[Cassie shrugs; the remark doesn't really bother her. She's heard as much before-- she knows her weaknesses. And anyway, as far as Loki quips go, it's tame. In any case, it's the second part that bothers her. At his question, her face grows a bit serious.]
It was... a spaceship a lot like this one, with all kinds of people from different dimensions. Only we didn't know it was a spaceship, and it was actually a testing facility. For "science". See, they had our real bodies locked up in a coma somewhere, with our brains hooked up to some kind of neural transmitter thing. Our consciousness was then projected from there into these... uh, clone bodies, if you will. Exact flesh duplicates of ourselves, except with no powers.
So... the idea was, they could put us through any kind of dangerous test without fear of losing a test subject. If your body died, they'd just make a new clone and shove your consciousness into the new one. ... All the test subjects were split up into teams, to compete against one another. Every win netted you "points" which you could then use to improve your living situation or chances-- better weapons, better food, the revival of a teammate into a new body, and so on.
... We were put on the same team. Iota... the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
[She says all this matter-of-factly; it's been long enough for her that she's gotten good enough at least at pretending it doesn't bother her. The human mind can adapt to anything, right?]
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It was... a spaceship a lot like this one, with all kinds of people from different dimensions. Only we didn't know it was a spaceship, and it was actually a testing facility. For "science". See, they had our real bodies locked up in a coma somewhere, with our brains hooked up to some kind of neural transmitter thing. Our consciousness was then projected from there into these... uh, clone bodies, if you will. Exact flesh duplicates of ourselves, except with no powers.
So... the idea was, they could put us through any kind of dangerous test without fear of losing a test subject. If your body died, they'd just make a new clone and shove your consciousness into the new one. ... All the test subjects were split up into teams, to compete against one another. Every win netted you "points" which you could then use to improve your living situation or chances-- better weapons, better food, the revival of a teammate into a new body, and so on.
... We were put on the same team. Iota... the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
[She says all this matter-of-factly; it's been long enough for her that she's gotten good enough at least at pretending it doesn't bother her. The human mind can adapt to anything, right?]