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Jane Foster ([personal profile] ohmythor) wrote2012-05-17 04:16 pm

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[ It takes Jane a long while to settle down to this first ... whatever. Video? Journal entry? Something. She has clothes - not her own, but clothes nonetheless - and even a small bag of food, to take with her when she goes to find ... well. Someplace to stay. Stay, not live. This won't be home. It can't be.

She sighs heavily, puffing her cheeks out on a hard breath as she flips through the pages. An hour or two of reading have acquainted her with how the system works, as bizarre as it is. She sounds tired, when she speaks, a sort of bone weary ache. ]


Alright. So the journal is some sort of half-book half-iPad technomagical means of communicating, aaaaand this place gives you wings. [ A beat. ] There's a cheesy Red Bull ad in there somewhere, but I'm not going there.

[ A pause. Stay on track for three seconds, why don't you? ]

Sorry, I-- my name is Jane Foster. I'm a astrophysicist with SHIELD, if that means anything to anyone. Well, more like a researcher, but -- anyway. I just really hope that means something to someone. It'd be nice to at least -- I don't know. Have a familiar face from my own world. Or universe. I'm guessing universe.

[ Another pause, shorter. ] So how many versions of Earth are there, here? I'm going to guess at least a dozen. Maybe several dozen, who knows. And probably plenty of other worlds besides. From who knows how many different universes. And yet here we all are. [ She laughs, incredulous and kind of unhappy. ] This place is somehow the special one. I'd just -- love to know how they do it, really. Someone's going to tell me it's magic, and I just--

[ She finally stops, sighing again. ]

Sorry, sorry. Um -- hi. Nice to ... meet all of you, I guess.
selfhelp: ([billy] I'll text you)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2012-05-17 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ohgod, now SHIELD is here. Not that it seems like it'll even make a difference, in the end - since no one remembers what they're doing in his time - but. Cautious. Maybe a little cautious.

...Wait a second- Jane Foster? But that's... he thought she was a doctor, so this must be-

Another universe issue? Geez. Living here is way too complicated sometimes.]


I know about SHIELD- and you, kind of. We're probably from different versions of Earth, though.
selfhelp: ([billy] it's... kind of a brother thing)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2012-05-17 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Billy Kaplan. I'm, uh...

[...How does he even put this delicately.]

...if you're working for SHIELD, then you know Thor, right? And the Avengers? Maybe?
selfhelp: ([billy] he won't return my calls.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2012-05-17 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[He really should have expected that.]

I don't mind explaining everything. You want to meet? It's... kind of...

[It shouldn't matter- he keeps telling himself that. Here, it doesn't change anything.

But.]
selfhelp: ([billy] we do like him. sorta.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2012-05-17 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay, I don't mind. I trust you.

[His tone is earnest, like he has no reason not to. Alternate universe or not, the Jane Foster he knows - or has met - has been nothing but kind.]

I'm, uh, kind of underage though, so the bars are out. Anywhere else is fine.
selfhelp: ([billy] i'll handle this myself.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2012-05-17 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Plaza, got it. I'll be there soon.

[He only needs a minute to get there - "IwanttobeintheschoolIwanttobeintheschool..." - and then he's wandering over to the fountain, trying not to look as awkward as he feels. It's still weird, being kind of... open about his identity, otherwise he could have teleported right to her. Still, considering how she, or her other self, have helped the Secret Avengers, this is a very small gesture to repay her.]
hisdarkmark: (I know more than I let on)

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[personal profile] hisdarkmark 2012-05-17 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Chatty, aren't you. [It's kind of hilarious actually.]

You'd be correct in guessing at least a dozen. I've stopped keep track myself.
dragoneer: (Ayyup.)

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[personal profile] dragoneer 2012-05-17 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
To be honest, Iiii wouldn't be surprised if there are twice that many versions of Earth. And more. [And yet, still no other vikings, sob.] But, uh...welcome, and all that.
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[personal profile] arcinvent 2012-05-17 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice to meet you too. [Yeesh this girl can say a mouthful. SHIELD, huh? He's never heard of it, but it sounds intriguing.] Don't know how many versions there are, but this place is a collection of characters Ms. Foster. I'm one of them - Howard Stark, at your service.
fleurdesel: left, smile, smirk, confused, sarcastic (The punchline is...?)

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[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-05-17 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I've counted at least twenty, and after that I decided further examination on the subtle and not so subtle variations between versions would prove to be maddening. Especially since a proper comparison of their histories is nigh impossible with the reference texts provided.
fleurdesel: right, confused, sarcastic (This is my innocent face)

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[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-05-17 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
History textbooks, encyclopedias, etcetera. The Library here brings books from everyone's world when they arrive; sometimes they are useful. Sometimes they are not.

[She does blink a bit across the feed to the other woman. Something familiar in her face, but she doesn't know exactly-

...oh.

Merde.]
fleurdesel: left, smile, smirk, flirty, serious (Let me be)

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[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-05-18 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Just. Play it calm. It's an entirely different woman, after all. She'll have to make a note to warn Luke and Anakin, though. Damn.]

It does, but only published works tend to make their way there. Personal journals will appear in the item store, either upon your arrival or some time after. I am still waiting on a few items of my own.
selfhelp: ([billy] it's... kind of a brother thing)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2012-05-18 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
[He waves back, stopping a few feet away and scuffing a hand awkwardly through his hair.]

Yeah, that's me. Nice to meet you, Miss Foster.

[She looks different, but not by much- younger, for one, a bit less stern. But then, the last time he'd seen her, she'd been treating super heroes and teenagers who'd been tortured in the middle of a pointless war. She was probably (understandably) stressed for very different reasons.]
selfhelp: ([billy] yeah okay whatever.)

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[personal profile] selfhelp 2012-05-18 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
[...Jane Foster just asked him to call her Jane.

Um. Wow. Okay.]


R-right. Uh... I guess we could go to the restaurant. Are you hungry? I haven't had lunch, so.

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