[Forgive my fail!! DDDD: If you want to backthread after today, I'd be up for it.]
Peter had read about the monsters, naturally, but he hadn't given them too much credence. So far no one he'd talked to had seen anything, and so he didn't pay the notices much attention. It was always about the patients. Brainwashed people, delusional sadists, old enemies out for revenge. Yet here was Meche, who had clearly been mauled by something. But by a monster? Peter wasn't so sure he bought that.
He'd seen what some mutants turned out like. And that wasn't to say that they were disgusting or savages or anything like that, but to anyone who didn't know better, it might seem that way. All it would take was some jumpy idiot to scream, and everyone would be grabbing their torches and pitchforks. As if that wasn't bad enough, there was this whole mad scientist vibe about the head doctor and his experiments. What these people called monsters could be mutants under permanent brainwashing. Or people who were surgically mutilated to gain powers or strength, like Deadpool. On second thought, it wasn't much of a stretch to assume that the animals were given the same treatment. If you could shoot up human with super cocktails like OZ, then you could definitely do it to an animal. God, that was so disgusting.
Or, as much as he loathed the idea, there was always magic to consider. Peter knew next to nothing about 'sorcery', and even less about fighting it. Generally he tried to steer clear of anything remotely close to that end of the spectrum. He wasn't even sure about what really happened that time with Doctor Strange. That could have been a demon, a ghost, some sort of elemental spirit thing - crap, he didn't even know how to classify that stuff. What if Landel was using magic? Summoning demons and gods like in Ghostbusters (did he actually use Ghostbusters as a reference? Cripes, he was turning into Kong). Oh man, he'd have to ask Harry or Steve or somebody about that. If their worlds were remotely like his, then there was a decent chance that they had come across magic at some point in time.
For now though? Peter was going to stick with what he knew.
Appetite lost, he gingerly pushed his plate away. "This monster thing, did it look human at all? Or was it closer to an animal?" The bladed tail bit made him think of reptiles. So it was some kind of lizard hybrid, maybe? Although the two jaws bit had him stumped. Peter couldn't even imagine how that would work, aside from having two heads. In all likelihood, the thing was probably engineered that way just to be repulsive.
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Peter had read about the monsters, naturally, but he hadn't given them too much credence. So far no one he'd talked to had seen anything, and so he didn't pay the notices much attention. It was always about the patients. Brainwashed people, delusional sadists, old enemies out for revenge. Yet here was Meche, who had clearly been mauled by something. But by a monster? Peter wasn't so sure he bought that.
He'd seen what some mutants turned out like. And that wasn't to say that they were disgusting or savages or anything like that, but to anyone who didn't know better, it might seem that way. All it would take was some jumpy idiot to scream, and everyone would be grabbing their torches and pitchforks. As if that wasn't bad enough, there was this whole mad scientist vibe about the head doctor and his experiments. What these people called monsters could be mutants under permanent brainwashing. Or people who were surgically mutilated to gain powers or strength, like Deadpool. On second thought, it wasn't much of a stretch to assume that the animals were given the same treatment. If you could shoot up human with super cocktails like OZ, then you could definitely do it to an animal. God, that was so disgusting.
Or, as much as he loathed the idea, there was always magic to consider. Peter knew next to nothing about 'sorcery', and even less about fighting it. Generally he tried to steer clear of anything remotely close to that end of the spectrum. He wasn't even sure about what really happened that time with Doctor Strange. That could have been a demon, a ghost, some sort of elemental spirit thing - crap, he didn't even know how to classify that stuff. What if Landel was using magic? Summoning demons and gods like in Ghostbusters (did he actually use Ghostbusters as a reference? Cripes, he was turning into Kong). Oh man, he'd have to ask Harry or Steve or somebody about that. If their worlds were remotely like his, then there was a decent chance that they had come across magic at some point in time.
For now though? Peter was going to stick with what he knew.
Appetite lost, he gingerly pushed his plate away. "This monster thing, did it look human at all? Or was it closer to an animal?" The bladed tail bit made him think of reptiles. So it was some kind of lizard hybrid, maybe? Although the two jaws bit had him stumped. Peter couldn't even imagine how that would work, aside from having two heads. In all likelihood, the thing was probably engineered that way just to be repulsive.