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[st_ormbreaker]

Lara?

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Friend of Kitty's. Girlfriend, from the look of it.

[st_ormbreaker]

So she went back and then came back?


Do you think she remembered any of this while she was there?

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That's what it sounds like?

[st_ormbreaker]

Then that confirms that things might be able to be changed.

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Maybe! There's still a lot we don't know.

[st_ormbreaker]

A maybe is still better than a flat-out "No, I don't!".

Do you and your friend come from the same time?

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Close enough to count. Within a few days of each other, I think.

[st_ormbreaker]

My friends and I are considerably more spread out. Two of them are from shortly after I left Earth about two years ago. The Spider-Boy and Tony about a half-year or so. Quill, Valkyrie and my brother and I are all from the same month.

I don't know if you've seen her, but Valkyrie is my Lieutenant. She was promoted to the position a few weeks before I arrived here.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

I've seen her, yes.

That must be very confusing and frustrating for all of you.

[st_ormbreaker]

Trust me, it is.

I go off into space for two years and Tony and Steve fight and break up the Avengers. It's like "I just left you alone for five minutes!", you know?

Then Steve doesn't even know about this fight and Tony very much remembers this fight and I'm just sitting here like "I really don't want to choose sides here, but some things that were done in my absence sound pretty screwed up."

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I'm sorry. It's terrible, being torn between people you care about.

[st_ormbreaker]

They're both idiots, but loveable ones. It was probably far harder for Tony than it was for me. For me it was "yay, reunion!" until Tony filled me in.

A lot of things might have gone differently if either one of them would have had enough humility to openly make nice with the other.

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I know if Banner and I were there, none of that ridiculousness would have happened.

Well.

It might have happened, but the Avengers wouldn't have split over it.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

A lot can happen in two years. That's a long time for people.

[st_ormbreaker]

I guess for humans, yes, but not for Asgardians. You'd think two years would be plenty of time for them to make nice again. I guess not.

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Not that I know what happened, but humans can also stay pissed at each other over the dumbest shit until the day they die. Staying angry is less work than making nice, or at least we fool ourselves into thinking that.

[st_ormbreaker]

I do not disagree with that. They've at least talked a few times since Rogers' arrival, so maybe Steve will rethink everything that led to that particular fight to begin with and there won't have ever been a schism among the Avengers to begin with.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

Maybe. But then how would Tony remember it to talk about it?

[st_ormbreaker]

Probably because upon coming here we created divergent timelines.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

This shit is weird.

[st_ormbreaker]

It is. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it.

[st_rikingblueeyes]

How does your head not hurt constantly?

[st_ormbreaker]

I've been told my head is rather thick.

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Fair enough!