thelegion | [on social media, after Dave's Legionnaire Legacies goes up]

[Victor's social media accounts all update simultaneously, so he's evidently figured out how to make the "schedule post" function work. The microblog updates are links to a picture-sharing account with the hashtags #legionnairelegacies and #idonotconsent. The picture sharing accounts update to share the same picture: Victor, wearing a serious expression and his Sir Prize uniform and against a blank wall of a background, holding a sign with the date and the words "I do not consent to appear on Legionnaire Legacies" written on it. He's even gone through the effort to make sure the Interlac symbols are clear and distinct.]

[There's a caption below the image, also in Interlac. For the forensic linguists in the fandom, it's clearly written by a native speaker -- Victor had some help translating his thoughts into the lingua franca of the United Planets. It reads as follows:]

While I am pleased to serve you as a Legionnaire and more than happy to share my life with you through social media, I would like to make one thing very clear: I do not consent to footage of my life and my past being shared on Legionnaire Legacies. Legionnaire Legacies has demonstrated a clear disregard for the privacy and mental and emotional health of sentients who have chosen to take action to protect the worlds and sentients in a strange new reality. I am deeply disappointed that such invasive and callous behavior on the part of the media is being rewarded, and I urge those who share my concerns to contact Neutrino News and let them know that such behavior is unacceptable in the civilized galactic community.

[Link to the Neutrino News contact page]

To reiterate, any footage of me which appears on Legionnaire Legacies will have been obtained without my consent. Please stand with the Legion of Super Heroes in combating this crass degradation of sentient beings.

[Victor himself is currently in his skating rink on the Hab Deck, where he is available to chat with other Legionnaires both over omnicoms and in person. He fires off a message to the Legion network with a link to the picture]

If any of you want to borrow my sign, I can share a picture of you on my accounts as well.

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Aren't you worried that this is going to make them more determined to find out about you?

The press is going to paint this as you having something to hide.

Probably, but I wouldn't stand by silently and let them do this to an adult I hated, much less a teenager who's risked his life to help people.

[ oh no, it's actually noble and reasoned. ]

... are you going to protest in person? That usually makes more of an impact than a statement.

If I can get enough people and fit it in around Legion business and Yuuri's training, sure. But I figure the best place to start is reaching out to fans of the Legion and inviting them to use their voices to help us.

Neutrino News is a puff piece gossip show, the only thing they're worried about is losing viewers. Reminding the fans that we're people who are, in fact, being harmed by this may motivate them to speak out themselves.

If you do, I'll go.

[ He knows it's pathetic, but he doesn't want to be alone in any vocal opposition.

Even though he knows Victor's right. The fact that they continued the series with a much less willing participant than Blue Rose had been... well, he was right about what was going to happen. ]

But don't misunderstand it. They're a gossip show with a lot of viewers that just showed a Legionnaire in an invasive and violent light. It will become news. And - he's not even the worst of us.

I probably shouldn't go along.

I'm aware it's going to be news. I'm hoping the capitalize on that to make my opposition to it heard and make it easier for other people to do the same.

I'll let you know if things start heading that direction. You can decide then if you want to go or not. It's not quite as risky for me to stand up and yell than it might be for other people. They're not going to find much that isn't figure skating.

That's not - that's not right, okay? It's not how it's supposed to go.

I can't sit back and let the figure skaters do better than me. I can do at least that much. It shouldn't matter what they said. Like Yuuri said, everyone else isn't real.

[Victor frowns abruptly.]

Yuuri said what?

Oh, right. You weren't here for that.

He said that people like me weren't "real." I don't think he meant it literally. He was talking more about how mutants and metahumans and vigilantes don't exist in his world.

I'm talking more literally. I have to stop worrying about how all these people who aren't from home - who don't know me - think of me. Because in the long run, I'm going home, where none of you are "real" or at least where I don't know you. It shouldn't matter if they, the Legion Legacies chicks, do a piece on me because it won't matter what anyone thinks.

The trouble is - I kind of really like a lot of the Legionnaires. So it matters, what they think.

Edited 2017-02-06 13:13 (UTC)

[Victor groans and covers his eyes with his hand, muttering something under his breath.]

That's inappropriate. I'll speak with him.

[He considers Robbie's words, tapping his fingers against his chin.]

I don't think many of the Legionnaires are going let something like this impact their opinion of you. It's clearly not a documentary.

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