[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. ]

Comments

[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.