In the exercise room.
The barbell slipped out of her hand and floated more than two meters high. Riven was startled and sat up quickly.
"If half your attention is on hiding your differences, you can't do the things you need to do."
Magneto walked in slowly and said.
What he meant was the look of Mystique struggling to lift a barbell.
"Your power is more than just this, why hide it?"
Mystique has blue skin and small scales. Unlike ordinary people, she has a certain degree of physical enhancement.
The heavy barbell would be difficult for the average person, but it shouldn't be for her.
But she was always distracted by maintaining the appearance of an ordinary person, concealing her true appearance, and was unable to use her full strength.
brush!
Magneto's eyes moved and he gave up control of the barbell.
call!
The heavy 100kg barbell fell from the air with a sound of wind.
Riven was forced to return to her original blue skin and yellow eyes, no longer maintaining her appearance, and she caught the barbell steadily without any effort.
It is just as Magneto said, she has been distracted and hiding her true appearance.
But no one likes to be lectured by someone they don't know, especially Magneto's rude behavior, which is annoying.
"I guess you can stand here and say that to me.
Because you've never been abandoned as a monster, wandering around since childhood, being pelted with stones by children, and being yelled at to get lost, and as an outlier you'll never be accepted by society."
She said angrily.
"You want society to accept you, but you don't even accept yourself for who you are."
Shaking his head slightly, Magneto spoke in a serious tone, a contagious confidence and smile on his face.
"If I were you, I would never hide my appearance. You should be proud. You were born different, a miracle, and a pioneer."
"We mutants are at the forefront of evolution, ahead of everyone else. You're just like Copernicus, who, after discovering the truth, was afraid of being labeled a heretic. So you tried your best to hide yourself and blend in with the foolish common people."
Raven, who has experienced a lot since childhood and is very sensitive, can feel that Magneto is not just talking casually, he really thinks so. If he is like herself, would he really do that?
Was he wrong? He was clearly a leader, yet he wanted to blend in with the ordinary people who were lagging behind in the evolutionary process?
After Magneto finished speaking, he turned and left, leaving Mystique lost in thought and confusion.
"I've only ever thought about covering up, never about accepting myself. Is that wrong?"
She put down the barbell, her eyes showing struggle.
There was a knock on the door, and Ron leaned against it with his arms folded.
"Ron!"
Raven exclaimed, because she was now her original true appearance. She turned her head and tried to change back to the beautiful girl with blonde hair and brown eyes.
But thinking of the discrimination she had experienced as a child, she felt inexplicably sad and angry. She stopped and turned to look at Ron.
"You see, this is actually my true appearance. I'm ugly and weird, like a beast, like a devil."
"I did see it, and I heard what he said just now."
Lowering her arms and slowly walking in, Ron offered no comfort, indicating that he had heard what Magneto had said to her.
"Do you think he's right? I was wrong to hide myself all this time?"
But seeing that Ron's expression didn't change, and he didn't show any horror or disgust, Raven seemed to be comforted and asked with a little nervousness.
She is confused and now needs someone who recognizes her to give her advice and help her find her way out of the crossroads.
"In a sense, he's not wrong."
Ron chuckled.
This time can be said to be one of the key points in Mystique's life.
It was after listening to Magneto's phone call today that she refused the serum developed by Hank, which was said to restore her appearance to normal. Since then, she has always appeared with blue skin.
"Really? You also think I'm wrong."
Lowering her head, Riven murmured softly. She was already shaken and began to consider whether to show her true face to people in the future.
"No, you're not wrong."
He shook his head slightly, thinking that Riven was not wrong, and rejected it.
"Everyone can talk about great principles, but very few can actually put them into practice.
People are often not as strong as they think."
How many people can theoretically achieve a saint-like state of mind, be incredibly mentally tough, not care about honor or disgrace, not care about the strange looks from others, and live a peaceful life?
Magneto thought he could do it, but that was just his idea and he had never really faced it.
"Copernicus was indeed a pioneer of science, but after he concluded his heliocentric theory, he was afraid of the consequences of this theory, so he did not publish it for 30 years. He lived a good life until he died in bed of old age."
"In contrast, his student Bruno vigorously promoted heliocentrism after his death. He was denounced as a heretic by the church and burned alive in front of cheering crowds."
Talking about the example Magneto gave earlier, Ron said earnestly.
"Riven, the new era has not yet arrived. People who are too advanced will not be understood or accepted by people of the old era!"
People cannot be separated from society, and their choices must take into account the progress of the times.
"I...I understand."
Nodding, after hearing this, Riven's eyes became firm, and she hesitantly asked a question that she was very concerned about.
"Ron, how do I look to you now?"
"Want to tell the truth?"