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[xp_blink]

you ever think about what you'd be doing if you weren't a mutant? like, no powers, nothing?

I mean, when I was a kid I wanted to be a dancer or maybe a teacher or a microbiologist for a year in 7th grade. But that was before I turned purple and had to quit dance for fencing and then leave school entirely and ....yeah. I never saw myself as someone tough or a fighter, never saw myself as a PA. And yet here I am.

So where would you be if you weren't a mutant?

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[xp_jubilee]

A former Olympic athelette with several million dollar endorsements, or possibly a crackhead.

Is this wishing including ‘what if’ scenarios where my parents weren’t murdered or just the ‘no mutant powers’ thing. Cause there’s also the possibility of prostitution or having died of starvation there too.

[xp_blink]

I mean, I enjoy the juxtaposition of millionaire olympic athlete vs crackhead.

I'd say, only include parents dying if it was caused by your mutation or some sort of fallout that would likely have been avoided if you weren't a mutant. Otherwise, nah.

[xp_reyes]

Probably this, but somewhere else? Is that sad?

[xp_blink]

no, that's actually really reassuring

[xp_reyes]

I mean, I dunno, I've wanted to be a doctor for, like, forever. If anything, this was a bit of an obstacle, but still.

[xp_blink]

everyone has obstacles. you got your dream anyways, even if it wasn't exactly how you expected

[xp_hawkeye]

Probably still working at SWORD. Assuming I was able to keep up with everything in my life physically the way that I did with powers. Which isn't actually a guarantee, come to think of it. There's loads of times I should've died and I didn't because of how I like, think about angles and stuff. It's a weird thought. So I dunno, maybe dead? Maybe a secret government agent? Maybe just your average joe working for one of my dads.

[xp_blink]

that's a good question since your powers are more physical...hmmm....I'll take it.

I feel like your dads are somehow tailors and I cannot see you as a tailor

[xp_strange]

Probably in med-school buried under studying...which I am right now...I need to do something more exciting this weekend.

[xp_blink]

spa day!

[xp_strange]

I have never been to a spa, I feel like this is something I should rectify.

[xp_blink]

it's a great way to relax

[xp_erverse]

Ugh, probably would have killed myself ages ago. There's no point in existing if you're not a mutant.

[xp_hawkeye]

Ugh, Q. You're killing me, man.

[xp_erverse]

What?

[xp_blink]

you're an idiot.

[xp_erverse]

I'm not the one indulging in fantasies about how life would be better if an integral part of myself never existed.

[xp_blink]

anyone ever tell you your perspective is majorly skewed?

[xp_blackwidow]

Most definitely still at SHIELD and dealing with all the hijinks there. Any other big changes would have to go back even farther than that.

[xp_hawkeye]

You might not be with SHIELD, though. What if I also wasn't a mutant and died in college because I got hit by a car or something? Then who'd've been all like, "Hey, you're totes awesome, you should def come work with me."? Don't say Phil. Phil would've still been running the op from control.

[xp_shadowcat]

I always wanted to think I'd be part of a stereotypical middle class family. A mom with two kids and a minivan.

[xp_blink]

my how things veer off the path and down a cliff...

[xp_nightcrawler]

Most likely I would have been raised by my father, if my mother did not steal me from him anyway, and that does not bear thinking about.

[xp_blink]

ooooooooooh that would be a big difference!