may mingle (blameless!)

[revivo]

Who: Blameless crew + visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: Aboard the Blameless
When: May

[time to get your mingle on, people lacking blame and friends!]

Comments

[ladybro]

[ y'know, she swallows all of this very well -- following each new sentence with a good temperament and lots of patience. right up until he says the name. not raven, but... ]

Mystique? [ oh, crap. all of kate's nonchalant tough'n'threatening act sorta...melts away. because mystique is someone she's never met (she doesn't think; but how could she know for certain?) but someone whose reputation is not unknown to her. she bets clint's gone toe-to-toe with her on more than one occasion, maybe. ]

Huh. I, uh, wouldn't have thought she was your type. Necessarily.

[ hank why can't you just settle on a nice non-villainous girl ok. ]

[beathach]

[she's not a villain in his world she's a hero!!

But he figured Kate knew her, or knew of her, considering everything they've talked about. His expression turns sheepish for a moment]

She's the reason I even have a type. [he didn't exactly grow up with crushes on girls or anything - all the girls were much older than him.

Then again - Raven is at least ten years older, too. Maybe he does have a type] You can say it - out of my league, etc, etc. [he desperately wants to lighten the conversation a little]

[ladybro]

Really not what I'm taking about, Hank. [ her cheeks puff. kate even goes far enough as to set aside her theatinin' knife and instead perch her loosely formed fists on her hips. ] Where I come from, Mystique's...bad news. Usually.

[beathach]

I know. I figured. [he crosses his arms in response to her setting the knife down] She isn't - that in my world. She recently saved the president, actually.

[ladybro]

Oh, sure. She went on the straight and narrow for a while. Captain America even put her on an Avengers team but -- [ more perplexed than anything, kate is simply shaking her head. who in their right minds would pass on KARA for MYSTIQUE. ]

It didn't last long.

[beathach]

Captain America? [some of these code names, man] She's - I wouldn't say it's the straight and narrow, but she's never been an enemy, either. The first group of us - I really should just call us X-Men at this point, but she was apart of it.

[ladybro]

I'm pretty sure the only time my world's Mystique was an X-Man was when she infiltrated the team. Something like that. Honestly? She always seems to be infiltrating something...

[beathach]

I don't know much about what she did in the years we were separated, but she's always been fighting for mutants. That much I do know. [he huffs out a faint, amused noise] It seems like no two people are the same in any our worlds.

[ladybro]

Maybe that's just as well.

[beathach]

Oh, it is. I'm very happy I'm nothing like the Beast some of the people here know.

[ladybro]

[ she nods, thoughtful. ] At least if you're different, you can feel like yourself. Y'know? Lots of people have the name Kate. In all kinds of worlds, I'm guessing.

[ so it's a little different than that, but maybe they need a little positivity. ]

[beathach]

[positivity is good. He smiles a little] If it makes you feel better, you're the only Kate I know.

Hank isn't a common name, but my real name is Henry. I think that's a little more common.

[ladybro]

Maybe. A little. I don't know too many of either, if I'm honest.

[beathach]

Heh, me either.

[he's going to stay positive with this, even if it's going back to the first initial conversation] Listen, I - know you're probably still upset with me about - everything, but - thank you for coming to talk to me, too and not just - assuming things.

[a pause] And thanks for not throwing a knife at me.

[ladybro]

Oh, it was just a prop. I was never gonna throw it. I basically never miss; it wouldn't have been fair. [ she sighs. ] But yeah, you're not my most favourite person in the fleet at the moment.

But it could be worse.

[beathach]

I don't know, I think it would've been a little fair. [he has absolutely accepted that people are going to be upset with him and that he deserves any and everything they say]

It could be a lot worse. [he'll take that. And - ] I'll - let you know how it goes. That way if I screw it up you can actually throw something at me.

[ladybro]

Thanks. I like being in the loop.

[beathach]

Mm, I figured. And - I mean, you'd probably hear it from Kara, too, but - [a shrug]

[ladybro]

But [ she leaps in ] maybe I've decided I wanna be on both sides of this thing.

[beathach]

Ah. [a faint smile] Well - I'll tell you too. So you can be.

[ladybro]

In that case, I figure our business here has been concluded.