I don't remember you having a beard. Why do you have a beard?

[ of every detail to fixate on that's an odd one but- it's safer than considering the goop, the tattoo still on his own damn neck, the fact that he's been cooked up in some sort of syth body and he still has the arc reactor cold and aching in the center of his chest, compressing his lungs, his heart. Cyborgesque bodies are supposed to make lives easier, not massively more uncomfortable-

Not thinking about it.

Staring over at Steve and wondering about the beard? Safe. ]

Or is this one of those...multiverse or. Timeline. Things? Because that's apparently a thing.