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[sanguinespell]

So, crazy hypothetical--

[ and nico drums her black-painted nails on her desk, holding a ballpoint quill in her other hand. aesthetic. she's scratching something down in a notebook every so often as she speaks, mostly in pauses. ]

You're on the run at home. Framed, everything you thought you knew was bullshit, and you can't go back to your old life. You get pulled here by the Robot Moirai and start getting a life going. Things are crazy but you're happy. Then you find out half the living things in your universe are gonna be just--gone, in a few months, because of some crazy asshole the best heroes around couldn't stop.

[ and then, y'know, you're stuck with that dangling over your head. ]

How much would you focus on just trying to live life here? You gonna focus on hero shit like the government wants you to, or just, like... take happiness where you can get it? I don't know. I've been here for more than a year now, and I still don't know.

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[cognitivism]

That is one of the more difficult things to think about.

I've been here roughly the same amount of time, and I've resi-- [ He pauses, realizing it's the wrong word. ] Sorry, I've resolved myself to taking back my life despite knowing I am dead back home.

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[sanguinespell]

[ that gets a wince. ] How's that going?

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[cognitivism]

Better than I thought? [ He actually chuckles at that. ] Our actions here still have consequences, for better or for worse.

My time here has been mostly "what ifs" and "will it matter" and if I continue to focus on that, then what was the point?

I don't think this is what the Robot Moirai have in mind, but at least it's something I choose to do.

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[cigarbribery]

[Wait, wait, hold on. Back up.]

...what? [No, seriously, he had no inkling about that. The look on Foggy’s face is just. Gobsmacked.] Where—How—How are you sure someone’s not trying to pull a fast one on you?

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[sanguinespell]

Oh, fuck.

[ yeah this didn't even. cross her mind. shit. there's a pause as she sets her jaw, considering how to... even answer this. ]

Scarlet Witch was most of the way through a bottle of umeshu when I heard it from her.

[cigarbribery]

She—She could’ve gotten something wrong. Or exaggerated. People do that when they’re drunk, I do that when I’m drunk. Maybe she just meant half of, of something else. Not the whole universe. Not—

[He stops, shaken and scared. This is so far out of Foggy’s wheelhouse that it would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so deadly serious.]

It can’t—why would someone do that? There’s so many things that could go horribly wrong if you just somehow take half the fucking universe out of the picture!

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[divaricate]

[ she feels bad for stressing you BUT LOOK THANOS IS A DICK OK AND IT WAS A SHITSHOW AND SHE SPIT A LOT OUT. yes. ]

Be grateful you haven't seen it yet. [ It's not a criticism or a snide remark. ]

Be happy here, and do better here than we did.

[ "We", meaning the Avengers back home. ]

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[kanyounot]

That doesn't seem like all that hypothetical of a scenario. Sounds somewhat like my own life back home, as a matter of fact.

[ So, maybe she's talking to the right person? ]

It's tough, to accept things we can't really do anything about. One of the toughest things to do, in my experience. And I'm not sure there's one correct answer to that. It's probably different for everyone.

[adamantlyardent]

I hesitate to dictate how you OUGHT to spend your time, beyond avoiding causing mayhem. But after a year, if you've still found no contentment... Perhaps a change is needed.
(While also avoiding causing mayhem, mind.)