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capencowl20202020-01-18 06:21 pm
strikesthrough) wrote in capencowl20202020-01-18 06:21 pm
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[OPEN]
WHO: EVERYONE
WHERE: The main Government Communications building in the City/Everywhere
WHEN: Saturday 18 January
WHAT: The immediate reactions to Victor mass broadcasting a live feed of Apollo blowing up the main government communications building
WARNINGS: CW for explosions, building decimation, terrorism, mass casualties/injury, war themes, etc.
NOTES: OOC notes and plotting/fallout discussion here, but tl;dr feel free to use this post for own action threads or make your own posts. There are also top levels for Resistance network and Government network responses if you want to use them, but again you can always make your own posts!
With no warning or build up, suddenly every digitally transmitting device across the city is forced to broadcast the same image of a pale, gaunt man dressed in a black trenchcoat and cutting a hard dark line against the sky, courtesy of the object-dreaming powers of one Joseph "Joey" Kavinsky. Some people in the medical field might recognise the man on the feed from his time as a brilliant neuroresearcher; others might recognise him as a deadly escapee who staged a breakout at a government metahuman containment facility whose face was widely reported at the time of the incident.
He's somewhere a top a high building, the altitude swiping his hair and the trails of his coat back and forth, but the man keeps a steady stare into the camera and his hands in his pockets. There's a prominent building at his back that is easily recognisable to most as the government's main Communications hub.
"My name is Dr. Victor Vale, and I am a metahuman. I come to you today with a brief reminder, a history lesson, if you will. When this city experienced a gap in its local security, metas were brought here to attend to the problem. When we did not perfectly conform to and uphold the authoritarian police system we were brought in to replenish, we were threatened with mass registration. And when we resisted, we were endured a brutal meta-wide crackdown.
"The meta resistance to these acts of violence against us have been reactive and defensive for too long and each moment we endure this government's actions is another moment where metahumans are brutalised, imprisoned, experimented on, and killed. It is my belief that we are well overdue to return this action.
"My proposal to this government is simple: empty your seats of power, declaw your enforcers, dismantle the systems of registration, and end your hunt on metas entirely. Failure to do so will result in actions that will no doubt be viewed as unfavourable. And I am more than happy to provide a demonstration. You see--"
He takes a step closer to the camera, a golden trail beginning to tear through the sky in the backdrop of the shot.
"Several years ago, it was wildly reported that the military had successfully shot down and killed the powerful metahuman known as Apollo. I have the honour of informing you all today that those reports were spectacularly overstated."
[ BOOM! ]
At the end of that last sentence, like he'd timed this all to the very second, Apollo tears through the government building behind Victor, decimating the whole thing and seeing it go up in an incredible ball of fire and smoke. Victor, for his part, doesn't even blink as the rush from the impact rips past him from behind.
"We are done playing games and placidly accepting this state-encouraged torture of metahumans. The government has twelve hours to respond to our demands. I shouldn't need to say what will happen after that. To other metahumans out there watching this, to members of the resistance who are adrift, to any that are in hiding or on the fence--I strongly suggest you join with us. Or, baring that, stay out of our way. This has always been a war, it is time we acted as such."
He holds a firm stare into the feed for a moment longer, the aftermath of the explosion at his back billowing smoke and flame before the broadcast disconnects and whatever the screen was showing before the takeover resumes. Or at least it would, except for most civilian transmissions, instead of resuming, there is a fairly cheerfully ominous message instead: Oops! We'll Be Right Back! 😫
WHERE: The main Government Communications building in the City/Everywhere
WHEN: Saturday 18 January
WHAT: The immediate reactions to Victor mass broadcasting a live feed of Apollo blowing up the main government communications building
WARNINGS: CW for explosions, building decimation, terrorism, mass casualties/injury, war themes, etc.
NOTES: OOC notes and plotting/fallout discussion here, but tl;dr feel free to use this post for own action threads or make your own posts. There are also top levels for Resistance network and Government network responses if you want to use them, but again you can always make your own posts!
With no warning or build up, suddenly every digitally transmitting device across the city is forced to broadcast the same image of a pale, gaunt man dressed in a black trenchcoat and cutting a hard dark line against the sky, courtesy of the object-dreaming powers of one Joseph "Joey" Kavinsky. Some people in the medical field might recognise the man on the feed from his time as a brilliant neuroresearcher; others might recognise him as a deadly escapee who staged a breakout at a government metahuman containment facility whose face was widely reported at the time of the incident.
He's somewhere a top a high building, the altitude swiping his hair and the trails of his coat back and forth, but the man keeps a steady stare into the camera and his hands in his pockets. There's a prominent building at his back that is easily recognisable to most as the government's main Communications hub.
"My name is Dr. Victor Vale, and I am a metahuman. I come to you today with a brief reminder, a history lesson, if you will. When this city experienced a gap in its local security, metas were brought here to attend to the problem. When we did not perfectly conform to and uphold the authoritarian police system we were brought in to replenish, we were threatened with mass registration. And when we resisted, we were endured a brutal meta-wide crackdown.
"The meta resistance to these acts of violence against us have been reactive and defensive for too long and each moment we endure this government's actions is another moment where metahumans are brutalised, imprisoned, experimented on, and killed. It is my belief that we are well overdue to return this action.
"My proposal to this government is simple: empty your seats of power, declaw your enforcers, dismantle the systems of registration, and end your hunt on metas entirely. Failure to do so will result in actions that will no doubt be viewed as unfavourable. And I am more than happy to provide a demonstration. You see--"
He takes a step closer to the camera, a golden trail beginning to tear through the sky in the backdrop of the shot.
"Several years ago, it was wildly reported that the military had successfully shot down and killed the powerful metahuman known as Apollo. I have the honour of informing you all today that those reports were spectacularly overstated."
At the end of that last sentence, like he'd timed this all to the very second, Apollo tears through the government building behind Victor, decimating the whole thing and seeing it go up in an incredible ball of fire and smoke. Victor, for his part, doesn't even blink as the rush from the impact rips past him from behind.
"We are done playing games and placidly accepting this state-encouraged torture of metahumans. The government has twelve hours to respond to our demands. I shouldn't need to say what will happen after that. To other metahumans out there watching this, to members of the resistance who are adrift, to any that are in hiding or on the fence--I strongly suggest you join with us. Or, baring that, stay out of our way. This has always been a war, it is time we acted as such."
He holds a firm stare into the feed for a moment longer, the aftermath of the explosion at his back billowing smoke and flame before the broadcast disconnects and whatever the screen was showing before the takeover resumes. Or at least it would, except for most civilian transmissions, instead of resuming, there is a fairly cheerfully ominous message instead: Oops! We'll Be Right Back! 😫