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Who: Kate Bishop and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Lavandula + the Iskaulit.
When: Today

Ow, for futz sake -- [ the feed is shaky, at first -- as though the device and its owner has just fallen from some middling height. but it soon settles steady on an image of kate bishop -- bruised, dirty, but ultimately fine. although she's stubbornly wearing purples more often alligned with the spirit faction, she has alligned herself quite naturally with moxie -- deigning to at least braid white and gold ribbons into her black hair. sitting up on the poorly terra-formed ground, the feed reveals she's dressed in a superbly tailored hawkeye costume made from strong fabrics and flattering lines.

over her shoulder looms lavandula's tower. the intrepid young avenger followed the trills of a mysterious and now finds she herself thoroughtly defeated by the tower's bizarre internal architecture. this isn't the first time she's taken a tumble.

grumpily: ] This place is worse than a funhouse. [ ... ] Paging any and all Fleet folk -- anyone manage to track down this freaky-deaky flute music on Lavandula? All I'm finding are doors shut in my face. Not loving it.

[ LATER, she's back at the rehabilitation centre. she pays her modest fee and gets herself patched up -- bandages and all. so, once she takes a shuttle back to the iskaulit and shows up for work at málum, she's still looking a little worse for wear. take pity on her, málum patrons, because her usual bartender flair is suddenly subdued: she's got one arm in a sling. she'll still serve you, though. and with a smile! ...probably. ]

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You? Old? Hah.

Hey - unless this is your way of telling me about your rip-roaring romance with a Savvy - I was under the impression we were speaking hypothetical fictional characters.

Can you blame me for fan-casting?

So who's the love interest?

[ honestly? it probably would have been the winter soldier before he went bonkers. :| ]

Undecided. Probably someone with a serious case of dark-and-broody, though. A through-and-through Savvy with an independent streak wider than the Grand Canyon.

[ he arches a brow ]

Really? Didn't figure you'd have a lot of patience for that.

It's a fantasy, Winn. Fantasy-me has a fantastical amount of patience. She's way better than I am.

Too far, you totally broke the suspension of disbelief there.

Man, let's hope none of my exes show up. Then you'll really hafta question my taste in everything.

[ except eli. he was mostly ok. ]

I'm hoping for just a general ex-free zone.

[ ever since cisco nearly gave him a heart attack when he turned into a girl and pretended he's someone winn was supposed to know, he's been worried about siobhan showing up here. it's bad enough when you know what to expect from your ex, but when it's a super villain ex you haven't even met yet? great for ratings, terrible for his sanity. ]

[ okay but she's about to gossip so: ]

Technically, an ex-fling's sorta-parents are here. So, y'know. That's awkward.

Right from the title. [ sheesh. being alone with the parents of someone you're intimate with is awkward when things are going great. kate gets all of the sympathy. ] Do they know about the fling part and the ex part - and - is it an amicable kind of ex or the bridges were burned kind?

They don't even know about the kids part. Hell, I don't even think the two of them are together where they're from. But they're definitely...them. [ frankly, the situation was weird even back home. ]

-- I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

[ cuz on the one hand, they don't know about the awkward things making everything awkward. on the other hand, he wouldn't be able to stop being awkward meaning they'd have no idea why this weirdo stranger is being awkward around them, making everything awkward again. ]

Here's the kicker: pretty sure Wanda Maxmioff can, like, read minds or something...

[ actually she's not certain about that but reality benders and magic-users are weird okay. it's just a guess. ]

Wanda like - Avengers Wanda? She's the - mom? [ this is the second time in as many days he's talking about wanda and he can't help but get the feeling that that means something's gonna go down there. ]

Sorta. It's -- [ hah. at this point, it's entirely too cliche to describe the situation as 'complicated'... ]

She's not quite so young, back home. And she's been an Avenger at least as long as Clint, too. [ so, years and years and years. ] Both her, uhm, 'sons' [ full on bunny-ear finger quotations ] are my teammates.

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Back up - ok - [ he rubs his face, trying to work it all out. ] are there two Wandas now?

There are two versions of home -- with two versions of Wanda. The one I'm used to? She's older, and the Avengers have been around for decades. I guess the Wanda who's here in the fleet is from a world where the Avengers are relatively new.

[ and kate doesn't seem to exist. ]

See that's what I thought - the Wanda here is from the same reality as Steve, Vision, and Tony, right? I see what you mean by sorta parents - is the dad also from another reality, or from yours?

[ keeping up with avengers and x-men timelines in the fleet is a full time job. ]

-- Another. Same as hers. It's...oh, jeez. Promise this stays between you and me, please?

[ they really don't need another m-day happening. in space. ok. ]

As long as we stipulate that the Atroma messing with my head or someone hacking the feed don't count -- I promise. That I won't willingly tell is the best I can do here.