I. "The Persistence of Memory," Salvador Dáli / II. unknown/ III. Piece inspired by "In Bed: The Kiss," goodmorning2005 on Tumblr / IV. Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022)

Everything.

There are infinite choices, and every choice makes an alternate reality. Like Murphy's Law: whatever can happen, will happen (good or bad). If you're lucky, you're happy with the reality you're in — you always get what you wish for, always save what you fight for.

Nyota Lahiri isn't one of the lucky ones. It's cruel, really, considering what she can do.

Magic, they call it, paired with probability manipulation. In battle, this means good luck for Nyota and her team, and bad luck for their opponents. Always small things, like making them trip over their shoelaces, causing their weapons to malfunction, allowing an arrow to perfectly pierce through their armor, all to increase the likelihood that the heroes win.

See, the probability of losing is always present. The more time passed and the more things fell apart, the likelihood only increased. It was when it actually happened that Nyota's power became less of a magical ability, and more of a haunting.

Everywhere.

A year passes after Thanos' attack. Nyota tries to keep doing good in the world, help people, keep the Avengers together and herself busy, lest she be reminded of what (who) she lost. She barely sleeps because she's scared of dreaming: of what could of been, of what cannot be. She's stuck dwelling on the past, wishing they'd just had more time. Wondering what if ?

If Nyota had fought harder, would the Avengers had stayed together?

If the Avengers had stayed together, would they have defeated Thanos, stopped him from killing half the universe?

No, fate is more particular, more fickle than that. It's the smaller, seemingly insignificant things that change the course of one's life.

If Nyota had taken sugar in her coffee that morning, would Shuri still be alive?

That's more like it. Life, forever changed by a spoonful of sugar.

If, if, if — if Nyota had made different choices, challenged fate a bit more, would everyone she loved be happy, healthy, here?

All at once.

When the opportunity arises, a chance to undo the damage Thanos has done to the universe, Nyota knows just what to do. She's more than ready: to jump through space, travel across time.

She goes back with the others and collects Infinity Gems from the past. She'd worn the gauntlet, snapped her fingers, and everyone came back. Shuri came back.

And yet. Pain, suffering, death: these did not disappear at the snap of Nyota's fingers. Something changed in her, too. She keeps getting glimpses of potential futures in her dreams, and sometimes she gets this new feeling, like she knows what might happen next. She's haunted by the past and the future; time collapses on itself. Everything seems so, very fragile. Loss, be it of time or people, does not change, and it cannot be stopped — no matter how much Nyota tries. 

NYOTA LAHIRI
JINX, Supernova Girl

SHURI 
BLACK PANTHER, Protector of Wakanda

FEATURING...
 
 

THE AVENGERS 

STEVE ROGERS / CAPTAIN AMERICA

TONY STARK / IRON MAN

BRUCE BANNER / HULK

T'CHALLA  / BLACK PANTHER

THE (NEW) AVENGERS

PETER PARKER / SPIDERMAN

RIRI WILLIAMS / IRON HEART

KAMALA KHAN / MS. MARVEL

MILES MORALES / SPIDERMAN
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

MORE TO BE ADDED....

☆ welcome to THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS !  i'm back in my marvel era and as much as wakanda forever broke me, it helped me rediscover my love for the black panther movies/comics, and shuri especially. i also rewatched everywhere, everything, all at once and the idea of a multiverse seemed really tempting, so i decided to take my marvel oc from TIME TO PRETEND and put her in another story, in another timeline. the result is this fic :) 

☆ nyota lahiri is a character who i've been creating for years, but she's a bit different in this story. in this reality, she's a mutant who can manipulate probability and cosmic energy (energy blasts, that sort of thing). when it comes to ny's powers, i see her as a mix of jinx from teen titans and domino from x-men. 

☆ a bit of backstory: ny grew up with her aunts and cousins in queens after her mom died. since her mom was a shield agent, she was on their radar and was recruited for the avengers initiative when the attack on new york happened, on the condition that her identity be a secret. her mom is killed on an undercover mission the summer before ny's junior year. since she's under 18, ny's sent to live with her aunts in queens and attends midtown high, where she meets peter. she's in her senior year when the accords and the steve/tony split happen. she sides with steve and to protect her after the battle at the airport, steve brings her to wakanda where she meets shuri. she eventually decides to go back to new york and agree with the accords, and she reveals her secret identity, in hopes of increasing the probability that steve and the others would come back, and the team would be back together. it doesn't work, unfortunately, but she does start attending college (she had an athletic scholarship from playing soccer), keeps up with superhero business, and she and shuri do the whole long distance thing. everything's good for a while until thanos does his thing (iykyk), and that's basically where this story starts. 

☆ i spent so much time on the web weaving and aesthetics for this fic, and now it's time to actually.....write! i'm very excited to actually start writing again!

☆ warning: this fic will contain mentions of death, grief/trauma, violence, some suggestive material, and more. please read at your own discretion!

☆ disclaimer: i do not own marvel characters or mcu plotlines, only nyota lahiri and her story.

☆ finally, i want to thank sukibenders _naomiwrites zozoleesi lovelymandas Thisblkgurl20 StormTZ33 for supporting me in creating this fic!!