Different... realities, I think. I'm not sure. A lot of our past events seem similar, but we haven't figured out exactly where things diverged. But he and I are definitely not experiencing the same things in our "present" times, no.

[ Knock Out considers her response. It echoes a lot of what he himself thinks of Riptide, especially with the doing nice things for him. ]

I'd imagine a lot of Riptide's relationships were-- [ how to put this delicately? ] --unnaturally short lived due to the war. Perhaps that's why he's so eager to make a good impression on people.