voice + text transcription

[expellerhead]

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Yes
Action: N/A
When: Now

[putting his voice on this thing is...not preferable, but this has to get out to everyone to be even half as effective as aizawa would like it to be. so time to get over it.]

Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

One: length of time you've been here.

Two: whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

Three: something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

Four: something you miss most desperately from home. No 'family or friends' here, please. Material objects only.

Thanks.

[and below the soundbar, a text transcription:]


Gathering info for something, so I'd appreciate any participation.

1. Length of time you've been here.

2. Whether or not you were in a place like this before, IE forcibly removed from your home universe and kept captive.

3. Something you wish you'd known or been told upon arrival here.

4. Something you miss most desperately from home. No people, only items.

Thank you.

Comments

[mucked]

[ she absolutely does not read japanese -- but knowing that he's recording is enough to make her filter her responses with care and thought. she can skip the more painful bits; she can stick to the facts. ]

The first double, the one who was already here when I arrived, was a version of Barnes who didn't die on that train. In his world, Steve was the one who fell instead -- and Barnes took up Steve's title in his place. Otherwise it would seem that the world carried on rather similarly. Nearly everything else about his experience and the experiences of people from my world match up.

This new double, the one who's just arrived, is a whole different kettle of fish.

[expellerhead]

[it's a little arrogant to assume one single person could have such a huge impact on the world that just swapping him out for someone with arguably a different personality would change world events, but from what aizawa's been hearing their 'steve rogers' is a lot like his world's all might.

and if their world hadn't had all might, exactly as he is...things would be very different indeed. for better or worse.]

Is Mr. Barnes the only individual you've met here with multiple versions of himself?

[mucked]

Once, we had a man named Clint Barton. I'm told he exists back home, also, but the one who came to the Fleet wasn't the same one from my world.

[ her expression clouds. ]

There used to be another Steve, too. Although he didn't go by that name any longer.

[expellerhead]

That must have been uncomfortable. [he's writing so much] You weren't kidding when you said you have experience with this phenomenon.

[mucked]

I suppose it comes with having been here so very long.

[ not as long as some, of course, but long enough to see some shit. peggy reaches for her tea cup, sliding her nails along the rim. ]

And I know we're both the sort who's keen to stick to only the facts but -- in whatever you write, Aizawa, I might suggest you also advise readers to keep an open mind about these doppelgangers. [ ... ] They might forget that the alternate versions are people too. In their own right. Not merely just, well, alternate versions.

[expellerhead]

I'll make a note of it, [aizawa agrees without trying to delve any further; and he has, a couple times.] I'm not sure it'll become a huge issue in the future, but maybe to head off any unkind reactions at the pass.