Location: EARTH 257: Healing Grove
Skills:
The professor wasn't certain, but once Oliver started talking she was. He was himself. Everything would be okay. Others had woken up too, and so far, they all seemed back to themselves. She smiled at Oliver and hugged him. "I don't care what you look like. Don't get me wrong. You're pretty attractive the way you look now. But I fell in love with you." She considered a joke about keeping the murder to a minimum, but since that was a little close to home with the 257 people, she figured that'd be a little too dark.
Once she pulled away from the hug, she looked at the others. "I'm okay. Everything that makes me me is still there." She couldn't imagine herself without the alternate realities. It was nice they were all organized now. "And that isn't meaning that Oliver is the thing that makes me me. I'm not co-dependent." She could live without Oliver. She'd be sad, but she wouldn't be broken.
Location: EARTH 257: His mind
Skills:
Matt was confused by everything that was happening. Why were there bees? But he heard Professor X's voice. Telling him to think of a memory of when he found himself. That was obvious to him. He knew exactly what to think. He thought back to when he was in high school. There had been a very specific conversation with his sister, Lisa. She was older than him by a year. And at this point, Matt hadn't come out as trans yet. He had done everything he could to fit into society's box. But it never felt right.
Lisa and he were chatting about something girly, and he was trying to care. Trying to make it mean something to him. When finally, he said, "I don't know, I just feel like I'm lying all the time. Like Mindy isn't a real person, but I have to be her."
Lisa tilted her head at him and said, "Remember Laureen?" Matt had nodded. Understanding where his sister was going. The conversation had shifted after that, but it stuck with Matt, and by Summer break, he started to transition socially.