Class 2 - [voice]

[mutantblues]

[ It's been over a month since she showed up in Luceti. A month of putting on her perfect good little face that Charles approved of and staying out of anyone's business as much as possible. The effort is tiring sometimes and she revels in the chance to close all her curtains and be herself for once. And after some thinking she opens up her journal to address things. ]

What do you do when you're tired of pretending for someone who isn't even around? I know I'm not the only freak here but how long to you bother hiding?

[ Private to Wanda Maximoff ]

Hey, I know I kind of vanished for a while but. It was all a little too much to take in all at once. Can we have a face to face? [ She takes a deep breath. ] A real face to face. I'll put my cards on the table if you will.

Comments

[video]

[mutantblues]

It's really tempting.

[ She laughs a little at the thought of Katniss responding. The girl whose face she stole unintentionally. So instead of pretending she lets it slip a little in the video. Yellow eyes instead of blue before they change back again. ]

Especially when the truth is that you look a lot more like my brother without having to try.

[video]

[stillplaying]

[She's a hunter. It's one of the only things she's good at. Killing. Surviving. Taking what she needs to keep herself and her family alive. But it also makes her perceptive. It might be a small thing, but she notices the change in eye color.

Not grey like hers. But no longer blue, either. The yellow looks strange, especially on her own face. Brows knit and she peers closer into the book. Not frightened, not repulsed. Curious.]

How did you do that?

[video]

[mutantblues]

It's... it's just something I can do. That I've been able to do since I was a kid.

Not just my eyes, everything. What you're looking at is what I let people see.

[video]

[stillplaying]

Like Teddy?

[It's the closest comparison she could think of. She still doesn't entirely understand it. How his... his species could do these sorts of things. Change their shape, their voice. And make it look so very easy. She doesn't know if that makes Raven like Teddy or something else. Katniss has given up trying to understand all the different races. What does it matter? All that really matters in the end is survival. Survival for yourself and those you love.

She hesitates for a moment, realizing that the girl might not know Teddy. Bites down on her lip for a second as she thinks how best to explain.]

He can look like me if he wants to. When he's joking around.

[video]

[mutantblues]

I can look like anyone if I wanted, so maybe. I never expected to meet someone with the same face as me. I... made this one myself, no copying.

[ She looks at her fingers and is so tempted to let the pale skin ripple away back to blue. And then Raven does it because what does she have to lose? She's already shown Wanda, and it seems like katniss deserves to know more than anyone else. ]

This is the real me.

[video]

[stillplaying]

[She tilts her head a little. It's strange to hear that, that she had made this face without copying anyone else. And yet, it's her face. Perhaps it lacks some of the scars and their coloring isn't exactly the same, but it's still close enough. It's a face she's always considered her own. Apparently, she wasn't alone.

But when the girl changes her face, she doesn't really react. It's not all that different from some of the fashions in the Capitol. Octavia's green dyed body, Tigris' feline like features. Body modifications are normal there. It's part of the reason the wings don't bother her as much as they ought. Still, it's strange to see her facial structure peering out from behind the blue skin.]

You look like you belong in the Capitol.