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expiationnet2024-09-15 04:42 pm
spidermenaces) wrote in expiationnet2024-09-15 04:42 pm
(closed to stem club) the nerds are talking
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So, the suit option so no one's burning their brains is the best choice right
Just say right, guys
Right
So, the suit option so no one's burning their brains is the best choice right
Just say right, guys
Right
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well i appreciate your appreciation. it's like i always say, "with great power comes great responsibility" you know?
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... Dude
You know Wanda????
Huh
Okay
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and to answer your question, no i'm not like wanda. she's a reality warper. "hex powers" whatever that means. magic shit. also not a mutant. we thought she was for a while but then it turns out she isn't? it's complicated.
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I actually never met her
But uh
I don't really know how to tell you this man
But uh no mutants don't exist in my world
So uh she's like
Do you guys have the infinity stone stuff going on
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yeah yeah yeah infinity stones, thanos shit, space fights, nobody cares. i befriended a 6-brained whale and saved wakanda from thanos minions with a bunch of freak superhero kids. that was ages ago. it's boring.
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You know about Thanos?
Did he
Did he do
Wait, dude, we gotta talk about stuff like right now that has nothing to do with any of this
He erased half the universe in my timeline.
Peter Quill, his friends, me
... Do we survive this?
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Alright, fine, he'll take this seriously. But don't get used to it!!]
look. in my world things seem to work... a little differently.
world-ending threats are like every other week. you roll out of bed and uh-oh, galactus got the munchies and is heading over to eat the planet. sometimes the good guys win before bad stuff starts happening. sometimes they don't. but, you know the superhero drill. throw the right combination of crazy and stick-to-it-iveness at the problem and eventually it sticks. people die, but honestly? i don't know a single superhero out there who hasn't died at least once or twice. we've got a bad habit of coming back.
your world? i dunno. everyone else's timelines seem to be less fucked up than mine—love that for me—but it's hard to say how much the good and the bad go hand-in-hand. the "everybody dies" chicken or the "everybody comes back to life" egg.
sorry, pal. wish i could help more.
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Yeah, no, I know that. Gwen... Gwen told me about all these Peter Parkers, and their lives, and there is another one here too, so I know things work completely differently - Scott doesn't even know me, but you do, right? At least the secret identity of it all. That's something.
And, yeah, I know. I know that super insane things happen, but literally-- literally everyone just turned to dust, you know? I know Vision is dead, since he got the stones, and who knows what else. I don't know. I was with mister Stark in space, I have no idea what happened, who died, all I remember was everyone just becoming dust, right, so I thought maybe you'd know something, because Doctor Strange, well, he said there was one change out of fourteen million. So. I thought maybe.
Maybe you could tell me what happened in yours. So I know.
Because I'm dead and I don't know anything, nobody does.
Thank you for telling me what you know, man. Maybe there's a plan in there.
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Quentin sounds... so tired. Or weary? Yeah, weary's a better word, probably. Everything going on in Aldrip, everything going on back home, having to spend the time actually thinking about all this shit enough to give the kid a cogent answer... It's a lot, okay? And Quentin? Well, he's certainly never been accused of being a role model or—god forbid—a mentor for anyone.]
Yeah... About that. Sorry, I don't remember anything like that happening in my universe. Not to say it hasn't, but if it did that timeline got erased. At least from memory. That happens sometimes.
Honestly? I've never even seen Thanos. He came to town a while back, but I was pretty young [probably about the age this version of Spidey is, but we won't talk about that] and I didn't really get that involved in stuff back then. You know... Teen angst and all that shit. [Teen angst... brief supervillain aspirations... same thing.]
All I know is he sent his little minions down to wreck stuff, try to find some infinity gems, kill some kids for god knows what reason. Standard supervillain crap. We fought off a chunk of his army in Wakanda, and then, I dunno... guess the Avengers kicked his ass in space? I don't remember anybody turning to dust or anything.
[He sighs, and you can practically hear him rubbing his temples through the network. So much for saving him a migraine. He'd rather just go download the robot than deal with this.]
But... in my experience Strange doesn't bullshit, so... Yeah, I'd go with whatever he said.
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... Probably it's what happened.
Yeah, thank you, sorry again.
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God damn it.
Uuuuuuugh he hates giving a shit. He hates it so so so much.]
Don't sweat it, kid. The superhero gig's rough sometimes. Believe me, I know.
[... He's going to regret asking this, isn't he? Probably. But he's gotta know.]
How long have you been at this? You know, since you got your powers?
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You know. Wanted to know.
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[That's supposed to make Peter feel better. It probably won't. Quentin's not great at this. In his defense, he was raised by child soldiers and a feral immortal Canadian with knife hands.]
Hey. Stark, is he still alive, do you know? In your world.
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Mister Strange gave Thanos the stone on the condition Mister Stark lived, so if Thanos kept his word, then, yeah.
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I may not like the guy, but if there's anything Tony Stark is good at, it's pulling some kind of genius implausible bullcrap out of thin air. Eleventh hour shit. If your Stark is anything like mine, he'll figure this out.