longestnight | [video] the spider-teen has questions

[ Now she's out of her suit, Gwen is wearing a sweater that's visibly hanging off her shoulders to show the straps of the tank underneath, and some leggings. She is, however, still wearing her web-shooters and her dud of a multiverse-traversing watch on her wrists alongside the magic watch. ]

Hi, I'm Gwen. Otherwise known as Spider-Woman, but, well, you don't have to call me that. [ beat, visible thought, ] Probably don't, actually, it'd be kind of weird when you already know my real name.

Anyway.

I'm just, you know. [ she shrugs ] Curious. About a couple things. First, how many people here have done the whole multiverse song and dance before? Because there's at least a few of you, I know that.

Second, do like. Any of you that aren't Spider-Man yourself, or Loki who's already kinda answered this one, have a superhero called Spider-something in your world? Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Spider-Girl, Spider— any noun, really. We get a lot of variety, if I tried to list even the most common ones we'd be here all day.

[ Call it her testing a theory. She's got some thoughts swirling around up in that head of hers. ]

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[ Tim's fiddling with some of the yeti tools that he convinced one of them to let him borrow. Really, he's just relieved to be normal-sized again. ]

Hey, Gwen. I'm Tim Drake. Also known as ... a few other things, which I'm trying to get over being a secret. So, Robin, Red Robin, and Rook. Traditional mask-no-mask rules apply.

[ No sense in hiding it, really, given what the other former campers remember. There's still a sense of wrongness to saying it outloud. ]

I've done the multiverse song-and-dance. By my count, which could be under but not over, this is the 9th, and that's not counting pocket universes and previous iterations of my own world. So I've been to worlds that have Spiders and Lokis, but they're not native to mine. Well - we might have a Loki, but he's not doing the green halberd gold horns mage routine.

From what a Loki once told me, the Spiders and Lokis section of the multiverse doesn't overlap with the Supers and Bats.

Edited 2023-09-02 16:29 (UTC)

Yeah, I feel you there. [ being open about being Spider-Woman around anyone but other Spiders doesn't feel natural, exactly, but it also feels pointless to bother with secret identities right now ] I might've approached things differently if I hadn't turned up in all my gear to the middle of a fight.

I've been to a couple dozen dimensions at least, but before this, they were all other Spiders' dimensions. And only once was caused by outside factors. Supervillain scientists, gotta love 'em.

[ Can you feel the sarcasm? ]

That's interesting, though. And something I was kinda wondering about. In our corner of the multiverse, we see a lot of remixes of the same kind of thing, right? Clearly, you all exist, but it's like you said. No overlap.

Turning up in all your gear in the middle of a fight kind of forces the issue. You can either live in a mask indefinitely and let the adhesive ruin your skin because it’s not made for constant use. Or this, which is awkward, but I got used to the team knowing my name. Give it a few more weeks. It’ll feel normal.

Yeah - almost all of them I’ve been to or met people from are remixes. The only thing I can think of is that our universes must have diverged tens of thousands of years ago, if not earlier. I wonder if it predates Vandal Savage, or maybe he’s the issue.

Ugh, and mine's a full-face mask. That would have been so uncomfortable. Sure, it's breathable enough for a night out in the city, but long term that would have sucked. I probably would've had to give up based on that alone.

Vandal Savage?

Domino here. Any more coverage than that, and there's a cowl involved because I don't even want to know how much alcohol you need to get a full ace worth of adhesive off.

He's ... huh. Trying to think of how to explain someone that's always been. I don't know his exact age - not even sure he does. But imagine someone who's been human since before humans, and the impact they'd have over the human race. Especially once that neat civilization idea kicked off - and he's the one that started it.