everything about being a parent feels like a secret test. / for mystique 😌
DETRANSITION, BABY.
“if i’ve learned one thing over the years?”
nightcrawler – they can’t call him kurt, can hardly wrap their head around the irony of the people who’d taken him in giving him that name of all names – is difficult to call an example of parenting, given that they never even interacted with their son until he was nearly an adult, and that’s an odd thing to grapple with in and of itself, that all their experience with the subject comes from others.
the media loves to spin horror stories of the brotherhood kidnapping children, because of course they do, but no child has ever come to them who had anywhere left to go. magneto even tells them about the school, usually, gives them a choice, and many take it, but some know already that assimilation isn’t possible for them, or that they’re made for something bigger.
it’s not exactly parenting, either, but a chance to fight back is the best nurturing mystique can offer them.
“it is, and you’re always failing.”
