Ivan awakes in some formal but non-military get up.
"Well, it's not my first choice, generally speaking, but as long as we're not announcing this anywhere back home, sure."
"If you want to give 'back home' access to the wealth of the multiverse, that wealth will include the ability to purchase permission to watch the season you appear on."
"You know, I really think I'm more fun to observe without that hanging over my head. What if there were a tragic licensing conflict?"
"It's not sufficient that it's a very big multiverse with lots of people producing years and years of content in time dilation compared to everyone else, and you don't necessarily have to tell anyone the season exists?"
"It'd have my name in it, wouldn't it? I'm not saying it'd ruin my life but it'd be so terribly awkward."
"It's feasible that we could develop a tragic licensing conflict, but another piece of the wealth of the multiverse is free travel. It's harder to set things up so that no one from your home universe would ever be able to see it even while abroad."
"It seems a little less likely that they will specifically be looking up my name while on vacation to wherever people go on vacation to."
"I'll see what I can do. We could also pseudonymize your last name, if you think that would help at all."
"You don't think your personal history will come up enough to render it moot? I suppose it'll still prevent direct searches."
"The premise is that you're competing against twenty-seven other suitors to build a relationship with one person."
"Mm, so one thing we could do is that there is magic which allows the editing of people's sexualities. We could say we were doing that to you, and also that it was undone at the end. - It would be very nice if you sold that this was your heart's desire."
"Not sure the - victim narrative plays much better than the bisexual all along one, really..."
"Consensual editing agreed to in response to resurrection-based gratefulness? - Would you mind elaborating on what precisely you foresee the problem being, here."
"It's just not the sort of reputation one wants to cultivate in so public a fashion, you see, it goes over all right with a more curated discreet audience but I'd soonest hold it down to there."
"You're entirely welcome. ...You haven't yet expressed much curiosity about the guy, I notice."
"If he is my heart's desire after all I'll be so embarrassed but I doubt you're putting anyone on a show who isn't easy on the eyes and quick with a word?"