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Gordon, Barbara Gordon (batgirlbabs) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-07-23 14:21:00

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barbara gordon, john crichton (fs)

Who: Barbara Gordon and John Crichton
Where: Around Town
When: Today
What: Maybe a dose of reality?

Things had been strange this month, first everyone getting sick, and the doors closing the way they had, and then the werewolf? Barbara almost felt like she was back at home again, it was the kind of craziness that she would have expected from Gotham. But not here in this quiet little town she had been stuck in for too long now.

But here she was - in her reality that included more super powered people than she was entirely comfortable with, and magic, and monsters, and so many things that defied explanation that she had stopped trying to quantify it a while back.

Today though, had seemed mostly normal so far, nothing too interesting had happened just yet, but she knew how quickly that could change and so she was ready for something to change if it happened.

The Library was a good place for a mostly normal sort of day though, so Barbara felt like chances were high things would be fine here. She was going through stacks of books when she heard someone come in. They were still working on bulking up the collection and making it what one could look at and agree it was a real library and not just their sad attempts at calling a handful of books a library. But it was a work in progress - which is what was so clearly on display when she heard someone come in. "Hi, lemme put these down." She called out.

"Hi," Say what you would about this place, but it was helping her work on her introduction skills if nothing else. There was always someone new to meet. "I'm Barbara, I don't think we've met yet."

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batgirlbabs
2019-07-23 09:14 pm UTC (link)

"Oh man, really?" Barbra asked surprised when he told her that DVDs were still new for him. She barely remembered VHS and sure DVDs had been cool, but the world as all blu ray these days. "That's gotta be a trip. So like... did you have CDs yet?" She wondered with an eager grin, because this was kind of great and she'd love to hear a little bit more about where he was from.

"Yeah, yeah we've got DVD players, we've got some portable ones and every now and then we've done movie night and hooked it up to a projector and watched something together." She told him. It was kind of nice, it reminded her of some imagined simpler time, where people could just kind of come together for no other reason than just to hang out - like the sort of idealized version of the 50s you saw in movies minus the racism and sexism - mostly.

"No I get it, it's crazy." She nodded, because it was - she was fully aware that the majority of them had no choice about coming here. "I mean the sort of pocket dimension sort of thing seems right? As right as anything can in our current situation that is." She shrugged. "I haven't really had any experience with a wider dimension than my own, and we've only had really minimal exposure to aliens. Nothing quite like this. So this is all sort of outside my experience." It was probably what was most frustrating, she made plans, she figured things out and made a plan to fix it to set things right, but now - that didn't seem to be in the cards.

"I think it's more than just some little place we all slipped into though, there is some larger force at work, whether that is just some sort of ripple throughout the larger multiverse or a figurehead pulling the strings I'm not sure - but there is something outside our realities that made this happen." Of that much she was certain.