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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).

Feel free to make up your own prompts/adust as needed/wildcard/or reach out to plot with me! These are all just backbone for whatever. hopewillbloom or discor are the best ways to reach out to me!

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[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.