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<td valign="top">[[Image:Aurora2.psd.png|left]]'''[[Aurora]]:''' Twin to [[Jean-Paul Beaubier]], Jeanne-Marie suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder. One personality is the quiet, prudish  and very human schoolmarm Jeanne-Marie, the other the super-powered and unstable Aurora. Separated from her brother after the death of their parents and brought up in a reactionary Catholic school for girls from an early age, Jeanne-Marie was tormented by her fellow students and manifested her flight, superspeed and invulnerability when she tried to commit suicide by throwing herself off the roof. Convinced she was a tool of the devil, Jeanne-Marie repressed her mutant powers, sparking off the split into her two selves, and over time her episodes became more dramatic. Recruited to [[Alpha Flight]] by [[Logan]] from off the streets, she was reunited with her brother but eventually she required hospitalisation for her mental issues. Escaping, she tracked Jean-Paul down to [[Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters| Xavier's]], where she spent a short time confusing people before returning to Canada with him for further treatment. Eventually, however, she disappeared, unable to stand what her instability was doing to her twin, winding up in France and undergoing apparently successful reintegration. She returned to Xavier's following her brother's [[Mnemovore| psionic torture]], drawn to him by their shared bond, and choosing to go with him to Muir Island when his treatment required it. She remains there, even after his return to Xavier's.
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<td valign="top">[[Image:Sooraya.jpg|left]]'''Moment of Awesome - [[Sooraya Qadir]]''' ''An attempt to have a normal outing with [[Cecilia Reyes]] is interrupted by a news story about ISIS and [http://x-logs.livejournal.com/3751030.html leads to a talk about being who you are.]''
  
  
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Sooraya did notice a quick glance in her direction, but she let out a small sigh of relief as the waitress said she'd see what she could do. When the waitress had gone, Sooraya sipped her coffee and quickly glanced around before lowering her voice. "It would have been really 'nice' if someone could have warned me about this." She gestured at the television. "This travesty..." 
  
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"What, that people are assholes?" Cecilia shrugged. "That can't be helped."
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"People being assholes is nothing new. That is more then being assholes. That is people being inhuman." Sooraya's eyes glittered. "And in the name of Allah. They are a thousandfold worse then Sayyid ever was."
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"Oh, those people. I thought you meant..." Cecilia gestured around them. She didn't quite know who Sayyid was, but she was smart enough to use context clues. "Well. That's brutal and inconceivable and a perversion. And I can't imagine how it must feel to see that."
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"I have had a few... encounters with people with at least a somewhat similar philosophy." Even if that had been in another world. "But none actually did something like this. Or any of the other things that had happened that had not happened before M-Day."
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"Yeah. That." Cecilia pursed her lips and looked down at her coffee. "I don't know. It's weird what extremes people will go to, I guess." She leaned forward and her voice grew quieter. "Look at how people are reacting to us these days."
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"We only have to look at history to see how far people might go." Sooraya had done the same, leaning forward and speaking softer. She had already caught a few glares as the TV volume had been reduced and she did not need the double number of glares. "Though it's a lot more frightening when it's actually turned at you then just reading about it."
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Cecilia frowned and tilted her head ever-so-slightly. "Are you... have people been saying things to you?" Well, there was a laugh. As if being a woman of color was easy. As if being a mutant of color wasn't harder. And that was without people using your religion to justify slaughter.
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"Here and there. A lot of glares, some remarks..." Sooraya sighed. "I think you know what I am talking about though. It's not even overtly threatening, but I still feel like I am walking around with a double target painted on my back."
 
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Revision as of 15:14, 16 June 2015

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Moment of Awesome - Sooraya Qadir An attempt to have a normal outing with Cecilia Reyes is interrupted by a news story about ISIS and leads to a talk about being who you are.


Sooraya did notice a quick glance in her direction, but she let out a small sigh of relief as the waitress said she'd see what she could do. When the waitress had gone, Sooraya sipped her coffee and quickly glanced around before lowering her voice. "It would have been really 'nice' if someone could have warned me about this." She gestured at the television. "This travesty..."

"What, that people are assholes?" Cecilia shrugged. "That can't be helped."

"People being assholes is nothing new. That is more then being assholes. That is people being inhuman." Sooraya's eyes glittered. "And in the name of Allah. They are a thousandfold worse then Sayyid ever was."

"Oh, those people. I thought you meant..." Cecilia gestured around them. She didn't quite know who Sayyid was, but she was smart enough to use context clues. "Well. That's brutal and inconceivable and a perversion. And I can't imagine how it must feel to see that."

"I have had a few... encounters with people with at least a somewhat similar philosophy." Even if that had been in another world. "But none actually did something like this. Or any of the other things that had happened that had not happened before M-Day."

"Yeah. That." Cecilia pursed her lips and looked down at her coffee. "I don't know. It's weird what extremes people will go to, I guess." She leaned forward and her voice grew quieter. "Look at how people are reacting to us these days."

"We only have to look at history to see how far people might go." Sooraya had done the same, leaning forward and speaking softer. She had already caught a few glares as the TV volume had been reduced and she did not need the double number of glares. "Though it's a lot more frightening when it's actually turned at you then just reading about it."

Cecilia frowned and tilted her head ever-so-slightly. "Are you... have people been saying things to you?" Well, there was a laugh. As if being a woman of color was easy. As if being a mutant of color wasn't harder. And that was without people using your religion to justify slaughter.

"Here and there. A lot of glares, some remarks..." Sooraya sighed. "I think you know what I am talking about though. It's not even overtly threatening, but I still feel like I am walking around with a double target painted on my back."

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