FANPORT OVERFLOW LOG

[maskormods]

WHO: ImPorts!
WHERE: Heropa's Convention Centre.
WHEN: April 14-16, from 9 AM - 12 AM every day.
WHAT: Registration is in motion alongside FanPort, the most popular imPort convention around! Come on in and see imPort-led panels, the artist's alley, cosplayers, and more! If you have any questions, or wish to amend the way we have written up your characters' panels, let us know here! The original log can be found HERE.
WARNINGS: None anticipated; please let us know if this should be changed.

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[catalysmic]

[It's interesting getting this take on Tony from Bruce; nothing he says is off, but it still feels as though something is. Alternate universes, man. Their lives continue to be genre literature.

She honestly... she doesn't spend a lot of time with people less than yea high and she's happy to leave the two of them to it. Kids can be pretty perceptive and she knows she can come across as patronizing, however moral or... apparently normal she might also be. She does jump in now with the very low-hanging but sincere,] Wow, that's impressive, how old are you?

[A kid who wants to question Tony Stark on nanomachines has to be a little precocious, and if he's also adorable and, what, eight? he's going to get that reaction a lot. You don't have to have suffered through being a child genius to recognize that it's practically obligatory.]

[hyperkinesia]

[ That's one way to get Betty's attention. The couple of specific words have Bruce looking up at her just as she forgets about the map and their surroundings and shifts his focus to their conversation instead, a smile forming that's in good part amusement at her reaction. ]

That's incredible. I'm pretty sure not even we were doing that when we were your age.

[ But then Bruce had other things going on back then, and his experience with machinery was usually limited to tinkering with whatever home appliances he could get his hands on. More of a distraction than anything.

He doesn't add anything at the moment, nor does he answer the question yet, waiting to hear Cadel's answer to Betty's own question first, because— well, it is really impressive. Even in an alternate reality, this is still more than he thought he'd get to see. ]

[systemize]

[ Cadel has gotten this question a lot, but not as much as one might think. He was nigh on infamous with his teachers all throughout his education, skipping grades right and left, and they'd all despaired of keeping up with him. Initially he'd tried to interrogate them on their subjects, but when their knowledge base ran short of what he wanted, he gave up on classes completely and sat in the corner, isolated, teaching himself and failing English for disinterest.

So he doesn't sigh at this question. He knows now that that had been specifically cultivated in him, on purpose, by Thaddeus. To be seen and to see himself as too smart, too above everyone else, to mingle with 'normal' kids and make friends... Even this experience with molecular machinery was carefully provided by Thaddeus as a manipulative step to his own ends.

Once Cadel had taken pride in it. Now he feels intensely humbled, given recent experiences before arriving here, and says only, ] I'm thirteen. I'm not as young as I look. Anyway, my adoptive parents wouldn't let me have a computer, so I built one. [ With tiny DNA wiring... Yes. ]

[catalysmic]

[Implying a molecular-level computer. Is that really necessary? Tiny DNA what now?

That's generous of you, Bruce. Betty isn't going to be doing anything like that at her current age, either; nano mech-e is a few too many steps away from protein or polynucleotide synthesis. She's back to letting these two huge nerds chat it up, but although it's not like she wasn't paying attention earlier, that attention is more focused now.

Thirteen may not be six (or ten, which is a little closer to what she might have actually guessed), but it's still 1) just as ridiculously young to be doing anything on an angstrom scale, and 2) too young to be wandering around this place without some sort of adult oversight, no matter how incredibly bright you apparently are.]

[hyperkinesia]

[ Yes, because Betty isn't a total science nerd or anything. Please. ]

Good on you. i did too, around your age. Well, it wasn't a computer like the ones you see now, we didn't really have those back then. As you can probably tell, I'm not exactly young.

[ Personal computers weren't exactly a common thing in the 80's, and Bruce's father made a point to keep anything he loved out of his reach. He'd fiddled around with a couple of small things, kept them hidden underneath a loose floorboard in his bedroom, but otherwise it was only when he was living with his aunt that he got to truly delve into the things he loved to do. And aunt Susan had never been anything but supportive, which had been... weird, but a nice change nonetheless, even if it didn't erase any of his pain, or how much he missed his mother.

As for Cadel going about his life somewhat unsupervised, it doesn't bother Bruce as much as it does Betty. Probably because he's showing to be unusually smart and advanced for his age, and probably because to a degree, Bruce sees himself in this kid. And he'd never truly had anyone back then, or at least that's what it felt like. ]