om_main | Victor and Pietro, backdated to Wednesday

Victor and Pietro discuss the mutant coming out. Featuring the first ever dramatic reading of Worthingdock, plus their own plans for future questionable fanservice.

Pietro burst into the room on Monday afternoon, looking at his phone and practically cackling. "Oh my god, Victor! It only took days for the RPS to start. They're calling it Worthingdock! Or at least this girl is, hmm..."

Victor was lying on the floor having gotten bored of his bed, reading a comic book he'd borrowed from Vance. He looked up immediately.
"I understood literally nothing in that sentence. English please."

"Fanfiction. Real Person Slash. About Brian and Warren. Oh my god I need to warn Betsy to spare her brain this trauma. Wrong Braddock!" But Pietro was cackling as he closed the door behind him and read dramatically: "Braddock looked into those angelic blue orbs, dropped down from heaven itself to bring love into the light. His stoic exterior melted, all of him at ease--except for one key portion of his anatomy--"

Pietro choked. "I can't. It's too awful. Angelgrrrl132, you are fucked up!"

"Eurgh!" Victor's whole face screwed up in disgust. "Why would they even? Warren and Brain are like two of the straightest guys in school!"

"The mind is a dark and tortured place, my friend," Pietro said quite seriously. He settled his phone on his desk--note to self, text Betsy and warn her--then spun it around. "But, it's also a good sign in its weird little way. While there are of course haters, the potential for lovers is far greater."

"Yeah, I guess." Victor nodded a little before asking "Did you ever think about coming out with them?" They hadn't talked a whole lot about it yet, Victor for his part had been basically holding his breath for the panic and chaos that hadn't yet come.

"Yeah, I mean, I always hated not being open about it. You know how I am," Pietro said, throwing himself into his desk chair and stretching his legs out in front of him. "I'd love to show it off, be proud of who I am, what I can do. Honestly... I kinda envy Warren right now."

He hadn't said that to anyone but Wanda, but not like she hadn't already known he would, right? Sighhhh. Bottom line was: "But there are bigger issues at hand than my black hole of an ego."

"Which are?" Vic suspected he knew at least some of them but wanted to hear them from Pietro, wanted to her his friend's point of view and not just assume. See, he was learning.

"Well, the biggest is that I've already proven my usefulness in covert operations," he said easily, dragging one hand through his absurd hair. "And I'm not so covert if I go flashing my mug all over YouTube."

Victor pulled himself up to a seated position. "Good thinking, totally understandable."

"Plus, let's face it: who the fuck am I?" Pietro slumped a little, there. "We'll have our public speed-boy soon enough."

"I guess, yeah. You're still my favourite speed-boy though." Victor told him before adding "My mom called to make sure I wasn't planning to come out too."

Pietro perked up a little at the assurance that he was Vic's favorite--he didn't care if the guy probably said the same thing to Elrond, too. The attention was good enough. "Make sure you weren't, huh? I mean, I kind of guessed you wouldn't be yet, just knowing you. But. I don't know. I get that she wants you to be safe."

"Yeah pretty much, I basically told her what you just said. Who cares about me, I'm not anyone really." Victor nodded as he started to get up and move to the fridge. "Ironically I had been wondering if I should come out to her but now I'm thinking no."

"I'd still come out, if that was all that was holding me back," Pietro admitted. "But--I know how weird this is coming from me, by the way but still--I don't think there's any point in all of us jumping on the bandwagon right now. We can use that shit to our advantage. Frankly, I'm super impressed with Warren for the way he did this.

"I, uh, take it your mother was not, then."

"No, I'm not gonna come out as a mutant. Let the world get used to the normal...ish looking ones first, I think. I meant the other kind of coming out to mom. But she's pretty obviously still weirded out about the mutant thing so I don't wanna make it worse." Victor explained as he pulled out a bottle of water then motioned as if to ask if Pietro wanted anything.

Pietro patiently let him make his explanations, stretching upward to hook his hands behind his head. Then, "I'm good, thanks, just drank like a gallon of juice." Yay for super efficient body that meant he hardly ever had to piss. Woo.

"I knew what you meant; I thought we were equating the reactions to the two. And we were. That's cool though--I mean, if you want to tell her, fine, but if you don't care, then she doesn't get to know, right?"

Victor nodded "I think it's more important you guys know, I mean you guys know me for real. Scales and all. Mom kinda doesn't know me anymore but, yeah, I guess she doesn't need to. I'm assuming you've never told Mr Lensherr?" Now there was a man who was intimidating.

For just a moment, Pietro's surprise was evident in a sudden widening of his eyes. "It never occurred to me that it wasn't perfectly obvious, to be honest. I mean. Not like I've ever been shy--even before I knew how to talk about it." Pietro pointed upward and over at Hope Solo and Clint Dempsey in illustration.

"I don't think he cares," he said thoughtfully. What he didn't say was, I think it'd be creepy if he did. Seriously, what was this parental obsession with who their kids were fucking? Weiiiiiird.

"Fair enough." After a pause Victor jumped back to the original topic, not because he wasn't interested in the current one but because he had a lot of jumbled thoughts about everything right now and it was the first thought to make sense. "Do you think maybe Brian and Warren will be treated better than the rest of us anyway because of who they are? Rich and stuff?"

Pietro had no trouble following, of course. "Totally. I'm pretty sure that's why they decided to do it first--not only are most people inclined to adore the rich and beautiful, but they can also buy a kind of safety us peasants can't. Like, if I did that, I'd be terrified about our mom. Warren does it, he knows no one can get to his parents.

"Which is part of why he's actually kind of my hero right now. Normally I resent the shit out of rich kids but dude is really, like, self-aware with that kind of shit. And just used it for all of us." It had been the first thing he'd noticed about Worthington, even before the squad, even before Betsy, really. "And Brian, too, but I shouldn't be surprised there. He is Betsy's brother." Kinda worthless in some ways, but in general a good dude. Especially once you got a few shots in him.

Victor nodded thoughtfully and admitted "I don't really know Warren, Brian's been pretty nice to me though. The whole decision to come out now, I dunno I guess it surprised me. I got used to hiding and guess I assumed everyone else had too. I understand why they did it though." Pietro even made it sound like they were protecting the other kids or whatever, Victor hadn't really thought about it like that. "So far things don't seem too bad...depending on how you view badly written gay porn."

"There will be bad stuff that happens. But a lot less because they did it this way. Alison and Elrond--oh god, the gay porn will be so horrific after that!--will too, soon enough, which people will lick up like ice cream." Pietro chuckled as he said that, but then sobered. "Hiding sounds great in theory, but in practice... it's dangerous not to exist. Apart from just being annoying."

"Hiding sucks." This time when he agreed, it was in a much smaller voice and a much more serious expression.

Pietro stretched again, but this time brought his arms down and crossed them over his chest. "And we are one step closer to it not being a thing for anyone--who doesn't want to. Gonna be a long walk, but hey. We're young."

Victor nodded again before slowly smiling and asking "So, when you do it who do you think they'll write about with you?"

"Well they've got good odds of being right, at this rate," he joked, mind running through possibilities... before finally landing on the worst (and probably most likely) one imaginable. God, he wanted twincest to die in a fire. He wasn't even gonna say that one out loud.

"Oh!" he said, suddenly bright again. "I know, we can come out together. And people can find out we're roommates and ship us!"

Victor's expression of disgust was exaggerated for comic effect. "Oh god, no!"

"Oh yes!" Pietro laughed. "And we can stand there with our arms around each other and be suuuuuuper cute to screw with the fangirls. Come on!"

It would upset so many people, his parents and Vance most importantly, but Victor couldn't say it wasn't funny. Super screwed up sure but funny as hell.

Still amused with his ridiculous hypothetical, Pietro continued to chuckle. "Let's just pray no one starts shipping my sisters with people. I might have to find a way to burn down the internet."

"You do realise that your sisters are actual people who may have crushes on people and want to go on dates, right?" He mostly only pointed it out to torment his friend.

"Oh yeah, which reminds me, I haven't scared the shit out of Little Summers in a while. Thanks for that."

"Do I need to keep you on a leash until you learn how to behave in society?"

"Between that and the collar you already bought me--oh, you are definitely going to be my terrible RPS ship." Pietro smirked. Okay, come on, Vic totally deserved that one for forcing him to think of his sisters as potential dates for any of the weirdos in this place!

"And how the hell would they know about that?" Hell, Victor had forgotten he'd even given that gift! Thank God it had disappeared into the ether never to be seen or worn! To his knowledge anyway.

Pietro waggled his eyebrows. "Maybe I'll wear it to the coming out party." Then he cracked up, "Okay, no, come on man, I'm just torturing you for the sister comment!"

"Hey, just be glad I'm not straight coz otherwise it would have been a comment about me and a sister. I just figured with the whole gay thing it wouldn't have worked!" The green boy told him with a laugh

A small pack of M&Ms that had settled on Pietro's desk flew across the room directly for Victor's chest, followed by a definite Pietro-cackle. "Jerk!"

Catching the candy, Victor flashed another grin "Thanks! And, you know, after Dorian people were saying me and Lorna made a good couple. Til the whole driving her to suicide thing."

"I am sooooo wearing that collar to our coming out party, Victor."

"That's fine, I have way more dirt on you anyway. I'll finally have a chance to use it all." Vic pointed out happily because really the collar would say more about Pietro than him anyway right?

"Yes, tell the world the amount of kinky superpowered play I get." Pietro turned towards his computer to click open his email, giggling. "Pietro Maximoff: walking sex toy. I'll take it!"

"I could rent you out and make a fortune!" The younger boy decided "You wear my collar then you belong to me! I'll be a rich man."

Pietro laughed so hard he had to stop what he was doing for a second. Look at Victor, coming alive after all this time! "Oh my god, yes, perfect! Though you might have to fight Eames for the title--Ooooh I like that!"

"That could be fun." Victor decided, liking the surprise that had crossed his friend's face. Always fun to shock Pietro.

"Cage match for collar rights, then we watch the money roll in," Pietro said as decisively as he could through continued giggles. "Worthingdock has nothing on us."