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Who: The Vision and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: Windrose
When: Today!

[The video clicks on to an unusual-looking man with maroon skin and a yellow gem set into his forehead. Though he's been a familiar sight around the Windrose, the Vision doesn't tend to post much so he wouldn't be surprised if there are many unfamiliar with him.

This is a special occasion, however. There's even what looks like a cake in the background.]

There was a slight time differential between my last memories of home and the calendar here. Namely, I seem to have missed the month of June entirely. Given that lack, today is the three hundred sixty-fifth day since I was created.

Accordingly, there is cake and ice cream on the Windrose for any who should care to visit.

[He pauses and furrows his brow slightly.]

I cannot vouch for the taste of either, but I assure you they received the highest ratings from the shops they were purchased at.

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[created - ? That alone is enough to catch Hank's attention. Of course, he's also been told about Vision as well]

Happy birthday, sir. Don't let anyone tease you about your age - first rule of getting older.

[he says it with a straight face, but there's humor in his voice]

Thank you. I shall endeavor not to let it get to me.

[It's really more likely to be people complaining about how young he is, now that he's admitted it out in public, but he doesn't mind so much.]

[it goes for complaining too. Tell those people where to stick their opinions, Vision]

You don't seem the type, honestly.

[That gets a smile.]

I can't say I am. There are few things that anger me, and expressing a statement about my age is not one of them. Though I can say with confidence I'm the youngest ship captain, I suppose.

[he laughs a little] I'd say you are.

You're - Vision, then? Kitty mentioned you when I visited last.

I am, yes. [Seriously, how does Kitty know everybody?] You're one of her friends, then?

[she's DOES know everyone, doesn't she. She's social for all of them and then some]

I - yeah, I am. [he's pretty sure he is, even if it's still a little complicated] We're from - not the same world, but very similar worlds.

Are you? I find I'm not more than two or three degrees removed, myself. I don't suppose you also know Wanda Maximoff?

[So far she's been the common thread....]

That would make two of us. [he smiles a little wryly] It's . . . interesting and strange all at once.

I don't know Wanda, no, but I know - a version of her brother.

I agree. Is your world one with the Avengers? It's the team I belong to.

Knowing her brother is close enough. Winn suggested we make a diagram to keep it all straight, and I begin to think it's not a terrible idea.

It isn't, I'm afraid, but I've heard a little about it. My world has the X-Men - or . . . what will be the X-Men. If there is an Avengers group, it hasn't been formed yet.

[he can't help but grin] Winn would suggest that. At this point, I think we may need one to keep everything straight.

The X-Men, thank you. [What was it Kitty had said? Someone named Logan was on both teams? He hadn't met Logan, though, alas.]

What do you think we ought to keep track of? Name, codename, affiliation, relationships with others?

[consider yourself lucky, Logan is rude and also rude]

All of those, for sure. Ah - what year everyone comes from as well, maybe?

A good idea, yes. And if we can identify disparate timelines, perhaps we can name them for significant events?

For example, no one I've spoken to from an Earth without the Avengers had the Chitauri invade New York in 2012.

[the what invading New York, dear god]

That's - yeah, something like that would be a great idea. Me and everyone from my particular world are from 1973, but I'm sure some of the things we've experienced are different, too.

[It was bad times for everyone involved.]

I suppose you still have Richard Nixon, then? He won't resign for another year, if I recall correctly.

Failing all else, you could assign your ship's name to the timeline until a unique event is determined.

He resigns? Good. [after everything that went down, well. He's glad that Raven saved his life, but he also allowed Trask to display his damned sentinels and all hell broke loose]

That's also an option, especially if people don't feel like speaking of their - uh, particular significant event.

I couldn't agree more.

[He nods.] I believe there are fewer than eighteen timelines represented with overlap, so perhaps the ship names will serve.

[He might be starting to jot down names now....]

Eighteen? God. [that's. That's a lot] Ship names would be very helpful, I think.

May I ask how many people are from your particular timeline? Or world? Whichever word fits better.

[. . . Vision no it's your birthday]

As the number of ships rather than known timelines, to clarify. Twenty if we include the Iskaulit and Marsiva.

[Dude no he wants to science on his birthday.]

There are seven of us I'm aware of. Previously there were two others from a very similar timeline, but they've since vanished.

Ah - okay, I thought you meant timelines. But that's still - a lot more ships than I realized.

[well - far be it from Hank to stop a man who wants to science.

And let's be real he's taking notes too. He purses his lips] I made a joke once that this place was gathering up all the superheroes and now I'm starting to think that's what it's really doing.

Are they all Avengers?

Four of the seven are. Loki would be very insulted if you called him an Avenger, I think. He's the one who brought the Chitauri in the first place, though it's possible that act wasn't entirely of his own free will. Agent Carter hails from the 1940s; she founded the parent organization that would later guide the Avengers.

[AND THEN THERE'S WINTER.]

...The last is a bit more complex.

Ah . . . I've met Loki. He seems very - er, proud. [look at him, trying to be polite about it] And I - have heard of Agent Carter from Winter.

[He seems to relax a little.] You've met Winter, then. He would be the complex one.

If your mythology is at all the same as ours, I'd hope you know enough not to take Loki's words at face value. That said, his brother always insisted there was honor in him.

[he smiles a little] Mm, we've met. But - I understand what you mean by complex. ["Erik" was their complex. Raven too, by some extent]

I know enough about Loki from mythology to know not to do that. But he was pretty pleasant with me. Not so much with my colleague, but - I think he knew a version of Charles in another world.

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