etraya | ( un: kent

well when i was alive i was in New York, so just the normal world?
but i don't know if it's the same New York that everyone else knows
when i died i went to hell, which wasn't like how i thought it was gonna be.
like it's own freakin world too
and now i'm fuckin here

That is quite a few worlds.

Was Hell different from what you expected?

good news is keep getting shuffled around enough and you just end up along for the ride
i guess that's a tip? go with the flow??

ya it was like the regular world
except shittier
like ya had to find a place to live but the fucking rents insane
but from what the new sinners said before i got sent here that was just like earth nowadays
ya get tap water
but its probably got giardia or some shit in it
you ever have a bad day where shit just doesn't go your way you whack your head and stub your toe all at the same time???
hells like that

and i kinda thought it'd be more like mountains of lava and getting thrown into mt dooms or whatever

That is the popular interpretation.

But I suppose the Sartre one holds true as well.

i spent months the first time around just generally panicking
this time around? not so much
just not worth the headache we're stuck.
best to just accept it and play the game
and deal with whatever this fuckin' world throws at us next

whats that??
[He doesn't know a lot about that sort of thing. His focus in the living world was... other things. Mostly the family business. He didn't usually get a chance to sit down and read about philosophy and no one cares about that sort of stuff in hell. Or maybe they do, but it certainly isn't in Angel's wheelhouse.]

Jean-Paul Sartre. He was a writer and a philosopher.

He coined the phrase "hell is other people".

oh, okay
well ya that dude had it right
cause that basically sums it up

so what about you this your first time anywhere but where you're from?
given the question i'm assuming yes?

It is. I'm afraid I don't know anything about multiverses or other worlds.

well, ya kinda do cause i mean
you're here too right?

how you feelin little buddy??
you doin alright?

[Is this helping? He's trying to be more helpful.]

Thank you for asking. It is a lot. I'm not sure I'm all right, but I'll get there.

[He's gonna try and think about what Charlie would say in this situation.]

hey you got this or whatever
it's okay to not be okay

and think of it this way
we're all supposed to be putting in to save our worlds
and my fucking world is HELL

so at least you already got a leg up on some the competition

There is that.

Thank you. I appreciate the pep talk.

that's not to say i don't think we're worth savin
but facts is facts

ya no worries it ain't really my thing tho
admittedly

so where you from anyway??

A place called Metropolis on Earth.

Though there's probably quite a few Earths around.

Metropolis? I ain't heard of it
so might be another earth
ya miss it or is here better?

OH
another fun fact
about the multiverse;

if people look different from you don't be shitty
and don't call them aliens or freaks
or fuckin whatever
cause it sets them off
i feel like i shouldn’t have to explain this
but here i am anyway

Thankfully that's not really something I'd ever feel comfortable doing.

And it's too early to say. I miss my people back at home.

[ his mom. lois. ]

see you say that
but have you ever met someone over 7ft tall
and pink?
or what about someone with a melted off face
or maybe tentacles for arms
i'm just saying other worlds are nothin like yours
and it may test that 'oh i would never' response

i feel that
the people front at least
some shit is kinda awesome about being here tho
[He misses all his friends, but there are some aspects that are ten times better here. Like not having a generally shitty day every day, and certain aspects of his work life.]

It's true that it would catch me off guard.

But if I lapsed in my manners, my mother would be deeply ashamed of me. And I prefer not to let that happen.

I'm glad some things are an improvement.

and i mean that's fair
it's strange
if ya ain't seen crazy crap like that before
but something tells me this place catches folks from all over
so just keep it in mind
[Course he's the weirdest thing he's seen here thus far. At least on the surface.]

so you real close with your ma then?

Very close. She's very important to me.

[ he hopes . . . he hopes she's okay. that someone checks on her. martha kent is strong in spirit, much stronger than clark ever believes himself to be.

but he worries. she's his mother. ]

And I suppose I don't have much exposure to strange but we had an alien invasion on Earth not long ago.

[They are all probably in the same boat. Just hoping that everyone they've had to leave behind is safe and sound.]

total mommas boy
sweet
she seems to have raised you right at least

oh yeah?
when are you from?

I can't deny that.

I live in a city called Metropolis, but I'm from Smallville.

not where,
WHEN~

wait Smallville??
omg no way
is it really called Smallville!?

It's really called Smallville.

[Is he avoiding his question on purpose? Hard to tell.]

that sounds like some midwestern thing if i ever heard it
no wonder you're questioning the whole multiverse thing

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