005 ¤ [video]

[fe_male]

Oh, fantastic. This place again. Thrilling. So happy to see you all again. JARVIS, daddy's home.

Text; filter to Tali:
[ because. uhm. who are you you're in his room. ]

hope you haven't broken anything in the apartment yet. watch out for the blender btw

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[gamora]

Never heard of them. Must be a universe thing.

[ and Gamora has a pretty solid working knowledge of alien species. ]

[fe_male]

[ /shrug. ] Maybe. I don't know.

[gamora]

It's not as if anyone cares about the Earth to begin with.

[fe_male]

Uhm. Hey?

[gamora]

[ sometimes Gamora forgets that 1) people have a connection to their homeworlds and 2) think that the universe cares about their planet ]

Well it's hardly important.

[fe_male]

[ well he wasn't thinking 'the universe' so much as just 'the six billion people who live there', although there's a compelling argument for how much someone wants your world when they start to literally fight you for it ]

That's a pretty insular point of view.

[gamora]

It's realistic. You're one planet without spaceflight in a universe where empires span solar systems.

[ hey, invasions of planets by other races is commonplace and not her problem. ]

[fe_male]

We fly into space! There's no human empire yet but come on.

[gamora]

[ She shrugs. ]

Get used to it.

[fe_male]

Actually I think that's honestly one of those conceptions that most people would consider worth bucking.

[gamora]

Your planet doesn't even know when the universe needs saving, let alone does anything about it.

[ Three times now, actually, in quick succession. ]

It isn't important when compared to the rest of the galaxy. You don't have to like it, but that's the way it is.

[fe_male]

If I put great big round baby eyes on it, you think that would trigger some protective instincts?

[gamora]

Flark no. Someone will blast it out of the galaxy sooner rather than later.

[fe_male]

Angry anime ones then. Like the new Wal-Mart logo.

[gamora]

Considering no one in the galaxy would know what either of those things are? No.

[fe_male]

[ ....wait. ]

You don't have Wal-Mart or anime?

[gamora]

It's space.

[ There's probably some sort of a galactic equivalent, but by those names? Nope. Gamora does, however, know about ALF.

Don't ask. ]

[fe_male]

That hardly means there's no culture to speak of.

[gamora]

Not Terran culture. You have your large, galaxy spanning empires and your more smaller, local ones and everything in between.

And then you have places like Earth. Third-world planets.

[fe_male]

[ .... ]

We really are pretty low on the intergalactic food chain, aren't we?

[gamora]

Don't take it personally, your species can't help it.

[ Except for a few individuals, but most of them don't really count as human anymore. ]

[fe_male]

Hmm. Thank... you?

[gamora]

Sure thing, Stark.