@william.maximoff

[wiccant]

Hey. There's a lot of old information on this, and that's great. Really. But it's also a l o t for newcomers to try and sift through. There was some talk of a guide, which would be awesome? Even if it's just a basic rundown of world stuff that isn't the wiki-ish pages of the internet that just assume we know crap, it'd be helpful.

Back home, I was on a team called the Young Avengers. We went on a multiverse jumping spree for several months, so this isn't my first rodeo. It is the first place I've been to where we woke up with our abilities locked away and given new ones. Super weird btw, I'm not fond of it. As someone who already went through the whole "traumatic event waking up your mutant powers" thing, I'm not up for round two. But it means I've got some history with jumping around to different places.

I've got a place outside the safe house already, but it's not really a space meant for more than one or MAYBE two people, and we've got three. So if anyone has ideas for an easy job to get into for new arrivals, let me know? Disclaimer: I've never had an actual job before. And I didn't have much of an idea of what to set up an ID with since, I really don't have any experience doing workforce things.

Comments

[evite]

Inhuman, Quake — that part checks out. [ she thinks it's probably pretty safe to assume her powers are similar, if not identical, in that universe. interesting. she hadn't been sure if the terrigen would still release the same abilities to a different version of herself. ] But I told Coulson back home that I wasn't cut out to be leadership material, so I guess your Daisy's the comic book version I meant.

[ THE IRONY IS THAT IT'S TRUE but that's neither here nor there. ]

And I think my mom's more sexy genocidal maniac than sex worker, but — [ she shrugs ] Gotta make a living somehow.

[ it's sort of a weird thing to think about. she can imagine the multiverse theory just fine in the abstract, but other versions of herself... it's a little harder to wrap her mind around. ]

I don't really go by Quake here, though. I mean, I can't quake anything. [ thanks, glowcube. ] So Daisy's fine. Or Johnson, I guess, if you're Hafid and perpetually grouchy.

[wiccant]

I don't think I'll really go by Wiccan here either, so I get it. Daisy it is. ( he'd complain about hafid but honestly: considering how he publicly lashed out, how daisy is acting about him--he doubts having to break up stupid fights is really anything new around these parts.

there's no point in going into the rest of what he can remember of daisy's origins, either; they've connected enough dots, he's sure. some things in the universe don't really change while others do, and honestly--he doesn't have a lot of experience interacting with heroes from different timelines. mostly, they just. jumped. searched around for signs of tommy and left. )

I'm Billy. ( obviously, his name is right up there on the network. come on billy. ) Maximoff isn't my real last name either but--my brother's here and it's a little complicated.

[evite]

Really?

[ weird family drama, okay, she gets that much. she's got her own name change saga she could delve into, but it's not the sort of thing anybody really wants to hear. ]

Are you going by Maximoff here, then, officially? [ so she knows what to call him if someone else brings it up. ] Or just a fun party story?

[ she'd ask more, but the waitstaff interrupts just long enough to come by and take their order. a veggie burger and fries for daisy, plus a half-and-half milkshake that's promised to be much bigger than any one person needs in one sitting; her head tips towards billy after a beat. ]

Just add it to my tab, okay. It's fine. You can spot me next time.

[wiccant]

( he hasn't adjusted to the menus here, didn't even look this one over so billy just--orders the same thing, replaces the half and half shake with a full on vanilla one. it's a vanilla kind of day. )

Thanks--will do, once I get a job nailed down here.

( the one thing billy kaplan thought he wouldn't need for a while. thanks a lot, multiverse. )

My mom's Wanda Maximoff, kind of. I mean she is, but I died and was reborn to the Kaplans? So, uh. Usually I just go by Billy Kaplan, but my twin brother by Wanda is also here and he's used to things being different--he's from a different side of the multiverse. So I figured we could meet halfway and go by Maximoff legally.

[evite]

[ the name rings a bell — because shield, because cliff notes versions of avengers problems, because daisy reads the internet — but that's about all it does. she knows who wanda maximoff is, but not much about her beyond the shield file basics. finding out she had a child in multiple avenues of the multiverse seems almost anticlimactic today. ]

I don't know that that's totally "meeting halfway", [ but she looks more bemused than antagonistic about it ] But I get it. Names are complicated. I've had plenty.

[ some she chose, some that chose her, some she didn't ask for. making a conscious decision to change it means something, and she'll respect that for billy. if he wants to go by maximoff here out of family loyalty, then that's what he'll be. ]

Sorry about the dying part, though.

[wiccant]

( not out of loyalty to wanda, even if he does love her. out of wanting to try and help bridge the weird multiversal gap between himself and tommy. it's better than using magnus as tommy does. billy isn't super anti-magneto right now. he's trying(ish) and billy can. acknowledge that a little. but he doesn't want to carry around his name either. )

I haven't had many, they're--not that complicated for me, honestly. I don't have anything to hide or any reason to try. Especially not here, where it's not like--my family's around. ( to get hurt. it hasn't happened (yet) but it doesn't mean it's not something billy thinks about. )

And I really don't remember it at all. I was a baby? Uh. Basically, Wanda wished for children with Vision, and obviously that wasn't going to happen naturally. So she used her power to create them, but magic can't create souls. Those were bits of Mephisto's own, which had been split into numerous parts. But Mephisto kind of wanted his soul back so he killed Wanda's babies for it.

[evite]

[ she nods, if not in understanding then at least out of acknowledgement. names are complicated for her, always have been, but she can appreciate his reasons. (she doesn't come close to wrapping her brain around the concept of magically creating babies and then putting souls in them?? or the babies dying and being reborn? but... the multiverse. sure.) ]

That's a lot.

[ very sage, daisy. how astute. luckily, she's spared from sounding too stupid by the arrival of their food; there's a solid twenty seconds of polite quiet as the waitress divvies out fries and veggie burgers and milkshakes, and then another few as daisy picks up a fry and chews it, considering. pretty good. ]

Very 'plot of a young adult fantasy novel'-y. [ very harry potter-y, what with the splitting up souls and murdering babies. ] I don't think the Wanda in our universe had magic babies. But then again, if she did — I don't think she'd publicize it either.

[wiccant]

( there's food but billy immediately goes for his own milkshake. a bad idea probably, but he does what he wants. takes a few sips out of the provided straw before he bothers trying to answer.

is this even real milk here in these trying, futuristic times?? he's not gonna ask. )

Like something out of a comic book, yeah. ( a nod in agreement. ) But considering the Kree and Skrull wars and Kang the Conqueror going back in time to recreate the team that's taken him out time and time again and the huge Civil War over hero rights and everything else--honestly. My origin story wouldn't even rank top twenty origins if we turned all our lives into young adult fantasy novels.

( lol. )

I mean, just think about yours.

[evite]

Mine? [ she huffs out a quiet laugh in between bites. he has a point. ] I mean, yeah, I guess. Quasi-immortal leader of a secret Inhuman nation, Jekyll and Hyde dad on a rampage, SHIELD baby snatchers... not to mention a grand nearly eighteen years in the foster system? Definitely a set-up for some weird shit.

[ five years ago, she might have been willing to swap it all out for a different, more leave it to beaver-esque existence. but not now. she was pretty happy with who she was now. ]

I don't know about top twenty, though. Depends who else is in the running.

[wiccant]

Maybe not top twenty. ( a. uh. semi-lighter topic. ) My boyfriend is the son of Mar-vell and Skrull princess Anelle who was brought to Earth by his mother's friend to protect him from his grandfather and the Kree. So he's part of two warring species who've brought their stuff to Earth a few times, and had a custody battle over him which led to a fair amount of Avengers getting involved.

( that's not including the tragic death of the only mother he's ever known, nor the involvement of the super skrull, or any of that. but. )

Then there's Hawkeye and the Maximoff twins and Tony Stark--I don't think we can compete with a lot of them.

[evite]

[ the kree sure did like to get their hands into weird shit, didn't they? daisy doesn't really have much to say to that beyond a low whistle of appreciation. plus, there's the whole veggie burger to eat before it gets cold.

eventually, though, she pipes up again, pointing a fry in billy's direction. ]

For the record, I'm not undercover with SHIELD or anything. I'm not advertising — that's more Fitz's gig, really — but if someone wants to know, it's not a secret. People just don't know me as Quake here, so.

[ for obvious reasons. ]

[wiccant]

Okay. Good to know. ( he won't be spoiling her ID then, if he accidentally opens his mouth and says something. ) I'm--not much of a secret either. Who I am, what I could do. A little pointless, really. For me, not that I think that people hiding is pointless. I mean, I sided with Cap on that.

( people deserve the right to have a secret id if that's what they think is right for them. billy would never contest that, fought for the ability to hide even if he's never personally felt the need. given teddy's whole. . thing, tommy's appearance, and that steve rogers outed him to his own parents, well.

time to pick at some fries on his plate. ) I don't mind if people know about me. Obviously, since I announced it.