because AvX turned out so well for everyone involved

[myownbestfriend]

Considering that delightful preview of coming attractions you decided to give me--there's a reason habitual time travelers usually aren't pleasant people, you realize--I'm less resistant to the idea of being plucked from my universe and dropped into one that runs on the whims of bored college students than I otherwise would be, but that certainly doesn't make me enthusiastic.

Comments

[ofdrumsthesound]

I think time travelers are wonderful.

Probably because I am one, but oh well.

[myownbestfriend]

It's important to be able to identify your biases.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Have you managed it yet?

[myownbestfriend]

The mind is my business. I'm rather good at it.

[ofdrumsthesound]

It's usually easier to spot the faults of otthers, though.

[myownbestfriend]

Mm. I've already taken Psychology 101, so if we could skip the poor man's Socrates routine, that would be lovely.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Would you rather talk about time travel, then?

[myownbestfriend]

That depends how unpleasant you're going to be.

[ofdrumsthesound]

What do you mean by 'unpleasant'? I don't know how you die, the end of the Earth is a fancy party and I saved the poor bastards stuck at the very end of time myself--they have a nice planet with warm beaches to gibber like the poor madmen they are on.

I can tell you that New Earth has apple-scented grass, and all the nuns are cat people. I can tell you about Tivoli, most-conquered planet ever, with an anthem called "Glory To INSERT NAME HERE." Or Planet Barcelona, where the dogs really do have no noses.

[myownbestfriend]

[Right. Strike "unpleasant," substitute "crazy."]

I'm thoroughly unconcerned about the end of time. I have more immediate problems, like whether my people are going to live to see the end of the decade.

[ofdrumsthesound]

At least you still have people. There are only two of my kind left, and our whole planet is gone to boot.

[myownbestfriend]

[That's kind of your own fault for being huge arrogant jerks for millennia, bro.]

Losing an entire planet strikes me as sloppy.

[ofdrumsthesound]

*The Daleks didn't exactly help either.*

That's what happens in an intergalactic war. Especially a Time War.

[myownbestfriend]

[Let's just blame Seven. It was his idea. And the High Council for sucking in general.]

The Kree have been at war for millennia and they've managed not to misplace their homeworld.

[The Skrulls kind of got theirs eaten by Galactus, oops.]

[ofdrumsthesound]

*Rassilon was a jerk, yes. But tasty!*

That isn't a Time War, though, now is it? There's nothing like a Time War to fuck things up permanently.