video/Marsiva

[littlecousin]

Who: Namorita Prentiss
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: Current

[A pretty, pale-skinned woman with "sea green" (I don't write the canon narration, okay) eyes is holding the communicator too close to her face. Depending on your frame of reference, she looks like a blond Vulcan or a more or less unremarkable elf, and she's wearing an expression of slightly exasperated concentration. And she is definitely talking to herself.]

Aww man, I bet Starkphones are better than this.

[She's accidentally turned on the broadcast, you see, because she's from the early 90s and how does personal electronics that aren't from Atlantis. Quick study, though, and she giggles a little as she realizes she's transmitting.]

Whoops. Hi, everybody. My name's Nita, nice to meet you, can someone tell me how to record a voicemail greeting on this please and thank you?

[Obviously it has to have voicemail, duh.

Technological hiccups notwithstanding, Nita seems quite unbothered by having been kidnapped into space, and she settles back, pulling her long ponytail forward over a bare shoulder as she does so to avoid pinning herself to the seat by her own hair. The new angle reveals that she's wearing a scaly green bathing suit and not much else...and she's seemingly unbothered by that, too, looking at the feed with an expectant, friendly smile.]

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[enshields]

[Earth hasn't had the best track record with people who look like elves, okay? But supervillain is hardly the first term that comes to mind when he looks at her. Steve's expression is... composed when he clicks his video on.]

Ma'am.

[Which is apparently his greeting, holla.]

There's something that looks like a small cog in the lower left corner of your screen. Press that, it'll bring up your options. One of them will be for your voicemail.

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[littlecousin]

[You are in luck, Steve, this one is predisposed to love you.

Nita squints at the picture for a second, then lights up with an infectious smile.]

Cap? Hi!

[It's the reaction of someone greeting a friend, not a face they recognize from TV.]

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[enshields]

[That. Is not usually the reaction he gets, even from people who do know him. Maybe Sam'd be pleased on par, but-- there are precious few others, and Steve opens his mouth. Closes it again carefully.

Is all too aware, suddenly, of how he's basically mimicking a fish and so he draws a breath and holds it long enough to compose himself before he's shaking his head.]

Have we met?

[His tone is. Carefully neutral, now.]

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[littlecousin]

Aww heck, alternate timelines again. You're not evil in this one, right?

[Looking at the screen intently like she can tell his alignment from a four-inch picture.]

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[unbearablynaive]

Hello, Nita. I am the Vision and I'm glad to meet you. Is Mr. Stark selling his phones to the general public now?

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[littlecousin]

[He doesn't look quite right for the Vision--not four-color enough--but hey, he's acting right.]

Pfft, like I'm the "general public." He better give me a phone if I want one.

[Somehow, when she says it, it sounds cute instead of demanding. Probably because she's so cheerful about it.]

Sooooo...is this some alternate timeline stuff? Because I definitely know you and don't need to be introduced.

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[unbearablynaive]

[Hard not to smile when she's so cheerful about it.]

I'm afraid it must be, though you'd hardly be the first. [More people from other timelines seem to know him than people from his own, which is something he's had to get used to.] Are you an Avenger as well then?

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[littlecousin]

Ha, no, never been invited.

[She doesn't seem to regard it as a slight.]

My cousin was for a bit, but he's not much of a joiner, so that went about as well you'd expect.

[Apparently she thinks who "my cousin" is should be obvious.]

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[helladoomed]

[Chloe is somewhere else in the Marsiva, just kind of frowning at the woman on the monitor she was passing. Because...wow.]

...You've been sucked into some crazy space fleet reality tv show and you're worried about voicemail?

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[littlecousin]

[Nita glances around at the hotel-lobby lookin' hospitality deck and shrugs.]

This is way better than every other time I've gotten kidnapped.

[Sidekick life.]

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[helladoomed]

[Okay, that makes her laugh.]

You get kidnapped a lot?

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[littlecousin]

Yeah, someone always wants a hostage. [Eyeroll.] It never works and then someone gets a bus thrown at them. You'd think people would learn eventually.

[She is, to all appearances, not joking.]

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[theirinurpants]

What's voicemail?

[ He's not on the video feed. He's sitting right behind her, empty tray of food next to him. What? He's a growing boy Grey Warden! He needs lots of calories! ]

I mean, I understand voice and mail, but how do you put the two together?

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[littlecousin]

[Nita half-turns in her seat to see who's talking to her. Hello, new...hot guy. She smiles a bit more warmly than the question deserves. This could certainly be worse.]

When someone calls and you don't answer, they can record a message and you play it back later. Like a note or letter, but with talking instead of writing. So, voicemail.

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[theirinurpants]

[ Aw, a pretty elf girl! Who isn't automatically suspicious of him just because he's human! This must be Alistair's lucky day or something.

Though how an elf knows about this stuff is beyond him. She must be an elf from a different world. ]

You mean like - on one of these? [ He picks up his own device and waves it about. ] I'm still trying to figure it out.

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[littlecousin]

[Not elf! Atlantean! ...Who are basically aquatic elves circa the Dales so uh. Moving on.]

Yeah. These aren't like the ones at home, so I'm worried I'm going to accidentally broadcast a lovely view up my nose or something.

[Nita gives the communicator a suspicious look. She doesn't trust you.]

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[digthefuzz]

[And here's a fuzzy blue guy waving at the screen.]

Hey there Nita! My name's Kurt. Nice to meet you. Sounds like someone filled you in about the voicemail already... Try to make it a funny one!

...Man, I didn't know they made phones, though. Is that a future thing or a different world thing? [Excuse him, he's still coping with having talked to an alternate version of his best friend.]

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[littlecousin]

[Nightcrawler when did you become a baby. Nita blinks at the screen and tactfully doesn't mention that he seems to have misplaced a good 15 years somewhere.]

Maybe both?

[She has no idea what 616 Kurt's childhood was like and thus no idea if this is just a younger version from her world.]

Anyway, when I get home I definitely need one because they're awesome.

["Need" is a strong word for that, Nita.]

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[digthefuzz]

[Baby Kurt nods along.]

Maybe... What year is it for you? You are an Earth, right?

[He realizes that maybe he shouldn't assume just based on the familiar Stark name... especially because of the confusion that caused with another Stark family that's part of the Fleet.]

What makes it so different from a normal cell phone? [Kurt, from the naive ages of the early 00s.]

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[mucked]

-- Do I even want to know what a Starkphone might be capable of doing?

[ not the warmest of greetings, but she's paid enough attention to the other conversations this new arrival has had. there's a tricky sort of commonality to be found: a different universe, or something. ]

Hello, Nita. My name's Peggy. Welcome to the fleet.

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[littlecousin]

Make calls, I hope. I mean, it's Mr. Stark. It might take over all my household appliances and optimize them.

[She's actually from the early 90s because Time Travel Shenanigans, so the smartphone thing is new to her, too.]

Hi, Peggy.

[Nita smiles warmly. She's one of the few comics people who might recognize Peggy Carter, by name if not appearance, but without being given a last name, it wouldn't occur to her.]

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[mucked]

I hope you don't find the question too forward, but -- of which Stark, in particular, are we speaking?

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[vagabond_code]

[Clint has the good sense to get over his shock before he opens up his end of the broadcast. He takes time to digest, watches a few minutes of Nita's conversations with other people, and it's enough to confirm that - yup. That's who he thinks it is. Back from the dead, back from the past. From before Nitro and the New Warriors murdered over six hundred people.

So given that context it might be a little surprising that when he does flick his own camera on his tone is so very friendly.]

Wow.

I was gunna ask if you had an questions but yer really hitting the ground running.

[Mostly people who end up here give off major fish-out-of-water vibes for the first few days, himself included.]

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[littlecousin]

["Fish out of water" I see what you did there.

Nita looks at the screen for a second, knowing he's familiar but needing a moment to place him.]

Oh! Mr. Barton! Hi!

[She's pretty okay considering any friend of Cap's to be a potential friend of hers.]

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[vagabond_code]

[Yeah, he has a different aesthetic going on right now. Older, disheveleder, less of a dick. Or he's trying to be.]

It's-

[He nearly said "Clint" on reflex, but 'Mr. Barton' echoed around between his eyes and his brain a little bit and he decided to hold off on that for a now. At least until he could hear it out 'loud.]

Good y'know who I am. Makes things a lot easier.