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[vestments]

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[vestments]

You don't feel like you do that now?

[redhourglass]

figure i’m not the best judge of that

[vestments]

I didn't ask if you succeed at it, I asked how you feel about it.

Which tells me 'no'. You don't think you do.

[redhourglass]

never took you for a shrink

i think there is always more that can be done

[vestments]

Hardly. But I've spent a lot of time around them.

Pragmatic. ( avoidance. )

me squinting and declaring this massive thread pre- canon update

[redhourglass]

if the time heist ( wince — that had NOT been her name idea ) works then maybe i can call it even

if we bring everyone back

agreed fam wheezes

[vestments]

"Time Heist"?

( like he can say anything about names. )

[redhourglass]

( yeah, she should have known he wasn’t going to let that one slide. )

that was the ant guy’s idea

( h e a v y sigh )

we … built a time machine (yes, really)
to go back and gather the infinity stones

[vestments]

Oh.

I time travelled with the WCA once.

[redhourglass]

( who are the — oh. ‘west coast avengers’. so weird. )

clint and i are taking on the soul stone
then the idea is to ‘un-snap’ people

half of life in the universe, poofed back into existence

( a good enough deed by anyone’s accounting )

[vestments]

He time travels a lot for a guy with no powers.

Gamora tried to use that once to ( wait, he wasn't actually paying any attention to what was going on, he'd only turned up because spider-man had asked—. ) change the universe.

( anyway. )

Where I'm from, the Avengers don't often lose.
I can't imagine it's too different anywhere else.

[redhourglass]

how’d it work out for her?

not sure there are enough of us around where i’m from to really be called the avengers anymore
and we did lose
badly

[vestments]

The Guardians of the Galaxy stopped her, with the help of the Avengers.

( hmm— )

Did I tell you I defeated the Avengers once?

[redhourglass]

i must have missed that story
what happened?

[vestments]

Khonshu.
Convinced me that the only way to stop Mephisto was for him to rule Earth, and so I did what I could - what I'm good at - to make that a reality.
Iron Fist. T'Challa. Dr. Strange.

Everyone I called friend.

I won.
It didn't last.
I've yet to hear of a case where it does.

God or no God.

[redhourglass]

khonshu sounds like an asshole

( she’s allowed to say that, right? )

is this your way of encouraging me?

[vestments]

He is.

...Yes.

[redhourglass]

i can't decide if it's working or not

[vestments]

That's better than a definitive 'it's not'.

[redhourglass]

i think it's a 'keep practicing'

( and... )

thanks
for the attempt

[vestments]

It's not something I've had to do often.

( ... )

You're welcome.