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!]

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[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.

[girlverine]

Then you should give him a chance.

[She knew how Kate felt, trying to resist ingrained impulses. But if she could do it, so could the other girl.]

[ladybro]

-- I did. Just trying to decide whether he used it up when he spent our first day aboard putting a crewmate in the infirmary.

[ the question of did azula deserve it? is too tricky a thing to sort out. probably. maybe. only kate hadn't been aboard, back then. and she can't help but remember that it couldn't have been done in self-defense. whatever azula had done, it couldn't have really hurt logan...

do the ends justify the means when logan had been trying to put the fear of god into her? ]

[girlverine]

...What happened?

[Laura hadn't heard about this.]

[ladybro]

...The girl in question's got an ego. And possibly something of a violent streak of her own. I think Logan thought he was teaching her a lesson. I can agree with the sentiment, but -- [ kate exhales. ] From the look of the bandages on her neck, it might've been a little overboard.

[girlverine]

Will she survive?

[A straight-forward question, perhaps, but one with so many consequences...]

[ladybro]

She'll live. It might make for a nasty scar.

[girlverine]

Good.

What did she do to make him attack her?