His face goes through a whole journey while Ellie talks.
First, surprise at the reveal — then a kind of mild self-conscious horror, an oh good lord, something like the unique discomfiture at finding out that someone else ran into your drunk brother at a party and now you’re desperately worried he might’ve made a bad impression and it’ll reflect poorly on you — but then it smooths over as she keeps going. His mouth settles into a rueful smile, relief unclenching his jaw.
“Oh thank god,” Strange says, “I was afraid you were going to say he went mad and tried to kill everyone.”
Which… was a concern, apparently?
He sounds remarkably blasé about the prospect of other Stranges in other universes, though, taking that revelation in stride. He’s already had months to grow accustomed to that knowledge. “Not every me is quite so benevolent, so I’m glad that one was. Validated to see that our persistent curiosity is a permanent feature, though.”
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First, surprise at the reveal — then a kind of mild self-conscious horror, an oh good lord, something like the unique discomfiture at finding out that someone else ran into your drunk brother at a party and now you’re desperately worried he might’ve made a bad impression and it’ll reflect poorly on you — but then it smooths over as she keeps going. His mouth settles into a rueful smile, relief unclenching his jaw.
“Oh thank god,” Strange says, “I was afraid you were going to say he went mad and tried to kill everyone.”
Which… was a concern, apparently?
He sounds remarkably blasé about the prospect of other Stranges in other universes, though, taking that revelation in stride. He’s already had months to grow accustomed to that knowledge. “Not every me is quite so benevolent, so I’m glad that one was. Validated to see that our persistent curiosity is a permanent feature, though.”