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Who: Everybody who hates this moon! And a few that don't!
Broadcast: Nope
Action: The Good Ship Iskaulit
When: Throughout the Toxic Moon event

[Y'all, Misty can't be the only one who hates this place, so let's all gather on the Iskaulit, safe from all that dark and rot down on the polluted moon and have ourselves a good time!

(Or at least, a pollution-free time).

A list of establishments on the Iskaulit can be found here!]

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Yeah? I feel like a few people have described me that way. [They might have said stubborn more than brave but brave was a given for X-Men, right?] You think you can just steal my thing since you're older and have been doing it longer? [Teasing, of course.]

I think it's a fairly common descriptor for many, many mutants.

[ Like Erik. Or Logan. ]

But yes, I do in fact, get to steal the thing because it is actually my thing.

You were the inventor of the thing? The X-Men and combining bravery with stubbornness like peanut butter and jelly?

Considering I stuck with that name, I'll have to say yes.

Fine. I'll give it to you, but only because I feel sorry about the whole you being incredibly dead back where I'm from.

If you don't mind me asking - how did I die?

From what I understand a powerful, time-displaced man was trying to kill Erik and you blocked the shot and saved his life. [A lot of the details like "he was your son" never made their way to her.] According to Bishop that's when everything went wrong.

[ . . . That sounds about right. ]

Just with my death?

[She makes a dismissive gesture.] It was the butterfly that flapped its wings. Thanks a lot? [She holds none of it against him. Not this Charles or any other.]

[ He nods. ]

Of course.

Only Erik was there to know all the details. When he did talk about you, it was usually more about what kind of person you were and your dream. Not the circumstances of your death. You were more than that to him.

[ He swallows. ]

I had often wondered how he would . . . take that. I guess I know. Or had always known.

Why are you wondering about your death? And often.

No, not that.

[ He's not that macabre. ]

Erik and I have always had a difficult relationship.

It definitely seems like you've had some big challenges. [Like the chair.]

We were lucky to find a way to work through them.

[ He doubts it could have ever happened back home. ]

Yeah, even with the work, it can be hard to make things happen without some of the luck. [The right timing. The right words. Something.]

It's hard to hear about him being the X-Men's enemy in other worlds.

I don't think I've ever called him that.

[ Thought Charles has definitely called Erik many unflattering things. ]

We have very different . . . ideologies.

Glad to hear it. Yay for another world where it works out better?

...Did I just imply my world works out better? I must need more sleep or something.

If it helps, I understood what you mean.

[She nods.] He means a lot to all of us back home. I don't know where we would have been without him. No where good. He took me in when I'd lost everything. [There's definitely some looking up to him like a father, but he had to share that with Logan and the father she lost.]

[ It is a little odd to hear Erik in such a manner - but Erik's always been good at taking care of his team, so it wasn't that much of a stretch. ]

Erik's priority has always been mutants.

I feel like there's a lot left out of that statement.

We were trying to save the humans too.

[ He nods. ]

I'm sure.

[ He remembers that briefly of the future Erik as well. ]

Good, because that was important. ...My parents were human.