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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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[Memory comas...?]

Is that...what happens when people fall asleep and don't wake up for a long time? You gain new memories?

Here? Yeah. Sometimes. It's not always a sure thing, though. Sometimes you just...sleep.

[Weird...]

There are still many things for me to learn about here then. Do you change, physically, when you sleep? Or is it just the memories?

-- I definitely woke up with a bunch of scars I'd gained in those memories. So, yeah. You change.

[That's fascinating - and dangerous. So sleeping here, especially for a long period of time, can move people through time and their bodies will match.

He'll have to make sure that never happens to him. He might not have a year to suddenly lose.]

I'm sorry that you had to wake up with scars. I hope they don't ache?

Ache? Nah. Not anymore. [ ... ] Scrapes and bruises come with the job. I don't heal like some of my, uhm, colleagues.

[So that means she either did have a time when they did ache - or she remembers them aching.]

...Colleagues? Do they not feel pain?

Some probably don't. Others just heal really, really fast.

....Oooohhhh, you mean they have powers?

[Like Mon-El! And....like 99% of his ship.]

All kinds. Like, every power you could ever imagine. Not me, though.

It's something I've never experienced before coming here - people with special powers like these.

You must be singularly amazing in order to be colleagues with those sorts of people.

Hey, I'm not gonna lie. I'm pretty great.

I've noticed most people here have some sort of amazing talent. Might I ask what yours is?

I'm super trendy. [ duh. ] And, okay, sure, I'm also an archer.

[Dude, being a trendster is a superpower okay. That is hard as hell to keep up with.]

An archer? As in a combat archer? That's a unique skill.

[Since he lived in the time when combat archery was starting to die out, but certainly grew up on stories of the fabled great archers of the past.]

Yep! Exactly that. [ her smile can be heard. ] They call me Hawkeye.

[So...insanely accurate??? He has no idea what a "hawkeye" is, but that's a cool name.]

In an age of guns, the arrow is quite a deadly weapon. [They're quiet, which increases their usefulness in his eyes.]

How long did you train to learn it?

Oh, years. It used to be just a summer hobby. [ ... ] But over time, I got more and more involved.

That's quite the hobby. Are you very rich? Or is archery for leisure no longer restricted to the upper class?

[ oh. shit. well -- this has never come up quite in this way, before. but kate decides to simply own the truth. ]

My family is, yeah. [ a crinkle of her nose. ] Cost was never really a barrier to anything, growing up.

[That must have been nice. All of his friends weren't exactly in the poverty or low-income area, but they weren't exactly...high class samurai either.]

Oh, so it is still only for the richer class? That's unfortunate. I was never quite well off enough to learn for fun.

I mean -- not really? My sorta-maybe-mentor didn't grow up with money, and he's been shooting since he was a kid.

[That was the thing though, wasn't it? You were either super rich and did it for leisure, or super poor and did it to survive. And hopefully not get caught eating whatever the heck it was the Shogunate decided to ban that decade.]

Ah, I see. So when you began shooting archery for more than just fun, was it he who taught you your skills?

I had the skills already. But he did teach me how to use them for -- for good, I guess.

Were you not using them for good before then?

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