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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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Were it so easy.

[Wanda offers a small, somber smile.]

I cannot say that I am completely without regrets over my decision. In fact, I am still trying to make the good of it. Yet, even still, if I were to go back... I could not make a different decision.

[She stresses the last line in a certain way that implies there's weight to it. A significance behind why she choose to "submit" to Hydra. A story to be shared, perhaps?]

[ normally, peggy loves to chase down an unknown -- but she respects wanda an awful lot. and so she's inclined to resist too much of an interrogation.

instead, she leads gently: ] You felt hemmed in?

Hemmed in?

[The meaning of the phrase escapes her, but she can guess from the context what the question likely implies.]

I suppose that is one way of putting it.

-- How did they make you feel as though you had no other choice?

Sokovia, my home city... it was being bombed. Hydra asked for Volunteers, saying that they could make the bombings stop if some offered to go with them. They said, the volunteers would be granted the power to fight back, to end the violence that seemed to plague our city. My brother and I, we both stepped forward. It was only after their tests began that we came to learn that they were the ones behind the bombings in the first place.

Bombed by who?

[ a very direct question, perhaps. but peggy is not a gentle lady. ]

We knew not who they were exactly. Armed militants were never an uncommon sight in Sokovia. Our city has known conflict since I was a child. It claimed the lives of my parents, and so many others... The only thing we knew of them was that they used Stark weapons.

[Her expression becomes more grim as she continues.]

As I said, it was only after Hydra had conducted their experiments on us that we learned they were the ones truly behind the attacks on our city. They had used our hatred to play us for fools.

[ oh, she looks markedly crestfallen when that particular name passes wanda's lips. peggy's teeth seem to grind for a moment -- and all she can hear, in the back of her mind, is howard discussing his bad babies. ]

-- Stark weapons? In HYDRA's hands?

[ not so difficult to believe, she supposes -- if the child of the ssr, shield, suffers a hydra takeover. ]

Is that truly so surprising? Stark's weapons are spread all over the world, used in all kinds of conflicts.

[Wanda's tone having become noticeably drier and more cynical. Yeah, that chip on her shoulder between her and Stark will likely never go away completely.]

That's -- that's quite unfortunate to hear. Not least of all because I dedicated the better part of the previous year to making certain Stark weaponry didn't profligate so far. Howard is meant to be discerning in his clients. [ sometimes she forgets that the company wasn't howard, any longer. ]

Howard Stark... Hmm... Like father, like son, I suppose. Stark has claimed to change his ways, shutting down his company's weapons division. However, this only came after it became the world's leading manufacturer of weapons, and Tony Stark became the world's greatest war profiteer.

[That last part may have been a little to harsh, but then Wanda was not exactly one for charity in regards to Tony Stark.]

Stark genes tend towards hubris and stupidity, for all the genius they harbour.

[Okay, that line actually stops Wanda for a moment, eliciting a small smirk that quickly turns into a slight snicker. Peggy's wit helping to steer her away from the anger that had been building inside.]

You knew Stark's father well then?

One of my dearest friends. [ but before wanda gets the wrong idea, thinking it's a warm sort of friendship: ] And the chief pain in my neck, most days.

Sounds like a Stark.

[The smirk slowly fades from Wanda's face, as it returns to a more serious expression.]

He founded S.H.I.E.L.D. with you, correct?

So I hear and understand. I admit, I'm more surprised to hear about his involvement than my own. He never seemed like one to toe any lines -- not even his own.

Perhaps that is something Stark men have in common. They can be surprising... in a good way.

[A small smile returns to her face, but quickly disappears as she adds, more sardonically:]

Too bad it is not their usual mode of behavior.

At times, with such men, we must take the good alongside the bad. We can't all of us be perfect.

What a pity.

[Wanda cracks again, letting out another soft chuckle and smile.]

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