005 ; video

[gamora]

( gamora's been lucky enough to avoid getting sick and to avoid being squished into green paste by the bombing. it's been a lively month, but her expression is far from amused. or even the general disdain she's taken to addressing the network with.

it's settled into something that's obviously 'intense dislike'. )

Next time anyone tries to pick a fight with me I'm going to do more than dent a wall with them. Especially if their reasoning is "someone who clearly isn't human, they must be someone we don't want around!". Terrans are outnumbered everywhere in the galaxy except for this rock, and yet somehow you think you're special.

Get over yourselves.

( guess who's just been harassed by a citizen of exsilium who has it in for those obvious transports? and guess who ever so kindly did nothing to improve the relationship between the two groups? )

Comments

[concealingeyes]

it does. you've got people you like being around at least, right? the ones who don't treat you like you're a freak or something. they count for a lot.

[gamora]

( that takes gamora by surprise - it hits a lot closer to home than she was expecting, and therefore harder to brush off with the same air of indifference. )

Or they just die or vanish from here on a regular basis.

[concealingeyes]

[Even that makes her pause. But the topic is important to her and she wants to convince herself as much as she wants to convince Gamora.]

yeah. i hate that. i'd be lying if i said it hadn't happened to me or i wasn't scared of it. but especially now, people like us have to stick together. the newbies coming in don't have anyone to tell them they're not freaks.

these people don't get it. they haven't had people call them monsters for being different. so, we should at least be around for each other for now.

[gamora]

If people coming in can't figure out that people here are ungrateful then that's their own fault. I don't have to be around for anyone except myself.

( she's not still angry at her team for leaving her here, nope. )

[concealingeyes]

doesn't that get lonely?

[gamora]

Not for me.

[concealingeyes]

that's something. then it's not a big deal to keep an eye out for people like us in trouble, right? or give them a heads up.

[gamora]

Maybe if I cared.

( this is better ground, with things she can dismiss. )