It's Time to React, Time to Fight Back

[jinxed_goth]

Characters: Jinx, OPEN to all (esp. Jack Spicer, since we discussed this before)
Location: Recreation room
Time: Afternoon
Content: While browsing online, Jinx discovers that the anti-mutant group Humanity First has a website. Table-flipping ensues.
Warnings: Jinx's mouth, mild spontaneous bad luck, references to hate groups (should be no more

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[cnstructionzone]

... Aaaand there went her coffee. All over the front of her shirt. It was pretty damn hot, too.

"Gah- what the fuck!" Lily yelped, jumping out of her seat. She hardly took notice of the upturned table and the TV screen that had gone dark. After all-- hot coffee, goddammit.

[jinxed_goth]

"Sorry about that," said Jinx, mildly embarrassed at the commotion she'd caused. It had been some time since she'd lost control of her powers like that.

"It wasn't on purpose. My powers cause bad luck and I lost control because I saw something that pissed me off."

[cnstructionzone]

"Tch. I don't have many shirts left, y'know," Lily grumbled, wringing most of the coffee out. The fact that she was staining the sofa cushions while doing so didn't particularly concern her.

She glanced over at Jinx's laptop, taking no notice of the website she was on. "What, did you get trolled or something?"

[jinxed_goth]

"A little worse than normal trolling," said Jinx. "Some idiot posted some pretty hateful stuff about mutants on what's supposed to be a mutant-friendly forum, and his or her email is with a group called Humanity First. Turns out they are an anti-mutant group that's trying to organize more chapters...and they've got some utterly charming slogans like 'save the world, kill a mutie'. Crap like that."

Jinx sighed. She wasn't sure if she should bother mentioning to the other girl that one of the places the group was looking to start up a chapter was in Salem Center. Hopefully she'd explained why she was so pissed off.

[jackbotsattack]

"What the-!?"

Jack jumped in surprise from where he had been chilling off in another chair, playing Goo Zombies. Jinx outburst had sent a picture on the wall spiraling onto his head.

He rubbed the bump, glaring over at the other goth in the room. "What was that for!?"

[jinxed_goth]

"Sorry Jack," Jinx apologized. "I wasn't trying to do anything to you...I got pissed off at this website owned by these total fuckwads called Humanity First, and I lost control of my powers."

She was a bit embarrassed by it, but since Jack wasn't seriously hurt, she felt an apology and an explanation was all she really owed him. It wasn't like she was some total goody-goody who was going to start fussing over him, after all.

[jackbotsattack]

"Geez, you really oughta warn a guy before you do that," Jack mumbled, but he set down his game and came over to lean on the couch, looking over her shoulder at her laptop.

"Humanity First?"

His eyes widened in shock and anger as he read the site, then narrowed as he half threw himself over the back of the couch, as though lunging at Jinx's laptop would somehow make it go away permanently.

"What the heck is this!? Who the heck are they!?"

[jinxed_goth]

"A bunch of hateful jerkoffs who think we don't have the right to exist, just because we've got an X-gene and they don't."

If Jinx was still in her HIVE Five mentality, she might have tried to impress Magneto and attempted to contact the leader of the Brotherhood about her discovery. Now, she was a little more responsible. Of course, that didn't mean she advocated the pacifist approach.

"They're even trying to set up a chapter in Salem Center..." Jinx trailed off as the gears in her head started turning. "So, Jack. How would you feel about doing a little bit of bad for a good cause?"

[clawandscars]

The busty blond bimbo on the television was huddled in fear as the killer crept up behind her, knife raised. The picture zoomed in closer and closer. Tsume leaned forward, completely engrossed. Finally, the bimbo sensed that something was not right. She turned around, eyes wide, and a bloodcurdling scream-

-was cut off as the picture fizzled out. "What the hell?!" The shapeshifting mutant said indignantly. If someone had sat on the remote, there was going to be blood.

[jinxed_goth]

"Sorry," said Jinx. "My powers cause bad luck when I get pissed off...and something majorly pissed me off just now."

If pressed about the issue, she might have offered snarky commentary on Tsume's choice of entertainment. However, the minor mishaps in the room were her fault, and he wasn't the one who pissed her off. Yet.

[clawandscars]

"Then take a Midol and get over it," he snapped back. Manners. Tsume knew about them. He just didn't bother using them on a regular basis.

If he hadn't been so annoyed, he might have been amazed he was actually talking to one of his female classmates. This wasn't something that happened every day.

[jinxed_goth]

"See this?" Jinx said, pointing to her rear. "Kiss it. This is not something a Midol would fix anyway. Now, dishing out an ass-kicking? That might help."

The look she sent his way implied that she might not mind giving Tsume the aforementioned ass-kicking if he made any more comments like that. Taking a deep breath, Jinx tried to calm herself down. Rude as the Midol comment was, she had started things accidentally with her powers. She should at least explain herself a little more.

"Anti-mutant hate groups are something I take kind of seriously."

[silveradotides]

He had been lying on the couch, finishing reading his latest borrowed tome from the library, and was looking ready to take a nap or simply close his eyes for a moment or two (he figured he earned it after some of the hard work he put in at the shop, making adjustments to the board). He looked ready to pass out at any moment until a certain expletive followed by a crash knocked their way into his head

[jinxed_goth]

Of all possible things to feel bad about, Jinx felt worse about the book than anything else. She winced before managing an apology.

"Sorry, Jim...my powers went out of control for a moment. They cause bad luck. It wasn't a library book, was it?"

[silveradotides]

He had almost lost the voice amidst his own curses he had been directing towards himself, but hearing something in between his obscenities, made him look upward.

"Oh, hey, Jinx," he should have realized it had been her who had been working on her laptop, who else could have such distinctive hair after all? Hearing her apology, his anger began to slide into more annoyance, and even then, more annoyance at himself than his friend's bad luck lashing. "Yeah, it was a library book... " He lifted the book up and gave it a look noticing some of the mangled pages, "Great..." He brought a hand through his hair the way some might pinch the bridge of their nose when they know they're may be some trouble.

"What happened to make you yell like that anyway?"

[jinxed_goth]

"I'll go with you to the library when you return it and explain that my powers went out of control," she said. "The staff here know what my powers can do and it's not like it would be the first powers related accident we've had around here - or the worst one."

Holes had been blown through walls, trees had been knocked down, and some of the kids with healing factors had been maimed in ways that could have been fatal if not for their powers. She was fairly certain she could ensure that Jim got in no trouble and that the trouble she got into was minimal for this.

"This jerkoff went on a mutant-friendly forum and posted a whole bunch of anti-mutant hate rhetoric there. I looked up the email address said jerkoff had registered, and then found this anti-mutant group called Humanity First. There's some pretty ignorant and vicious stuff on their website."