Third Floor Common Room, Late Saturday Night

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It had been a terribly long day, but Eleanor couldn't sleep. The excitement from traveling five time zones and four decades, perhaps, or the nervous energy from not being on the run for the first time in days. She wasn't sure how to relax, and had wandered into some sort of communal space.

She hadn't watched television in years, although she hadn't realized the surface had quite so many channels. There had to be something on, with this many channels, didn't there?

And so, it was around midnight, and Eleanor Lamb was watching a program quite inexplicably titled OCTO ER. It seemed to be fashioned around the lives and times of a number of cepholopods working in a deep marine emergency room, though the plot seemed less concerned with medical emergencies than it did which octopodes were having carnal relations with each other.

Octopodes? Octopi? Maybe she'd wait for the show to mention it, and see which term was canonical.

(SO SO OPEN. Someone teach this girl that soapy dramas require popcorn! OCTO ER 4EVA. Idea hatched from a particularly hilarious typo to furnaceface back in, erm, October.)

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[genesishero]

"Well, if the first day in a new place isn't cause for a special treat, I don't know what is," Evan reasoned, pulling out the butter and checking the expiry date, just to be sure.

One could never be too careful when living out of a communal fridge.

"So, you grew up on a space station? Are you from the future, then? Or a world like mine where that kind of thing just sometimes happens?"

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker facepalmed. "Well, I'm from the year 2171 -- uh, 2. If you want to call that 'the future', I guess I'm not going to be able to stop you. I've given up hope of things making sense today." He gave Evan a weak smile and shrugged.

A few seconds later, a flash of recollection showed on his face. "Hold on, there were totally space stations in twenty-whatever!" he insisted, half-convinced he'd caught on to a flaw in the "we're all living in the past" argument. "Mir was built in nineteen somethingty-something!"

[genesishero]

Evan blinked, and then he laughed and shook his head.

"Yeah, but it wasn't like Mir had more than three people on it at a time. And they took it out of commission in 2001. About the biggest deal we have going on right now is Curiosity, roaming around on Mars, and that only landed in 2012. We've got a long way to go before humans are being born outside of Earth's atmosphere. I mean, for the most part. Like I said, my world's a little different from here."

More Skrulls, for one.

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Right." History wasn't Joker's strong suit.

"...So, YOUR world is...?"

Regardless of whether or not he believed Evan, he was interested in hearing the story. Also, he was multitasking, so there was now a glowing three-dimensional model of Curiosity and paragraphs of accompanying text floating in the air above his wrist.

[genesishero]

"Exactly the same thing as this Earth, but with super powers, way more aliens just casually walking around, and gods."

... Okay, so it was a loose use of the word 'casually,' but there were at least two aliens in the Jean Grey School student body alone, so he was going to use it.

"Also 2014."

He tilted his head as he looked at the glowing model. Okay, that was a neat little device.

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Aliens walking around, Joker was fine with. The rest... well, he could discuss the matter theoretically. It was easier than trying to process it all.

"Okay, so here's the thing I've never really understood, from comic books," he said. "If you've got people with superpowers, and you've got aliens with superpowers, and you've got people from different dimensions with superpowers -- how are those different from 'gods'? Isn't it just semantics, at that point?"

[genesishero]

"Kind of, actually, yeah. The Asgardians let people keep calling them gods, since they've been around so long and have worked their way into human culture and myth, but they're mostly just aliens, too." There was a pause, and then Evan grinned a little. "You could ask Loki or Thor about how it really works. Loki's a student here, and Thor's one of the teachers."

Take that, non-believer!

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Loki and Thor. Really? Like, complete with hammer? I... have no response for that."

[genesishero]

"Well, I don't know if he takes Mjolnir to class," Evan replied, shrugging. "I never really thought to look for it. Though I suppose it would be difficult to miss."