spiders, in, SPAAAAAACE

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CHARACTERS: peter parker & [ insert character here ]
LOCATION: just round the ship
DATE: start of september-ish
CONTENT: tdm continuations
WARNINGS: spiders

see comments for starters. if you'd like to plot something out in advance of a mission, hit me up via pm or meowed!

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[spacedisaster]

[ It's also not a joy to be on the other end, to know people when you're a stranger to them. It happened to Quill twice in the same week, and it's pretty tragic. At least Peter didn't try to knee him in the stomach. The question about Tony's health, however, has Quill looking like Peter did just that, and he can't but mutter a guilty; ]

No, he's not. But he's alive. [ Which is much better than how he was the last time Quill was on Earth. He's going to reach out and grab those fries and munch on one because, much like Peter, he's going to stress eat in an attempt to calm himself down. He still looks utterly miserable. ] It's all right, we might be from different timelines, or universes...who knows at this point.

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( two boys stress eating and avoiding the implications of being existentially known and unknown all at once. at least the space fries are pretty good. so is the space hot dog. it eases the uncomfortable ache of trying to wrap their heads around something so vast and unknowable and maddening. )

Let me guess, that's not how it is back where you're from. ( it makes Peter's heart thunder uncomfortably. dead, dead, dead. yeah, maybe it is for the best he's hashing it on his own. slightly less people dead, though it wouldn't be fair to say that number is zero, either. ) My head hurts thinking about all this, ( Peter confesses, taking another sullen bite from his hot dog. )

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[ Sometimes there's nothing else you can do while the brain processes everything that is going on. Rather than answering a question Peter already figured out, Quill shakes his head. Tony Stark and a lot of other good and innocent people were killed, and this time there's no bringing them back. ]

I think I had enough of it for a day, too. Let's talk of something else. Something that makes him feel less raw and guilty. Ever been in space before?

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( sometimes you gotta just turn off the heavy thoughts and focus on something a little easier to wrap your head around. inane conversation and bad jokes fit the bill perfectly, so unsurprisingly, Peter will go with that. )

Yeah. For sure. ( Peter munches through the last bite of his hot dog as he is momentarily contemplative. ) Right now. Did you mean before that? Because in that case no.

( space travel was very restricted and expensive on Earth in Peter's time, and frankly since there's no New York in outer space (to his knowledge), he can't say he was particularly excited to go anyway. scientifically intrigued sure, though desperate to hop aboard a research vessel for the sake of seeing space? no not really. ) That said, I thought the food would be... I dunno. Greener? Weirder? Less like you got it off a street vendor? ( he's not complaining, but also kinda weird, right? )

[spacedisaster]

[ Given how this is their first conversation and Quill already overwhelmed Peter with the fact he knew of him before, something lighter to talk about is very much needed. If they can manage it, that's it. ]

Yeah, before all this. There's a big, big galaxy out there with plenty of fun places to see and people to meet. It can get really weird at times, this station seems mostly tailored to humanoids, humans especially...it's not like this out there. Have I mentioned one of my teammates is a talking tree? The other is a raccoon that builds bombs for fun.

end here ??? possibly ???

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Nah. The US shut down a bunch of space programs. We have to piggyback off other countries, most of it's like... shuttles and rovers, now. Only rich pricks are planning to go to space anymore.

( Fuck Jeff Bezos, from all the way up here in space!!!! what was he talking about again? maybe nothing, because Peter just talked about having a talking tree and a demolition expert raccoon on his team. )

A raccoon? How does that work? I mean they're smart, but not build a bomb smart. And what sort of stuff does a tree like to talk about, if you're gonna bring it up.

( Peter can feel the conversation past the heavy stuff, which he's grateful for. he could sit here and eat and talk about the oddities of Peter's space adventures for hours, and maybe at some point during the nonsense the vice in his chest will get a little lighter.

hopefully. )

It's a wrap :>

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That's so sad. There's a lot to learn out there: advances tech advanced medicine, questionable fashion choices...rich pricks always ruin that.

[ Quill scrunches up his nose at the news. Tony Stark is probably one of the few exceptions to the rich prick rule, however, but even he and Quill clashed at the beginning. ]

He's not a normal raccoon. He was experimented on, which is fucked up, but he can walk upright, he can talk, has a really bad tolerance for alcohol, and is far stronger than he looks. Groot doesn't talk all that much, but boy, he swears a lot...

[ This is a better subject of conversation and the next hour, Quill talks about his team, how Drax and Mantis wouldn't understand sarcasm if it hit them with a hammer, how they first bonded in jail and saved the galaxy with a dance-off...he's only vague when he mentions Gamora, and doesn't really bring up Ego or Thanos. He asks Peter how things are in his world, as they eat everything on sight. ]