday evenings, Robert Parr breaks the law.
His wife thinks he is bowling, as he and his best friend drive to a deserted alleyway and turn on the police scanner.
What they do varies, depending on the week. They save families from burning buildings, stop purse snatchers, foil bank robbers. He is strong, and his friend is clever, and they are never caught, though they have a few close shaves.
He does it because not doing it would drive him crazy, forced into mundanity and mediocrity both. He considers it a necessary rebellion.
Once or twice a month, Edna Mode breaks the law.
She puts pencil to paper and designs suits for supers she hasn't met yet. She envisions the powers and develops a suit to meet the need.
She does it because not doing it would drive her crazy, forced to live full-time in the ultimately shallow world of fashion. She considers it a necessary rebellion.
Karl von Straussen breaks the law every day.
Modern medicine has rendered his power less necessary, but it is easier to look at a patient before he sends them down for X-rays or CT scans as evidence for the insurance companies.
He does it because he refuses to neglect patients just because some arbitrary politician in a country not his own has decided that he should. He considers it a necessary rebellion.
Buddy Pine breaks the law every day after school.
He doesn’t even know he's doing it, but every time he puts pencil to paper and designs something new, something beyond what his ten-year-old mind should be able to comprehend, he is using his powers.
He does it because he has done it for as long as he can remember, and he can't imagine stopping - or needing to. It is a necessary rebellion.