video » fleetwide

[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop + YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit
When: Yesterday evening.

Want to play a game? [ kate's surroundings are, quite evidently, a lush little corner of málum. the neon-y blue tinge of the bar's decor casts its colour over her features. there's a tall, impressively concocted cocktail at her elbow. ] I mean, I know I do. So here's how it goes: you tell me anywhere you'd rather be but here, with the caveat that it can't just be a home. I think it's safe to say that home is a very understandable answer, but it's also a little too achingly realistic for my purposes. So pick somewhere else. Pick Ibiza. Pick Iceland, if you want.

Well, unless Iceland is your home. Then please refer to rule numero uno. It also happens to be the game's only rule. [ short and sweet, that's our katerade.

and maybe about an hour (and maybe another drink) later: ] ...Does anyone wanna come dance with me?

[ swipe right, dear flooters. swipe right. ]

Comments

[ladybro]

And do you call yourselves Midgardians?

[residu]

what?? No that'd be weird
We don't call ourselves anything
Just people?

[ladybro]

Are there any OTHER cities? I mean -- I'm a New Yorker, but that's because there are cities besides New York.

[residu]

there's more now than there used to be?
Apparently they were majorly into isolation a while back
People still don't really go outside

[ladybro]

What's wrong with outside?

[ because it sounds like there's gotta be something wrong with outside. ]

[residu]

I dunno it was just a Thing
Something about the outside being unsafe
There was a huge deal about it during the big earthquake like 50 years ago

[ladybro]

[ ok. piecing together small parts -- here and there. an earthquake, a city, a sense of history. kate sallies onward. ]

How do people go and do things? Like go to school? Or to the theater? Or hospitals? Do they go outside, then?

[residu]

[ a true champion and inspiration!! ]

oh
I meant like outside the city is where people used to not go sorry
They had huge walls for it and everything
Going anywhere inside the city is fine it was just outside where people got weird about it

[ladybro]

...Have you ever been outside?

[residu]

the city? Yeah
A long time ago my family lived near the coast

[ and then everything changed when the fire nation attacked etc etc ]

[ladybro]

Why'd you move?

[ if you couldn't already tell, she's kinda nosy. ]

[residu]

[ She is very nosy, good lord. Jihwan's already bristling on his end, pinching his nose to keep himself focused. He does not need to remember why the left right now. ]

my parents wanted someplace different
City seemed the best fit

[ladybro]

Makes sense. I'm sorry you're not where you want to be, now.

[residu]

yeah well
No this really does suck I can't even think of a worse place
How the hell is everyone so calm about this

[ladybro]

My guess? Some have seen worse.

[residu]

what's worse than being surrounded by a vacuum where you can't breathe

[ladybro]

Being somewhere where you come face to face with your evil doppelganger? Or maybe that world ruled by bug people. I don't know. There's a lot of worse to choose from.

[residu]

bug people

[ K a t e ]

[ladybro]

Wasn't fun.

[residu]

wait are you shitting me

[ Please don't tell him there are literally bug people here ]

[ladybro]

Hand to God. Honest truth. It sucked./span>

[residu]

oh my god i'm gonna be sick

[ladybro]

Look -- it's alright. I promise. That was back home, and in a sorta half-dimension that shouldn't have even existed. They're real, but only for as long as it takes to imagine them.

[ sorta. but she doesn't know how else to explain a mayfly dimension. ]

[residu]

[ You know, Jihwan would be entirely okay if she just...didn't. HAHA. He doesn't want to even think about them, he's already getting queasy. ]

how is a half-dimension that shouldn't exist but does supposed to make me feel better

[ladybro]

Because it's not here, because you'll never have to go there, and because it's something you'll probably never have to concern yourself with.

[ not least of all because the multiverse has been destroyed, back home. ]