so i heard there was a bandwagon

[hulk]

Okay, so. It certainly wasn't as bad as it could have been. Which is a good thing - obviously. I know you were thinking of several theories as to how things go and this was... A lot less painful all around. ...Though. Apologies to both Thor and Agent Romanoff for the... Yeah. That wasn't. [ coughing because awkward to backhand various teammates o o p s ]

And. Maybe a canon update through that wouldn't. It wouldn't be so bad, at least. I mean, it makes sense. Minus the whole monkey angle they had going on because. I'd prefer not to with that, if at all possible.

...Though I am curious about what was happening in Calcutta. I mean - I'm a doctor, yes, but not that kind of doctor. Ask me to sequence a genome, sure, write up a paper on behavior of electrons as they relate to quark fields, I'm your guy, but. Need anything more intensive than a band-aid and. [ shrug ]

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[checkthetapes]

'And' nothing, Banner. You'd manage. Like always.

[Faintly exasperated speedster is faint and exasperated.]

man i cannot for the life of me find icons of her and bruce as bruce together.

[widowing]

All things considered, things could have ended much worse than they did.

[ this is her way of saying 'no apology necessary'. ]

[hulk]

I'd manage, yeah, it's not like I need that much to keep myself going, but. Other people getting sick, seriously ill, that's. Then you need someone knowing more than just basic first aid.

[ he missed that faint exasperation quite a bit pietro negl ]

maybe eventually tumblr will norton it up some sigh.

[hulk]

Yes, but that doesn't mean that things couldn't have. I mean. You must have. [ bruce doesn't know the meaning of those words there is always an apology necessary ] Ribs break easily enough, that's all.

[checkthetapes]

Are you missing, perhaps, the part where you're a genius? That's what learning is for, you misbegotten little gnome.

[the insult, at least, is almost fond.]

Or have you forgotten how? One does wonder.

[hulk]

You know - old dogs. New tricks. Pretty sure there's a saying to the effect somewhere, but.

[checkthetapes]

Mm. How learned of you.

[learn-ed. with that particular enunciation of pure Eurotrash snobbery.

Admit it. You missed him.]

[hulk]

[ he really really does ]

I try. Wouldn't want all those sheepskins wasted, after all.

/pets fingers crossed!

[widowing]

[ her voice is firm, leaving no room for any more argument. ]

I know how things could have ended up going. They didn't. Don't dwell on it.

[checkthetapes]

The philanthropic voice of our age, ladies and gentlemen.

[a thoughtful pause. which for him is really only a split second.]

Stark might disagree.

[takingouttrash]

You were there and they were short-staffed? Unless it involved radiation.

[gammas]

Um?

[ COUSIN WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ]

[hulk]

Oh! Um. Well, apparently the new movie with me in it wasn't as terrible as my writer thought it could be. The main problem was that I wasn't really myself in that, er. I guess the word is "recast" and so my face ended up getting. Swapped out for another one. And mine - my writer, anyway - is very fond of my current face for. Whatever reason.

So her expectations because of that were kind of skewed, but they were subverted by the reality. ...In a good way.

[gammas]

Ooh, I know what you're talking about! Sounds like my 80s stuff, honestly. Looking at you, Byrne.

Anyways, I like your face.

[hulk]

Just possibly. After all, he gets how he gets when he's not the most... Whatever there is in the room.

[hulk]

...All right then. If you're sure about it.

[ he would say but and try anyway but. that tone. u___u BUT HE'LL STILL DWELL ON IT IN PRIVATE DON'T YOU DOUBT IT ]

[hulk]

Oh. Thank you? I think. I don't know if there's any sort of protocol for this kind of conversation. But yeah. Other than that, it wasn't too. I mean there were some insights about things, important things, and. Things were looking up.

[gammas]

[ tapping her temple ]

Things up here looking up?

[hulk]

I don't know, it seemed a private house. Or as private as houses there get. [ shrugs again ] There's also the question of why I'd wear a suit in a situation like that, but. My writer's the kind with a, uh. Anal-retentive attention to detail. ...Which I mean in the best way possible, of course.

[hulk]

Y-yeah, in that area. Obviously there's still, you know. Lots of work to be done around there, and not what I'd initially prefer but. Some kind of light with the tunnel that's going on.

[gammas]

I'm happy for you then, honestly.

[ferric]

What, you can't take a philanthropic bone when it's given to you?

[hulk]

...I think I might be too. Happy, anyway. Eventually. [ alskjdfalsk fidgets because how do shot happy this is a scary new thing ] ...Maybe.

[gammas]

I might be mistaken, but you sound a little unsure there.

[hulk]

I can, I just. I would prefer it to make sense. That's all I'm saying. Never mind the last time I tried to be all philanthropic with my work... Well. That's how everything with my, uh, condition ended up starting.