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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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You don't have to go into it. I get the teammate bond. Or at least I get the ones I have. I know they can be strong.

Yeah... It's a nice bond to have.

Are any of your teammates here?

Kurt is. Er, Kurt Darkholme, not Wagner. Well, Wagner too, but we're from different versions of the same team. Same goes for most of the other X-Men here. Except I know some of them as X-Men and they aren't and some of them are X-Men when I don't know them that way. But Rogue, Remy, Ororo, Erik...Laura [Even though she definitely didn't know her from home.] It gets complicated. [Charles was dead. Hank was evil. Mystique was an ally, but definitely isn't in this form. And then Wanda who isn't even a mutant somehow? But her feelings aren't the same here.]

Actually...Laura might be someone you could talk to about this dance?

Edited 2016-04-22 18:01 (UTC)

... Oh, right, we were talking about that. What's she like?

[She's heard the X-Men mentioned a couple of times- Hell, three of the ones here came from the same shithole she had. But she was never particularly close to any of them, so she doesn't know much about that group.]

She's really pretty. [What's the nice way to say damaged?] Tough, resilient, experienced. Hell of a fighter. She doesn't waste words.

[Sadly, any implications of damage go right over her head. The rest seems to sink in, as she unconsciously fiddles with her hair a bit.]

Well... Sounds like someone I'd like to meet, anyway.

Meeting is a great idea! ...That I did not think through in the slightest. She is talking to me if you want to just jump in and set something up?

... You should probably think this through for people who don't know each other. If it's a masquerade, trying to get people to meet up with people they don't know while in masks is gonna end badly.

[She pauses.]

Badly, but hilariously.

I mean, hilariously is definitely where I started. It's not my fault my conscience kicked in.

But if you talk first now you'll see each other's faces and know if this is instantly the worst idea probably?

Right. Here goes.

And if this goes terribly, at least you'll probably get a laugh out of it.

See? Always an upside! But really, Laura's great. I haven't known this version very long, but I knew her in the last place. Good luck? Seems like you could both use something good.

Oh, that always gets confusing. There's a couple people here like that for me, too.

... And... You, ah. Were not kidding about her being pretty.

Confusing is the X-Men way. But yeah. Allen is another one like that for me. [And things are not going well between them now so moving on!]

[That gets a soft laugh.] Yeah, she's kind of gorgeous. [Which is very weird to admit when she's also Logan's clone and Logan was basically her replacement father/mentor.]

It gets to be a pain... Kind of wondering if there's other fucked-up versions of me wandering around. I haven't heard of any yet, but...

Seriously, damn.

Hmm, I think it bothers me more the other way. Wondering about better versions. [She really never had considered versions who might be doing truly awful things. Maybe she should considering how different the Hank here is from the McCoy of her world.]

I'll take that as a job well started at least.

If they're still me, even the better versions will be fucked up.

Definitely well-started, at least. Thanks.

Well, that's a way of looking at it. [Who hurt you?]

Sure. I hope you're still thanking me at the masquerade. Both of you. Standard "if you hurt my friend" talks apply.

[Sorry, you have to level up the social link here before you get that answer.]

I. I will keep you posted on how it's going?

[Laura looks like she could bench press Nightingale, I'm not sure which of them you're worried about being hurt.]

You don't actually have to do that. [Not that she'd mind.] Just have fun. Maybe I could have said that the first time.

[She can definitely take care of herself physically.]

I'll try, and hope no one gets poisoned this time.

[Seriously, what kind of formal events has she been going to.]

I'll second that and maybe avoid asking about the first time. Especially since being on a poison moon does seem to increase the odds.

Yeah. Good idea.

So, lighter conversation: What sort of things does she like? Anything in particular I should avoid bringing up?

I wish I had better answers for those. I need to get to know her better too. I think you've probably both got some hot spots in your past and you can probably navigate it?

... Well, all right then. I'll try to steer clear of anything too serious.

Yeah, bringing up murder and torture is probably more second date kind of stuff.

Speaking of serious things, how are you okay again? Did you figure out what caused it?

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