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legionworld2016-03-13 03:06 am
deafleppard) wrote in legionworld2016-03-13 03:06 am
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Gone through this before
Who| Gwen & You
What| Someone's healthy enough to leave Medbay
Where| Medbay & beyond
When| Before the Earth Trip
Warnings/Notes| N/A
For all the information she had to take in, Gwen was handling it... pretty well, all things considered. She was already aware of multiple universes out there, visiting some of them already. Part of this still remained new to her, but there was a lot that remained familiar. She could've done without the part of suddenly being ripped out of her universe, with a little prior notice being much better. Not much that she could do about it now. If they didn't have the tech to send her back home then she may as well help them out, right?
Okay, maybe the jury was still out on whether or not Gwen actually believed that they couldn't send her back. But for now, she'd help them out.
Honestly? It all sounded kind of cool. This ship was already pretty damn neat, and the medbay team seemed decent enough. Gwen was feeling good enough that she was about ready to leave, just making sure that she had her backpack in order. Phone, earbuds, web slingers, really sweet costume... Yep, all there. She'd probably have to do something her phone, though.
Something told her that she wouldn't be finding an actual charger anytime soon...
In any case, Gwen was dressed and ready to go, slinging the backpack over her shoulder and heading deeper into Legion World.
What| Someone's healthy enough to leave Medbay
Where| Medbay & beyond
When| Before the Earth Trip
Warnings/Notes| N/A
For all the information she had to take in, Gwen was handling it... pretty well, all things considered. She was already aware of multiple universes out there, visiting some of them already. Part of this still remained new to her, but there was a lot that remained familiar. She could've done without the part of suddenly being ripped out of her universe, with a little prior notice being much better. Not much that she could do about it now. If they didn't have the tech to send her back home then she may as well help them out, right?
Okay, maybe the jury was still out on whether or not Gwen actually believed that they couldn't send her back. But for now, she'd help them out.
Honestly? It all sounded kind of cool. This ship was already pretty damn neat, and the medbay team seemed decent enough. Gwen was feeling good enough that she was about ready to leave, just making sure that she had her backpack in order. Phone, earbuds, web slingers, really sweet costume... Yep, all there. She'd probably have to do something her phone, though.
Something told her that she wouldn't be finding an actual charger anytime soon...
In any case, Gwen was dressed and ready to go, slinging the backpack over her shoulder and heading deeper into Legion World.
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"Huh. Good points on all fronts, really." Well, it all sounded nice and good. She could appreciate putting a universe's worth of distance between herself and a media empire running a 24/7 smear campaign on her. Really, her day just wouldn't have been complete without hearing Jameson or the police talking about bringing her in to face justice.
It was true, though. Being part of a team was less about who you were and more about how much butt you could kick in one go. And also spontaneous plans for food.
"As the drummer to a kind-of-famous band, I can appreciate marching to our own beat." Was she even still in the band? Gwen would need to check on that.
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He was intensely curious because while it was a relatively normal thing, being in a band, it was a pretty cool normal thing. Just because he was Mr. Space Superhero General Guy didn't mean he'd ever stopped loving some of those little, normal, human things.
Hell, the fact it was so normal made it even cooler. Rich knew that that with the kind of life he lived, he'd never really get a chance to try to reach for some of those mundane-yet-awesome dreams some people had a chance at.
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"A little bit longer and I'm sure they would've thrown even more numbers over how many downloads our song keeps getting."
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"Okay, that's pretty cool," he acknowledged. "I mean. In a normal way."
A pause.
"That makes it sound like I mean it as not-special, but what I mean is that's cool in a 'it's on Earth and has nothing to do with weird cosmic crap' way. I barely spend time on Earth anymore, let live there long enough to become a rock star or something. There are lots of normal things I wouldn't even be able to try to do."
And he wasn't exactly proud of being on TV in the past. That had been a fiasco with really terrible results after he left.
"I was on TV for a while, though. A reality TV show that followed our team around the country while we helped out villain problems in small town. It was...not really all that glamorous and didn't end well after I left."
Understatement.
"Being a rock star sounds way cooler."
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Yeah, that last part was important.
"But I, um... have some things to sort out with, first. You know, with myself. And it's kind of hard to juggle that with band practice."
She sighed, and scratched her head. "Like, come on, I was even late for our first big concert. This was the one that event got us that TV interview."
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"You wouldn't happen to be late to things due to an unfortunate ability to not be able to fight in superhero fights and be in other places at the same time, by any chance?" he said. "Because that's part of why I'm barely ever on Earth anymore."
There was nothing there for him, if you really got down to it, other than friends and family he could visit.
"I was the king of bad time management. In the end, I screwed things up for myself so bad that the only job I could get was flipping burgers. That's part of why I just gave up and now I spend most of my time superheroing in space."
Superheroing was the only thing he really good for, as far as he was concerned.
"All of us struggle with it. Finding that balance."
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It never failed, really. Needing to stop crime that the same moment when she had a big concert going on.
"I'll have you know that I was going to start a new part-time job at a convenience store. But you know, that's not happening anytime soon."
So much for minimum wage employment.
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It was almost like they lived in comic books and the writers made that happen for drama or something.
"The problem is crime and horrible stuff is always happening somewhere. And if there are only so many heroes around, or if you're the one that's closest, then it falls to you. That can be helped with a little organization, though. Do you have other heroes in your world? Or hero teams? Like the Avengers?"
Having a team or at least having a team you were friendly with was sometimes a lifesaver. Those connections were important. As much as the New Warriors had bitched about Vance and Angel leaving to join the Avengers, their Avengers connections had been handy sometimes.
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"But if we're talking about other heroes out there, then yeah, there's a few. Captain America is one of the big ones. She's always been dad's favorite. Thing is, they uh, don't really like me all that much." And there's was a simple enough reason for that.
"It's, uh, a long story. But pretty much everyone thinks I'm a criminal. Makes me super popular with the police, too." Fun times.
Super fun. The most.
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With newspaper editors screaming that they want pictures! Pictures of Spider-Woman!
"Probably because of some accident that wasn't really your fault, or some situation that went down bad, sure, but definitely wasn't you being a criminal. That everyone looks at in the wrong light. Am I close?"
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"Got my own hotline and cash reward out and my dad's a cop, so that makes it even better."
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Rich shrugged.
"You know, something that explains whatever really happened. Or does She-Hulk exist in your world? Or Nelson and Murdock? They're lawyers that handle superhero cases back in my universe. One time I got into some legal trouble -- and wow, this'll sound bad, but I accidentally killed my friend's husband. He was crazy, though. He thought because he saw us having lunch that she was cheating on 'im and so he went after her with an ax. She was pregnant at the time even and he was gonna kill her and the baby. The police weren't gonna get there fast enough so I had to try to save her, but my powers were on the fritz and I accidentally threw 'im too hard."
That was a long time ago and he'd long since gotten more comfortable with death -- and with being someone that caused it. But back then it'd be hugely upsetting.
"I'm not proud of it. Even if he was a rotten piece of work, up until then I'd always tried to make sure I never killed anybody. You know, did it all by the book, left the criminals sitting pretty for the police. But he was armed with a deadly weapon so it was covered under the self defense laws. Still, I had to clear it all up. The press and the police were calling for my head, so I lawyered up. I went to She-Hulk and she arranged for me to answer questions with the cops, to do it up all proper so they got their answers without them arresting me right off. Any chance you can maybe do that? If your dad's a cop he might know of a defense lawyer that's not a total scumbag. Whatever one's least rotten."
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"There's just one problem with all that. Asking for help, I mean. There's pretty much nobody out there like that for me to reach out to." Actually, that wasn't true, there w as one person.
"At least, nobody I can ask. And I'm going to guess that you're talking about Matt Murdock, right? Sure, he's actually reached out to me. Recommended that I lawyer up and all that. Problem is... I can't stand the guy. It's more than just the sight of his face makes me want to punch him, and more along the lines of... He's literally working for the Kingpin. You know, Fisk? Murderdock's been asking me really nice to partner up with him, too."
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Rich shook his head.
"But look, even if you can't clear it up like that, 'the other side' that you're working against -- that's the public itself, not just the cops or the news-people. And regardless of whether you think they'll believe you or not, they deserve to have trust in their heroes. When I went to the cops to clear things up, I was hoping it'd make my life easier, sure, but I wasn't expecting it to.' The reason I went was because people deserve knowing that people like us aren't going to just do whatever we want to the little guy."
He shrugged.
"Maybe most people still won't believe you. But these things, there's an ebb and a flow to them and you never know exactly what it is that's going to turn the tide. You have to start earning their trust somewhere and telling the truth is a start. Then even if they don't believe, later, when there's that inevitable moment where you're single-handedly saving the whole city from aliens or zombies or whatever supervillain is wreaking havoc -- when you're the one holding up a building so it doesn't fall on their heads -- that's when people start to believe in that truth. Not when you tell it, when you show them it's true. But you've still gotta tell it first."
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Oh yeah, she knew a lot about that.
"Telling the truth, huh?" The truth that she still got Peter Parker killed? That he died because he wanted to be like her? That he was the Lizard? They all loved Peter, they really did. Telling the truth would essentially be ruining everyone's idea of what Peter Parker was like. That he wasn't... the way everybody kept making him out to be.
"What if clearing my name comes at the expense of someone else's? What then?"
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"Depends on how much it'll ruin their life. If it's just making them look bad for something, then...then if they're a good person, they'll accept it's the right thing to do. If they're a good person they'll want it. If they'd rather sit back and let you take the blame, maybe they don't deserve that good name."
He suddenly looked thought, as he considered another option.
"And if they're someone that's already gone, it's the same. Either they were a good person and they'd want the truth to eventually come out. Or they weren't, and it should anyway."
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Peter idolized Spider-Woman and died because he wanted to be like her.
What would he... really have to say if he could see that his hero had become public menace #1?
"That's... a really good point to make."