006: Audio

[unknownmoirai]

Oh um... hello everyone.

I apologize. I haven't... exactly done this before. I am... that is... people call me Inësa. I've been here for a little while and I wasn't sure what I wanted to do here but I think I've figured it out. I'd like to open a small shop and make clothes.

[She pauses and then continues.]

I can design them based off of a description or simply mend clothes for right now. It will be a slow start but Gyda is going to assist me. She also likes sewing.

I have some sketches of some idea's. If anyone is interested. Please let me know.

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[doubled_speed]

Plenty of people have held family against Billy and me so yeah, it happens. Not that anyone would hold me responsible for his because everyone knows he is better and could stop anything I do but not vice verse. So whatever on that.

And yeah it’s a complex. Maybe you’re better in some ways, but not in others. Tech ain’t everything. Knee can’t even kick the Avenger’s ass when it isn’t even a full team against supposedly overwhelming odds. Being young doesn’t make us below you. It makes us flexible.

[garbagemarvel]

Tommy, you are missing the point entirely.

[and wow is this conversation giving him a headache. not even dealing with loki was this much of a pain in the ass.]

I am not your enemy, and I find your insistence on acting as if I am very confusing. But if you’re really this bothered by the fact that I was placed in the same room as you, I’ll speak to whoever is in charge about reassignment.

[and if his tone is a little sharper than normal - well, nobody enjoys rejection, right? that’s basically what this feels like.]

Private Audio

[doubled_speed]

[Not the enemy? He has, like, a momentary glimpse from a party going from him. He doesn’t know Noh-Varr. He doesn’t really know that trusting him is that easy. Still, he does get the value of private conversations. And he does transfer to a filtered line of whatever. Him and his housemate.]

Dude if you were the enemy I would have punched you by now. Owe you a few for what those pricks at the Cube did to Billy and Teddy. But being a Young Avenger is about being given a second chance sometimes. And being a side character in the drama of Billy Kaplan but hat is something else. If all you explained about the past however long is true, and I don’t see why you’d lie, then you’re team. And teams share space sometimes. Ain’t worse than the time I crashed on Kate’s couch for a while.

Just don’t think you get to hog the bed, just because you’re bigger. And no bringing hookups home.

[garbagemarvel]

[he’d like to argue once again that what he’d previously done to billy and teddy while under the thumb of the cube’s warden was not really his fault - brainwashing negates free will, after all - but noh goes momentarily quiet over that last stipulation tommy issues.]

You needn’t worry about that, [he says, much more subdued than he’d been.] My last relationship ended quite recently, and badly. [and it was his fault, which complicates things even further.] I don’t think I’m ready to make another attempt, and I have no interest in “hooking up” in the interim.

[doubled_speed]

[Maybe he isn't the smartest of the Young Avengers, especially with David and Noh-Varr among their numbers now. But he thinks fast and that means he can put everything he knows together rather quickly.]

She's amazing, right? And when you lose her, it sorta hurts. Not that I'm saying I hurt when she broke up with me, that's totally not what happened. At all. But yeah. I can see how that would be bad. And difficult. Sorry about the kissing her at the thing. I didn't know. Sorta awkward I guess.

[garbagemarvel]

There’s no need to be sorry.

[he just said he didn’t know, right? so it’s not tommy’s fault.]

I wasn’t aware that you had previously dated Kate. She never mentioned it.

I don’t know if bursting his bubble is good or not

[doubled_speed]

Of course she didn’t mention it. It would be like Sonny mentioning Cher to the next person he dated. Too intimidating to have to measure up to me. But then again she probably didn’t mention Eli either.

[Totally didn’t get mentioned just because Kate is a private person, yanno? That’s all. Obviously.]

Fuck our team needs to lay off the intra-team dating. Clearly Billy and Teddy is the only combo that works and that one is scary how easy they get on and always have.

guess we’re gonna find out 🤷🏻‍♀️

[garbagemarvel]

Billy and Teddy broke up while you were gone.

Re: guess we’re gonna find out 🤷🏻‍♀️

[doubled_speed]

...

That sounds like such a lie that it is pretty unbelievable.

[garbagemarvel]

It is no lie. It was temporary, but a definite breakup. Teddy even relocated to Texas for a while.

[doubled_speed]

But... but those idiots are made for each other!

[And there he hits upon the problem doesn’t he?]

[garbagemarvel]

That was the issue at hand. Both of them had the idea that Billy may have accidentally wished Teddy into existence, using magic.

[doubled_speed]

I mean...

Nah. Billy isn’t creative enough to come up with Teddy. Stupid shit.

[garbagemarvel]

It’s not about creativity - it’s about desire. The concern was that Billy’s unconscious desires may have shaped Teddy’s existence.

[doubled_speed]

Huh. I mean, reality-warping does a lot of things, but mostly it seems like he only does things when he wants them, so I'm again not buying it.

Seriously, that would be mean, and rude. And Billy isn't those things. He's almost sickeningly good and pure. And if his powers could do that we'd have Eli and Cassie and Vision back.

[Or maybe that's just Tommy's desires. But he's not the one with powers.]

[garbagemarvel]

I agree - Billy has a good heart, and I tried to convince him and Teddy that their fears were unfounded. But I suppose they needed to arrive at that conclusion on their own.

[doubled_speed]

Why do they have to make things hard with so much thinking?

[garbagemarvel]

I don’t think any of this would have been made less difficult by not thinking. In fact, that’s basically what started these misadventures in the first place.

[doubled_speed]

Misadventures is right. Not an adventure, or party, without me.