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[furibund]

Who: nebula & you
When: post event 18
Where: solvunn, horizon
What: may-june catch all
Warnings: None intended but it's Nebula. Mentions of past trauma/non-consensual body modifications/child abuse are always possible (but will be warned for).

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[furibund]

Not surprised. [ She stars offhandedly, ] The only reasons Terrans got further than their moon recently is because we helped.

[ It's the truth as she knows it, though she doesn't know the Skrull had been on Earth even longer... But same difference, Terrans haven't advanced that far. ]

[ For a moment she takes a drink instead of responding, thinking before huffing out: ]

Even if it was personal, not like this place doesn't dump you into whatever Horizon it wants. [ Which is probably part of why she doesn't like it, ] You can take a look around, you won't find much.

[ Anything personal she means.]

[sophos]

No one's really gotten past the moon yet back home. There's the International Space Station, but it circulates the Earth and doesn't go far out there.

[ she's not sure she likes the sound of that, but she did end up here almost at random herself. annabeth files it away as a note on creating her own domain in the horizon and the struggle to go hog-wild versus keep her privacy. ]

I never really expected to be in a spacecraft of any kind. Is it.. yours? Like, are personal space ships normal for you?

[furibund]

Your planet has a long way to go before it'll be making jumps across the universe.

[ Mildly as she shifts her position to step back from the overlooking area with a shrug. ]

Sure, personal crafts aren't unusual. M-Ships like this one are the standard for solo travelers. Cost a helluva lot of units to get one.

[ Or you steal it. ] This one was "mine," but it was destroyed years ago.

[sophos]

No arguments there.

[ she's not sure she'll even live long enough to see that, but that's all the more reason her interest is piqued by all the space people she keeps encountering in abraxas. she's just trying to be cool about it. ]

Cars back home can get pretty expensive, or so I've been told. [ annabeth chase does not know how to drive at all yet, she has no sense of car cost! she can hop on a pegasus and get anywhere. why does she need a car. the teenage desire to drive simply is not in her. ]

[ there's something sentimental to be said for remaking a lost vehicle in the horizon, but annabeth isn't going to call nebula out on it. ] And they can all travel far distances?

[furibund]

[ The idea "cars can be pretty expensive," in fact sounds like a joke to Nebula. Her mouth twitches like she wants to say something on the matter - that they're better off walking. She doesn't, if only because she tries to stay her tongue. ]

[ Even if she thinks really hard that those pieces of shit aren't worth ten units, and instead just answers the question. ]

Not all. Some ships are made for planetary work or short distances. No sense in a work ship being able to do jumps like a cargo ship would.

[sophos]

[ listen... she is a seventeen year old with a much more limited perspective on the real life mortal world, thanks to all the time she spends at a camp for demigods. and she spends a lot of time in new york city, where a car isn't even always necessary! maybe they ARE junk. maybe they're not. but it's her only vehicular comparison. ]

That makes sense. I guess in my head I hear 'spaceship' and I just assume it can travel across space - but different cultures and worlds would adapt to transport with variety, especially if space travel is an influence already.

[furibund]

[ It being most Earthlings only source of transportation is exactly why she doesn't say anything. :( Poor Earthlings, they're so primitive... only an alien made up largely of technology can think that and she does. ]

There's land crafts that don't enter space. [ She amends. ] What I meant is there are some ships that are made to go small distances in space or work on planets that have been mined. Like Knowhere.

[sophos]

[ whoops, sorry, time for her to ramble. ] Yeah, I figured that was what you meant - I meant it more like, maybe those land crafts are inspired in design just by the knowledge that space travel is possible? So they're all called ships.

Cars designed back home are just for land. Space ships have only been around for just over half a century.

[ a beat. ] Is Knowhere a planet?

[furibund]

It's all semantics. [ She shrugs off, ] Different planets, different names. All of them are vehicular transportation.

[ Said in the way of: It's not that deep. ]



It's the head of a dead god.

[sophos]

[ she purses her lips. it COULD be that deep!! ] It's interesting to think about. The world around us influences infrastructure patterns.

[ surprise, nebula, the architecture and design nerd part of her was real all along. ]

[ annabeth's mouth opens in mild surprise over head of a dead god, and she allows it to sink in for a moment or two before her jaw sort of tightens. maybe it would be stranger if she hadn't spent weeks crawling across the body of tartarus. ]

You have gods in your universe? [ she pauses. ] That's not disbelief. They're real for me too.

[furibund]

People create things based on their needs. Not that weird.

[ It's said less condescendingly than it sounds - That gruff voice rising just a touch in octave, brows pinched together. The half turn of her head matched with a lower frown as if to say: Is it that interesting? ]

[ At least her own statement lends to some confusion - shock? - from Annabeth. She lets out a breath that's more of a noise, ]

The universe is a vast place. There are men capable of creating planets and people through science who will liken themselves to gods. There are beings called Celestials who form around a world, like Nowhere once was. [ She scoffs, finally, breath irritable: ] And then there are idiots like Thor.

[sophos]

I didn't say it was weird. I like figuring that kind of stuff out.

[ she thinks it's interesting, and as far as annabeth is concerned, that's all that matters. ]

[ she does sort of nod along as nebula explains her universe. if she was home, maybe she'd be more disbelieving, or question it further - but given she is now currently in another magic universe, accepting these things at face value has gotten easier. ]

Thor's a Norse god back home. The Greek gods are real, and so are the Egyptians... I suppose maybe other pantheons might be too. [ in which annabeth has yet to confront her cousin and his norse nonsense yet. ] So does Knowhere... look like a head?

[ yeah that's where her wonderment lies. ]

[furibund]

I don't know much about Terran gods.

[ An explanation? Or perhaps a pointed response - She has little interest in them if they're anything like Thor was. Or Ego. She's found Gods or so-call-would-be gods are irritating... She tries not to think of the life they had before. ]

If there's a Thor then I imagine it's inevitable all of those are present too. Some gods, since he's the only one who showed up when the fate of the universe was at stake.

[ The one compliment she'll give him: At least he showed up. ]

Yes, it's a dilapidated skull. It was mined to hell and back for its organic material.

[sophos]

I've never met a Thor like I've met the Greeks, but the world is big. [ it's fine, nebula. lately, annabeth finds that sometimes she doesn't have much interest in the god goings on anymore either. ]

[ as for saving the universe... ] That sounds about right. The gods usually leave that up to their kids.

[ she could do the natural follow up and compare it to tartarus, and the way its body birthed the monsters as its own kind of living organic material, but she doesn't ever really want to talk about tartarus. ]

Did they at least wait for it to die before they mined it...?

[furibund]

Count yourself lucky.

[ In not having to meet Thor, she means. Look you can help save the universe with the guy and still be annoyed af about everything. He never really became a member of the Guardians. ]

As far as I'm aware none of the Avengers were their children.

[ Even Peter who was by all aproximations a demigod. Currently? Formerly? She doesn't know. It doesn't matter, just like the rest doesn't so she shrugs. ]

Hell if I should know, I wasn't even born. Knowing some parts of the universe, maybe not.

[sophos]

Honestly? I do. I'm a little at my god limit.

[ she's met so many. probably more than most demigods. the difference between how she feels about meeting a god now versus how she would have reacted at ten feels so stark. ]

Greek gods run around having kids with mortals all the time, so there's a decent number of us.

[ just casually including herself in that. it's fine, they all spent time as gods. ]

[ she makes a face. ] I promise I'm trying not to ask fifty questions about this but - do you know what they mined? Like what kind of resources comes from a dead god's head?

[furibund]

Clearly not enough if the Avengers had to protect their planet.

[ It's a statement versus a dig, but unfortunately most things sound the same coming from Nebula. For better or worse. At the very least, of course Riordan Demigods couldn't protect from Avenger threats- because the Avengers were a fandom there. Oop. ]

Anything they could use. It can be used as a power source or to make stronger weapons.

[sophos]

These Avengers didn't protect my planet. I did.

[ she might be wary of being called on all the time to play hero, but it doesn't mean she will ignore what she's done already. annabeth is a hero, she refuses to deny it - she's just tired. ]

But I know they're different universes, and different rules.

[ she wrinkles her nose, but then nods. ] Sounds like collective mining experience. I guess I was just curious what makes for a popular resource in space.

[furibund]

No one said you didn't.

[ Though she, admittedly, doubts it was as massive as Thanos wiping out half of all living things. She is somehow (?) polite (?) enough to not say that. ]

By my universe's rules the only god that showed up was Thor. No Greeks.

[ She's like 98% sure. And she barely counts Thors. ]

The universe is driven by power. Money, position, or material. Doesn't matter. You'd be surprised how little changes from planet to planet. Even on the most advanced ones.