Rave

[Rave]

"Prior to Tiberius' arrival, Valeria had spent ten minutes listening to the girl a little ways to her right argue a case to her prick boyfriend. Among the key bullet points of the conversation was the assertion that mutants were humans too (they weren't), that they benefited society (note how the implied meaning was that mutants benefited human society), and that they had as much right to happiness as anyone else (the pretentiousness of that statement made Valeria grind her teeth). In not crushing the girl to a mass of liquids and powdered bone, Valeria felt she was showing remarkable self-restraint."

Almost as notorious as Rave's actions are her beliefs, the reason why even if she were to be captured, she would remain a very dangerous individual.

Valeria Decimus wants humanity dead.

Innocence or guilt is a non-factor. She doesn't care if they are anti-mutant. She doesn't care if they are pro-mutant. Indeed, she's made known that she finds the notion of a human advocating 'mutant rights', as if such a thing is theirs to dictate, extremely insulting. She's shown nothing but disdain for their so-called ethics, which they expect mutants to abide by. She doesn't care if they somehow acquired mutant-like abilities through drugs or otherwise. She doesn't care if they have a mutant in their family. She doesn't want them enslaved; she's aware of how strong the human spirit can be and knows that if enslaved they will eventually rise up against her. She doesn't want them rounded up and stranded in Antarctica. She doesn't want a segregated society between mutant and humans. She doesn't want to negotiate with them, make concessions with them, or accommodate them in any way. She doesn't want them cowed, humiliated, broken, beaten, subjugated, demoralized, or bankrupted. For the sins they've committed against her people, she doesn't want them to suffer.

She wants them dead. It is, honest to God, as simple as that.

Mutantity, on the other hand, she wishes nothing but the best for. Indeed, everything she has done, has been in effort to free the minds and bodies of her people from the shackles humanity has placed upon them. This not only includes the overt capture and mistreatment of mutants overseas, but also the docile, "we can coexist peacefully" attitude of the mutants of the world. To Rave, this is just another form of servitude, instilled upon mutants from birth. She sees it as the world's insidious way of controlling a population of people who are, in the end, far more advanced genetically than their human counterparts, and benefiting from their gifts by coercing them into willful servitude. Given the number of mutants in the world who've selflessly served to defend humanity from dangers, she may be on to something.

Though she acts as a leader and catalyst to her movement, Rave has stated that she has no desire to rule over mutants, as she believes that all mutants, including herself, are equals. She only wants to free them from the scourge that is humanity, a fundamentally flawed, fearful, petulant, savage, hateful, murderous species that will only ever serve to impede and oppress her people's growth. The only way to truly achieve that freedom, she reasons, is to wholly remove humanity from the equation. In doing so, mutantkind will inherit the Earth, in keeping with nature's law of survival of the fittest. She wants all mutant to see that day together, but anyone who stands in her way takes their life in their own hands.

The (predominantly human/human-controlled) media at large has covered Rave's philosophies and poo-pooed them as the ravings of an insane, racist, fanatical terrorist. That's one school of thought. The other is that unlike many of the mutants of the world, Rave has seen and endured the atrocities committed to her people up close and personal, on a daily basis. She understands, far better than most, what the cleansing of her people from Rome was meant to be, and seeks to prevent such a thing from ever occurring again, through the most coldly logical method available. And since humanity not only spared mutants no quarter, but were also the ones to initiate mass genocide, they're deserving of precisely the same.