-4° | anywhen (text)

[catchacold]

We're already in some magical land that makes our dreams come true - mostly the bad ones - so let's think about the impossible some more.

[Leonard may be calling it "impossible" mostly to heckle one specific Brit, given he's travelled through time himself, but maybe it will also flush out other time travellers. May be interesting.]

If you could travel to any point in history, where and when would you go, and why?

Also, if you could travel to any point in your own personal history, your lifetime... Same questions.

Would you try to change anything?

[He has experience with trying and the resulting failure too.]

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[catchacold]

So, Earth wasn't ruled by some megalomaniac immortal with a really douchey beard?

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[crisised]

no? is that a thing where you're from?

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[catchacold]

Yeah. Vandal Savage, reason Mick and I went on our little trip. Take down a dictator. Very heroic, you see.

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[crisised]

i know that name. i think i read about him in some files. never ran into him myself though

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[catchacold]

You're not missing much. Abusive, power-hungry, narcissistic bastard with immortality on his side. I'm sure you know enough that fit some of those categories.

I'm told we won against him.

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[crisised]

please tell me you mean that in a way that has him not coming back a few years later

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[catchacold]

Nah, far as I know, they took him out for good.

Though if you want details you might be better off asking one of the others.

Rip, if you want coherence. And some delusion of grandeur.

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[crisised]

i might just do that

so where all did you go when you were working to take him down?

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[catchacold]

Seventies. Fifties. Wild West. 2046... Not a date you should bring up to Mick. May get sensitive.

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[crisised]

don't mention 2046. got it

you guys went back more than you did forward then?

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[catchacold]

Think it's close to fifty-fifty. Mostly tried to stop him along the rise to power.

Didn't work out so well to begin with.

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[crisised]

well yeah. if it had worked you wouldn't have needed to go to the future at all

or, you know, you could've accidentally broken the universe

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[catchacold]

My team practised fixing their own fuck-ups so often, I'm sure they could somehow cobble the universe back together too.

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[crisised]

that's an awful lot of faith you've got in people who fuck up often

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[catchacold]

Sure do.

Literally died for it.

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[directed]

You're aware I can see this.

[And in any other instance, he might have just rolled his eyes at it.

Vandal Savage, however, is a special case.]

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[catchacold]

Oh no.

[Look, he cares.

Seriously though, he's not that particular about it. Just...]

Look, you're actually calling yourselves Legends these days.

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[directed]

And you think that somehow happened in a way that wasn't a mockery of that speech?

[No, Rip doesn't know this for sure, hasn't lived it out yet to see it happen. And yet, he can think of no other way that such a name would come about.

Hell, even when he uses it? It's typically in some manner of self-depreciation.]

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[catchacold]

I know that Nancy said it ever so seriously.

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[catchacold]

*Norbert

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[catchacold]

Nate?

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[directed]

Nate. [Norbert, Leonard? Honestly.]

And regardless, the prospect of becoming legends is what got most of you on board, and to stay. What else should the team end up calling themselves?

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[catchacold]

[Look, he's spent a lot of time with a drunk Mick as of late and Mick isn't even good with names when sober.]

Their names?

Unless you're called Nancy, I get that one.

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[crisised]

hey nancy isn't too bad a name. nancy drew is awesome

now if they were named dick on the other hand...

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[directed]

You do realize that for all intents and purposes--[and in Rip's opinion]--you're one of those Legends as well?

[Their names, which yes, makes sense within the contexts of home.

Still. It bears pointing out.]