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Pound the Table | An X-Men Self-Insert

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. . .Did someone throw a pipe through his head?

Still at least St. John is going to be alright.

Even if this murder was likely aimed at our dear overstressed protagonist and hero.
 
NewWillinium said:
. . .Did someone throw a pipe through his head?

Still at least St. John is going to be alright.

Even if this murder was likely aimed at our dear overstressed protagonist and hero.
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The last line says "broadhead". Sounds like he got shot with an arrow.

Which is interesting because Marvel doesn't have a ton of archer supervillains. Guessing this might be Bullseye? But bows aren't typically his thing.
 
RiyeLink said:
I think they were aiming for St. John.
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…oh god I hadn't even realised that yet there's LAYERS to this! She's even his lawyer so seeing them talking amicably after the case…

Questions I don't know enough about the setting to answer:
-Who might want him dead? The fact Noa wasn't killed implies it's more than just for being a mutant.
-He was killed with an arrow, does that narrow down who the killer could be? Hired or not?
 
October Daye said:
"Well, you're not wrong about that," I said around some giggles. "Oh, so the station closest to home?" I asked, and something in my chest fluttered when Lorna nodded after I said 'home'. "There's this one rat I've seen for the past few years, yeah? It keeps getting bigger, and bigger, and I know it's the same rat because of its tail, right? Well, I don't know how, I don't know where, but every time I see it, it's got a slice of pizza."

"What?" Lorna blinked, and I couldn't help but smile at the reaction. "How? But, where, what? Wait, how big?"

"Let's see, about as big as… hm." I picked up my purse and pointed at it. "Two of these, probably?"

"Oh, eww, gross!"
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People I interrupt your regularly scheduled conspiracy theorizing to point out an important piece of the text you all will overlook because of the cliffhanger:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w400gIJEFw

Edit: I just remembered not everyone know this bit of TMNT lore but the Kid that was carrying the Turtles when they were dropped into the sewer was originally supposed to be a young Matt Murdock. @October Daye is doing that TMNT/Marvel fandom specific plot where the TMNT are re-integrated into Marvel.
 
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October Daye said:
I know I said the next chapter would be a double whammy next week but nope, I am evil evil EVIL, and I am only nice enough to not make y'all stew in a cliffhanger for two weeks! At no point did I say anything about not letting you stew for ONE!
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OBJECTION!

I would like to object to this cruel and... *reviews Standard Author Behavior*... entirely typical action!
Not that I have any actual justification, but I brought a table to pound on!

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Katherine walked forward. She hit the first teen in her way, and walked right through him. Quite literally, in fact, which led to some serious shock on the poor kid's part. Then she walked through another, and another, until she was in front of St. John.

Then she grabbed the boy by his lapels, and pulled him down into a kiss.
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Good job Kitty!
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"Mhmm." Lorna pushed a bit closer to me, and I felt my heart melt just a bit more. "Can, can we go h—to your place?"

I heard what she'd been about to say. I knew what Lorna had been about to say. And it made my heart swell… but if she wasn't ready to say it, she wasn't ready. It was okay.

I could wait.
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Awww! I'm with Rebecca, Lorna is just precious.
 
Dollars to donuts this is a like ninja/skilled in all forms of combat type of super-mercenary/vigilante/villain, using archery as a distinctive calling card for this new terror and assassination campaign, possibly linked to HYDRA starting to really spread its wings inside and outside of SHIELD with like Red Skull's return to match Captain America or something.
 
NotInventedHere said:
The last line says "broadhead". Sounds like he got shot with an arrow.

Which is interesting because Marvel doesn't have a ton of archer supervillains. Guessing this might be Bullseye? But bows aren't typically his thing.
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Technically Hawkeye was originally introduced as a villian but more a petty thief than assassin.

Pretty sure I've seen Electra use a bow and arrow before, and if not Electra specifically the Hand more generally could plausibly be behind it.

Though I'm still not understanding why an ADA would have been picked because he looked like the defendent. I'm missing some essential logical connection here.
 
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Out of all the available ADAs on the short list of seeming sympathetic and empathizing how much Young was a unique aberration and how the city and the justice system are all in this together as the same people, as the position of the new Collins office, it's really something to present a fellow non-WASP white guy as like literally the same person?
 
This feels like a situation involving precognition or something similar. Sending a decoy target, rather than just stopping the assassination, is really weird, but would make sense if the person arranging this only knew that sending this particular guy was helpful and not why.
 
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