dear_mun | Possibly headed for a new game. Pup has...reservations.

[Wanda has her hands knotted together in front of her, like she always does when she's trying to hide her nervousness. The dog with her, who is bearlike in his enormousness and covered in black fuzz, can tell, and he's whining and leaning against her, occasionally swiping a donut-sized paw against her leg.]

Look...we've done okay together for a year and a half now, but now you're pushing it. I am willing to abandon my homeworld altogether to avoid any more family drama. That should make my feelings pretty damn clear. The idea of having to have the Big Giant Talk with my brother is not real comfortable, okay? And what if some version of him shows up? Again? I'm getting sick of trying to be civil with people who practically give me flashbacks every time I lay eyes on them. Especially when they turn out to be jerks.

....what do you mean, wussing out? I'm not wussing out. I'm tough enough. But I'm sick of this crap. It's like I can never escape it.

[She scowls and folds her arms, looking away.] It's not wussy to want a fresh start somewhere where I can start to...feel better.

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[The Amazing Nightcrawler has the capacity for incredible gracefulness, but it's not exactly always on. He overbalances and lands on his tail immediately, then submits to being licked and rescued with a slightly sulky grumble.]

That's, huh... Pretty extreme. I mean, I guess if anyone was cut out for magic...

[Fozzie nuzzles him and then flops down beside him with a huge derpy doggie-grin on his face.]

Well, that's the thing. When you knew me before I had had some training but not much yet. Knowing the magical stuff, the laws and formulas and mystic gestures, helps me control my powers. And the meditations help with my temper.

The witch thing wasn't just a nickname, huh? Well, that's cool.

[Kurt would be totally down with using him as a big fluffy pillow, but that doesn't seem polite. So he just gives the dog's side a few solid pats.]

[Unfortunately, all he knows about magic he learned from either the Lord of the Rings or the origin stories of cereal mascots, so it's hard to know where to go from there.]

I guess I would have guessed that, since you had the line to Agatha Harkness and stuff.

Yeah, no. I guess it isn't very imaginative. I'm a witch and I love to wear red. Hurr.

[Fozzie rumbles cheerfully. He is used to being cuddlefurniture but pats are good too.]

It's cool. We've talked like, twice before now? Can't pick up all that much from two conversations unless you're Sherlock Holmes or something.

The truth is that I'd love to do an apprenticeship to one of the big names. Stephen Strange, Harry Dresden, Gandalf, Fizban, someone like that. I'd go back to Agatha but she's got a full time gig now babysitting for the Richardses.

[Yes, she is a bit of a magical nerd now.]

[He's not following very well, but he'll try.]

I think being a mutant and looking like a krampus and a smurf had a secret love child is enough for me, but good luck with that!

[He'll just pet the dog some more and quietly not know things over here.]

[She gives him grumpyface.] You do not look like a cross between a Krampus and a Smurf. Except maybe if I was looking at you while on acid. [Another thing on her list of Stuff Wanda Should Never Do.] Never mind.

Seriously, the people I met out there. If the environment hadn't messed with me so much I would have loved it.

[He doesn't really think there's any question, but getting into a fight over how much he looks like Santa's evil helper turned blue doesn't seem like a good use of his time.]

Ja, that does sound cool. Meeting strange people is definitely the upside to being kidnapped to an alien planet, too.

[She grows more serious even as Fozzie flops over on his back. Dis my belleh.]

I know you and everyone won't trust me when I first show up. I can't say I blame you. I used to be an out of control bully. But no worries. It'll become pretty clear that I've changed soon enough.

[Good movie, Fozzie. Kurt's very suggestible. Though he does have a hard time carrying on a serious conversation while he gives belly rubbins.]

Honestly? I don't know if I'll have that much trouble. I've gotten used to Todd and your brother, and I've got more personal reasons not to like them than you. It'll take a while not to be a little freaked by you. I mean, you can screw up my porting, und that's freaky. But you've also helped me out, and you came along for the Apocalypse thing when Kitty asked. You're pretty okay in my book. Just scary.

[Fozzie squints and rumbles happily. Yay.]

That's good.

...can't really help the scary part, though. I don't really mean it but I don't really know how to turn it off. Side effect of being raised by a monster, I guess.

Wouldn't that make Pietro scary? And he's mostly just really annoying...

[That may not be the mostly useful sentiment he's brought to the fore. Hmm.]

Besides, some of my favorite people are pretty scary. Und you have a big, fuzzy puppy.

Pietro is...problematic. I'm trying to give the whole brother sister thing another chance. But the scary thing about him is I don't think he's ever really questioned Magneto's philosophies and methods enough. I guess we'll see if that's changing.

And yes, I do have a big fuzzy puppy. I trained him as a guard dog pretty intensively but then he ended up a lovesponge most of the time. I hope I get to take him along. He's great to have around, especially in winter.

That's... maybe not quite as true as you think it is. Don't tell him this, because I don't think he remembers, but while he was really sick, I had to stay up all night to watch und make sure he didn't die. Maybe you shouldn't hold anyone to a heart-to-heart when they've got a dangerous fever and are kind of babbling, but I don't think he looks up to your dad as much as he looks down on himself.

Possibly headed for a new game. Pup has...reservations.

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