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Peggy Carter ([personal profile] mucked) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2016-03-04 03:31 pm

fleetwide video + action »

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. ]
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-06 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hn. Been a doctor for... the last eight or nine hours.

[He thinks it was eight, but it could have been more. He's not very good at measuring time, especially when there's also a sick old dog he's been treating. An old dog sleeping in the corner, because it was easier to keep an eye on them both this way.]

Pushing yourself too fast; your knuckles are white on the headboard. Shouldn't rush when there's no where to really go.

[And alright, he doesn't follow that advice at all and they both know it. But just because he doesn't listen doesn't mean it's a good idea in any situation, okay.]
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-06 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Max waves his hand, trying to dismiss the notion. He's suddenly very exhausted -- perhaps now that the immediate danger has passed and she's conscious, he's finally gotten his poor sleeping to catch up with him.]

It's fine.

[He honestly is a little disappointed in himself more than anything. If he'd been faster to react, he probably could have stopped her from smacking her head on the solid metal.]

Just... Don't do that. Anymore.

[He thins his lips and frowns.]

Would've rather you been up and around.
Edited 2016-03-06 13:35 (UTC)
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Max is hardly good at voicing his feelings, so that's as close to admitting he was worried as he can get. But Peggy gets the way Max functions, so it works out anyway. He looks towards Dog Two, humming thoughtfully.]

He's still hurt. Needed to keep an eye on him, so... I carried him in here.

He's been good.
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[That leaves Max feeling quietly alarmed, and his hand curls and kneads his bad knee while he considers her words. An anchor? He didn't want to think of it like that. He's already told himself he'd leave. Sooner or later, he's going to decide he's done his part, and when he has a chance - when the dog's healed and everyone seems okay and his credits are saved up, he's going to hit up a space station, take a shuttle, and just... go. He's not sure if he'd take the dog or not. But he'd go.

Space is big and infinite and it would be easy, to get lost in it for a long while.

So when she says here to stay so boldly, he averts his gaze.

She says Rock. The name Rockatansky tickles his ear, the voice not his own.]


... It's a strong name. Rock is solid and sturdy.

[He hums quietly.]

I, um.

[He licks his lips, trying to think. The room suddenly feels very small, and he feels too exposed, feels a million lies on his tongue, lies by omission. He's not immovable. Max. He's not here to stay. Sometimes he wants to get up, get into a SR shuttle, and go. But he can't. Not enough guzzoline to matter. Wouldn't get far. But he could try. He thinks about it more than once a day. He could try and run, see where he ends up. These are the real Plains of Silence, if he had to call them anything else--

He motions to the dog.]


He's better company, probably.
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[And so quickly, he snaps back to focus, raising his eyebrow.]

Mm. Self-proclaimed genius with the mustache.
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Geniuses are idiots.

[mad shade being thrown]

... Actually, was the other one. Howard.

[Such a truly thoughtful, considering pause.]

Should've known they were related.
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[He waves a hand.]

No. Tried to be helpful. With the dog.

[Keyword 'tried'. Max is just not very approachable, and Howard is terrible at approaching. He's not sure why he wanted to help... didn't have much to benefit from it. Max, of course, wasn't privy to Howard's brackets.]

Bothering... That's, um... What's-his-name's job. With the... [He gestures to his eyebrows. FDR has massively intense eyebrows, Peggy, it's been deemed by Max Rockatansky.] The annoying smart-mouth in our crew.
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Max rolls his eyes, looking sour, and it almost seems like he's just thinking aloud.]

F'had to lock him out of the shuttles.

[Translation: he was pissing me off and I needed the world's best earmuffs.

Too clingy. Max hates clinging. His personal space is personal, ffs.]
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[He raises his brow.]

I watch everyone.

[Nobody is safe, everyone is a threat. That's how Max gets by without completely shutting down — staying vigilant and wary of anyone near him. It's only as of late that it's been crumbling, allowing room for people in a ship that is too small to stay too far away.]

... He fights well. Knocked a man unconscious, took his credits without hesitation. Pocket change. Simple scavenge. [He sweeps his hand, as if wiping the unconscious man right off the metaphorical board.] Normal business. He's involved in combat often, hmm... involved in killing to avoid people remembering his face.

[He's always taking notes, Peggy.

Be careful around him.]
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-07 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hmm. He rubs his chin, considering her...

... amused?]


Trying to use me to gather intel? Not very, ah, respectful of crew privacy.

[You're such a spy omfg.]
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-08 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Ha.]

You don't have to be secretive 'bout it to use people. Can transparently use someone.

[He makes it sound like a very natural thing to do; he also sounds very used to being the one being used. Thankful, even, that she's at least being honest and isn't at all beating around the bush. He's been used up before, without being told. The sand in the guzzoline rig was one such occasion.]

Who d'you want to know about? I usually... ah. Avoid people, most of the time.
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[personal profile] theroadwarrior 2016-03-08 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
... That so.

[Peggy is too nice, too many morals, and it will be shocking if that doesn't kill her someday soon. If the world doesn't cripple her ideals, anyway; from what she said, war and violence is just a breath away, easily. But Max just watches and listens, a thoughtful sort of look to him like he is dissecting everything she says word by word. Studying the response for obvious lies, or inaccuracies, or hesitation. He doesn't often focus on words, on sound. So rusty.

Hrmph.]


We all have a use.

But -- Hrm. It's good to choose it.

Yourself.

[isn't it?]
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