➽ VIDEO

[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop + YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Bishop, if you like. Sorry guys.
When: Valentine's Night

[ bless her, but she's figured out these devices pretty quickly. and why shouldn't she? they're only a bare step above her top-of-the-line smartphone. except that thing hasn't been getting service since before the marsiva. and now... ]

So. I've heard it's February 14th. And how good of the Atroma to get me my very own monogrammed ship. Apparently it's the perfect gift for the girl who so recently had everything. [ tacky, much? kate kinda cringes every time she sees her family name on her assigned ship -- regardless of how coincidental it might be. ] Kate Bishop, reporting for duty aboard the SS Bishop. I kid you not.

[ haha, tres funny. ]

Can we change? Ships, I mean. Not that this one isn't lovely, sure. But I'm getting flashbacks to summer camp at Interlochen and my mother writing my name on all my shirt tags.

[ speaking of shirts... ] Rogue? Can you hear me? [ she knows rogue taught her about the locked transmissions, but that still kinda evades her at the moment. ] I think it's time you showed me 'round this space station I keep hearing so much about.

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[ private ]

[passingthrough]

Not your fault. [Though she accepts the sympathy as well as she can.]

About a year.

You made it sound like your world is similar? [Sounds like a Wednesday, was it?]

[ private ]

[ladybro]

Yeah. My -- uh, first foray into this kinda work? Involved a conquer-happy psychopath. It feels like those kinds are sprouting up a little too often. Not to mention that stretch of time when Osborn ran things.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

They were both put down? [Which would be a very good thing even if the thought that everyone else could just deal with these monsters and they watched their world crumble isn't exactly heartening.]

[ private ]

[ladybro]

Eventually. Osborn took a while to unseat because -- [ some of the attitude leaks out of her voice. like this is too serious a topic to make jokes. ] Well, because there weren't that many of us left who could -- and would -- fight out in the open. Cap and Iron Man's little playground tussle saw to that.

[ their civil war birthed the very instability that allowed norman osborn to seize power and hold onto it for so long. ]

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

[She doesn't get the specifics of that though it's...interesting.] What was he doing with his power?

[ private ]

[ladybro]

Running once-upon-a-time villains as his own personal squads -- all registered and official. And hunting down those of use who refused to get in line.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

War on the people who would stand against him. And the others? The people who aren't fighters?

[ private ]

[ladybro]

Controlling them. Preaching that he knew what's best for everyone without even considering a consultation.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

It's not genocide, but it's not good. [She's really not trying to one up her with genocide here. Just a final nail in the "definitely a different version of reality" coffin. Not that it really needed a final nail at this point.]

Keeping them from means of protecting themselves.

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[ladybro]

Something like that. What matters most is that it's over -- and that it's been a few years. I don't know about yours, but my world moves on quick. Break-neck into the next disaster, if it can.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

Plenty of disasters, but just the one overarching theme of Apocalypse. [Just years of the same fight really.] He was so entrenched it was hard to make any headway.

[ private ]

[ladybro]

-- Did the Superhuman Registration Act happen for you guys, too?

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

Superhuman Registration Act? That doesn't sound good. No. There was a lot of needless anti-mutant hysteria and then there was a lot of understandable anti-mutant hysteria. But no laws. It didn't stay civilized long enough for that.

[ private ]

[ladybro]

Captain America and Iron Man went to war over it. Basically. Left the ground really shaken up for years afterwards.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

Those names are kind of familiar. [Not from home, but people mentioning them. Maybe here. Maybe the prison.] Who was supporting it?

[ private ]

[ladybro]

Iron Man might as well have tabled it.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

[Mental note to not like Iron Man if she runs into him.] How did it end? Did people have to register?

[ private ]

[ladybro]

They were supposed to. Plenty of us refused.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

Were there any consequences for that?

[ private ]

[ladybro]

The law wasn't on our side. We were vigilantes. Fugitives. My whole team got arrested for doing what we'd always done.

[ good works. ]

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

Did they really have the fire power for that or did you surrender? [She doesn't know the whole team, but she figures they can handle themselves based on the ones she does know.]

[ private ]

[ladybro]

At first, it was a case of not wanting to fight people you used to share a side with. And my team -- it's not like we're the Avengers. It was a difficult time. I'm glad it's over.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

I never had to deal with anything like that. [Too much infrastructure was gone for any sort of police effort of that magnitude.] But I wouldn't have liked it.

[ private ]

[ladybro]

Oh well. [ perhaps she tires of the subject. or perhaps she's merely cagey about the further details. ] It's history.

[ private ]

[passingthrough]

[But history that mattered enough to her to bring up. She doesn't comment on it though. She knows a little something about wanting to put the past behind yourself but not always being able to.]

So, what do you do on the team?