Gone through this before

[deafleppard]

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.

Comments

[iamresponding]

"That's a shame. Sounds like he's crooked in your universe. In mine, he wouldn't be caught dead working for Fisk. There were even rumors for a while that he was Daredevil -- and Daredevil and Fisk are archenemies, everyone knows that."

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."

[deafleppard]

"I like the guy already." And Daredevil had a nice to ring to it. "Too bad mine's cozied up really nice to Fisk." That's how it usually went in the Multiverse, right? Different versions of the same person. Heroes and crooks would be flipped around, and so would the ones that are supposed to be alive and dead.

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?"

[iamresponding]

Rich mulled it over.

"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."

[deafleppard]

It was a case of the last one, for her. Peter was already dead but still very much actively influencing her life. And there was the part where she practically thought about him every day. He brought up a good point, though.

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."