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Summary: Different Points of View concerning the cure during the third Movie.
Beast: Political and Personal Ideals
When I first heard about the Cure, I was in a meeting with the President and several upper-level officials, trying very hard to refrain from saying 'I Told You So' after watching a supposed interrogation of Mystique, which in actuality resulted in Mystique taunting and antagonising her would-be Questioners, then attacking and soundly defeating them, all while restrained with hand-cuffs.
I barely managed not to flinch when I found out that the source of the Cure was a mutant. To me, that somehow seemed very twisted.
We homo superiors have no choice in our mutation, but if that knowledge became public, I give it all of ten minutes before someone takes offence and does something stupid, be it an angry mutant who thinks him an (Un)willing traitor to his own kind, or an Anti-Mutant fanatic who is opposed on principal to the idea that a Mutant was involved in one of the greatest events this Millennium.
When I met the boy, it was a very strange feeling to see the blue fur disappearing , changing into normal human skin. I barely heard him apologise, or heard myself accept it and reassure him in a dazed and distracted voice. After I left, I went immediately to talk to Charles Xavier about the matter. This had given me much to think about.
On a political level, I was both impressed and worried. It was an amazing scientific breakthrough, but how long would it be before someone succumbed to the temptation of abusing this 'Cure', and everything went to hell.
On a personal level, I had mixed feelings. My mutation was part of me, and I did not think that it was a part that I was willing to give up. But as I told Ororo, not all of us found it so easy to blend in, and it was slightly annoying to always be shedding blue fur on the furniture.
I knew that some mutants may actually want the cure, while others, Magneto, for instance, would do anything they could to get rid of it, and happily die before willingly taking it.
One of the students, Rogue, I think, had an absorbing mutation, and was unable to have skin-to-skin contact for more than a few seconds at a time.
On the other hand, Ororo's mutation had resulted in her being worshiped as a goddess amongst her people back in Kenya. They were accurate enough, calling her 'Beautiful Windrider'. I could not see her willingly give up her gifts.
I believed it to be the same with that new fellow, Wolverine, with advanced healing, adamantinum claws, and an attitude. He seemed more annoyed and disbelieving that I called him 'boy' than particularly concerned with the issue at hand.
Socrates once said that if the whole world depended on today's youth, he could not see the world lasting another 100 years. Wolverine seems intent on proving him right.
What Ororo sees in him, I shall never know.
I was sad to be proven right about the use of the Cure being abused.
It had been made into a weapon, in order to nuteralize mutants. This news came out when Magneto attacked the moving prison holding Mystique and other Mutant prisoners (Again, it is tempting to say 'I told you so').
A guard attempted to shoot Magneto with the cure, but Mystique took the dart in his place. Magneto was now warned of the cure weapon, and escaped with the other mutants, leaving Mystique, now Raven Darkholme, behind.
I thought this to be a bad move. I may not like the woman, but she is a great believer in Darwin's theory that the female of the species is far more dangerous than the male.
When I found out about this, I gave my resignation.
My personal morals would not allow me to work for a government that would sink to such levels, and politically, I knew that war had been brewing on the horizen for a long time, that this would be the proverbial final straw on the camel's back. If you hit a man enough times, then eventually, even a Pacifist will start hitting back.
When the war started, I wanted to be back with my own kind.
I am a diplomat at heart, but I still fought with the X-men when Magneto attacked Alcatraz with the intent of destroying both the cure and its source. I helped Wolverine inject Magneto with the cure, despite the turmoil it caused me.
The world changed that night, and I played a part in it's events. For good or ill, things would never be the same again.
The Government appointed me as Ambassador to the United Nations, which was a step forward, and I can only hope that we can continue to move forward peacefully.
To Quote a recent saying, "The road may be long, but it does not get any shorter by just standing there.
Whatever happens, happens, and we will meet it as it comes.
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