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Who: Kate Bishop and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Aboard the Blameless, as well as in Málum aboard the Iskaulit.
When: Today.

So I know I'm not the only one here who can boast both some experience and frustration with alternate worlds, dimensions, timelines, so on and futzing so forth. [ kate hits the network like she hits the ground: running. no hello, no hi, no how-do-you-do. ]

But, uh, I figured it might be good to gather some intel from people outside my little social circle. Personally, I've counted no fewer than six different versions of home. Including mine, but not including any other generally Earth-based worlds. I'm talking we had mutual acquaintances in common, but details were...different. Shout out to anyone who can identify me a seventh. It's like Pokemon at this point: gotta learn'em all.

What about the rest of you? Are other worlds a thing where you're from? A fact of life? Or are they pretty much the stuff of sci-fi -- culty, but soon to be a blockbuster reboot on a big screen near you?

Hawkeye, out.

[ -- and with that, she kicks back and waits to discuss the existential can-o-worms she just opened. part of it is almost masochistic, because she knows how little she doesn't want to learn about yet another world where the avengers exist, but she doesn't.

to take her mind off things, kate heads for her shift at málum over on the iskaulit. but something's...off, tonight. usually a paragon of coordination and balance, she's been breaking a lot of glasses tonight. futz, that's gonna come out of her pay. it puts her in a foul mood, so patrons can expect a bit of petulant surliness with their drinks. ]

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It can be. Or maybe it's a brace of defining moments. Or maybe it's just a world populated by bunny rabbits instead of people -- [ she will never not have nightmares about that place. ] Sometimes things are just straight up different, which is how your situation sounds.

Did you ever go there? Tharia?

Heh, bunny rabbits... After this place? I dunno that I'd be all that surprised findin' a world like that.

[ He hesitates, like he's not sure if he should be answering that, but then remembers that this is here and not home so it really doesn't matter. He nods, smiling a little. ]

Yeah, I have. Few times. And my mom's actually from there, so, you know, there's that too.

Oh. Hey. That's neat. Were you born there?

I wish! Might've been more excitin'. Grass is greener, and all that. Nah, mom came to Meridia - my world - on a diplomatic kinda thing. And after that was over, she just decided to stay. Mostly a borin' story.

Oh, I wouldn't call it boring. It's all pretty interesting to me. It's not too often you meet people who aren't from some version of Earth.

True! Does seem like there's a lot of people from one Earth or another around here. You said there's what, six or seven that're like your world? Meanin' there's even more that aren't like, directly related? Geez, that's insane... But really interestin' to think about.

Yep. And those six are just what's represented here. Back home, there's probably countless realities. But they're not really as different from each other as yours sound. Or they are -- but nevertheless tied together somehow.

[ Low whistle. ]

So have you been to any of 'em? Or did you just learn about 'em 'cause of here?

I've never visited any of'em represented here, apart from my own. But back home? I did some hopping. For a short while. [ ... ] Makes it easy when you know someone who can cross dimensions at will.

Okay, that's a cool power, not gonna lie. Too bad no one here's got anything like that, so we could figure out how to get home faster - that'd be too easy.

I doubt she'd be allowed to keep that ability. If she was here. [ but oh god kate wishes america was here. ] People with talents like that tend to get pretty nerfed on the way in.