Santo and Victor, Backdated to 8/28/15
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om_mainOn the day of the SCOTUS ruling striking down bans on same-sex marriages, Santo excitedly shares the news with Victor, and they start planning something school-wide to celebrate.
Victor was lying on his bed, earphones in and humming along with the soundtrack of Caberet (an Alan Cumming version, naturally) and flipping through a magazine. Quite simply, enjoying a peaceful morning doing nothing at all.
The door flew open, and Santo practically climbed his way through. "Dude! Vic!" Santo said, loud enough to probably be heard through earphones. "Vic! Did you see the news?!" Santo asked exuberantly, pulling himself through the door and letting it close behind him.
Indeed Victor had heard him. He rubbed his ears as he pulled out the ear buds and told his room-mate "I might not hear anything again after that yelling, what's going on? Finally got your mutant wrestling club? Another mutant superhero in the news?"
"No, dude, it's even better!" Santo sort-of-explained. "So like, apparently some crap was up in the air with the Supreme Court, y'know? And now, it's like, unconstitutional to ban same-sex marriages, dude!" Santo said, his excitement back. "Do you have any idea how awesome that is?! You can totally get married to whoever you want, now!"
Which, undeniably, was great news, Victor grinned widely though felt the need to point out "Think I need to find a boy who wants to date me before I let you start on wedding planning!" A night out with Jack as wingman was one thing but actually dating.
"Well, yeah, dude, but still! This is like, awesome. Man, what a time to be alive, right? Mutants coming out of the woodwork, superheroes in the making, and civil rights victories all around!" Santo felt like they needed to celebrate somehow, and maybe the school wouldn't suffice. Maybe, just maybe, he'd head out to Salem Center. Surely everyone had forgotten what had happened in South Boston a few months ago by now. Too many big things had been happening lately for everyone to remember.
He put a hand to his chin, thinking about it. Which was never a good sign. Any and all evidence of Santo lapsing into thought was pretty much always a bad thing. "Dude, we should celebrate. Like, go party in Salem Center or something."
"Forget Salem, I bet there's gonna be a party right here," Victor pointed out, their school was more openly LGBT than any he'd ever heard of after all. "First, quick rewind, Supreme court have made it completely legal? You mean totally? Even the southern states that have been total asses about it all?"
"I mean, to my understanding? Any state that has a ban on it? It's like, immediately struck down. Off the books. Bam. Unconstitutional. End of story. So I guess what they're saying is that it's, y'know, like separate but equal was, and not, y'know, equal or fair at all, y'know? I mean, I'm sure some assholes are gonna cry and whine about it, but it's the Supreme Freaking Court, man." Santo shrugged. "So I think so? Pretty sure?"
Laughing, Victor agreed "Oh yeah, the bigots are gonna be fuming. Oh man it's awesome!"
"Yeah, dude. Screw haters, man." That was pretty much Santo's unilateral view on anyone who had anything against anyone. No reason to hate, as far as Santo was concerned. "Dude! I got it. We should like, make this day permanently be Pride Day at Xavier's, or something like that. We should petition the headmasters for it. Have like an awesome party and stuff that's all about being proud of who and what you are, y'know? 'Cause some people don't realize how awesome they are, and they need to be reminded sometimes." Not that Santo ever needed reminding of how awesome he was.
"You know what, that's actually a really great idea!" Victor didn't mean to sound quite so surprised, really he didn't. "About to start Xavier's chapter of PFLAG are you? Or have you been meaning to tell me something, eh? I always thought you were too invested in the idea of me and Jay snogging about the place." He was joking of course, and sniggering already, but still. It was easy to poke fun at him.
Santo sauntered over and bopped him playfully on the shoulder, shaking his head. "Hey man, I'm just sayin'. It ain't just about your orientation that you should be proud of. It's about who you are and what you are, and that includes being a mutant. We got acceptance in this place, sure, but we don't exactly have pride, y'know what I mean? Leave it up to the students to decide if they wanna be loud and proud, sure, but if they gave us an official day here at the school to get used to that idea? I bet more people would be down with it."
"So you wanna do the school's first Pride? There's a certain amount of irony that the first one to think of an Xavier's Pride event is one of the straight boys." Victor was laughing but, actually, it was a good idea. And could potentially help with certain closet cases. Maybe.
"Someone's gotta step up to the plate and let everyone know that they're awesome and they should feel awesome about it," Santo pointed out. "One of the most awesome dudes at the school should be the one to do it, don't you think?" Santo grinned a little.
Pretending to frown a little, Victor asked "Awesomest? But I thought we were talking about you?" and fighting hard to keep his face straight
"I know, Vic, I didn't think you'd take the news well, but you're only the second most awesome kid at the school. Close second, though." Santo clapped him lightly on the shoulder. "Hey, enough debate though. Gotta keep riding this hype train. You're good with organizing and decorating and crap, right? 'Cause I'm not. You should help me throw this crap together. I'm the idea guy. Now you're the follow-through guy."
"Like this," He opened a drawer in his desk and located some large, glittery rainbow stickers. He wasn't sure where they had come from exactly though Pietro was usually a good bet with that kind of thing. He peeled off the largest sticker and place it on Santo. "That's better, you're looking Prouder already."
"Hey," Santo said with mock disapproval. "I'm not just some bulletin board, dude. Next thing I know you'll be trying to paint my nails or something in my sleep." Not that Santo had any fingernails or toenails.
"When have you ever seen me paint my nails, eh?" Victor pointed out
"Just because you don't paint yours, doesn't mean that you wouldn't paint mine," Santo pointed out. "You'd just have to borrow the nail polish from somebody, I guess."
"Sounds to me like you want your nails painted," He smirked up at his roomie.
Santo put a heavy hand on Vic's head and rolled his head around a bit. "You keep it up, bro, and you're gonna wake up with one of my arms weighing you down in the morning," Santo warned. It was a prank he'd been thinking about. He'd situate it on Vic's lap so he wouldn't suffocate or anything, but it'd still be a pain and a half to get off of him in the morning, if he could at all, considering one of his limbs was upwards of two hundred pounds. "Now c'mon. Let's have me thinking of what we can do for this day of universal pride celebration thing, instead of ways to prank the crap out of each other. That stuff can come later."
"Rainbow cupcakes?" Naturally Victor's mind went straight to baking, though he's have plenty to say about Santo trying to pin him later on.
"Always the baking with you," Santo chuckled, though it was in no way disapproving. "I'm thinking like, music and stuff. Maybe use the gym? It's a nice big place, could fit plenty of people in."
"Sounds good, I'll text Curtis and see about some DJing. You can gather recruits."
"Recruits?" Santo asked, scratching the side of his head. He didn't know the first thing about putting something like this together. He figured he'd just march right up to the headmasters and tell them what's what, and let them take it from there. Santo was an idea guy, he wasn't so big on the execution half the time, and chances were they'd run out of daylight before anything was actually followed through on. Which sucked, because he kind of wanted it to be on the day that it happened. He just wanted August 28 to take on a whole new meaning for the word 'awesome' and how it applied to people. Doing the legwork of it, though...
"I'll round up some folks. You might wanna do some recruiting on your end, too." Their circles of friends were quite different, after all. Still, Santo was worried he'd fall short on his end... Not that he'd let Vic know that.
"Well, it's be a pretty poor Pride without my 'rainbow' of friends, right?" Victor pointed out with a laugh, already locating his Stark phone. "I'll get the word around quick."
"Cool." He put a rocky hand to his chin, thinking. Conner would be pretty good for this, he bet. Conner seemed like a guy who could spread a word around. He nodded. Conner it was. "I'm gonna go get Conner in on this. I bet he'll flip his shit when he hears, and be on board with this. I'll catch ya later, Vic! Hit me up if you need more awesome ideas." Santo was already pulling out his Stark phone and getting ready to send Conner a quick text to locate him. The guy had to be around here somewhere, didn't he?
Victor was lying on his bed, earphones in and humming along with the soundtrack of Caberet (an Alan Cumming version, naturally) and flipping through a magazine. Quite simply, enjoying a peaceful morning doing nothing at all.
The door flew open, and Santo practically climbed his way through. "Dude! Vic!" Santo said, loud enough to probably be heard through earphones. "Vic! Did you see the news?!" Santo asked exuberantly, pulling himself through the door and letting it close behind him.
Indeed Victor had heard him. He rubbed his ears as he pulled out the ear buds and told his room-mate "I might not hear anything again after that yelling, what's going on? Finally got your mutant wrestling club? Another mutant superhero in the news?"
"No, dude, it's even better!" Santo sort-of-explained. "So like, apparently some crap was up in the air with the Supreme Court, y'know? And now, it's like, unconstitutional to ban same-sex marriages, dude!" Santo said, his excitement back. "Do you have any idea how awesome that is?! You can totally get married to whoever you want, now!"
Which, undeniably, was great news, Victor grinned widely though felt the need to point out "Think I need to find a boy who wants to date me before I let you start on wedding planning!" A night out with Jack as wingman was one thing but actually dating.
"Well, yeah, dude, but still! This is like, awesome. Man, what a time to be alive, right? Mutants coming out of the woodwork, superheroes in the making, and civil rights victories all around!" Santo felt like they needed to celebrate somehow, and maybe the school wouldn't suffice. Maybe, just maybe, he'd head out to Salem Center. Surely everyone had forgotten what had happened in South Boston a few months ago by now. Too many big things had been happening lately for everyone to remember.
He put a hand to his chin, thinking about it. Which was never a good sign. Any and all evidence of Santo lapsing into thought was pretty much always a bad thing. "Dude, we should celebrate. Like, go party in Salem Center or something."
"Forget Salem, I bet there's gonna be a party right here," Victor pointed out, their school was more openly LGBT than any he'd ever heard of after all. "First, quick rewind, Supreme court have made it completely legal? You mean totally? Even the southern states that have been total asses about it all?"
"I mean, to my understanding? Any state that has a ban on it? It's like, immediately struck down. Off the books. Bam. Unconstitutional. End of story. So I guess what they're saying is that it's, y'know, like separate but equal was, and not, y'know, equal or fair at all, y'know? I mean, I'm sure some assholes are gonna cry and whine about it, but it's the Supreme Freaking Court, man." Santo shrugged. "So I think so? Pretty sure?"
Laughing, Victor agreed "Oh yeah, the bigots are gonna be fuming. Oh man it's awesome!"
"Yeah, dude. Screw haters, man." That was pretty much Santo's unilateral view on anyone who had anything against anyone. No reason to hate, as far as Santo was concerned. "Dude! I got it. We should like, make this day permanently be Pride Day at Xavier's, or something like that. We should petition the headmasters for it. Have like an awesome party and stuff that's all about being proud of who and what you are, y'know? 'Cause some people don't realize how awesome they are, and they need to be reminded sometimes." Not that Santo ever needed reminding of how awesome he was.
"You know what, that's actually a really great idea!" Victor didn't mean to sound quite so surprised, really he didn't. "About to start Xavier's chapter of PFLAG are you? Or have you been meaning to tell me something, eh? I always thought you were too invested in the idea of me and Jay snogging about the place." He was joking of course, and sniggering already, but still. It was easy to poke fun at him.
Santo sauntered over and bopped him playfully on the shoulder, shaking his head. "Hey man, I'm just sayin'. It ain't just about your orientation that you should be proud of. It's about who you are and what you are, and that includes being a mutant. We got acceptance in this place, sure, but we don't exactly have pride, y'know what I mean? Leave it up to the students to decide if they wanna be loud and proud, sure, but if they gave us an official day here at the school to get used to that idea? I bet more people would be down with it."
"So you wanna do the school's first Pride? There's a certain amount of irony that the first one to think of an Xavier's Pride event is one of the straight boys." Victor was laughing but, actually, it was a good idea. And could potentially help with certain closet cases. Maybe.
"Someone's gotta step up to the plate and let everyone know that they're awesome and they should feel awesome about it," Santo pointed out. "One of the most awesome dudes at the school should be the one to do it, don't you think?" Santo grinned a little.
Pretending to frown a little, Victor asked "Awesomest? But I thought we were talking about you?" and fighting hard to keep his face straight
"I know, Vic, I didn't think you'd take the news well, but you're only the second most awesome kid at the school. Close second, though." Santo clapped him lightly on the shoulder. "Hey, enough debate though. Gotta keep riding this hype train. You're good with organizing and decorating and crap, right? 'Cause I'm not. You should help me throw this crap together. I'm the idea guy. Now you're the follow-through guy."
"Like this," He opened a drawer in his desk and located some large, glittery rainbow stickers. He wasn't sure where they had come from exactly though Pietro was usually a good bet with that kind of thing. He peeled off the largest sticker and place it on Santo. "That's better, you're looking Prouder already."
"Hey," Santo said with mock disapproval. "I'm not just some bulletin board, dude. Next thing I know you'll be trying to paint my nails or something in my sleep." Not that Santo had any fingernails or toenails.
"When have you ever seen me paint my nails, eh?" Victor pointed out
"Just because you don't paint yours, doesn't mean that you wouldn't paint mine," Santo pointed out. "You'd just have to borrow the nail polish from somebody, I guess."
"Sounds to me like you want your nails painted," He smirked up at his roomie.
Santo put a heavy hand on Vic's head and rolled his head around a bit. "You keep it up, bro, and you're gonna wake up with one of my arms weighing you down in the morning," Santo warned. It was a prank he'd been thinking about. He'd situate it on Vic's lap so he wouldn't suffocate or anything, but it'd still be a pain and a half to get off of him in the morning, if he could at all, considering one of his limbs was upwards of two hundred pounds. "Now c'mon. Let's have me thinking of what we can do for this day of universal pride celebration thing, instead of ways to prank the crap out of each other. That stuff can come later."
"Rainbow cupcakes?" Naturally Victor's mind went straight to baking, though he's have plenty to say about Santo trying to pin him later on.
"Always the baking with you," Santo chuckled, though it was in no way disapproving. "I'm thinking like, music and stuff. Maybe use the gym? It's a nice big place, could fit plenty of people in."
"Sounds good, I'll text Curtis and see about some DJing. You can gather recruits."
"Recruits?" Santo asked, scratching the side of his head. He didn't know the first thing about putting something like this together. He figured he'd just march right up to the headmasters and tell them what's what, and let them take it from there. Santo was an idea guy, he wasn't so big on the execution half the time, and chances were they'd run out of daylight before anything was actually followed through on. Which sucked, because he kind of wanted it to be on the day that it happened. He just wanted August 28 to take on a whole new meaning for the word 'awesome' and how it applied to people. Doing the legwork of it, though...
"I'll round up some folks. You might wanna do some recruiting on your end, too." Their circles of friends were quite different, after all. Still, Santo was worried he'd fall short on his end... Not that he'd let Vic know that.
"Well, it's be a pretty poor Pride without my 'rainbow' of friends, right?" Victor pointed out with a laugh, already locating his Stark phone. "I'll get the word around quick."
"Cool." He put a rocky hand to his chin, thinking. Conner would be pretty good for this, he bet. Conner seemed like a guy who could spread a word around. He nodded. Conner it was. "I'm gonna go get Conner in on this. I bet he'll flip his shit when he hears, and be on board with this. I'll catch ya later, Vic! Hit me up if you need more awesome ideas." Santo was already pulling out his Stark phone and getting ready to send Conner a quick text to locate him. The guy had to be around here somewhere, didn't he?
