I'm gonna run off and join the circus!!

[xp_daredevil]

There's a Circus Arts studio in NYC.

I know what I'm doing this summer!

....we just won't tell them I'm blind, okay? They'll never notice!

Who's with me!?

Comments

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

oh, you don't know the story of Matt's Migraines and Why Drugs Are Bad?

[x-minibruiser.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I remember? I guess not?

[x-deadpool.livejournal.com]

Blah blah blah - life's not always awesome, but it's not always awful, either. Besides, there are work arounds.

How'd you find out about it, anyway?

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

My powers manifested the same time I lost my sight. So the doctors thought my migraines were trauma-related and never checked for mutation or whatever.

So they spent a LOT of time putting me on various medications to help stop my migraines. Including a lot of painkillers, which I got addicted to. And moved on to harder and less legal things - where I promptly got put in rehab to dry out and realize the error of my ways. Thankfully, a good doctor there realized something wasn't right and discovered I was a mutant and hooked me up here.

Baddabing, baddaboom.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. Whining over. I just really hate those two options.

Internet. It's what's for dinner.

[x-minibruiser.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, I'm glad you're here. :)

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

Me too. Even if I did fall off the wagon once.

9 months baby! WOOOO!

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

At least you have the option to hide that you are a mutant, Matt. Many of us do not.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right. And I'm not trying to say I WANT to hide, even though yeah, I see where it comes off that way. It's just frustrating I guess to be a mutant where you can't really PROVE your powers. Mine aren't noticeable. So even when I tell people it's kinda like "uh huh, okay, whatever."

So other than being really sharp, do you look odd or something? I've never asked and unless someone specifically mentions it or I can touch them and feel a difference, I never think anyone looks out of the ordinary. Sorry, my blind is showing.

[x-penance.livejournal.com]

It did sound like you wanted to be able to hide your mutancy, but if you did not mean it, that is all right by me.

As for what I look like, my skin is dark red, my eyes are a sort of glowing neon blue and my fingers and toes are very long and sharp, like claws. Usually my hair (which is also dark red) is spiky also, but most of the time it is sort of stiff, like fine wire.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

Well, the kids at Salem HS know I'm a mutant and there was a lot "show us what you do!" when I started classes there. And it's like "uh...your heart's beating quickly..." which is lame and most of them thought I was making it all up anyways. So an entirely different set of problems come from not being able to prove your powers vs being an obvious mutant.

I can't really imagine that. Huh. I'll have to kinda think on that I guess, since I can't touch you.

[x-pinnochio.livejournal.com]

Dude. I have seen your crazy ass flying around on the highbars like a flea on crack. YOU DO NOT NEED TO GO TO SCHOOL FOR THIS. YOU ARE ALREADY SCARY GOOD AT IT.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

but Frank! that's the highbar! And I've started trapeze, but what about spinny flippy shit with ropes and silk and hoops and OTHER STUFF?? I need options, man!

Wanna do it too? be a joiner!

[x-pinnochio.livejournal.com]

You have options! You have options coming out of your freakin' ears! (Yes, I did just clean that sentence up because of Molly.)

...No. NO. I am a TREEMAN, Matt. Hence ROOTS and staying on the ground and not falling off a rope into an embarrassing heap!

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

They're good options!

Then what am I? Because the last time I checked, you might have roots, but I'm not a bird!

[x-pinnochio.livejournal.com]

You are a crazy adrenaline-junkie acrobat dude with sexy genetics. You defy freakin' description. That is what you are.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

sexy genetics? you hitting on me Frank? I'm flattered!

And watch who you're calling a junkie! I've been clean for months!

[x-pinnochio.livejournal.com]

...Wait, what?

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

...oh. You didn't know.

I'm an addict. I've been clean now for 9 months.

[x-pinnochio.livejournal.com]

...Oh. Shit. Um... sorry, dude.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

Why? It's not a secret or anything.

I've been arrested twice - once for drugs - and did rehab once in an in-patient facility and then last summer when I relapsed. It's funtimes, but I'm determined to stay clean this time.

[x-pinnochio.livejournal.com]

Oh. Good. That's good.

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is.

So, you in for the classes?

[x-pinnochio.livejournal.com]

Nah. It's not really my thing. Feet on the ground kind of guy, you know?

[x-daredevil.livejournal.com]

You suck.

but okay.

....their website has floor classes! Tumbling partners?