⊗ 01 [voice]

[fledgeling]

So I guess now that I've sort of settled in [Again. Moving happens to her a lot] - are there any other X-Men here? Or, well - different timeline and all that junk, maybe a different name. Mutants.

[oh right - introductions. For once not everyone in the world knows who she is.]

I'm Hope Summers.

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voice;

[slightlyoffchilt]

Hello, Ms. Summers. [A beat.] I knew someone associated with the... X-Men.

[voice]

[fledgeling]

[There's a slight pause as she processes that. Knew. Not dead, from what she's been told about this place. And, well, knowing X-Men. Gone, then, or good as.]

Who?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Did you -- by any chance, did you know an AI named Danger?

[fledgeling]

Yeah - we were on a team together.

voice;

[notdaredevil]

Summers, as in Scott?

[fledgeling]

Yeah. Technically he's my grandfather but that's still a little weird.

[notdaredevil]

Uh-huh. A little. [ Not gonna touch that. Especially since Scott isn't here anyway anymore. ] Isn't that a little par for the course with the X-Men?

[fledgeling]

Pretty much. There's a lot of time travel in the family, that always makes things weird. But Nathan Summers is my dad.

voice

[khajidont]

I dunno how many are still around, but the school's all set up. Xavier's School, that is -- that's an X-Men thing, right?

[fledgeling]

Yeah. I mean, Logan's calling it something else now but - that's at home.

Has it been destroyed a bunch of times? Nathan always said it had a really bad track record for that.

[khajidont]

I don't think we've got a Logan around here, and... somehow, it's managed to avoid being destroyed. [Jaime's voice has a little more wry humour in it than an exploding school deserves, but he has a funny feeling she won't mind.] It's been around since the beginning of the school year.

[fledgeling]

Wolverine? He was in charge back home, anyway.

That's a pretty good start, from what I've heard.

[fridgeflower]

I wasn't ever an X-man, but i definitely meet the mutant criteria.

Hi, Hope. I'm Laurie.

[fledgeling]

Hi, Laurie! I have a friend named that - she's a mutant, too.

[fridgeflower]

It's probably not a very uncommon name.

Are you related to Mr. Summers? Um... Scott Summers, I mean. Cyclops.

[fledgeling]

We'll, you're the only only other one I've met!

And - yeah. He's my grandfather? Sort of? [you can practically hear the 'it's complicated' in her voice]

voice.

[selfequipped]

Emma Frost is here. [That could be good news or bad.] And they've got Xavier's set up.

[Xavier's. Not the Jean Grey School or anything like that.]

But I think in terms of "mutant population," the numbers are a little slim.

[fledgeling]

Has she tried to set the world on fire or anything? [Not that Hope gets along with Emma when she's not being the Phoenix...]

Sounds just like home, then.

[selfequipped]

No, she's from a lot earlier in the timeline than that. [A lot earlier, from what Kate gathered.]

And it's a ... different kind of thin, at least. [But she knows it's not a good thing.]

text;

[onhold]

( Communicator ID reads 'Blue Rose'. )

It's not nice to call people mutants, you know.

[voice]

[fledgeling]

It's accepted terminology, where I'm from. Home sapiens superior just sounds like you're trying to hard.

And I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to call myself whatever the fuck I want, anyway.

permtext;

[onhold]

well, yeah, you can do that if you want. i'm not going to stop you.
i'm just saying that other people, with different experiences, from different worlds, might not like the term.
that's all.

voice;

[bombshelled]

I knew a couple X-Men back home. But I don't think they're here.

Hey, Hope, I'm Lana.

Re: voice;

[fledgeling]

Guess you're from home, then. Or somewhere close enough. Universes get complicated like that.

voice;

[bombshelled]

Yeah, I'm getting that feeling. I'd heard about other universes before, but never really experienced it myself. [ Unless you count Galactus crossing over into their universe as an experience... ]

So you're a mutant, then, right?