The Doorway: a panfandom game

PEPPER POTTS (616):

Should we We can't keep Want to go out to dinner tomorrow?

MARA JADE:

I haven't gotten up the courage yet. Jesus, I wish I could get drunk again.

Was anyone else at or around the vigil for the Butterfly Girl last night? Tris and I were there and some kids threw bricks at us. I'd press charges, but I didn't actually see any of them and they got away. There were maybe six of them and they were wearing hoods.

PEPPER POTTS (616):

Because I know you don't go anywhere or do anything without an internet connection.

When you're better, we should talk about seeing if we can fit in a visit to Rottnest Island.

MARA JADE:

Hey. You holding up all right wherever you are?

CLARKE GRIFFIN:

I saw I'm pr How are you doing?

[Text to Herc Hansen]

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MARA JADE:

Guess what stupid ass thing I've done this month.

[Filtered to Herc Hansen]

Guess what I have tickets for, Mr. Taylor?

[ETA: Filtered to Tony Stark (616) + Dorian Gray]

Why isn't there a song on youtube for this?

Today is the 29th anniversary of the Challenger Explosion. It's something we were still teaching our children about a hundred years from now, in my world. Being here feels a little like living inside a history book. But I hope those other pivotal catastrophes I learned about in school might still be preventable.

[ HERC: ]
Raven still won't talk to me. I'm worried about her.

Also, I've been watching the show. There was a new episode tonight I haven't watched yet, but I think I'm going to.

[Filtered to Iron Avengers + Stark Resilient + Herc Hansen]

Is anyone else listening to police scanners right now?

CLARKE GRIFFIN:

Did you see Raven's here? You might want to Should I ask her what she r

I'm starting to come to terms with the idea that I might actually not be hallucinating, so hello New York. I'm Raven Reyes. I've been here for a few days and I've kind of going nuts without really having anything to do, so I think it's time I get myself a job. I don't suppose there's a big need for a badass Zero-G mechanic around here somewhere?

Probably not, seeing as how we're not on a space station here

It's been two years since what was easily the worst day I'd ever known. I'd always thought the days Sydney was attacked by Scissure were the worst, but this day in 2025 ripped that all to pieces. It also gave us a future that many of us weren't sure we'd ever see. I still don't know how something can be the worst day and the best day at the same time. Your family in ruins but the rest of the world safe again, families who will never know what you've faced. You're thanked for your sacrifices and your service, and you look out at the faces of the people saved, and you think you don't want their gratitude because it doesn't make anything easier. We join the military to make the world a better place for those who can't stand up and fight, and we're told that sacrifice is worth it if you can protect them, and it's true, but the reality is not that simple, not when you've lost everything. The reality is much more complicated.

I'm glad I'm not there for this anniversary. There would only be remembrance ceremonies, a speech I'd have to make, and a thousand looks of pity from well-meaning strangers. It's easier in a world where today is only Kiss a Ginger Day and nothing more.

PEPPER POTTS (616):

How busy are you on Monday?

Notes from Christmas: When you live in a haunted house, coal's not the surprise you need to worry about in stockings.

Although that said, really I'm not sure why coal would be the worst thing. Sure it's not the cleanest energy, but it burns, and you can always compress it into lab diamonds.

[Filtered to Tony Stark (616), Dorian Gray, Herc Hansen]

What are you thinking for Wednesday night?

There's the Stark Industries affair, but I don't know if I'm happy with my dress.

Who: The whole game!
When: Leading up to Christmas
Where: Under tree. Delivered with bows. Handed to a person. Whatever!
What: Christmas presents!
Rating: Who knows!

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Many of us in this tower know what it's like to have your future unfolded before you, either because you're here from its past, or because it's still being published in books, or aired on television every week. Over a year ago I read this but it wasn't until this year that I understood it.

"This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it. It is a story of love and loss, brotherhood and betrayal, courage and sacrifice and the death of dreams. It is a story of the blurred lines between our best and our worst."

A friend reminded me last night: this story, this Tower, this future - we write this ourselves. We are what our histories make us; we bring that here. We are what foreknowledge can give us; we find that here sometimes whether we wish it or not. But here are people, experiences, knowledge, friends, and family, that we will not have at home and they will change us and we will change them in return. For as long as we are here whether a few months or perhaps a lifetime we are the authors of this story and it is happening now.

[Filter: Jasper]

I bought you a thing. It's on the sofa. It's not coffee. It's early Christmas if it needs a reason.

[Filter: Herc]

My nephew is here and I should talk to you about that.

[Filter: Luke]

Remember you are not the only Jedi Master who has been here.

[Filter: Natasha (MCU)]

Your assessment?

The longer I'm here the less familiar things seem. We didn't have many books on the Ark so all our schooling was verbal and hands on. I've been an A+ student my entire life and I have no idea how to study from a textbook. Even if I did, I can't concentrate on anyth

[ HERC HANSEN: ]
How have you been? It's been a few weeks. I sort of lost track of time.

I barely remember the day my son was born. I remember leaving the base in a panic, and then I remember hearing him scream bloody murder and thinking this child was going to give us hell. Everything in the middle's a blur now. He was the light of our lives for eleven years, and then his mum died, and nothing was the same. I was a shit father after that. He was raised by machines more than he was raised by me, and I dragged him halfway around the world just so I could feel useful, so I could take revenge on the creatures who'd destroyed so much. He became a better pilot than his old man, and he knew our jaeger inside out. And he died. Because I made a mistake. Because I couldn't see through the trees clearly enough to know when to stop. All the time in the world can't make that right.

No one ever prepares you for that, as a parent. I don't think anyone can. I lost part of myself that day, and I've lost a part of myself twice here, each time he's left. And it's bullshit - to give us something and to take it away. It's bullshit. Once was enough.

Friday, I saw someone in full stormtrooper costume on the subway platform. Rather startling, and momentarily a flash of being home - until I realized the boots weren't up to standard issue, and they were a little on the short side.

[Filter: Nick (MCU)]

So what do you say - shall we work on giving your mother her Christmas wish?

[Filter: Leia]

Have you thought at all about holiday shopping? We could go out together, if you'd like.

PEPPER POTTS (616):

Chuck's gone again.

[Filter: Herc Hansen]

Hey, I realize we haven't really talked too much, but I thought I'd ask if Chuck was there with you. I know my Christmas music was kind of driving him nuts, and maybe he's just decided to stay there for the rest of the month, but I haven't seen him all day, so I guess, I'm just checking on him.

[ETA: Filter: friends]

I think my roommate's been taken back.

Once again my apartment seems way too large.