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[Today is a good day for serious business, apparently. There's a certain something he's been putting off for a while, and after one-too-many dreams interrupting his sleep, he's had enough: this morning when Billy wakes up, the first thing he does is jot out a note in the journal-]

[Private to Ben Grimm]

Hey, would it be okay if I swung by to ask you a few things?

[He'll work through his morning routine until he gets a response, after which he'll go for a visit and get a hell of a lot more than he bargained for.

After that, his mood for the day is drastically altered; he'll skip out on school, trying to sort out his feelings on the matter. Tommy's still AWOL, and he's trying not to worry Teddy, but what he's just been told has really got him thinking- about people, and heroes, and the unfairness of mankind in general. And eventually he'll just go ahead and return to his journal for it. He's kind of in over his head here.]

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I know Luceti's full of heroes- seems kind of a standard trait for most of us, for whatever reason. Back on my world, super-humans aren't that uncommon, and in general they're revered for everything they do for the world. Some of them were born that way, and some of them are from other planets, and some were altered to get their powers, and some have a lot of talent or skill instead of powers. But they're all considered to be super heroes. There's bad guys, too- just as diverse and unique as the heroes they fight. People fear them and celebrate their defeat.

There's another group, though... humans who got their powers because of evolution. It's much more natural, in a lot of ways. Some are heroes, some are villains. Some are just trying to get by without becoming one or the other. But regular humans fear them, and hate them for it, even if they save the world just as much as the heroes they love. They're called criminals or monsters, no matter how innocent they might be.

[He hesitates- it's probably obvious to some, what he's talking about, and he's not sure if he should lock it from the mutant population, or apologize, or something, but it relates to them even if it's not by name. Hiding it wouldn't be right.

In the end he just leaves it be.]

...Sorry for the ramble. But it's not fair, and... I just can't understand why. Why hate one and love the other, when they're basically the same?

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Very weird. Good thing competent people like us exist.

Come on, competent? After you've saved the world at least once you're allowed to get a bit of an ego.

True. I wasn't sure how well 'enormous badasses' would go down as a tag line.

Who needs a tagline when your enormous badassery speaks for itself?

I'll bear that in mind when they come to make a movie.

Actually, back home that's the one thing they didn't do. The last Avengers movie I saw was the most campy, inaccurate action flick ever. They didn't even get the costumes right.

[He's a stickler for comic canon anyway.]

You mean they found something more campy than purple spandex? I'm impressed.

Will you still be impressed if I told you they combined your worst outfits into one? Because it was pretty horrible.

...there was more than one terrible outfit? Geez, I'm just... apparently I'm the Hawkeye who got the fashion sense.

That's what you get for not having a fashionista like our Hawkeye on the team. Our uniforms have style.

I'll bear that in mind. Make sure we have a good designer on hand. Do you think Dolce and Gabbana would do superhero costumes if we asked real nice?

I think they've already done a few of the European super hero outfits, actually. It's kind of a big industry these days, designing costumes.

That's cool. Coulson will be happy. He's always trying to get me to wear nice clothes. He can't complain if it's a D&G superhero outfit, right?

I know I couldn't. Though you'd need a heck of a budget to afford those costumes, especially with how often they get ripped up in battle.

...I have money. Not like I spend much at the best of times. [SHIELD paid him well and assassinations didn't come cheap.]

Well, there you go. When the Avengers gain some popularity back home, look them up and see if anything comes of it.

I'll do that. Before Coulson takes it on himself to do the designs like he did with Cap.

[He's carefully not thinking about the fact that Coulson is... well.]

...He made Cap's costume design?

[Is that why it looks kind of... modern? Not that there's anything inherently wrong with Cap's uniform back home, but it's definitely not what anyone would call fashionable.]

Well, he had significant input when they were redesigning it after SHIELD pulled him from the ice.

...well, assuming he hadn't started before then. He's kind of a fan.

...You know? I can't even judge. I'd probably be doing the exact same thing if I was in a position to do so. Probably with fewer spangles and more skin.

He has trading cards. Mint condition. He has special plastic cases for them.

And it is kind of a crime that he stays so covered up all the time. I can't imagine many would argue with you.

...Never thought I'd be jealous of a SHIELD agent.

[Stranger things have happened. Trading cards, though. They're probably war-era. That is so beyond cool.]

I bet Cap would argue if he heard us gossiping, though.

Coulson's not just any SHIELD Agent. He's one of a kind.

[He can't help but grin at how impressed Billy sounded.]

Cap isn't here. I'm not planning on telling him we had this conversation or my thoughts on his uniform.

I'll try to remember that.

[He's only met Coulson like, once outside of the occasional neighbourly waves. He'll have to try and remember the cards, too, next time they meet.]

Actually, on that note, he can be convinced to strip for a good cause- sort of.

He threatened to taze Stark and watch Supernanny. I figure that's worth something.

[That grabs his interest and he grins.]

Oh really? Now this I have to hear.

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