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[decemannos-m]

If you ever wanted an accurate reference of my Jubilee meeting an alternate universe version of herself.

Footage from DC Studios' Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 6: "Ignorance is Chris"

written and directed by: James Gunn

cc: @lumikinetics (hello new friend!)

[marvelforged]

Look,  Forge  just  knows  if  he  spends  more  than  twenty  minutes  in  the  X-Mansion,  he'll  have  Jubilee  jumping  out  from  around  every  corner  and  insisting  he  overclock  her  Gameboy  Color or  something

(Nobody  ever  listens  when  he  says  that's  not  how  his  mutation  works)

[psyknife]

@lumikinetics: x

Kwannon takes the invitation and slips onto the couch with the younger mutant. She would say nothing about the cow lick dragging her hair to one side, or the small wet spot of drool on the cushion she'd been sleeping on. There was no reason to point out her state she'd had no control over. "Keep that fighting spirit for Summers when he comes looking for you. You missed the briefing again." It would be easy to inform him of Jubilee's whereabouts so that he could give her a dressing down. But where would be the fun in seeing him stomp around, looking for the young woman? "Not sleeping well or have you hit hibernating season?"

[sniktx3]

🫂 !!

from [ x ] <- accepting !

-> logan and jubilee have gone to a roller rink together. it was surprisingly easy for jubes to convince logan to go, even though he fell on his ass very quickly and... maybe dented the floor in doing so. turns out, though he can ice skate, he cannot rollerblade/skate. despite a bruised ego, they had a great time, and jubilee definitely still has pictures of logan grumbling over the incident. he has not stepped back into a roller rink again, despite being begged to do so, quite a bit. -> he prefers calling her jubilation or firecracker over jubilee or jubes. it's not for any particular reason besides feeling more right-- though, on some level, it is a note to their more intimate and familial dynamic, which logan still struggles to define as father-daughter or just mentor-mentee. him using jubilation especially ellicits the feeling of "i am your father, even if only through chosen means, not often voiced". it's also incredibly funny to logan when people do not realize her real name is jubilation lee. prime humor, in his honest opinion. -> logan has cut jubilee's hair before, specifically during her run as a vampire. no, it was not with his claws, it was with scissors. SMH. he understands the meaningfulness of hair, and how personal presentation to the outside world can be very important. it's very important to him, and jubilee's iconic style he views to be an intrinsic part of her. logan kind of viewed the hair cutting back into a shorter style as her letting go to of the darkest era of just being turned a vamp and.. transitioning into coping with being depowered and vampiric. he doesn't know if she agrees with that sentiment, but it's how he viewed it.

[fifthimpact]

peter parker when @lumikinetics

peter parker when no @lumikinetics

[sniktx3]

-> continued from here | @lumikinetics <-

Bitter, exhaustion-fueled words are a perfect vehicle to utter long-held frustrations.

Her response doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Though he’d meant what he’d said, genuinely and truthfully—this time—, Logan had known the sort of reaction that particular phrase would kick up as soon as the words had popped into his head a minute ago. Maybe he shouldn’t have said them, but it was a point he needed to make, for his own and her sake. This time, it’s the truth. This time.

He isn’t stupid, but in moments like this, he certainly doesn’t feel smart, especially over those past… indiscretions. Past; as if it won’t happen again— bullshit. Utter bullshit, and he knows it; Logan flinches, just barely, when she makes her thoughts on that very subject known, drawling a sentiment on how it’s quite a risk for him, of all people, to say that to her, of all people. It’s words she’s dodged around before, or mumbled out or whispered in tearful tones in the worst of their moments. Logan has heard screams of these sentiments before, in the waking world and restless dreams, from Jubilee and Laura and Kitty and Ororo and Kurt and many, many others; but it’s hard to confirm he’ll ever fully change his ways. He has… responsibilities, ones that these companions of his— familial, platonic, romantic, whoever, everyone he’s ever known and cared for— shouldn’t always be around. Though guilt isn’t an uncommon feeling for him, it’s hard not to feel justified when his abandonments have contributed to their safety and unbroken bodies.

But it isn’t as though he can deny her truths. Jubilee is right, and even with the supposedly justifiable reasons for Logan’s activities, he won’t really disagree. What’s most upsetting, Logan thinks, as she shuffles around sleepily, is that she’s playing it off, trying to be silly and half sarcastic. Trying to throw him off the proverbial scent, tossing words at him, words they both know she means, but then shoving it off like it’s nothing, like she doesn’t really care. There was a time where he would’ve just agreed with her vaguely blaming herself, and the others, anyone but him, for his leavings; some push of agreeing with the obvious wrong answer to get even more distance between them. Lying to get them off his back, to see him as what he was— is— a fuckin’ asshole. But not anymore, even if the assholery remains. Though he’s had a rough couple years (and a rough lifetime, but, well— it’s been complicated these last few years, if his blurry head and memories aren’t lying), he doesn’t try to shove a further wedge between them by vaguely agreeing with the I can’t blame you.

Instead, Logan just stares at her a moment longer, eyes narrowed, then pushes off his chair and walks away. Not very far, but through a doorway and into a hall and crossing into another room, leaving his— leaving Jubilee alone. The action isn’t meant to be cruel, but the petty rush that comes from stomping off after what she’s said isn’t not there. He’s gone a few minutes, shoving his hands through kitchen cabinets and then into the bathroom cupboard. Finally, he finds what he’s looking for and makes his way back to the sleepy, young X-Man. Bottle of midnight blue gummies in his hand, he thrusts it out and towards her just as he breaches the perimeter of the room.

“Melatonin.”

[fifthimpact]

jubilee: do ketchup and mustard awhile peter:

[escapedartgeek]

@lumikinetics

[x]

zora is observing the way that jubilee is taking it in. and even now, they aren't really sure if they are able to get their point across. words have been hard for them lately, it seems like they think a lot about how to respond, how to act, how to move. but actually being understood - being clear in their language? they can certainly try but clearly there's no guarantees that it will register.

"i guess... i don't mean like i'm literally made for other people. i guess .. that's not quite the worry i have."

zora pauses, humming a bit as they are trying to reach for the words that they have lurking in the back of their mind.

"guess i've been trying to figure out how happy with me i actually am. it's not like i would want to be anyone else, not really. but i do have these moments where.. something weighs over me and it makes it hard for me to ... be around. "

still, there's something in jubilee's words that does make a difference - that does leave them feeling a bit more supported.

"that means a lot to hear honestly. i think i just have had those memories of where i was feeling.. almost obligated to give chances when maybe i shouldn't have. and the regret that came with that has been kind of surfacing, making me feel a little strange. "