video; un:marvelgirl

[iseegoblins]

[ The face that comes on video is a young woman with fiery red hair and a tired looking smile. She's doing her best to try to keep it all together given the circumstances here and the circumstances she left back home. ]

So, uh, hi. My name is Jean Grey. I've also gone by Marvel Girl and Phoenix more recently but...[ she shrugs and chuckles ] not really sure what the point in keeping superhero codenames would be in a place like this. Just Jean seems pretty good to me.

[ She waves a hand. ] Anyway, I've been trying to get to know people. I'm used to living in a school with a lot of people I know. They're loud sometimes but, I dunno, I guess it's different when you know them. I had a question though, to try to get to know people better. Where I come from it's not uncommon for people to have special gifts. What I wanted to ask is, how common is that where you're all from? And if you're comfortable saying, how many of you have gifts? I'll understand if anyone isn't that comfortable talking about their own, where I'm from it's also super common for humans to hate people with abilities. So, no worries if you don't want to talk about it and thank you to anyone that does.

Comments

[idontgetpaid]

A little bit. But he's working hard and doing his best. That's all anyone can really ask for, right?

[iseegoblins]

Sometimes it's all anyone can really do. I think it says a lot about a person if they at least try to do that much.

[idontgetpaid]

[ He nods. ] Yeah. I'm sure he appreciates hearing that, though.

[ He's hoping he's not being too obvious right now. ]

[iseegoblins]

Yeah? Well, that's good. I'd kinda like to meet him.

[idontgetpaid]

Well, uh... [ Does he mention it? Well, she might see him around anyway. ]

He actually showed up here a while ago. Goes by Arachnid these days, because there'd been another...another Spider-Man, so he wanted to make it less confusing. But you might catch him around sometime.

[iseegoblins]

Arachnid. I'll keep that in mind. I kinda made things rough for the one where I'm from once. So, I guess maybe I owe something to other Spider-Men on his behalf.

[idontgetpaid]

Really? How so? What happened? [ He can't help being curious. ]

[iseegoblins]

Oh. Uh....well. [ She should not have mentioned this. ] I kind of swapped him with someone. If I had any idea he'd have been the one I totally wouldn't have done it.

[idontgetpaid]

Swapped him? How?

[iseegoblins]

Uh, his mind. With someone else's. I meant to swap someone else but he kinda accidentally got involved.

[idontgetpaid]

...to be honest, I can totally imagine him accidentally getting involved.

[ That just seemed to be typical Peter, no matter what dimension he was from. ]

Though you were able to switch them back at least, right?

[iseegoblins]

It wasn't his fault. It was the fault of the person I swapped him with. See I wanted to swap him with the place he'd least like to be in the entire world. I had no idea it'd be him.

But yeah, I definitely got them swapped back. I unfortunately think he had a worse time than the one I actually wanted to punish. Think it may have made him dislike us all a bit.

[idontgetpaid]

[ Honestly, that still doesn't really surprise him. That still sounds like Peter's luck. ]

Yeah, that's too bad. Hopefully he wasn't too mad about it, since it was an accident.

[ Though he could understand how that might have left a bad impression. ]

[iseegoblins]

[ The one constant in the multiverse: Peter's have bad luck. ]

I think the fact that he ended up in jail kinda made him a bit mad. More than a bit.

[idontgetpaid]

...yeah, that'd probably do it. [ He'd probably be mad about it too, honestly. ]

[iseegoblins]

Yeah...mistakes were made.

[idontgetpaid]

I mean, it happens. Hopefully things will work out better between you guys.

[ He doesn't know what it's like for the other Peter, but he can only think that working with other heroes would be a good thing. Hopefully they could all put their differences aside. ]

[iseegoblins]

Thanks. I hope so too. Mutants need more friends and less enemies.

[idontgetpaid]

I think if anyone could understand that, it'd be Spider-Man.

[ Even if it...takes him a while to get over being mad. ]