ask all the questions.

[madscenes]

A QUESTION FOR A QUESTION
YOU MAY KNOW EACH OTHER ALREADY - OR YOU MAY NOT. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU'RE NOW PASSING THE TIME ASKING EACH OTHER QUESTIONS. IT'S A GAME! A QUESTION FOR A QUESTION. YOU START OFF ASKING YOUR OPPONENT A QUESTION OF CHOICE AND IF THEY ANSWER IT, THEY'RE ALLOWED TO ASK YOU A QUESTION IN TURN. THE RULES ARE SIMPLE, ONLY AS LONG AS YOU ANSWER THE OTHER PERSON'S QUESTIONS ARE YOU ALLOWED TO ASK QUESTIONS YOURSELF, BUT THERE IS NO EXPECTATION OF TRUTHFULNESS HERE, LIE IF YOU MUST OR WANT, JUST KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING.


How to play -

1. Comment with your character's name, fandom and preference.
2. If you want, leave a question in the comment field that your character is asking their opponent. Or don't. I'm not the cops.
3. Pick other characters to question and have fun!

Comments

[starkinternship]

Oh that's cool! And maybe scary. Or super weird if you're not used to it.

What's the other thing you're trying?

[He gets super excited about superpowers.]

[phasing_cat]

Promise you'll catch me if I fall?

[Normally she'd just phase through the floor, but that tends to freak people out who aren't used to seeing it. And Peter's been so accepting so far, she doesn't want to push her luck.]

[starkinternship]

Of course! Probably faster than you're falling even.

[phasing_cat]

Right. Almost forgot.

[It hasn't completely sunk in, that he's Spiderman. She knows it, and she believes it, but it still feels odd to associate him with enhanced abilities. He was supposed to be her step outside of the mutant world - an attempt at normal. Apparently normal wanted nothing to do with her.

She backs his desk chair into the door, then steps up onto it (he's sitting on his bed, and Aunt May has no idea Kitty's even there, thanks to some clever phasing through the currently unoccupied apartment on the other side of Peter's bedroom wall). Wearing her very focused face, she steps off the chair and into the air in front of it. From there she takes another step forward, this time up a little higher, then another, like she's climbing the world's tiniest stairs.

[starkinternship]

[He'd definitely apologize for not being 'normal' like she'd expected. But he can't undo being Spider-Man.

He watches her taking tiny steps on the air and is fascinated. He's loves learning about other people's superpowers.]

That is so cool!

[phasing_cat]

[She grins and wobbles a little before walking over to the bed. Well, over the bed. She holds out her hand.]

You wanna try?

[She's pretty sure she can do it, even though she hasn't tried it with someone else before. And she's still falling a lot. That's why it's safer over the bed.]

[starkinternship]

Are you ready to add more people to your new trick?

[He's totally game - he just wants to make sure it's not going to hurt her or drain her energy too much.]

[phasing_cat]

I think so.

[They're going to find out, anyway. She's phased other people before. This shouldn't be that much harder.]

I wouldn't do it with just anyone. You're special.

[starkinternship]

What, you're okay possibly dropping me because you know I can stick to the ceiling?

[He's teasing. He probably is the best choice for testing this out for exactly that reason.

He takes her hand and waits for her to get them started.]

I'm trusting you not to drop me.

[phasing_cat]

It's not like I'd be dropping you into a pit of hot lava.

[She doesn't think that his stickiness would work in a phased state, but she can't say for certain. He can totally trust her. She even laces their fingers together, so he knows that she's got a grip on him that's secure.]

Go ahead, try and take a step.

[starkinternship]

You don't know. Maybe the floor is lava.

[It isn't. And he's not six, so he doesn't actually play that game anymore.]

Okay...

[He's skeptical, though he's not sure why. He knows all sorts of people with superpowers. But, he takes a tentative step and doesn't immediately fall on his face, so that's promising.]

If this works - it'll be so cool...

[phasing_cat]

[She lowers herself to stand on the bed, since it'll be easier to to phase one person at a time. And when it works for him, it's all she can do not to jump up and down like a dork.]

Phasing seems like it's not a huge thing, but it's so much cooler than I can describe. Keep going.

[starkinternship]

Not sure who's telling you that being able to go through things without breaking them isn't cool, but they are so wrong.

[He takes a few more small steps - he doesn't want to do something to overload her power.]

So, if you move atoms around or something to go through things - how does that work with the air so you can levitate? Because the physics on that shouldn't be the same - solid matter and the gases in the air are, by definition, not the same, so how does that work?

[A lot of this is him just thinking out loud. He realizes she may not actually know the answers to any of these questions, but the theorizing has to get out of his head or it'll twist his brain up.]

[phasing_cat]

[She has theories, but no definite answers. The nature of her mutation is such that it is hard to study. You can't exactly put her in a particle accelerator.]

I think it's more about the space between atoms. Or the vibratory rate. I wish I knew but I can't ask a random physicist, you know?

[He's a little higher than she is now, so she takes a step up so they're on the same level. Face to face. Her light brown eyes to his dark brown.]

Maybe I'm compressing the air atoms to make something solid enough to stand on?

[starkinternship]

Yeah. And this is a little beyond what I know about physics.

But - compressing atoms might be a thing. I have a feeling that a lot of our superpowers are mostly in the realm of what the world thinks of as 'theoretical physics'. Meaning - there are theories that might explain the stuff, but it might not actually explain it, you know?

[When he stops babbling and looks up at her, she's looking right at him.]

Hi. [he says nervously. Maybe more shy than nervous.]

[phasing_cat]

Hi.

[She's still figuring him out, but she's seen enough to know that if anything's going to happen between them, she's gonna have to be the one to step out on the limb, so to speak. She decides to give him one last chance to make a move before she does. Her eyes glance down at the several inches between their feet and the bed.]

Pretty cool, huh?

[starkinternship]

[He glances down at their feet, then back up at her.]

Very cool! I feel like if I stop concentrating I'll fall - which is kinda weird.

[He squeezes her hand a little tighter - not enough to hurt, just to keep his balance that wavered a bit when he said the thing about concentrating. He does want to kiss her, but, yeah, he's nervous about it.]

[phasing_cat]

[She laughs a little, because she's the one who needs to concentrate, but she's getting more and more preoccupied with thinking about kissing. It only gets worse when she actually kisses him, completely losing her hold on her power and sending them falling onto the bed, tangled up together in a way she's not at all mad about.]

Oops.

[starkinternship]

[Oh - that... that kiss is really nice, if a little surprising. It still flusters him when people want to be that close to him. But he's not so flustered that he doesn't kiss back. He rests a hand on her back, ready to move his other hand to her shoulder or the side of her face when he's suddenly landing on his bed with a girl on his chest.]

Um yeah - wow.

[He's laughing.]

Haven't fallen out of the air while kissing someone before.

[phasing_cat]

[She's laughing too, but trying really hard not to be loud because she's not supposed to be there in the first place.]

Me neither.

[And now she's laying on top of him and it should be weird and she should probably get up but that kiss was something else and since he's right there... she kisses him again.]

[starkinternship]

[He's listening really close to see if May heard them at all. It doesn't sound like it, so they're good for a bit still.]

We can skip the falling part next time.

[Then she's kissing him again and he's more than okay with it. He brushes a hand over her hair, letting his fingers settle at the back of her neck.]

[phasing_cat]

[His touch tickles slightly, making her smile. It's not enough to make her stop kissing him, his lips soft against her own. Her hair falling into his eyes does, though, and she giggles as she sits up to pull it back.]

Sorry about that.

[She doesn't have anything to tie it with, so she loosely twists it behind her head and tucks it into the back of her shirt. It might look strange, but it'll have to do.]

[starkinternship]

It's okay. This is good too.

[He giggles a little when her hair tickles his face, but draws her back in for another kiss once she tucks it out of the way.]

[phasing_cat]

[She loses track of how long they stay like that, one kiss blurring into another, until there's a knock on the door and Peter's aunt announces that dinner's ready. Kitty scrambles off of him and by the time she recovers from the shock, she sees that she's phased part-way into the bed, half on her way to hiding underneath it if she needs to.]

[starkinternship]

[He's trying not to laugh as Kitty phases half-way through the bed. He'd acknowledged May about dinner so she wouldn't poke her head in, so they'll be good if they don't make too much noise.]

You okay?