[ He looks down a bit; he doesn't like to talk about this. Usually he would just leave the conversation or he'd roll up his sleeve a little more, but since he and Jack are currently in the same situation and it can't be so easily explained... ]

It didn't start with powers. For me it started with my religion. They used us and countless others as scapegoats, and tried to erase us, citing our beliefs, or our parents' beliefs, or anything they could to prove we were the monster they'd created for us to be.

I came into my powers and I think of it as a gift. But I saw the same hateful looks, and fear and uncertainty, that I saw and never understood as a boy.

If something happens to this world, they will hate us, they will turn on us. But you are right; they will lose.

[ Ya but they won't go down without a fight. And nukes. And Erik's prepared for another war, but he's not ready to face one. ]