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America Chavez ([info]starsandhearts) wrote in [info]snapthread,
@ 2019-04-03 21:08:00

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Entry tags:america chavez (616), gwen stacy

WHO: America Chavez and Gwen Stacy
WHAT: The girls are back in town
WHERE: At that there convention
WHEN: April 3


So she'd checked out the doors a few times since she and Kate had gone through, looking for things that might help them get back, for things for Kate, and just some sort of idea of how to get back. But this was something else, she'd heard around town that the doors were acting strange lately so she thought she'd check it out - see if maybe it meant something had changed about it all.

And it was with that plan in mind that she'd set out to go check it out on her own, maybe she could find a way out of it all and if she did she'd come back and get the others, but first she wanted to see on her own. Failing in front of Loki had been enough for her ego, so if she was going to fail again she'd rather do it on her own.

But as she approached the house at the edge of town there was someone else clearly on her way there as well. America wasn't sure initially if she should say something, but decided maybe a buddy wouldn't be a terrible idea - you know if she wanted to go through. "You planning on taking a trip through the doors?" She asked as they grew nearer.


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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-04 04:37 am UTC (link)
Her last trip through the Door had been a little crazy, definitely creepy, but ultimately useful. Being taken to a world where she and Jan could traverse through Target and come out of it with a crap ton of clothing and non-perishable food was definitely a good thing. That said, being put into a Target where the mannequins were alive, and if one touched you then you turned into a faceless mannequin -- well, that shit was straight out of a low-budget SyFy movie that Gwen was not trying to be the star of anytime soon.

She'd overheard some conversations while she was skulking about in her webbing about how there was a place on the other side of the doors that seemed to be stable and that multiple people had been going to it. That sounded pretty interesting. Maybe she'd find more things there that could be useful. If nothing else, she was ready for an adventure again and this sounded like the right time to go.

This time, she wasn't wearing clothing over her suit. She was in full-fledged Spider-Woman attire from head to toe. If psycho stuff like the mannequins was going to happen again, then she wasn't messing around. Before she could open the door, however, someone else approached her.

"Huh? Oh, yeah! You know, figure I'd see what all this hype was about," she said. "Last time got a little crazy so.." She gestured to her suit. "Here we are." She lowered her hood and pulled up her mask. "I'm Gwen."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-04 05:06 am UTC (link)
"Sounds like my first trip," She said, none had been quite so harrowing as her trip through with Kate that had landed them in some Mordor sort of world, but not every world she'd seen had been entirely safe and cool either. But none had been as bad as that, and given that this one was supposed to be some sort of dedicated location that nearly everyone was going to check out at least once, it felt like as good a time as any to see what they were getting into.

"I'm America," She introduced herself, nodding as Gwen explained her suit, it made sense and if she had one of her own beyond whatever she was normally wearing she'd have donned it as well. But America never really was one for costumes, she simply was what she was and that didn't need spandex to be true.

"Wanna maybe try and go through together?" She offered, sure maybe she had been all set to go it on her own, she didn't need anyone or anything like that, but she could admit that sometimes it was nice to know someone had your back. She thought of Kate briefly, but decided she'd check it out first before she pulled Kate in with her. "Maybe we'll find something interesting on the other side, or at least see what everyone is going on about."

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-04 04:52 pm UTC (link)
Gwen thought she looked a little familiar. Maybe she'd seen her while she was doing her daily swings around town. That was definitely a possibility. America seemed like good people. She wasn't making Gwen's Spider Senses go off as though she was in danger and it wasn't like anyone had warned her Hey stay away from that America person. So with those criteria in mind, she figured it'd be fine to go through the door together. Definitely better than going alone. And maybe she'd make a friend. Gwen was starting to come around to the idea that having friends in this place wasn't necessarily a death sentence for them the way she'd felt back home.

"Yeah, sure," Gwen said with a nod. If things did get dicey, at least she'd have someone to help. It'd been good to have Jan with her before. She'd thought about asking Jan this time, but, she was still kinda of the habit of going it alone. It was a Spider-Thing, for sure. Gwen pulled her mask over her face again and set her hood back in place on top of her head. It was probably for the best, because once she stepped through the door, all of her senses kind of went into overload.

"Whoa, what in the-- Is this like a Multi-Verse gathering? I've never passed through here when I've gone through it." But already she could see in the distance a handful of Spider-Men and was that Captain America? Not to mention a ton of other people just walking around, some looking like normal civilians and others in brightly colored outfits with even brighter hair. The sights, the sounds, the smells were all kind of a lot. Thankfully her mask kind of kept it in check for her.

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-04 06:27 pm UTC (link)
America was relieved when Gwen agreed to go with her, it wasn't like she wouldn't have gone anyway but if you were both going to the same place it only made sense to do it together. Everyone was always telling her she needed to get better at working as a team, maybe this could be a part of that, you know trying new things, being less consumed with her frustration and anger at being stuck in the same place for so long. It was something.

What she hadn't expected out of all of this though was what they found on the other side of the door, she might have preferred Mordor to this, at least Mordor made sense, there were little monsters that wanted to kill them. This was just - beyond explanation.

"Um... I don't think this has anything to do with the multiverse." She said after a pause, just to try and take it in, not all of it but some there was too much to take all of it in, and it set America on edge- even if it seemed innocent enough.

"Oh wow, Spider-Gwen!" Someone stopped right there in front of them, "And America! Sick, your costumes are amazing. They look so real, they're the best I've seen today. Can I take your picture?" The girl asked holding up a camera and looking at them both expectantly like that was a normal thing what she'd just said, like people just went around knowing who they were and asking for pictures.

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-04 08:08 pm UTC (link)
The more she looked around, the more she was inclined to believe America was right when she said this wasn't part of the multiverse. So then what was going on? She knew that there were people out there who dressed up like super heroes for events and just because they were fans and stuff, but was that what this was?

The stranger who approached them was unexpected, though Gwen's Spider Senses weren't giving off any alarms. "Huh? Costumes?" Gwen looked down at herself and her suit. If only Janet could hear that her hard work was being reduced to a costume. "Uh.." She looked at America, and the lenses on her masked shifted into a look of confusion. Looking beyond her, she could see there were other people around who were taking photos of people dressed like the likes of Captain America and some other people she didn't know. "O..kay?"

"Can you do like a pose or something?" The girl asked.

"What are we, your flying monkeys? What do you mean pose?"

"You know, like America look really strong with your fists up, Spider-Gwen do some kind of graceful crouch?"

"Graceful crouch." She feigned rubbing her temples. She lowered down to be balancing on her feet with her knees bent and made it look like she was about to shoot her webbing. "That's all you're getting, darlin. I'm not a circus seal."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-05 03:43 am UTC (link)
It was one thing to be asked for a picture by a stranger, but pose too? Gwen was right, were they just some sort of props for a a picture they didn't really understand? America didn't know what to make of it. She frowned when they were given pose suggestions.

"Chica, I'm really strong whether my fists or up or not." She said dryly.

In the end though she and Gwen both gave a half-hearted attempt at posing for the pictures, though America couldn't keep something like a scowl off her face at being asked to perform like this, it was weird and she didn't like it. She wasn't some exhibit in a zoo. Thankfully the pictures were over fairly quickly and America dropped her hands looking around the place again.

"What is this?" She said quietly just for Gwen to hear, there were rows and rows of booths, it looks like there was art on some of them.... was that Iron Man on the Iron Throne? She tilted her head as she looked at it confusion plain on her face. "Um, what?"

"You're seeing this, right?" She asked Gwen, maybe she had finally cracked and landed in some terrible alternate dimension where there was nothing but this kind of insanity.

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-05 05:37 am UTC (link)
It was kind of ridiculous to be crouching there holding out her arm like she was going to shoot a web while this girl who didn't even know them took their picture. Gwen was definitely not used to being looked at in a positive light. Most people did not like her at all and thought she should be in prison.

The whole thing, the situation surrounding them, was so weird. She'd made the right choice in wearing her full Spider-Suit. Keeping her senses dialed down in a crowded room like this was definitely for the best. She would've been driven nuts by everything going on around them otherwise.

She walked with American a little further into the large room, and her eyes followed the direction she was indicating where there was an Iron Man on an Iron Throne. "Huh? Is that Mr. Stark?" She tilted her head in curiosity. "What the hell is going on?" She looked away to a table where there were a lot of action figures and legos made into the shapes of heroes. "Oh, wow. Look at these!"

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-05 06:36 am UTC (link)
"Some version of him, yeah." America nodded, yeah that was something she didn't think she'd ever needed to see and yet now here she was with the image before her and she didn't know what to do with it. What to make of any of this. She knew that the Avengers had their fans, she had her own fans too, some better than others, but there had never been anything like this that she'd known about and now here they were right smack dab in the middle of a world that she couldn't explain.

She picked up a small lego figure when Gwen pointed one out, a tiny archer with familiar purple markings. "Okay this is straight up insane, right? I mean this is Clint," She said holding out the Lego that she'd picked up, and there were others, one of Kate, and so many others, more than just those that had arrived with them in America 2.0, there were people she knew from back home, people she'd lost and people she just didn't see all that often.

"These people are like.... fans." She said quietly, because the last thing she wanted was for someone to hear her announce that they were actually the people they appeared to be, not simply other fans dressed up as them. "This whole thing is some sort of fan thing."

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-05 06:51 pm UTC (link)
Admittedly the image of some replica of Iron Man sitting on a throne like that was one that Gwen kind of wanted to remember forever. She wished it really was the Mr. Stark she knew because that would've been amazing and she would've wanted all the photos ever.

"They're so cute," Gwen marveled over all the little lego figures, but stopped when America pointed out that the people that were all around them were fans. The more she thought about it, yes, that was what it seemed like. It would explain why that girl wanted photos of them and she seemed excited to see them both. But that didn't make sense. Not to Gwen, anyway. Maybe it made a lot of sense for people to be excited to see America, or Mr. Stark, or Captain Rogers or Peter. But not her. She frowned. "But everybody hates me," she said. It wasn't a cry for pity; she'd said it very matter of fact. It was what it was and she was trying her best to change it back home. Or she had been, anyway.

"They all think I'm the bad guy." She plucked up a little lego figure of a blonde girl wearing a black, white and fuchsia colored suit. "But maybe that'll change. Or maybe there are other versions of me that everybody likes."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-05 07:32 pm UTC (link)
They were cute, even America, who didn't normally go in for cute, couldn't deny that fact. They were tiny and small and yet you could totally tell who each of these little figures were meant to be. America needed maybe more than was strictly healthy but you know things like this - she could just imagine how much Kate would love one, and Billy and Teddy if they ever got to see them again.

America was surprised when Gwen said that people hated her, thought she as the bad guy, that was... well she didn't know what to make of that. "That girl didn't seem to think you were a bad guy," At least that wasn't the impression America had gotten, a graceful crouch wasn't exactly the sort of thing that people asked bad guys for.

She could allow though that if there were different versions of the rest of them there could be different versions of Gwen as well, Gwens who weren't viewed as villains but the heroes they tried to be only. "Maybe people will figure it out eventually." She agreed, America was no stranger to being viewed as a danger. She knew that it was a fine line they walked, trying to keep people safe but doing it in a way that didn't also harm people. America struggled with that a lot, maybe it was the same thing for Gwen? But unlike America she couldn't just disappear into the multiverse whenever things got too heavy.

"Maybe they know something the people at home don't know too." She added, the way this whole thing looked, it felt like more than just fans of heroes running around outside these walls, unless this was just some insane world where every single one of them existed in some way even when that didn't seem to be the case for their own individual realities.

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-06 05:44 am UTC (link)
Gwen set the lego figure back down and placed it next to a Spider-Man figure. It was hard to imagine a world where people actually celebrated Spider-Woman. All she could think of was seeing the billboards that people vandalized with spray paint that she was a murderer, and the countless newspaper articles that pretty much said the same thing. She'd been trying her best, and things were a little better, but it was still crazy to think that she'd have fans.

But, maybe America was right. Maybe the people in this gathering of sorts knew things that she didn't, or that the people at home didn't know. Maybe good things were to come and she'd be seen for who she was, instead of who people thought she was. At the same time, it very well could just be another Spider-Woman who had been revered from the start. It didn't matter that much, she guessed. If they liked her, or who they thought she was, that was way better than them spouting off insults at her or something.

"Maybe so," she said. "I'm just going to roll with it, even if it is weird." Just then, someone wearing a giant T-Rex costume went running by roaring, chasing after someone who was wearing a safari outfit waving a flare. "Okay, maybe that was weirder." She started laughing then, and took her mask off. "Wow."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-07 12:45 am UTC (link)
America nodded they could probably spend forever trying to figure out how exactly these people knew about them and if it was really them they knew or some other version of them. Better just to kind of try and enjoy this place while they could, it was far better than a lot of the other places they could have ended up all things considered. And when he saw the person dressed up as a dinosaur that's when America knew they were just going to have to roll with it.

"Yeah, definitely weirder." She agreed with a laugh shaking her head as she watched the spectacle of it all. "Oh wow," There was a girl dressed as Captain America, only she was like no Captain America she'd ever seen before, with short shorts and a low cut top on, but she had the shield and a helmet with the trademark A. "I don't think I've ever seen the Captain look quite so good in the uniform." She laughed, this place really was kind of crazy.

"Do you think it would be weird if we picked up some stuff with our own faces on it?" She wondered. Maybe one of those lego figures or something like that. America had a very particular brand of her own when it came to her own sense of fashion and wearing a shirt with her own name on it was a little less on point with that brand, but it was hard to resist seeing a shirt with a pretty good approximation of herself on it along with the other Young Avengers. "I mean I don't want to like make people think I'm all high on myself or anything like that, but it's just cool."

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-07 05:24 am UTC (link)
It was still weird, but it was also becoming kind of interesting to Gwen now and poking at her curiosity to see more of these people and how they were dressed. She was finding it fascinating to see the different takes on different super hero costumes. Some were variations of people she recognized, including herself and the other Spiderlings. There were people dressed like Mr. Stark and several other people she'd seen around town, and then there were elaborate costumes of people she had never seen before. It was a lot. Now with her mask off it was kind of making her senses go a bit into overdrive. Nothing she couldn't handle yet though.

"I mean, when else are we going to have the chance?" She picked up a black t-shirt that had a blue arc reactor design in the middle of the chest. "Oh man, I want all the shirts." She held up another one that had her Spider-Mask on it. "They've got tank tops too. I wonder what else we can find? I'd totally rock a shirt with you on it. In a not creeper way. I just would."

She held the Iron Man shirt up to her torso. It'd be a little big but she could tie it off at the waist to make it fit. "Are those your friends?" She asked, nodding to the shirt that had a group of people on it that America was looking at.

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-07 07:14 am UTC (link)
America was glad to hear that Gwen wouldn't judge her because after she saw the shirt with the Young Avengers on it she knew she needed it. Maybe she could find some Hawkeye merch too, she'd love to have a shirt dedicated totally to Kate, just - her bff deserved representation. "This might be a problem, how much stuff are we actually going to be able to get and not make it weird." Because Gwen was right, she wanted all the shirts too, especially when she saw that a lot of them came in different cuts.

"We're going to have to really investigate this place, and see all our options." There were rows upon rows of booths, there were these here in front of them that obviously had a lot of shirt options, but there were other things too along the way and America found herself wanting to see it all. It was the first time she'd come through the door and not felt totally disappointed by what she'd found.

"Yeah," She nodded, "That's Billy and Teddy," She pointed to the two dorks first, "And that's Loki, he just showed up recently, have you met him yet? Don't trust him whatever you do, he can seem charming but he's usually working an angle. And that's Noh-Varr, he's kind of full of himself but good to have a tight spot. And of course Kate." She felt an ache looking at them all together and happy like that. It had been a long time since they'd worked together like that, and would probably be even longer before they had the chance to reunite. "I'm getting this." Even if she never wore it and only looked at it, she needed to have it.

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-07 07:34 pm UTC (link)
Gwen knew the arc reactor shirt was definitely going to be a purchase. She could doctor it up, maybe cut the neckline out to make it more off the shoulder and then knot the bottom to fit it to her torso, or she could just leave it as is and keep it a little baggy. But that was definitely happening. The only issue was, what if she found another one she liked better at another booth? Well, maybe she'd just get that one too. There were no rules that said how many Iron Man shirts she could own, and somehow she didn't think Mr. Stark would mind.

She turned her attention to the shirt America had agin and looked at each face she pointed out. Gwen liked hearing about the lives others had outside of the town, and who they were connected to, especially if there were other versions of them in town. It was really interesting to see connections some might have with a version of one person, but another version might not know them at all. That, actually, seemed to be her situation. "You definitely should get that one," she said. While not always the most in-tune with emotions, Gwen could tell that shirt meant something to America. And because of that, she absolutely had to have it. If she hadn't, Gwen would've gotten it for her.

"So maybe we should get these, and then go to the next one to see what else we can find. Oh!" She held up another shirt that had a cartoony looking image of a female Captain America. "That's my Cap! Not the big muscly handyman back in town."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-07 08:31 pm UTC (link)
America nodded, "Yeah I will." She agreed, it was something she hadn't expected to find when they'd stepped through the door together, but now that she had she realized it was something she'd needed. A reminder of where she'd come from and that they still needed to try and get back, getting too comfortable back on the other side of the door couldn't happen. But this was a nice distraction for now. She felt better than she had in a little while.

"I think you're right," She agreed, pausing when something caught Gwen's eye, and then seeing a shirt with a female Captain America, not the girl dressed like a dancer she'd seen earlier, but dressed like an actual Captain might be and America couldn't help but love seeing that. "Oh wow, this is really your Cap? That's amazing." She could just imagine how cool that would have been for people to grow up knowing what someone like a female Captain America had done. It sounded like Gwen was from a pretty cool dimension.

"Are other people here women where you're from? Iron Man?" She wondered, curious now that the idea had been put out there. She hoped a lot through the multiverse, but in the last couple of years she'd spent most of her time in one dimension in particular, always ending up back there even when she left. She hoped that would remain true, that she'd be able to find her way back to it soon.

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-09 12:52 am UTC (link)
Gwen had gone from being totally creeped out to actually enjoying herself the longer they were there. She credited a decent amount of that to America, because if she'd been by herself she might still be kind of wary about all of it. She still would've checked it all out, but it woudln't have been nearly as enjoyable. For as up and down as they'd always been, Gwen did miss her girlfriends back home. It felt good to be hanging out with someone, even if it was a little premature to call themselves good friends at this point.

"Yup! That's Samantha Wilson," she said, nodding to the Captain America shirt. "My dad's a huge fan." She hung the shirt back up. Cool as it was, she might come back for it later though.

"We don't have an Iron Man," she said. "Tony Stark is just a rich guy who makes coffee and weapons. Hm, I guess I'm the female version of Spider-Man. I told you about Cap. I'd have to ask around to find out what other super-human-hero-type people might be the counterparts to the people in my world. There are some pretty cool people there. But there are also a lot of creepazoids and jerkfaces."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-09 02:44 am UTC (link)
"Samantha Wilson, oh wow." America couldn't help but love the sound of that, they had Sam Wilson in the dimension she spent the majority of her time in, but Samantha Wilson was a kind of change that America couldn't help but love hearing about. This place itself was pretty cool, but what she found that was maybe cooler was Gwen and the place that she was from.

So maybe her idea that everyone was just a woman where Gwen was from was a little bit of a generalization but she liked hearing that things were so different there that it wasn't just one variation on a million others of the life they were living in the dimension she was from. "There are a lot of those no matter what dimension you're from." She admitted with a laugh, "It sounds like you're from a pretty cool place though, I'll bet they'll come around eventually. I think most of us tend to have a little while where people aren't sure what to think of us. They used to be like that back when I was on the Teen Brigade." America explained, though it had been more like the official Avengers had trouble with them, but that was besides the point. "They just need a little time to get to know you."

It would be hard, America knew that much, but she had a feeling people would see that Gwen really was the hero she was trying so hard to be. After all, everyone loved Spider-Man, it only made sense they'd love Spider-Woman. "Come on, let's see what other things we can find, I am going to have to bring Kate through later and make sure she sees all this."

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-09 06:05 pm UTC (link)
"She's cool," Gwen on to say. "She helped me out of a scrape and I think she likes me, so, score one for Spider-Woman. You'd think if Captain America vouches for you that other people would get on board but, eh." She shrugged. The billboards, newspaper articles, police chases, and general disdain suggested otherwise. Murder accusations weren't exactly easy to overcome when it was so much easier to throw blame on someone. Gwen might not have taken it so hard if it was someone other than Peter. It still would've sucked, but being blamed for her best friend in the whole world's death was pretty shitty no matter how one looked at it. The worst part? She could handle randos hating on her. But the worst was hearing Ben Parker go off on Spider-Woman. May was less explosive about it but Gwen knew the feelings were the same. That was the worst part. They loved Gwen like a niece, but they despised Spider-Woman because they thought she killed their nephew.

Although she wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, it did feel comforting to know that in Starklandia she was surrounded by a lot of people who'd undergone the world being against them at one point or another. If not the world, then at least a group of people, and for the wrong reasons. She didn't feel as alone as she did back home and that too, was pretty foreign. Gwen operated better alone than she did with a team but maybe that was just because she wasn't used to anyone having her back. She liked having friends again though; that she did know, and she liked the idea of America being one of them.

"I definitely want to see Jan's reaction to all of this, too," she said, thinking another trip was in order later. She walked with America once they'd gotten their shirts, and moved on to another vendor. "Comic books?" She started flipping through them. "But these are people back in Starklandia. Why are they in these books?" She held up a few of them that had the likes of Iron Man, Captain America, and a few other people she didn't recognize on them.

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-09 07:04 pm UTC (link)
America huffed softly and nodded, "Sounds like it's hard to know what Captain America thinks of you in any dimension." It was one of those things about Cap really, their sense of right and wrong was kind of difficult to fit yourself into from time to time, at least in America's experience. But Gwen was right, you'd think if Captain America said you were okay things would be all good. "If Cap says you're good they'll come around, even if it takes them a little while to get their heads out of their asses." America was sure of that much, stigma might have surrounded Gwen initially for whatever reason but she was sure people would sort it out - and if Cap said she was good then that was enough for America, no matter which version of Cap had said it.

Wandering through the booths, America saw all sorts of little things that caught her eye, whether it was art or little charms, more shirts and covers for phones, and then Gwen found some comic books and America frowned when Gwen showed her the one she'd opened with Iron Man and Captain America, "How would they have these?" Fans made sense sort of, you know she knew people loved the Avengers back home, they followed their movements and stuff like that, so she could see how a convention could be a thing if people were just really big fans, but this was something else.

"Do you think this stuff actually happened?" She asked opening one of the comic books and finding more of the same, reading through a little bit of it, it looked like the Avengers were just coming together for the very first time, there was some kind of attack on New York that they had to stop. "I mean ... how would people even know about all of this to create it?"

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-11 04:41 pm UTC (link)
Gwen knew about things like comics. Hell, the Steve Rogers in her world wrote and drew comics for Captain America. But what she was seeing now was different. Or was it? If Captain America had comics where she was from, wouldn't it stand to reason that others like Cap would have them, too? It was just weird to see them in person. Also kind of cool. It made her want to look for comics about Iron Man and Spider-Man, to read stories people made up about them.

The creepy aspect of it all kicked in when America posed the real question. Did this stuff actually happen? Or was it just a fictional story? That was when it'd get tricky. "Well," she said. "My dad's collection of Captain America comics are supposed to be based on real stuff she had to deal with. But I dunno if that's true or just a gimmick to sell comics." She'd ask Samantha -- if she ever saw her again.

"Maybe we could get some of these and take them back to ask. But at the same time, we wouldn't know which version of Iron Man this is so even if Mr. Stark said no, it could be another Mr. Stark, right?" She frowned, then flipped through another stack. "Whoa! That's you! Or it's um, it's one of you! Maybe? Those are those cool looking peeps on the shirt you showed me, too." She held up a Young Avengers comic.

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-11 09:10 pm UTC (link)
Well the Captain America stuff made sense he was a war hero, a propaganda machine from way back. So sure there were stories but they were embellished, made cooler and more intense to prove what America could do - but the rest of them? Anyone other than maybe Cap or even Iron Man? It seemed weird. But maybe it was the same sort of thing? They'd heard about the others and then make their own sort of embellished stories.

"Yeah that might not be a bad idea," She agreed flipping through an issue of an Iron Man comic trying to decide if the story sounded familiar or not until Gwen distracted her saying that she'd found America. "Wait me?" She dropped what she'd been looking at and stared at the cover that Gwen held up.

"Ay dios mio," Her eyes went wide because it wasn't just her and her friends on a shirt it was them on the cover of a comic book, she flipped it open and saw a story she recognized, not one of Iron Man's that she tried to piece together from the gossip she'd heard or news reports, but it was her and Loki standing outside Billy's bedroom. "Shit, this is real." She said quietly. "This is - I mean I did this," She flipped more quickly through the pages all of it directly from her life. "All of this."

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-15 06:26 pm UTC (link)
This was about the point where things started to get weird. And not weird in a cool, kind of entertaining way. No, this was weird border-lining on creepy. Gwen was not here for that. It wasn't really far-fetched to think that there might be people out there making comics and writing stories about 'heroes' like them and the others in Starklandia. As she'd said, the Steve Rogers from her world did it for Captain America and it was really popular. If people wanted to do that, to write stories and sell them then that was fine. Okay -- maybe she would've liked to have gotten a cut of the profits because hell, it'd be her in them. Well, it'd be Spider-Woman. Whatever. Not the point.

What was baffling was that America was telling her the things she was reading about did actually happen. Even that, maybe, she could explain because if the events that happened were made public someone could write about them. But what about pages that had private moments where the main person was alone? Or where conversations took place between them and only one other person? How did those details get in there? On top of that, there were comics that she was sure pertained to people from different parts of the multiverse. And they were all in one place.

"Uhh..." Gwen looked between America and the other stacks of comics. She gestured to the comic books. "This? This is a great big pile of nope. How do people know all of this stuff? Because if what happened in that is something that really happened to you then I bet that's the case for all of these and I don't even want to know why they're all together because most of us are from different universes."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-15 11:43 pm UTC (link)
There was always someone watching, America was sure of that but like this? That felt impossible, especially to see it laid out exactly as it had happened like this. Maybe someone could tell a publisher their stories but it wouldn't have come out so exact, of that much she was certain, and this was exact. And it wasn't just her stories, there were others here too - stacks and stack and stacks of them, so many more than she or Gwen had time to look through today or even in a few days. It was overwhelming to see it all and know - or at least suspect, that inside each of these comic books were the true stories of someone else, maybe someone she knew, or maybe someone she'd never known but that her story was true lead her to believe they all had to be, it would be too much of a coincidence for it only to be true of the Young Avengers.

A big pile of nope was really a great way to describe it, it sent a chill down her spine thinking people reading everything about her life like this. Was everything in these books? Her moms? The Teen Brigade? Sotomayor University? It felt like too much. "Well it explains why people know us." She said after a moment, what it didn't explain was why they were there at all.

"I don't even want to think about how they got all of this, I mean are these people here watching us all the time? Do they get to look through the multiverse? Do they even know?" It felt like maybe they didn't after they'd been asked for pictures and to pose like that, like they were just pretending, no one looked at America and Gwen and suspected they were actually from these books. But it was still weird.

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-17 11:22 am UTC (link)
Gwen really did not like the idea of someone out there knowing everything about them all. It'd be one thing if these comic books were written purely for entertainment purposes. That wasn't a big deal to her. Was she overly enthusiastic about it? No. But it made sense. People liked to sensationalize super heroes. It made her wish she could talk to Samantha back home and ask her if the stories Steve Rogers wrote about her were real or not. But she also kinda wasn't sure if she wanted to know.

Although she'd not really given any of them a thorough read just yet, some of the pages she'd skimmed showed conversations between people. Gwen was kind of a lone figure in her world. That is, most of her time spent as Spider-Woman, she was operating alone. And even when she wasn't being a Spiderling, she was by herself a lot because she'd shut out so many people in her life. If she were to find a comic about herself and saw pages with her inner monologue written and the words were actually true, well, that'd be freakish as hell and she'd definitely be well on her way toward panic-mode. Because seriously? Yikes. Why would anyone want to read her thoughts about extreme guilt and her craving for corndogs?

"I don't know," she said. "No one here seems to know we're.. them." She gestured by waving her hand at the books. "Maybe, er, maybe we should just look for more shirts and step away from the creepy unauthorized biographies."

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[info]starsandhearts
2019-04-18 11:01 pm UTC (link)
It had been one thing to think that this was just a gathering of fans, fans of them as actual people but to think that they were fans of these books... these incredibly invasive books. Yeah Gwen was probably right about their next course of action. "Yeah," She agreed with a huff, "I think maybe that's probably the way we should play this." She could think about what all of this meant later, maybe she'd hope that the doors would stop sending them here and they could forget that this place even existed. You know other than having some shirts with their faces on them. But that she could handle.

"I think-" She said glancing around, "That I saw some food over that way, maybe we should check that out instead?" Because no matter what else was happening, food was safe, and well this was real actual food, not just snacks that had been stolen on trips through the doors or meat over fires. That was something she could appreciate.

She had to make herself put down the book she'd picked up - it was too strange seeing her memories being played out in detail like this.

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[info]itsybitsyspidey
2019-04-19 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Getting away from those books was probably for the best. Gwen had thought about maybe getting a few to take back with her and ask those the comics featured if they recognized anything in them, but ultimately she opted against it. For one, it freaked her out. Personally, she didn't want to read any stories written about her because one, they were probably not written in the best light. Two, that was creepy because this wasn't her world. How did they know things like that if they weren't from her world? At first she thought maybe she was just being paranoid but the fact that America was skeeved out by it too solidified her in her decision to back up, step away from the books, and proceed to find sustenance instead.

Much better idea.

Stress eating sounded like a really awesome thing to do right now and she was all about it. It might make her suit a little uncomfortable for a bit until the food baby wore off but she wasn't worried about it. "Yep, yeah, we're totally doing that. I hope they have corndogs." That would definitely take some of the edge off. Nothing really said stress reliever like manufactured meat covered in deep fried batter on a stick.

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