+1 Squirrel Girl (Set after the meeting with the Green)

[unbeatablesg]

[After the meeting, Doreen decides it's a good idea to introduce herself. She can't do it during the meeting, especially after she showed up five minutes late with coffee, and leaving until any later it would end up being kind of awkward.

So, shortly after everything is over and done with and the campers are back in Rivendell, a woman with a squirrel tail and a squirrel with a pink bow both pop up on the mirrors ]

Hey guys, gals, and anyone who doesn't conform to a gender binary!

So that was all super intense, and most of you probably didn't even notice me popping in the back like 5 minutes in? Or maybe you did and were wondering who the girl with tthe awesome squirrel tail and the actual squirrel was but didn't think it was the right time to ask.

Most because it kinda wasn't?

Either way, hi! [Doreen waves.] I'm Doreen Green, aka The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and this is my pal Tippy-Toe. We're superheroes. No secret identity or anything, 'cause I got outed a little while back. I mostly just keep the codename for branding and to enforce a healthy work-life balance.

Also because it's awesome.

In case you're wondering, I've got the proportional abilities of a squirrel. Plus I can communicate with squirrels. Which I personally think is pretty cool.

I think that covers everything that's relevant right now, but if you've got any questions, or just wanna say hi, go head. I'm not gonna stop you.

Comments

[credit_not_blame]

[Guess they'll be instituting a new group rule about not chasing squirrels.]

Hi Doreen. Have you confirmed that you still have the powers you're familiar with at the same levels as you expect them to be? Because the Green has altered most of us - either to suppress our abilities, give us new ones, or both.

[unbeatablesg]

I think I might be a little weaker and slower than normal?

Also I don't have my knuckle spikes, but that's not a big deal? I don't use really use those most of the time. I don't really have a lot of reasons to stab people, and even if I did using bits of retractable bone to do it is usually a big no-no for anybody who doesn't have, like, a Wolverine-level immune system.

[credit_not_blame]

Okay, as long as you've noticed! The last thing any of us wants is for someone to get hurt because they can't do what they're expecting to be able to do.

I'm Stacia. I'm a werewolf, but not the kind that's contagious by bite. Have you met the Easter Bunny yet?

[unbeatablesg]

No way, the actual Easter Bunny? I mean, I saw the giant rabbit, he was hard to miss, but I didn't think he was the Easter Bunny.

That is so cool!

[credit_not_blame]

It is very cool.

[slowmotionbuscrash]

The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl? I've never heard anybody call you that.

[unbeatablesg]

Lots of people do. I beat up Thanos on two separate occasions. You sort of get a reputation after that.

[slowmotionbuscrash]

You beat up Thanos? By yourself?

He’s like an Avengers plus Fantastic Four threat. Did he have the space flu?

[unbeatablesg]

The first time he was using this pyramid thing-

<The Pyramatrix!>

Right, the Pyramatrix, thanks Tippy. Anyways, he was using to empower himself by draining everybody on Earth's life force, so when me and Tippy blew it up the feedback weakened him to the point where taking him down was pretty easy.

The second time? I stole his glove and punched him in face with it. There's actually a photo of that one.

[slowmotionbuscrash]

[ Pyramatrix sounds stupid, in name and design if it wrecked him that bad. Tommy doesn’t care enough to ask about the details, although that might be because he can’t keep a straight face if he has to hear the word Pyramatrix again.

Out of respect for Teddy and Billy, he’ll avoid telling their teammate her Thanos victory sounds dumb. It’s not her fault they declared the Young Avengers dead and then fucked off and joined a team with Squirrel Girl instead.

Her second story is great though, and Tommy barks out a laugh. ]

So it’s your profile pic, right?

[unbeatablesg]

Actually it's of me eating a banana split.

Which in retrospect was not the best choice, 'cause that's the one all the news stations used when Melissa Morbeck told everyone my secret identity.

[unsealthecatbox]

How did you stay hidden as a superhero when you have a squirrel tail out in the open like that?

['Tactfulness' is a myth for Ange Ushiromiya, apparently]

[unbeatablesg]

I hid it in my pants? Fur compacts down pretty easily, so it just looked like I had an awesome butt. Which, y'know, bonus.

[unsealthecatbox]

..........

[Ange seems skeptical, if the way she stares at the mirror is any indication. Surely it can't have been that easy! People aren't the sort to be fooled, and there are a million situations where a tail can slip out. Can it have been that easy?

Well, that probably is irrelevant, she figures. Oh well]

If you say so. Was being outed a good thing for you?

[She remembers hearing a mirror broadcast from Miles asking for advice about keeping secrets, so she has to wonder this!]

[unbeatablesg]

It could've been a lot worse? I could've done without all the bad guys I beat up coming after me for revenge, but that's mostly been dealt with and as a bonus I don't have to hide who I am anymore.

Plus, if anyone tries to get revenge again, all my friends either have superpowers or live with someone who does. And my parents live in Canada and have a version of Tommy's grandfather in the form of a giant oak tree with laser eyes living in their backyard, so all in all things should be fine.

[slowmotionbuscrash]

What do you mean there’s a version of my grandfather living as a tree in Canada in your grandparents front yard? With laser eyes?? Magneto’s on Krakoa.

[ Anyone paying attention at the meeting would have heard Gaia confirm that Krakoa was one of them, so that’s a really weird sentence. ]

[unbeatablesg]

Why would Magneto be living in my parents backyard? I meant Ultron.

[ahelpingpaw]

[Suddenly on Doreen's mirror a few words pop up, written with some rather messy handwriting]

careful when talking about oaks with tommy he has a traumatic experiences with a commune of murderous oaks

[Yeah, he wrote 'a traumatic experiences'. Filbo meant to send a friendly word of advice on this regard -- he stopped teasing Tommy when the kid brought it up, thinking it was a touchy topic -- but clearly the execution here is just him not keeping his grumpin' mouth shut.

Either way, Filbo made a miscalculation and didn't think this message would show up in everyone else's mirrors as well.

Thank goodness these don't come signed, there's plausible denial about who sent it, haha. At best one could have seen something blue for a moment, but it could have been the sky, who knows]

[millenyal_pink]

[Oh good, some bullshit to distract from Elle's emotions.]

As someone who previously lived with a murderous tree I take offense to that.

[unsealthecatbox]

[Ange nods. Perhaps this superhero should consider herself lucky, she thinks. This one seems to be handling her double life getting obliterated and exposed quite well.

Having a giant oak tree with laser eyes must help, she thinks]

What about getting the general public's attention on you? Are you getting any?

[Ange wouldn't wish the beast of public opinion onto anyone, that's for sure]

[kingofneworleans]

Bonjour, Mademoiselle Green. An' Tippy-Toe.

[Remy's sitting in one of the gardens, getting a little distance from...everybody. The meeting had been rather fraught. And while his empathic abilities may not be very STRONG, but that doesn't mean being trapped in a small area with a lot of angry people was pleasant in the least.]

Arrived at an interestin' time.

[unbeatablesg]

Oh hey Gambit!

[She'd never met him personally, but the X-Men were all over the place now thanks to Krakoa.]

Yeah, kinda nuts would be an understatement, even if it is one of my go-to puns.

[kingofneworleans]

[He's been outed as a member of the X-Men for years now, since Charlie went public with the school. So he simply tips his head in acknowledgement.]

I certainly ain't disagreein'. An' I'm sayin' dat as a man who has been runnin' 'round in de Ot'erworld entirely too much lately.

[unbeatablesg]

And I'm saying it as a girl who's clone started a squirrel utopia in the Negative Zone.

Oh! Speaking of clones, I haven't talked to Laura and Gabby for a bit. How are they and Jonathan settling in on Krakoa?

[kingofneworleans]

[He opens his mouth for a moment, because they WEREN'T talking about clones, but she mentions his favorite clones, so he decides to let it go.]

Dey're doin' good. Dey're makin' frien's wit' deir brother an', last I heard, Jonathan was settlin' in fine. Can't brin' 'im out to de Lighthouse 'cause de cats ain't really fans of his.