Old voice; now returned.

[southern_spitfire]

Well now. Sure was nice a ya to make all these pretty icons for me. And read'n up on my recent activities too? Aw darlin' you flatter me. Although Ah'd appreciate if you keep the giggling over mah little triangle to a minimum. Ah got that sorted out...mostly.

Ah do miss being able t' fly though.

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[nobodysbishie]

Like ta say I've mellowed a bit, but that's mostly thanks to bein' put in a comm where my little sis was alive an' kicking. [Rogue gets a genuine smile with that part.] It's amazing how much nicer life is when your biggest mistake got wiped away, huh?

But yeah, she helped me go double agent on Stark's side during that whole 'Civil War' thing once those guys went too far with their damn Negative Zone gulag, an' when Cap folded... well, I just stuck with the O*N*E afterwards. They was handlin' some genuine emergencies, you know?

Though there is one thing I'm pretty damn proud of. When I heard Norman f*ckin' Osborne was brought in as a public figure? I got Betsy Braddock to upload- an' keep uploaded, which was kinda tricky- a video montage of shit the Green Goblin pulled, cut with reporters pointing out 'Norman Osborne, aka the Green Goblin' and stressin' how he was a jailed killer, throwin' in when he shot up the Atlantean ambassador- an' finished with that shot'a him killing a reporter on-camera that put him away in the first place.

[And now he's almost at a smirk.] Th' man didn't last two weeks before his Thunderbolts job was pulled out from under him, an' from what I saw from other places, that saved this world even more trouble than I thought.

[southern_spitfire]

Oh man. Sounds like you did save everyone a whole heap a trouble. From what Ah recall things didn't go so well for yah during th' whole Messiah thing. But then...they didn't go so well for me either. [as she's heard second hand that she spent most of that in a coma]

[nobodysbishie]

Heh, told ya I was proud. [There's that amused look... which faded when she mentioned the Messiah situation.]

It was a situation, all right. Th' classic "Hey, can ya shoot Hitler in his crib an' save 45 million people from dyin', or is it just too hard to shoot a 'innocent' baby?" I know what my canonself went through, came within a hair of doin' it in my world too; after everythin' we went through to shut down our future, having it spring back open an' smack us in the face like that was one helluva shock.

But gettin' my sis back gave me a little diff'rent perspective, an' I chose to trust to hope. To Hope, even.

[He's not mentioning that in his 'verse, he was the one who named her. It's a whole Thing that wasn't worth getting into.]

[southern_spitfire]

Mah Mun seems to think the timestream is self-correcting. Can't say whether Ah agree with that or not. Ah don't know if Hope will come out the way you believed either. Suppose we're back t' hold'n our breath an hope'n.

[nobodysbishie]

[He shook his head.] Always kinda weird, how I keep hearing what I 'believe' to be true. As if belief had anythin' to do with it. Kinda like somebody tellin' you they're sure you truly believe you used to be able to fly, you know? Get born in a concentration camp from the war her atrocities started, talk to people who was there, an' I bet you would 'believe' it too... but honest, that ain't here or there.

That idea of self-correcting is th' big thing that worries me- I did already shoot this future in the face an' leave it for dead. This kinda twistin' back to what could be or what will be is pretty much my worst nightmare- but we know there's other futures out there. Cable's timeline ain't mine, then you got jackasses like Nimrod tryin' to twist the past so his future could exist- That kinda idea is why I gave Hope a chance. I have t' believe my future ain't inevitable.

Or there ain't hope to be had for any of us, Rogue.

[southern_spitfire]

Well ain't that the gospel truth. The way she tells it though, she seems to see it as every time we fix something, another thing crops up to put things right back in the shithole.

That...that isn't a possibility Ah much like think'n about.