first one to make that doctor who joke loses

[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Everyone! All of you!
Broadcast: Maybe!
Action: Definitely!
When: Anytime during the toxic moon event!

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[boy oh boy, isn't everyone just so excited to explore this... charming... place...?

this is a game-wide mingle and the timeframe isn't super-important, so throw in with whatever you want! play war games, go shopping for gas masks, get lost in the wilderness, hide up in the Iskaulit and refuse to set foot on the moon, anything goes.

here's the main event info post for reference! have fun!]

Comments

[ladybro]

-- Probably for the best. It wasn't exactly pretty. [ and avengers versus x-men is an ugly phrase. kate doesn't quite know how to sell that one. ] Looks like we're considerably out of step. So's Wolverine, only I'm not quite sure how to go about pinning his point in time down. He's not exactly a forthcoming man.

[ or, rather, kate doesn't want to go so are you dead yet? ]

[girlverine]

[So. She was...out of sync. With time? Things she didn't remember that had clearly happened. What did that mean? Her green eyes shifted away, studying one of the pieces of art in the lobby for a long moment.]

No, he isn't. [It was a trait she'd inherited from him.]

Is there something you need to know?

[ladybro]

[ kate's eyes betray a kind of...sadness. it's not personal -- after all, she'd barely known logan even a little bit before sharing a ship with him in the fleet. clint had known him better, she supposes. but it's always worth a little empathy when someone's death haunts a conversation.

gently: ] You've already helped me learn it.

[girlverine]

[That made her look back, frowning. Clearly she'd missed something in this conversation, which was frustrating since she wasn't even sure what. Someday she'd get better at them...hell, she knew she was better at them than she'd ever been before. But...still.]

I do not understand.

[ladybro]

[ kate gestures at a bench. time to sit down, probably. ]

Promise not to snikt the messenger?

[girlverine]

...I would not hurt you.

[She was a little insulted at the suggestion.]

[ladybro]

-- Sorry. Figure of speech. [ kate grabs a seat first. ] I just mean to suggest it's probably going to be a bit of a big revelation. I'd never actually think you'd...

[ well, she probably never thought wolverine would either. but then he'd showed up, alive and too-old, at clint's apartment. ]

[girlverine]

[Okay, not insulted, but maybe annoyed.]

What is it?

[ladybro]

[ out with it, katie-kate. ]

Last I heard, you were the one trading on the name Wolverine.

[ which is probably surprising, but not necessarily upsetting. it's the subtext beneath it all that she fears putting into words. ]

[girlverine]

[That...was not what she was expecting at all. She was...but. That meant Logan was gone. But more so, it meant she'd taken up his mantle. Which was not even something she had ever really considered. As a child she had been meant to kill him. Now she thought of him as...well. As something.]

...Oh.

[Was all she actually managed to say, but her confused emotions were probably quite evident on her face.]

[ladybro]

Please, [ kate urges her once more. ] Have a seat?

[girlverine]

[After another moment, Laura sank down onto the bench next to her.]

I don't want to be Wolverine.

[She almost sounded plaintive.]

[ladybro]

The circumstances probably aren't ideal. [ kate had no sentimental connection to either of the wolverines. what did she care? except -- except there's a legacy, there, that cannot be denied.

and then she asks herself how she might feel if clint died, now. ] Who am I kidding? The circumstances suck ass.

[girlverine]

Yes. [It wasn't hard to figure them out.]

But I would not want to be Wolverine anyway. Even if he were...offering.

[ladybro]

...Can I ask why?

[ but deep down, she wonders whether she already knows. it's not like she jumped at the chance to trade on the name 'hawkeye' -- no matter how much she embraces it now. ]

[girlverine]

Because. [She paused, trying to gather her thoughts. She felt, not panicked, not even upset, but somewhere in between. Her fingers dug into the fabric of her pants unconsciously, nails dragging along the jeans.]

When I was...that is what they wanted me to be. A copy. Of him.

And I am not that. I am me.

[ladybro]

[ o-oh. realization dawns on her face -- like a slow-moving sunrise. only with far less joy, perhaps. kate offers up a meager nod. she supposes she could understand why that should give anyone pause. ]

For what it's worth, I'm not under the impression that anyone's making you do it. Not now.

[ then again, what does she know? kate swallows hard. maybe she should ask clint if he knows any clearer details. ]

[girlverine]

[She made a soft, unhappy sound in the back of her throat, not quite a growl but close, but was otherwise quiet after that, her gaze distant. Something clearly must have happened between now and...whenever she would replace Logan. But whatever it was must have been...drastic.]

No. No one could force me. I must be missing something.

[ladybro]

Years. You're missing years -- and a lot can probably happen in them.

[ this would be the moment when kate would reach out to a friend. perhaps wrap an arm around their shoulder and reassure them. but laura is near enough still a stranger to her, and it would hardly be appropriate. ]

I'm sorry. I should've realized it would have been a sucky thing to tell you. I just -- I was worried about the Wolverine that's here and...

[ and kate didn't anticipate that somehow laura's taking-on of that name would be the more troubling part of the conversation. had she known, she would have couched it in different terms. ]

[girlverine]

[Laura nodded.]

I understand.

[A long pause.]

He is alive here, though.

[ladybro]

He is. And I haven't told him otherwise. [ not long ago -- back home -- kate accompanied steve rogers and an older, even angrier version of logan to where the proper logan's body had been entombed. and the violence in that wolverine's eyes still haunts her (by times) when she looks at the man with whom she shares a ship. ]

Look, he took a sizable chunk out of a crew-mate. She was being an asshole -- no doubt. I'm worried she might actually be a psycho. But I'm also worried about him going around shredding people. I know how that sounds, too, but...

God, I'm telling this all backwards.

[girlverine]

He is a berserker. [Laura said this as if it were normal.] It is something I inherited from him.

Having contingencies to control him would be good.

[ladybro]

Truth is, he isn't just dead. Back home, not that long ago, I ran into a version of him that got stuck on our side of the dimensional curtain after some big stuff went down. An older, angrier version. Laura -- [ can she call her laura? she hopes so ] -- how do I know this Wolverine isn't gonna turn into that one at the drop of a hat?

[ perhaps that particular waver in her voice suggests this isn't the level-headed tactician talking. kate had those claws at her throat. she never wants to feel that again. ]

[girlverine]

[She wasn't sure how to answer that, really.]

He may. But probably not 'at the drop of a hat.' Logan is not an animal.

[Most of the time.]

[ladybro]

I know -- and I don't mean to say he is. Far from it. I mean he's Wolverine. It's hard to fault the brand recognition behind a name like that. [ however much kate might be naturally inclined to disagree with methods or philosophy, all she needs to do think back to every newscast that ever showed wolverine saving everyone's asses. all the avengers seem to be like that: saviours, except when they really weren't. clint included. ]

But part of it is me not knowing him well enough to know where that line is. For him, I mean. I don't know him like Clint knows him. Like you know him.