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Touch Football mega thread
There was a field not too far from Phoenix Effect that was too small for all the various sports leagues in the city to have snapped up for weekend practices or games, but big enough for the fairly flexible game of touch football, so that's where they played. People came and went for most of the afternoon, though the game itself only lasted an hour and change. Almost everyone played, but there were several people watching, choosing to cheer or heckle or talk amongst themselves as it suited them.
When everyone got together enough to actually start the game, they divided into two teams, with Matteo as the referee. Zach's team was made up of Hazel, Max, Hanne, Nori, Nick, Alex, and Oliver; Kyle had Elspeth, Joel, Carrie, Caleb, Irene, Sam, and Elena on his team. It wasn't a blowout, but Zach's team won by a few touchdowns and were crowned the victors. Despite a couple minor accidents, everyone came out of it in one piece. More or less.
When everyone got together enough to actually start the game, they divided into two teams, with Matteo as the referee. Zach's team was made up of Hazel, Max, Hanne, Nori, Nick, Alex, and Oliver; Kyle had Elspeth, Joel, Carrie, Caleb, Irene, Sam, and Elena on his team. It wasn't a blowout, but Zach's team won by a few touchdowns and were crowned the victors. Despite a couple minor accidents, everyone came out of it in one piece. More or less.
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"Pietro's friends aren't Avengers in his world. They're mutants. I think he said he and his boyfriend are in comic books, but their friend is also in movies. But not our movies." The only thing powerful enough to mess with reality on this level was the gauntlet, but even that didn't make sense. Not when Steve was there too, not when they'd ended up in a world with the same problems Thanos had supposedly been trying to solve.
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"I never thought much about how universes worked," Dani admitted. In both lives she'd had more immediate concerns to worry about and a lack of experience with pop culture that played with those kinds of ideas. "I'm Dani. In this universe, or however it works. Dani Worthington."
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"Wanda's fine." She felt more comfortably Wanda right then than she had so far. "I just wanted to make sure you knew. So you can find me, and for when other people are around." Like this football game, where it would be weird if she got called by two different names in front of strangers.
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Dani rolled her eyes with a small smile. "Seems a little unfair to deal with the code name when I don't have the powers to back it up," she retorted. She put her phone number and email in his contacts before she handed the phone back to him. "Steve should have it too, yes. I spend a lot of time in the library, so my phone's on silent a lot, but I check it pretty often."
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"I go to Tulane. And the public library is usually where I meet up with my brother. Dani's brother, not Pietro." Was it ever not going to be weird to have to differentiate the two?
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It was weird, thinking she might have crossed paths with either of them on campus and had no idea. "It was complicated before all this; I don't know if there's a word for what it is now."
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"I could make people see things, but not on this scale, not nearly. I have to assume it's real, and not a dream or an illusion or anything like that. For some definition of real. There are good reasons I'm not a philosophy major."
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One would think they'd both be used to experiencing culture shock by now, but it kept finding new flavors to come in. "I mean, someone on the internet would probably want to read it, still." Then again, Joel might not want to fuel the people on the internet discussing his experiences as purely fictional any more than Dani did.
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"Well there's an image that's going to pop into my head at some inopportune times," Dani noted wryly.
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"I...don't spend a lot of time on those kinds of places on the internet."
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"I don't think I'll be googling myself anytime soon. Too easy for it to mess with your head, no matter which life you're talking about." Dani had done a lot of work with boundary-setting for herself, tired of a lifetime of being inundated with things that could, that did, hurt her. But she also knew how tempting it was.
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