"Yeah, but where's the fun in that?"

"I actually tried really hard not to do that at first but then we kept getting in fights anyway so I gave up. I like Thor better. Before Asher, Thor was the only person who'd ever given me a hug that didn't make me feel like I was dying."

"I... do not have Captain America walking around judging me," volunteers Tony. "I also do not know anyone named Thor."

"Oh, he's probably frozen in the Arctic, you should get someone to check. In my universe, if you pick up the hammer of Thor you turn into Thor. --Also, Laser T. Rex Universe is the seven-year-old Hitler clone I adopted, we let him name himself."

"There are no Norse gods in my universe. Should there be Norse gods?"

"...I don't think Thor is contagious in my universe? He lent his hammer to an intern once and she didn't, like, get taller or change her name." Also she loves Asher so much. "Our Norse gods are mmmmostly pretty cool, though. Loki has some issues but last I heard he and Thor were working things out."

"Your Loki is a guy? Weird."

"Seriously, guys, do I have to be worried that I'm going to go home and Hercules is going to show up--"

"I have no idea how to tell," she says to Toni, and to Asher, "I mean, obviously Loki's gender is super debatable, but he doesn't mind people defaulting to whatever?"

Tony, meanwhile, is frowning thoughtfully. Something about this conversation...

"Question," he says. "Vampires."

"Nope."

"What the fuck? No."

"Nnnnoooo?"

"Just me then! Okay, good to know."

"You have VAMPIRES?"

"I super do! They're a huge nuisance until you invent the ultraviolet laser pointer and then it's just like 'hi, bye'."

"You are an alternate version of my dad!"

He laughs a little.

Tanya smiles too.

"Want to help us invent stable reliable interdimensional transit?"

"—so, yes, absolutely, but I should really bring Jarvis in on it if we're gonna do that, he's the one who knows all about magic—"

"I guess if there are vampires I shouldn't make a face about magic."

"We're a no on the magic too. Only bullshit physics."

"...There's an argument to be made for it in my world I guess, but like, not so much that Mycroft decided to learn it or anything?"

"Wait, if you guys don't have magic then what are your arc reactors for?"

"Keeping the shrapnel from reaching my heart."