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It's still kind of a mood and conversation killer. [He is aware of that much.] Also, you know, heavy to drop on someone like this.

I look forward to trying the creepy pizza, or avoiding it maybe trying to eat me. Depends on what it's like anyway.

Better that than having to dance around the subject with me for months on end. [She smiles.]

I wonder if there are any major differences between our New Yorks. Like... we've both had alien invasions from completely different aliens. Wonder if the Big Apple is just lucky like that.

I guess that is true. It's- really not a topic that's great to dance around.

There are superheroes in my world, but, as far as I know, no mutants? [Damn it, MCU.] Or it could just be a New York thing for sure. New York just kind of attracts the weirdest stuff.

New York do be like that, it's true.

[Superheroes, huh.]

...by any chance, does your New York have a spider guy and some older dude in a nanotech suit?

[lol]

New York gotta New York.

[Play it cool, Peter.]

Yeah, Iron man and Spider-Man. There are a lot of other superheroes too.

Man, that's gotta be chaotic. I've met both of them here, they seem pretty cool. Not what I expected superheroes to be, but that's growing up on cartoons for ya. [Grin.]

[Peter huffs a little in amusement at that, loosening up a bit further.] Chaotic is, right honestly. Superheroes always kinda make stuff chaotic, but cool.

[The fact he's a bit of a superhero fanboy starts to become obvious as he continues.]

The first big alien invasion was stopped by the Avengers, which was Iron Man, Captain America, whose here too- and Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor and Hulk. I was like, maybe eleven when all of that happened.

Hmm. [They coulda done with some superheroes for their own invasion. The guys were more than up to scratch, but maybe they wouldn't have got so hurt.] Why is he called Iron Man when that suit is absolutely not iron?

Oh, and who came first? Black Widow or Spider-Man? [Sounds like a copyright issue, man.

...did he mean Thor as in the Norse god? Nah, probably just someone riffing on the name.]

I think he made his original suit out of iron. He was like held captive in a cave by a terrorist cell since they wanted him to make them weaponry. [Perfectly normal thing to drop in a conversation.]

Technically Black Widow, but I think Spider-Man is pretty cool. Black Widow is like a super spy, and I'd rather not like offend her or anything.

[Blink.]

Should I just stop asking questions about where you're from, or...

[YOUR HOME IS FULL OF MINEFIELDS]

Oh- uh, no, sorry. [Immediately apologetic.] It's just kind of like that-? A lot of times, but not everything is bad. I mean. Norse gods are real, and kind of cute. At least Thor is?

[Very helpful save.]

Oh, I heard about Thor. Something about people trying to lift his hammer?

Were they-? [Unfortunately for April, Peter was not at the party this took place at.] ...Did Mr. Stark tell you that? He knows Thor. I really don't. I've seen him on TV before though.

[That's okay, at this point in the timeline she didn't expect you to be.]

Apparently he tried lifting it with his power armour and everything. Cheating! But yeah, he told me Loki was here, so we talked about Thor a bit.

Thor seems really cool, my only beef with him is how he changed physics classes with his hammer. [He feels like if anyone is going to get the pain of high school suffering, its April.]

The whole physics class I was in had to get rewritten like four times to account for his hammer, and how it works. I had to re-do assignments, it was terrible.

[Oh wow. So much sympathy, Peter.]

The guy's literally a Norse God, right? Do physics even apply to him?

It's enough that he's leveled buildings and made storm fronts move in with his hammer. [Peter says with a long suffering sigh.]

I call bullshit. No way normal non-God scientists could get a bead on how stuff like that would work. Like, isn't his hammer unliftable unless someone's worthy? How does that get judged, scientifically?

It counted enough, so much of the class had to be re-tooled. It stopped be like fun after I realized it was going to keep changing.

It's even worse, since Thor and Loki are technically sort of aliens? They live in a completely different planet. They have their own planet that doesn't even adhere to earth's standards.

[Interesting question for the philosophy majors: are gods just aliens we don't understand yet? Probably, makes as much sense as anything else.]

Then that's really dumb. Man, get a prof from the alien planet to come down and teach, that way he's at least teaching you in the right ballpark.

[Because that's totally logical. But it's more logical than trying to teach physics around something that says fuck your physics, what even.]

Like that will ever happen, Asgard is like- way out there. [Peter is absolutely unaware asgard probably blew up at some point. MCU too much of a tangled web.]

That's not including we had to like- retake an entire semester after I came back from the snap. I did finals already and passed! Yet, they made me retake it! [Time for some normal-ish teen problems.]

[Normal-ish teen problems yes, but you just mentioned something that's gonna make her drive this ship right into landmine territory again, woo!]

What's the snap? [Like a cold snap, right? Right?]

[He done did this to both of them this time.]

Lost five years of my life, as did half the universe. Its a whole thing, I have no idea if you even want to get into that.

[He is giving April an out.]

...uh.

[Sorry, Peter, her reaction is very much a blue-screen. A whole universe? She is, for once, struck speechless.

For a few seconds.]

...supervillain...thing? [It's all she's got.]

[What April is learning from this attempted shovel talk with Peter;

This boy's world has PROBLEMS.

Peter at least seems apologetic for dropping that on her.]

Yeah, supervillain thing. The guy was a jerk.

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cw: terrorism mention (I guess??), captivity

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