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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

[crotcharrow]

[Yeaaaah, just a tad.]

Yeah, Rikki is from another universe, since our Cap never had a girl-Bucky sidekick. She's pretty cool though.

[He laughs.] You get used to it? I feel like I've been here forever now, so it kinda gets boring.

[hugmagnet]

She seems pretty cool so far. I mean, just judging from our one conversation. But considering she says she's Bucky's granddaughter and the Bucky I know doesn't even have kids, I definitely believe the alternate universe thing.

[Carol scoffs, grinning a bit] It's either I get used to it or my head explodes from trying to figure it all out. We'll see what happens first.

[crotcharrow]

Don't the Avengers just call that Tuesday?

[He's so desensitised to this shit.]

Lemme know if you need any help. [He gives a grin.] I kinda know this turtle all over.

[hugmagnet]

Basically, yeah. Something weird happens, we punch it, we move on. [Shrug. Her too, man. Her too] I adopted a cat from an alternate dimension so, used to this.

Thanks. I appreciate it. I'll definitely let you know.

[crotcharrow]

When people freak out about this junk I sorta get weirded out, because hey. This is kinda my life all over. I mean, I have a soul-twin and my sort-of-dad is a robot.

[hugmagnet]

To be fair, your "family" kinda breaks the mold here. [The Maximoffs are weird. Congrats on being sort of born into that, Tommy] Besides, most people don't deal with the stuff we deal with. I'm sure there are some Earths where superheroes are just in comic books and alternate universes only exist in cheesy sci fi movies.

[crotcharrow]

My sort-of-family. And yeah, they kinda do, don't they?

[He grins a bit, rubbing the back of his neck.]

Does that mean comics that my brother reads are totally real in some other dimension?

[hugmagnet]

Right. Your "family". [Air quotes this time. She still finds the entire thing really confusing but hey]

Might be! In our world comics are all made up stories. Some of them are even more like superhero gossip rags than anything else. There could totally be a world where those stories and the people in them are real.

[crotcharrow]

[There's a small pause.]

Man, that stuff makes my head hurt.

[hugmagnet]

Pfft, you and me both. [She just wants to punch things, not figure out complicated multiple universes] At least you've never had to fight a version of yourself from another Earth.

[crotcharrow]

Wow, yeah, that just seems like a pain in the butt.

[hugmagnet]

You don't even know the half of it. Crazy me tried to kill Rogue. It was a whole big thing.

[crotcharrow]

It's not like Rogue's never tried killing anyone. I'm just sayin'.

[hugmagnet]

Okay, well, yeah. She has. Me, for example. But we're kind of over that and I couldn't just let crazy me kill her. I try my best to make friends with the X-Men and I'm pretty sure killing one of them wouldn't help with that.

[crotcharrow]

They don't seem to care if they try and kill Avengers. [He's still a bit sore about the whole, 'lets kill Billy and Wanda' thing.]