[video] the spider-teen has questions

[thismaskismybadge]

[ 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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[voice]

[changechild]

[shyly:]

My teacher has visited other planes before, multiple times. She... knows a way to let one project into another reality and inhabit a copy of their body made of its substance, but nothing can be moved from one plane to the other, and the return is perilous to the inexperienced.

But she was also moved physically without making an effort of her own will, as well, a few times.

[thismaskismybadge]

Projecting between dimensions, huh. I know someone who can do that, but for her it's all technology.

[ Shout-out to Margo. ]

Definitely seems to be a theme of people getting transported without their say so. Guess I shouldn't be surprised. This is just... different. Than how I've usually seen it work.

[ Holes in the multiverse are kind of the entire problem the Society was dealing with, after all, but that's not what she's been hearing. ]

[changechild]

There are many ways. I believe some are... more permeable? than others are. But, I have little understanding of such things.

[Need knows more but Need is Too Paranoid to just talk to people right now, and it's not really important enough to just tell Nyara and have her relay.]

Will you tell me of how it usually works for you?

[thismaskismybadge]

Well, in my experience, usually if you're tumbling face first into a new universe, you've been pulled through a weird portal thing. It's like falling through a really strange, glowy hole you can't climb out of. Which obviously, how we arrived here super wasn't that.

If we're travelling on purpose, [ she holds up her wrist with Hobie's bootleg multiversal gizmo on it ] we use gizmos like this. Key in the universe signature, open up a portal, and travel with a bit more dignity.

[changechild]

I see... that is very dramatic. My teacher told me, when a traveler projects herself elsewhere she sees a kind of doorway to step through but it is a construction for the mind. The body remains as if in deep sleep.

I am hoping I am fully here. I was... it would go poorly, I think, if it is otherwise.

[thismaskismybadge]

I bet you are. I think what happened here is totally different than anything we're used to, in our own universes. All that stuff about belief... us being here is a quirk of this dimension, not any of ours.

[changechild]

Yes. I suppose something good is due to happen.

[This is a dour sort of joke. Nyara knows she's on the pessimistic side.]

-oh, my name is Nyara. I am sorry, I should have begun with it.

[thismaskismybadge]

[ There's a grim little laugh, there. ] Yeah, I feel that.

[ It's been one thing after another for a while now and the cheerful, quippy Spider-Woman face is often just as much a mask as the actual physical mask. ]

Nyara, got it. Don't worry, I once failed so badly at introducing myself I called myself Gwanda to a boy's face. Forgetting for a second's got nothing on that.