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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!]

July Planet Information

First Mingle Post

Comments

[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?

[outstandingbalance]

Didn't I?

[axiomed]

You really didn't. Unless you prefer not to?

[outstandingbalance]

Maybe I'm not sure what the distinction you're making is.

[axiomed]

If you're saying "maybe", then I'm not sure that's the case.

I understand what you want and what you're trying to do, but I think a little more honesty would help us out a lot more than . . . this.

[outstandingbalance]

On the contrary, I've found our conversation very productive.

[She lets the maybe slide. It would be too easy to read jibes about that as antagonistic, and she's putting him off enough as it is, clearly. Natasha doesn't feel the need to defend her methods; not because they're right, but because they're what she has, and they don't need protection.

He's been a good sport so far, though, and if she wants to keep the dialogue up she sees the need to give something in return.]

I've heard you know Barnes—Winter? Vision warned me that he'd had an augment malfunction, but that you and Wanda didn't think it pointed to, let's say a general instability on his part. I know Wanda. I don't know you.

[She spreads her hands as though that should make it very clear why she'd be interested in knowing Xavier.]

[axiomed]

[ Charles softens at the mention of Winter. He doesn't know how many people are from that world, only been given brief mentions here and there and he's never asked. For Wanda, his priority were the training of her powers. For Winter . . . ]

I gave most of the details about that to the public. Tony should have some of it. I don't think I left anything out in particular.

[ Except, of course, Charles having plunged into the depths of Winter's mind. His past. His life. But that was between them and no one else. ]

When it comes to the mind, I am a well known authority. It wasn't something he had any control over. And certainly not something he triggered or even could have any part of it. Only an outside force could manage it.