The Playground Meme

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The Playground Meme

Most of us can remember the playground from our younger days. Swings, slides, monkey bars, merry-go-rounds and all manner of other things to play on and fall off of. Well here's another playground to enjoy. A big, brand new one filled with all those fun things you remember and new ones too. Are you a kid enjoying a day running around or maybe someone older trying to recapture youth? Either way, have fun! And don't worry, parents. There are benches under some nice shady trees to relax on.

-Tag in with name and canon in the subject line.
-Tag others.
-Enjoy the place! Try not to fall and scrape knees or eat wood chips.

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Rogue : X-Men Evolution : ota

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[Rogue waits until it's dark. She doesn't bother checking to see if the gate's unlocked (though she'd have found it is) before she climbs over the fence. It's easy and fun, putting her hands on the top and taking the two steps in the chain link that it requires to get over it.

The plastic-metal structures loom. Or, at least, they try to. For a kid, that ladder is a feat. She could climb it in seconds. She's tall enough to touch the edge of the slide at its mouth. She could pull herself up from here. The bars that cross from one side to another might be reached if she stood on her tiptoes. But to a kid, that looks like a daunting fall.

They're good memories, if not a little bittersweet now. Of a time when she was Annamarie Adler, a little girl with gloves who was afraid to fall five feet and never went beyond her front porch without her mother or babysitter. Who threw woodchips at a boy who'd made fun of the white in her hair then run crying into Irene's arms when one of his friends shoved her. The world had been much smaller and so much safer then.

At seventeen, she is Rogue. She has come into her powers and looked into the face of Apocalypse. She has started the destruction of the world and helped thwart it. She's fallen far greater distances and learned she can pick herself up. She has wiped away her own tears when she realized there was no one to do it for her.

But one thing hasn't changed, and she knows it. She sits on a swing, rocks her legs back and forth to gain momentum, and closes her eyes.

It still feels like she's flying.]

joker ☺ DC ( for reasons )

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