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Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: If you want!
Action: July Planet!
When: The month of July!

[This is another planet mingle since the first one has nearly hit captcha! Feel free to continue threads or start brand new ones!]

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[axiomed]

[ Charles laughs softly. ]

That, I'm quite aware of. It's a shame, I suppose. I can understand why, but a shame nonetheless.

[outstandingbalance]

A shame? I wonder why you picked that word.

[Not judgment, and not exactly asking him to tell her. Under the circumstances, with the fact Vision linked Charles to Barnes, she has specific reasons to wonder.]

[axiomed]

[ He rubs his chin. ]

I think, perhaps, if we had more hope in others, the world itself would not be so suspicious. Granted, I am from the 70s. I was there for the Cuban missile crisis. I don't know how much the world has changed in the future. I like to think it has.

[ And he know it has, with Raven. But in other worlds . . . it's hard to say. ]

[outstandingbalance]

You know what they say. The more things change...

[The Cold War might have ended, but the post Cold War world wasn't one that had exactly put away its suspicions.

The fact he was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis—in his world, at least—is one she files away.]

[axiomed]

The more they stay the same? I wonder. Change starts with us, not the world.

[outstandingbalance]

[There's a statement that gets a wry twitch out of Natasha, one brow and the corner of her mouth.]

Are we not part of the world now?

[axiomed]

Being part of it doesn't mean we don't choose which parts.

[outstandingbalance]

Sometimes we do. [And sometimes they don't.]

[axiomed]

All the more reason to make the ones we can matter.

[outstandingbalance]

That might be asking to much.

If you were asking it. [She adds that at the end, lightening her tone. That's far enough down that particular rabbit hole.

The conversation put Xavier's relationship with Barnes in an interesting light though.]

I see why they'd call you hopeful.

[axiomed]

Yes, well . . . [ A mansion, a future . . . there's a lot riding on him these days and he has yet to accomplish any of it. ]

I suppose people need me to be.

[outstandingbalance]

[Ha. Or, less ha and more of a short huff.]

Now that I believe.

[axiomed]

[ He blinks. ]

I beg your pardon?

[outstandingbalance]

A lot of people are what they are for other people.

[axiomed]

That's . . . fairly normal. None of us exist in a vacuum.

[outstandingbalance]

I didn't say it was abnormal. I just said that I believed it.

[axiomed]

Is it not the same for you?

[outstandingbalance]

That depends what you mean by the same.

[axiomed]

Aren't there people you've changed for?

[outstandingbalance]

That is not a question there's time to answer.

[axiomed]

Why not? I doubt we'll run out of time here.

[outstandingbalance]

I would want to keep your friends waiting too long.

[axiomed]

My friends are used to me being called away.

[outstandingbalance]

If you insist.

[A pause as she considers hedging a second time, wondering if he'd take the hint or if she'd give away more by dodging the question than by surrendering an answer.

In the end she opts for:]

I've been a lot of things, for a lot of people. Hopeful... Not in a long time.

[Maybe not ever.]

[axiomed]

It doesn't come to everyone easily.

[ He can certainly tell from the beginning. ]

But you didn't answer my question. Have you changed because of anyone?