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[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Planetside
When: This morning

[ kate is down on the planet, hair tied back with a light-coloured bandanna. she's holding the device selfie-style -- a shooting aesthetic born of the snapchat and periscope generation. ]

Do any of you know the story of the one red paperclip? Some guy up in Canada started with a paperclip, which he traded for a pen, and then traded that pen for a hand-made doorknob, and then that for a camping stove (plus fuel). And he kept going until fourteen trades after the red paperclip... he got a house. A whole futzing house.

Well, my one red paperclip was a piece of foil-wrapped gum I was holding onto since the day I arrived. Two votive candles, one fishtail braid, some dice, a repaired rope bridge, wooden shoes, and a barrel of mead later? [ her free hand reaches for something off-screen, which turns out to be a simple wooden bow. ] This is my whole futzing house. Suck it, whatever intergalactic bank handles our fleet credits. Suck it.

[ later, she can be found celebrating her minor economic victory down at the BEACH -- sunbathing, or swimming, or just diverting herself by building odd shapes in the sand. find her there, or cooling off in the evening at one of the taverns -- a little sunburned, but looking thoroughly satisfied. ]

Comments

Video

[ladybro]

Who needs a target range? There's a wide-open forest where I can go and shoot.

[ when you're this good, the world is your target range. ]

Video

[onlyanapple]

True, but I imagine you need things to shoot at.

...Unless you're going after the cutesy little woodland animals. In which case, enjoy?

[He knows there are dinosaurs, but he still doesn't like to believe they exist. They give him an existential crisis. ]

Video

[ladybro]

Some kitchens need fresh meat. [ ... ] But, also, your typical target range is a little limited for me. Not much of a challenge.

Video

[onlyanapple]

True, that they do. Never really an issue for me, but the rest of you do need to eat.

[Mortality must be such a struggle.]

Really? So you're really good with that thing then?

Video

[ladybro]

Good enough to make a career out of it.

[ so to speak. ]

Video

[onlyanapple]

What...like in the Olympics?

Video

[ladybro]

Sure. [ kate can be seen shrugging. ] If I wanted to.

Video

[onlyanapple]

So...you have another career in mind with shooting a bow and arrow? Like...hunting? Do humans even still do that, I thought it was all guns these days.

Video

[ladybro]

I'm an Avenger. [ ... ] Practically.

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[onlyanapple]

...

Oh. Like Tony Stark, then.

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[ladybro]

Oh, jeez, of all the examples you could pull out of that hat--

[ her cheeks puff. she sighs. ] Sorta like Tony Stark. I guess we both do our thing without super powers. And we're both no strangers to the tabloids. But that's about where the similarities end.

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[onlyanapple]

[See, Crowley's just grinning more, because he approves of this reaction. ]

He is a massive ballsack, isn't he? He was one back in Paradisa and he's one here. I suppose some things never change. Glad to know where you stand there.

I.e: Not a massive ballsack.

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[ladybro]

I try not to be. [ a massive ballsack. ] I mean -- don't get me wrong. Tony's done things. Good things. He is an Avenger, after all. But...traditionally, me and him don't always come down on the same side of some issues.

As Avengers go, you'll find I'm a bit more like -- [ dear lord is she actually going to say this? ] -- Clint. Barton.

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[onlyanapple]

No. Back in Paradisa, he headed a...police force, I suppose, called Peace Patrol. It ended up being a mess, disbanded after they left a criminal in their jails to rot after about a year- no real trial. Me and him, we don't see eye to eye.

Ah yes, I remember him. Didn't know him well, but he seemed okay.

Video

[ladybro]

Huh. Sounds just like Stark. People ended up behind bars back home, too. [ kate included. ]

Video

[onlyanapple]

This is me, dying of not surprised.

Video

[ladybro]

[ and yet, come the latest 'civil war', kate will end up on tony's side. her personal association with the man is all but non-existent -- but that future-chestnut rotates around clint, too. ]

Mind you, this still coulda been an entirely different Tony Stark. The one here isn't the one I know. Ish. Know-ish.

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[onlyanapple]

Hm, it's pretty much the same one that's here. But not? I think he's a bit further down the future. You know timelines, they're tricky little buggers.

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[ladybro]

Tell me about it. Gives me a headache and a half.

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[onlyanapple]

I can bet. That;s without going into the alternate realities some of you guys have to deal with. What a fucking mess.

Video

[ladybro]

...Count me as one of the some. There's alterna-folks from all kind of varieties of my home. It's off-putting. I'm the only me, though.

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[onlyanapple]

Yeesh, what a mess. I haven't had to deal with any of that. Unless you count someone coming from about a decade into the future. Though...I'm pretty sure that was still the same world.

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[ladybro]

A decade, though. That's a long-ass time.

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[onlyanapple]

It is. He was ten years old, last time I saw him back home. It was a pretty big headfuck.

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[ladybro]

...From snot-nosed kid to young adult in the blink of an eye. Jeez. How'd he handle that?