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[passingthrough]

Who: Kitty and all the people of fleet!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Windrose if you want
When: At some point before the masquerade

We have a masquerade coming up, and I was bored so I thought I'd mettle in people's lives for my own amusement. First, the disclaimer, there is nothing wrong with going to a dance solo.

Now, for anyone else, who wants a date?

Sorry, not me. Taken. But there are probably some of you out there thinking a date would be fun, and sure, why not? So speak up. Let's make some love connections. Or, you know, awkward dancing connections. I'm a mutant, not a miracle worker.

(OOC: Please feel free to threadjack.)

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[passingthrough]

Well, I could tell you who might be available and then you could decide. I mean, it's not like anyone would be forcing anyone on a date. [Definitely not Kitty.]

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[girlverine]

[Damn it, what was she doing...]

Fine.

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[passingthrough]

So... [This is a little awkward, isn't it?] I feel like I should already know this but just guys [she was pretty certain guys were in the mix] or girls too? [If Nightingale hadn't told her she was only interested in women she might not have thought to ask.]

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[girlverine]

I don't care.

[At least that one was easy to answer.]

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[passingthrough]

Okay, there might be something that works. Worth a chat anyway?

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[girlverine]

...Okay.

[What could it hurt.]

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[passingthrough]

She's a magic user. I've only talked to her a couple of times. [Today being one of them. But she seems like she could hang with Laura.]

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[girlverine]

[Laura didn't have much experience with magic, really. Not enough to care one way or another about it.]

...Okay.

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[passingthrough]

[Hey, not traumatizing is a start, right? She noticed how Laura reacted around the Jedi.] She's going to contact you. And just, no pressure. Whatever you want to do. [She doesn't think Nightingale would feel any, but she wants to make sure Laura doesn't think it's any kind of...X-Men duty. Laura's a lot more important to her than any whim notion to pass the time.]

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[girlverine]

[Laura never knows what she wants to do what awful advice, Kitty!]

Fine.

[Hm.]

What kind of magic?

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[passingthrough]

[Don't choose Kitty as your life coach would be her first advice.]

Uh, the kind where she numbers her fire spells up to three and can levitate things? [Kitty knows so much about different kinds of magic. Is it obvious?] She could probably answer that better.

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[girlverine]

I will ask her.

[Because assessing threats is clearly the important part of figuring out if someone is dateable.]

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[passingthrough]

Sure. And maybe ask her about her interests and likes and less shop talk things too. [Though she does actually understand wanting to assess threats with the people you spend time with.]

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[girlverine]

...Small talk.

[She said it the way someone else might say 'poison.']

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[passingthrough]

[That gets an amused look from Kitty.] I hate small talk too. That stuff doesn't have to be shallow and lame though. But just be you.

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[girlverine]

Be me? [Laura shifts.] I...am not someone people usually like.

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[passingthrough]

I like you.

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[girlverine]

You do not know me.

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[passingthrough]

You really know how to sink a tender moment. [Lightly.]

Guess we'll have to work on the knowing.

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[girlverine]

Sorry.

[She shifts, clearly uncomfortable.]

You would not want to know.

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[passingthrough]

Laura, I'm not exactly faint of heart. If you lived it I can handle hearing about it. But you also don't have to tell me anything you don't want to. Just don't skip it for my sake.

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[girlverine]

It is...very complicated. And if Rockslide is to be believed, very depressing.

[She shrugs.]

Logan claims it does not matter anymore. Who I am. ...Was.

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[passingthrough]

[Rockslide?

She might just disagree with Logan there, but she wasn't around for the context.] What do you believe?

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[girlverine]

[Laura doesn't answer for a few moments, thinking it over.]

We are what people make us into. And I was made into a monster.

That isn't something that can be left behind.

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[passingthrough]

I think who we are is always a little bit who we were and a little bit who we want to be. Or at least shaped by it. Like not being a monster, but always being someone who was once.