[ Oof. Well geez, it's hard to talk about good-old-days superhero shenanigans in the same breath as an apocalyptic plague. ]
I see... I'm sorry to hear that. Truly.
[ For as much of his life as he's spent screwing around with other dimensions and worlds beyond understanding, Qubit has relatively little direct experience with alternate Earths in particular. But on his own, he's seen what basically amounted to an apocalypse, in the form of the Plutonian - and worse, humanity's desperate, suicidal, futile attempts to stop him. He's witnessed devastation on a comparable scale. Countries of billions, depopulated overnight. Entire cultures, destroyed. Streets choked with the dead and dying, and no one left who could answer their cries for help.
The key difference is that, ultimately, Tony had been able to stop it. By his calculations, there was still enough left of humanity to recover - to rebuild some of what they'd lost. It'll be a long road, he knows, and his Earth will never be the same.
But humans are nothing if not resilient. Reynir's Earth is living proof of that. It's a world where humanity is even more beleaguered, where the existential threat never ended - and yet, where little Iceland has survived ninety years past the end of the world. ]
I can go into the volcano story in a bit, but do you mind if I ask you some more questions first?
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I see... I'm sorry to hear that. Truly.
[ For as much of his life as he's spent screwing around with other dimensions and worlds beyond understanding, Qubit has relatively little direct experience with alternate Earths in particular. But on his own, he's seen what basically amounted to an apocalypse, in the form of the Plutonian - and worse, humanity's desperate, suicidal, futile attempts to stop him. He's witnessed devastation on a comparable scale. Countries of billions, depopulated overnight. Entire cultures, destroyed. Streets choked with the dead and dying, and no one left who could answer their cries for help.
The key difference is that, ultimately, Tony had been able to stop it. By his calculations, there was still enough left of humanity to recover - to rebuild some of what they'd lost. It'll be a long road, he knows, and his Earth will never be the same.
But humans are nothing if not resilient. Reynir's Earth is living proof of that. It's a world where humanity is even more beleaguered, where the existential threat never ended - and yet, where little Iceland has survived ninety years past the end of the world. ]
I can go into the volcano story in a bit, but do you mind if I ask you some more questions first?