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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.

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[hugmagnet]

Yeah. For a while they were. Then they weren't. Then they were again. Then there were no Avengers. Now there are again. It's a long story. [A long, weird story that gets into a lot of territory that she doesn't want to get into, especially with this Rogue who probably doesn't want to hear about alternate universe her] But...seems like there aren't any of them here. Alternate universes are a bitch, you know?

[donttouch]

That sounds... complicated.

_{( Sort of pulling a face, again. )}

Tell me about it. One of my best friends is like, thirty years old, here.

[hugmagnet]

Yeah, it's....

[She waves a hand, dismissing the thought. Her life has been weird]

Oh man, that'd be rough. I mean, I do have teammates here they're just....from the past and don't know me. Or from an alternate universe and don't know me.

[donttouch]

_{( She pauses, like she hadn't considered that. )}

Anyone who does know you? I've got 'Ro, at least.

[hugmagnet]

Well, I guess there's this kid who's heard of me. But I have no idea who she is so kind of doesn't help me, you know?

[donttouch]

Kinda makes things worse, if you ask me.

[hugmagnet]

Yeah, little bit. [Shrug] But what can you do? Pretty sure whoever brought us here isn't all that concerned with making things convenient for us or giving us what we want.

[donttouch]

It still sucks.

But I guess if you can take it all well, power to you.

[hugmagnet]

Yeah, it does. But I have lots of experience taking things that suck well. You know.....usually. [She tries, at least]

[donttouch]

Things never get any better?

[hugmagnet]

Oh, they do. It just takes a while sometimes. And sometimes it's hard to get to a place where they can get better. That was always half the trouble for me. But they do get better.

[donttouch]

Guess that's better than nothing.

[hugmagnet]

Sometimes you gotta take what you can get. [She's getting the impression that she should feel bad for you, alternate universe young Rogue who hasn't tried to kill her yet] Sometimes you just have to refuse to sit back and let things get any worse.

[donttouch]

I like the second option, myself.

[hugmagnet]

Me too. Punching your problem in the face is highly preferable to letting it win, in my opinion.

[donttouch]

I'm good at punching things, too. _{( She says, like this is something to be particularly proud of. )}

[hugmagnet]

Same here. It's my main battle tactic. [Rogue you are talking to Carol of course it's something to be proud of]

[donttouch]

Then that's one point in your favor, already.

[hugmagnet]

Well, thanks. [Wow she's really glad she's managing to get along with this Rogue. She doesn't need another one trying to kill her] Glad you approve.

[donttouch]

At least so far. _{( Because she's a teenager and the illusion of resistance to liking anything is important. )}

[hugmagnet]

I'll try to keep it that way, then. [Aw baby Rogue. She's gonna make you like her. Just wait] No sense making enemies when we're all trapped on a giant magic turtle together, right?

[donttouch]

You'd think that. But it doesn't stop some people from being kind of awful.

[hugmagnet]

There'll always be some people who suck. That's just a fact of life. And those are usually the people who grow up to be supervillains and most deserve to be punched in the face. But not everyone in the world is awful. [Even if it sometimes feels like they are]

[donttouch]

Then hopefully we've got more of the good ones in this place.