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[myownbestfriend]

[Say hello to Emma Frost, an intimidatingly beautiful but apparently normal human woman who is not especially pleased to be on a giant turtle and drafted into some kind of metaphysical war. She's got it dialed down to an aura of vague irritation, though, and she leans back in the large desk chair that came with her Fire Sector suite. The deep brown of the leather sets off her pale coloration and low-cut white X-Men uniform to excellent effect, and if you think she didn't plan that, you haven't met Emma.]

Please tell me there's a half-decent salon somewhere on this planet.

[If she has to do her own roots she's switching to diamond form until the problem is resolved, see if she doesn't.

Yes, yes, Malicant, a murdered emperor, giant turtles all but extinct, a world on the verge of destruction...but none of those are the sort of thing one ought to ask stupid questions about in public, now are they?]

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[myownbestfriend]

[THAT'S RACIST]

We'd just put paid to that little Skrull problem. You're a bit downstream.

[Comics timelines, how do they fucking work?]

[agentx13]

[ But it's in your blood! Your soul! Your eyes? ]

Damn it.

[ Hey, on the bright side, Sharon might have just dodged a bullet with the whole Avengers versus X-Men debacle. ]

I've been trying to find out if I'm alive back home, but I think I'm one of the most recent arrivals, timeline-wise.

[ It doesn't. It's horrible. WHY IS LUNA STILL A CHILD WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS GROWN UP? ]

[myownbestfriend]

[Hey, Phoenix-Emma might have been able to knock out Malicant and get everyone home, what with the Phoenix Force being a fuzzily-defined power of cosmic proportions.

But on balance, probably better she's just regular Emma. This version is at least stable.]

How awkward. Well, I'm sure it'll be temporary, regardless.

[Comics characters come back more than Jesus.]

[agentx13]

[ Phoenix-Emma could kick Sharon's ass for being on the other side. You wouldn't think following Captain America would get her into trouble, but damn. So many times. ]

At least the near-afterlife isn't dull. We've had some murders, there are gang wars, and the food isn't a total wash.

I take it you've seen that several X-Men are here?

[ HA. If the world ended every time a comic character came back... That could actually make for an interesting event, if done right. ]

[myownbestfriend]

I'm reasonably certain I didn't do anything irrevocably fatal before I arrived.

[She only died briefly during Secret Invasion.]

I've spoken with Kurt and the boys, yes.

[X-Factor doesn't count, but she knows they're around, too.]

[agentx13]

Steve was here a while ago. Evidently, he made some of them Avengers before he left.

[ And they were such fanboys. Geez. Young people today. ]

[myownbestfriend]

[Emma has a wide repertoire of expressions of well-bred disgust, and she deploys one of them now.]

No accounting for taste...they're young, I suppose.

[Yeah not even going to pretend to like Steve and Tony's boy band. It's a gesture of good faith on Emma's part--she's not sneaking around on this one, or acting like there isn't a lot of bad blood between mutant heroes and their baseline counterparts.]

[agentx13]

[ Sharon's quiet for a moment, and then she throws her head back and laughs. ]

Do you mean to tell me you aren't part of the Captain America fanclub?

[ She supposes she ought to be upset, but instead, she feels... glad. Because whenever most people talk about Steve, they talk about how perfect he is, and Sharon sometimes thinks she's the only one who doesn't agree. In her book, Steve the human was always better than Steve the hero. ]

[myownbestfriend]

[Namor's more her type.]

I never got around to sending in my dues.

[Which is less cutting than it could have been. Emma really is trying.]