Homelander: New Legacy

[101] : A Strange Atmosphere

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"Did she have a fight with her father?"

Inside the room, no longer afraid, Clarice looked at the silent Jean and her father, John, and turned to Roger to ask.

Roger spread his hands and replied to Clarice, "Kind of, but it's complicated."

"So... did her father hate her because of her powers?"

Clarice asked again.

Roger thought for a moment before answering, "Not exactly..."

Jean Grey had awakened her powers even before the car accident, and before that, her parents never abandoned her because of her abilities. Instead, they treated her like any normal parents would, teaching her and helping her learn to control her powers.

In that regard, Jean Grey's parents were more open-minded compared to most parents of mutants; at least, they didn't treat their child like a monster.

However, Roger looked at Clarice, whose eyes were filled with curiosity, and asked, "Did you have a fight with your parents because of your powers?"

"No..." Clarice replied in a low voice. "It's just that they... handed me over to those strange soldiers... saying it was to cure me..."

"I see."

Roger roughly understood what had happened.

Clarice's parents, like many other less open-minded parents of mutants, saw her abilities as a kind of illness.

Even though the concept of mutants had already been revealed, and mutants and humans were in a stage of peaceful coexistence, it was unrealistic to expect all humans to understand this and live harmoniously with mutants.

Just as there were mutants who wanted to create a world for mutants only, there were humans who hated mutants and even viewed them as monsters.

Moreover, Clarice's power seemed to be teleportation. If she accidentally opened a portal that only partially transported an object, it could easily end up cutting the object in half.

Such a dangerous ability would naturally make others fearful if they ever saw it in action.

Roger, however, hadn't expected Clarice's parents to trust the military. The U.S. military wasn't like some beloved military.

The relationship between the military and the people in this country was adversarial, so for Clarice's parents to hand her over to the military... Did they have someone in the military in their family? Or were they military members themselves?

Roger was slightly curious about Clarice's background, but what intrigued him more was whether she might be that brief character, Blink, from the original story.

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, among the future X-Men team members, there was a mutant who could open portals. Her codename was Blink.

Blink's powers were similar to Clarice's, creating portals through the release of purple rings, allowing passage to other locations.

However, since the future had already changed, Roger wasn't sure if Blink would still become part of the X-Men.

And even if she did become an X-Men, the age of the Blink in the movie didn't quite match the age of the little girl in front of him... After all, in Days of Future Past, Blink still looked fairly young.