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[mucked]

Who: a newly canon-updated peggy carter and YOU.
Broadcast: fleetwide video
Action: ss starstruck for crewmate and any visitors.
When: beginning today, but feel free to forward date something if you like.

VIDEO (FLEETWIDE)

[ stern-faced, peggy appears upon the network. ] Does 'zero matter' mean anything to anyone? Pointed, I know, and a bit a long shot...but -- if there's anywhere I might find some resource or knowledge about such matters, then the fleet is my best hope. Otherworldly mysteries are not well within my wheelhouse.

[ there are other questions she could ask -- but no, zero matter might be the safest inquiry out of a great many others. and even then, it's barely safe at all. but it must be asked, for now she feels most preoccupied with the work conducted back home. the fleet is almost a secondary thought -- a distant, archaic priority. ]

Alternatively -- [ she sighs. until now, she hasn't been agent cater within the fleet, much preferring to be the more social and civilian version of herself. ] -- I wouldn't mind hearing a bit more about worlds. Different worlds, universes, what have you. I know none have been successful in creating a rift between this place and any other but -- surely, such rifts must exist elsewhere.

ACTION (STARSTRUCK)

[ long story short: peggy carter took a nasty spill inside one of the sr shuttles, and is now back on her feet after being out cold for nearly a day. on the surface, it seems like nothing's the matter. not seriously so, at least. but as she goes about her ship duties, there's a glassy-eyed quality to her gaze. it takes her a little too long to remember someone's name -- as though she's reaching back by weeks or maybe months to recall details she'd been living every day.

find her in the kitchen, where she's preparing one of her two or three or sometimes four daily cups of tea. or find her in the cargo bay where she's trying to use the recreational equipment. she quickly gives up on the punching bag because although she no longer has stitches holding her guts together, there persists a tight ache in the flesh. she settles for the treadmill.

wherever else she might be encountered, her crankiness is persistent. ordinarily patient with her crew, peggy's kindness has been thinning out all week. she appears tightly wound and disengaged. ]

Comments

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[pneumo]

[ Eyyyyyyyyyyy ]

...To learn what it means? [ RIGHT OVER HIS HEAD. ]

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[mucked]

[ oh, she'll take pity. ] I suppose one might call it a doctrine of extreme disbelief. Eschewing all religious and moral principles, the nihilist often questions whether there's even meaning in life.

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[pneumo]

[ Bless you, Peggy. ]

...Well that sounds depressing. No one knows the meaning of life but that doesn't mean it's not there right?

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[mucked]

On the whole, I would agree with you. And disagree with the nihilists.

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[pneumo]

They sound like a bunch of really unhappy people.

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[mucked]

I imagine they are. Or else they convince themselves they feel nothing at all.

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[pneumo]

Ick...I can't imagine being like that! Feeling nothing would be awful! [ Although that's technically the end fate of all vampires who Mature and embrace their new selves. ]

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[mucked]

Our emotions can be a great font of strength -- for those who can channel them properly.

Re: video

[pneumo]

You sure know a lot about emotions...

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[mucked]

As might be anyone, I think, who has felt a lifetime's worth of feelings.

[ it's wry. not precisely serious -- they are all stabbing at the dark. ]

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[pneumo]

Yeah but you make it sound all serious and stuff! Like it came out of a book or something.

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[mucked]

-- Well, for that we can blame a first-rate education.

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[pneumo]

You went to school?? Lucky...!

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[mucked]

[ -- she hesitates. then: ] Did you not?

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[pneumo]

Don't think so, nope. I didn't know how to read until I came here, and then all of a sudden bam! I could! I didn't learn anything else besides the ships though.

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[mucked]

[ good heavens. ]

Are you saying the augment taught you how to read?

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[pneumo]

Pretty much, yup!

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[mucked]

That is remarkable. [ tragic, but remarkable. ]

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[pneumo]

[ The story of Sascha's life, honestly. ]

Right?? I mean I knew some words, but now I can read anything! And work all the cool machines here.

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[mucked]

Otherwise, what is your augment?

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[pneumo]

Personnel support! Which...means I cheer people on, I guess.

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[mucked]

One can't do anything without good morale, I suppose.

[pneumo]

Things are a lot easier if you're happy, yup. Being here is way easier than being home.

[mucked]

You think so? [ hmm. ] What's home like, then?

[pneumo]

Do you know Earth? [ Just to be sure. There's aliens about. ]