but i'm fine not playing welcome committee to every single variation of someone we know from back home who's unfortunate enough to show up here. i'm also pretty sure i'm the last person anyone wants to see first thing.
well, yeah, there is bound to be differences. i mean, if we look at stephen, just by his physical appearance and personality alone, he isn't the doctor strange i know. it's pretty safe to surmise that their experiences are going to differ from ours. their relationship and dynamic with each other aren't going to match up with what we're familiar with.
they might share a name and they might have similar traits, but at the core of it, they aren't them. they're pretty much strangers and we can't view them as the same natasha romanova and stephen strange from our earth.
if we widen the scope, there is a possibility that their world might not even follow the same historical, societal or cultural foundation as ours. their technological advancements could either be way ahead of ours or decades behind.
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[ but unsurprisingly, he has a pretty good idea of which new arrivals barnes is here to talk to him about. ]
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i just haven't gone out of my way to reach out for a tête-à-tête
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[ But maybe for Tony Star, there is. ]
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but i'm fine not playing welcome committee to every single variation of someone we know from back home who's unfortunate enough to show up here. i'm also pretty sure i'm the last person anyone wants to see first thing.
[ he's doing them a favor, really. ]
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But I figure I can't avoid it, anyway.
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do it when you're ready
given the circumstances, i think it's pretty fair to say that it isn't gonna be as simple as ripping off a bandaid
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Yeah.
The circumstances.
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do you want to talk about it?
i sometimes find it helps to bounce my thoughts off with someone
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Except she'd say it a lot different.
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it's also not an answer
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How much do you know about their universe?
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i've never talked about it with stephen
our worlds
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But you can tell, a lot must be different.
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they might share a name and they might have similar traits, but at the core of it, they aren't them. they're pretty much strangers and we can't view them as the same natasha romanova and stephen strange from our earth.
if we widen the scope, there is a possibility that their world might not even follow the same historical, societal or cultural foundation as ours. their technological advancements could either be way ahead of ours or decades behind.
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Her username is romanoff.
[ Not that this is necessarily one of those changes. It's really the same name. But probably good information to have. ]
The war was different, too. At least my part of it.
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war?
[ don't tell him that it's that war. ]
forget it
i don't want to know
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But I've talked with my opposite number.
He's older than I am.
[ But maybe only in the technical sense. ]
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but since they're on the subject, he doesn't mind limiting it to bucky's role in it at the very least. ]
how was it different for your part in it?
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He was Steve's best friend, growing up.
I wasn't.
[ But that kind of thing makes you rethink your whole life, set it in a different frame. ]
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talk about mixed signals, but he's almost relieved by the realization that this is about wwii. ]
really?
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does that bother you?
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