#alphafight

Although the Lunar System is not a mutant themselves, they are an ally to mutants. Not only do they have mutant friends, but they also have a strong sense of justice. Besides, with them being Jewish, the anti-mutant sentiment reminds them all too well of similar bigotry that happened not so long ago.

Northstar is a polarizing figure, with some people viewing him as a radical pro-mutant terrorist while others consider him a hero. Others's opinion of the man matter little to the Lunar System. They will come to their own conclusions themselves.

“my team and i are currently investigating something of mild severity, details are negligible, and we stumbled upon this cryptic material, to put it coherently,” he’s not telling the full truth, mister beaubier always has had that way with words, of course; loud, fast, and obnoxious enough to wear down people’s patience and make them want him to leave at any cost. a fabulous strategy, with considerable side effects here and there but that’s neither here nor there.

“if you consent to this involvement, then my team would find it tremendously helpful if you decipher this for us, and i—” hand on chest, because of course. “—would be eternally grateful to you, monsieur ramsey, should you say yes.” please do, the x-factor is running out of options at this rate. certainly nothing to do with northstar’s bulldozer approach to, well, everything.

Doug could see plainly from both Northstar's body language and Doug's unique ability to read between the lines that Northstar was hiding something; but was that really unusual? Since his X-gene activated, Doug had been unusually privy to the fact that everyone was hiding something, all of the time. He didn't get the feeling Northstar was hiding anything more than usual--and besides, he still had every opportunity to come forward with the missing details. Doug wasn't going to accuse anyone of anything just yet.

Doug reached for the paper and, when it wasn't immediately given, took his hand back awkwardly and shoved it in the pocket of his jacket. "'Mild severity?'" Doug laughed, somewhat disbelievingly. "You have to tell me a little more than that if you want my help, pal. I mean, to be honest, I probably will help you either way, just because I'm curious, but... "

" Ah my friend, you are too generous! " And perhaps the declaration that his twin sister had picked out most of the items for him helped her accept it without much of a fuss. If he chose to hand over the glory to Jeanne-Marie then Donna could, for once, act like she did not have to do the whole dance of trying to turn a gift down, to tell the gift bearer that it was far too much and she could not possibly accept such generosity. Clearly such words would have had to be directed at his twin sister and not Jean-Paul himself, therefore this would do just fine. You hear, it will do just fine — stop worrying about it, Donna!

@alphafight asked: “david, my good man, bonne fête. you must allow me to throw you a birthday party, the finest anybody has seen. i have an educated guess of who i assume you’d like to see there — and i would be delighted to spark envy in those who shall be neither invited nor named explicitly. well?”

BIRTHDAY BOY DAVID!!!

   David blinks at the offer, the initial smile at the well wishes fading. For a moment he stares at nothing, trying to picture what Jean-Paul would think is the ‘finest birthday party anybody has seen’. David isn’t certain that’s a thing he wants. He definitely appreciates the gesture, no one has ever wanted to throw him a huge party before, but it does sound like it’d be a lot.