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[hugmagnet]

 [Carol is seated in front of her console, in civvies. Actually, sitting might be the wrong term. She's more floating a few inches above her chair, legs crossed. She does this sometimes without thinking when she's sitting. She looks mostly unbothered by this whole thing. A little frustrated maybe but at most it seems to be a minor inconvenience]

So. Alternate universes are a bitch, huh? Or whatever you'd classify this as. You would think whatever bigger power it is you believe in would have decided by now that this has happened to me enough but I guess not. Oh well, what can you do? [Said oh so casually like she has just seen way too much of of this shit. Which she has. Weird happenings are sort of a thing in her life ]

Anyway, alternate universe craziness aside, my name's Carol. Nice to meet you guys. Under the circumstances and all. I'm sure you hear stuff like this a lot but let's just get this out of the way first: What's the progress on not being here anymore?

And while I'm asking things, how many people here are from Earth? Better yet, who here has heard of the Avengers, the X Men or Captain America? Or who knows anything about superheroes at all, even if it's not any of the things I just mentioned? Let's just say I want to know for my own reference.

[She'd also like to see just how many people ended up here from her world. Or a world similar to hers. Having more superheroes around never hurt. She pauses and glances off to the side, looking at something intensely for a minute as if considering something very important before turning back to the console]

Unrelated but can the fires around here actually burn things? Just, you know, curious.

Comments

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[shorttempered]

Uh... I have. I think. That's the team Spider-Man's on, right? With Fabio and the Robot?

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[hugmagnet]

Right. Spider Man is an...wait, what? Fabio? [The robot part isn't weird to her. There have been robotic Avengers] The weird Italian guy from the cover of those crappy romance novels?

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[shorttempered]

I never caught their real codenames. I just remember a guy with long blonde hair. [Spoilers: He means the Sentry, not Thor.] And a red robot guy. ...And some other people. One of the guys' costumes screamed "America"...

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[hugmagnet]

Guy with long blond hair. Was he in yellow or did he have a red cape? [Because that could be either Sentry or Thor] Captain America?

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[shorttempered]

Lady to be completely honest I'm proud of myself for remembering Fabio, the robot, and "AMERICA." [It even has air quotes.]

That was part of one really bad day.

Not Fabio, the robot guy, or Mr. America.

Pretty much everything else.

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[hugmagnet]

[Carol just laughs a bit and holds a hand up] Okay. Fair enough. I know all about bad days.

Anyway, yes. That's the Avengers. And yes, Spider Man is an Avenger. On my Earth, at least. He might not be on every Earth, who even knows.

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[shorttempered]

He was on the one I visited too.

Which, uh, may be the same one as you.

Or not. These things are apparently complicated.

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[hugmagnet]

Oh man, you're not kidding. I've already met a million different versions of people I know. There are people from alternate versions of the Earth I'm from, people from the past of the same Earth I'm from....it's crazy. If I wasn't used to this crap I'd probably be sobbing on the floor right now.

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[shorttempered]

At least there aren't a dozen evil versions of you trying to destroy everything... [Fuck you, Angstrom Levy.]

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[hugmagnet]

No but I have had an alternate universe version of me show up and try to kill people before. And there's this crazy guy at home who really likes putting criminals in my costume..... [Do you really want to go down the crazy life road with her, Mark?]

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[shorttempered]

I take it you're a superhero, then? [He forgets people are really open about that sort of thing.]

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[hugmagnet]

[Not all superheroes are open but Carol is of the "I don't really care" variety]

Yup. An Avenger, actually. Ms. Marvel, hi.

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[shorttempered]

Invincible, hi. [Pleasedontmockhisnamepleasedontmockhisname. He promises in exchange he won't ask if there's a Mr. Marvel!]

I didn't realize other heroes were so... open about their... secret identity.

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[hugmagnet]

Nice name. [She went by Warbird once, okay. She has no right to mock anyone else's name]

Well, not all of us are. Some of us are really secretive. For good reason. [Peter] Then there are those of us like me who really just don't care. My identity's been public at home for a while now. I figure there's no reason to start trying to keep it a secret now. And then some of us are just media whores. [Tony] Depends on who you talk to.

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[shorttempered]

[Smiles] Thanks.

Has anyone... gone after your family?

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[hugmagnet]

No, can't say they have. It's....happened to other people I work with but never me. Then again, I don't have much of a family to speak of. [One of her brothers is dead, the other hates her, her father is dead and her mother is still convinced that she's a horrible daughter. Add all that to the fact that she can't feel anything towards her family anymore and it's not exactly a heartwarming story]

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[shorttempered]

[Damn it Mark, stop poking random stranger's bad memories.] Sorry.

I just... I've had people come after my family before, and I was wondering if it was the same on other worlds or just here--there. Where I come from.

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[hugmagnet]

No, don't worry about it. It's okay. [It's a detail of her life that she's kind of gotten used to. It's not fun but it's still there]

Yeah, it happens. That's why we have secret identities. Most of us, I mean. In trying to help people, we make enemies and those enemies would do anything to hurt us.

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[shorttempered]

And they do.

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[hugmagnet]

They do. [She knows. It's never happened to her but she definitely knows] The price we pay for trying to keep the truly evil people from hurting the innocent ones.

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[shorttempered]

[At least his brother is old enough to help... though how he'd help is a matter for debate.] He had no reason to go after my mother.

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[shorttempered]

[Pause.] Uh, sorry. Happier subject?

[hugmagnet]

They never have a reason for anything they do. [Besides sadism. She smiles sympathetically]

No problem. You got any teams where you're from or is it sort of just a solo deal?

[shorttempered]

Yeah, a bunch: Guardians of the Globe, Capes, the Actioneers, WolfCorps... I'm not a member of any of them, though. I don't have the time.

[hugmagnet]

We've got a bunch too. One thing you learn about superheroes is we really likes groups. [You get more done as a group, really, and there's less chance of crazy people fixating on just one person] I am on a team and I barely have time for a team so I get that. Solo work was nice when I did it.