Hey, it's the Truthiness Meme! AGAIN

[seismic_shockwave]

 Y'alls know how it works. You post with your character(s) and people ask ya questions. Ya gotta answer them truthfully. They can be serious, they can be silly. They could probably be sexy too, if that's your thing (but y'know, it is sort of public, so don't be GROSS). 

TRUTHINESS! ASK PEEPS QUESTIONS!  

Comments

[hellfire_empath]

X-Force? I'm sorry, do you see me as someone who's going to run around in tacky spandex with like eight dozen useless pouches?

[seismic_shockwave]

Better than the fucking Hellfire Club, Brooke.

[hellfire_empath]

Excuse you! Language, Kayla! You're in polite society, please mind your manners and your tongue.

The Hellfire Club is legacy. My parents. My late aunt. My grandfather. It's who we are. It's what we do. There was a time when maybe I thought I didn't want it, but the more I think about it...the more it feels like the right fit for me. You wouldn't get it. We're not all evil and doom and gloom, you know.

[seismic_shockwave]

I cannot care less about your propriety.

Someone in the Hellfire Club ate a piece of my actual soul.

You cannot imagine what that is like. The cold numbness that settles in your bones. The complete inability to feel anything. Everything that makes you YOU just slowly bleeding away.

I did absolutely nothing to anyone in the Hellfire Club. The only thing I ever did was walk into the building because my girlfriend wanted the company.

Maybe they needed a piece of my soul for some evil ritual.

But I think it was just for sadistic pleasure.

Those are the people that you are choosing to associate with.

That is what those people do.

Maybe I should stop being so surprised that you'd so happily associate with that.

[hellfire_empath]

I'm sorry that happened to you, Kayla. I know that the Hellfire Club has done a lot of things in the past that are inexcusable. Starting with the whole Phoenix mess and going on down...I mean, I get it. No one in my family associated with it is exactly a stellar, stand-up citizen type. Don't think I don't know that.

But this is what I was groomed to do. Give me a chance here. The Hellfire Club wasn't always all...evil.

[seismic_shockwave]

So if nobody from your family that was associated with the club was a good person, why are you so eager to follow in their footsteps?

The Hellfire Club was founded on principles of unrepentant elitism and the maintenance of aristocratic power, in active opposition to what it saw as "the mob", ie, the vast majority of humanity, including any elites who happened to be sympathetic or even simply reconciled to liberalization of society.

And then it became a league of mutant supervillains on top of that. And now it's being run by a soul-eating hellbitch who has been walking the Earth for literally millennia. Who is orders of magnitude more powerful than you are.

You know who else was groomed for Hellfire? Stephanie.

[hellfire_empath]

I wasn't always eager. Earlier on, I tried to separate myself. Branch out into something different. The Brotherhood. It didn't quite work out, though. Personal feelings and other things...the group eventually split apart, and leaning into familiarity made sense.

And you say elitism and aristocracy like they're bad things. There's good to be found in them as well.

Stephanie wants different things out of life than I do. She wants family and comfort and stability. I've never found family comforting or stable myself.