No world is like this one! Of course, it is a similar time, and there are metahumans galore, and we both have a history that is somewhat similar, but in the modern age, we branch away, or perhaps it's the City that does so.

[ He pauses thoughtfully at that, mulling over the concept that lit through his thoughts like a dark spider, skittering along, before he lifted a hand in something of an "eureka!" gesture. ]

Or perhaps it was the advent of the metahuman in mine. It seems that such an event diverts things.

Why, look what happened in this world, with our arrival. Things certainly changed, and not necessarily for the better. [ But not for the worse, either. }