ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅᴏᴡ, sᴡᴇᴇᴛ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ-ᴀɪʀ ( ᴏᴘᴇɴ )

[partialities]

Who: Margaery Tyrell, Cisco Ramon & Steve Rogers
Broadcast: nope
Action: yes, all over the planet and on the Windrose, Blameless & Starstruck
When: catch-all log for the duration of June & July, starters can be found in the comments! feel free to add one of your own or ask me for one/contact me at ladylike

also: cw for gif-use at the comments! all of them are sfw, however :>

Comments

[uprightness]

I think everybody did. Not the worst thing that ever happened to me with Peggy, I think.

[ there was the whole unfortunate 'beautiful dame' comment in that car ride which in retrospect seems even more painful than it felt and the fondue, always the fondue. ]

She understood. Back then, being a woman - she had to fight hard for what she deserved, paved the path for many other women. She's a legend for a reason.

[ but more than that, she had left her mark on Steve Rogers. ]

[winn]

I meant the - propaganda video.

[ of course he saw the pictures, he's the one who took them down. does steve not know it's up there? well, better he find out like this, probably. ]

For a lot of reasons, I'm sure. [ it's weird, to be surrounded by so many legends. even the people who aren't powered are some sort of heroes. he loves that he gets to know them - it's the coolest thing ever - but he also feels very out of place. why is he here? because the atroma thought it'd be neat to have some hero wardrobe? why is he here? ]

I heard the legend of Captain America - or at least parts of it - only right I get the Peggy Carter side of the story too. [ he genuinely is interested in her legend - he loves stories of heroics - but it's not the only reason he asks for the story. steve seems to really love - and need - to talk about her. he can relate, he would love to talk about kitty, but his friends don't really seem to want to hear it. he settles down on the sand, and gestures for steve to join him. missing out on one workout is not going to do the guy any harm, he's sure. ]

[uprightness]

-- The Star Spangled Man with a Plan.

[ he almost cringes. that explains so many of Stark's comments. Steve naturally assumed Howard told him about the USO girls. Well, at least it means the worst is probably over. ]

It was a service, too, in a way. Wasn't what I had in mind when I enlisted, but.

[ it did get its own line of merchandise, anything from comics to...vintage cards, apparently. ]

Agent Carter, really. The first women to be an agent, really. She worked for the SSR, Strategic Scientific Reserve - I am sure she told you that. After that, she took it and made into SHIELD, Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. She kept people safe in everything she did, kept the world safe.

[ there is a hint of anger and regret there, he joined SHIELD so he could help but also because of Peggy's involvement in it. to think that HYDRA had infested something she and Howard worked so hard on making. ]

[winn]

[ winn offers him an apologetic smile. he was just...snooping on everything on the network and it was up there, so he watched. ]

I can picture it, [ gently, he doesn't know where the anger stems from so naturally he assumes it's because of him. he didn't mean to make it sound like he was belittling peggy and what she's done for the world - quite the opposite - in his own way he was trying to express that he appreciates her as a hero as much as he does steve. ] she's a very impressive woman.

[ he's always looking up at steve, but now that he's sitting, looking up at the standing man makes him feel like he's 5 years old, and standing by a giant. for the first time since he got to know the sweet soul behind the muscles - steve makes him nervous, almost afraid. he's not the sort of man he wants to make angry. ]

[uprightness]

She is.

[ he doesn't want her to know about SHIELD, not really. he had it taken apart exactly because he knew she would have done the same if she were to find out what happened to the very thing she worked so hard on, not only HYDRA but the entire project insight matter. ]

Our world needs more people like her. She may not have super powers but she saved the world just as much as I did.

[winn]

Every world needs heroes.

[ it makes him think of kate - saving lives with her bow and arrow, or whatever she has lying around. so many people are doing everything they can, pushing themselves to the limit in order to make their worlds a better place. and he...he still can't even land a punch on jim. even if he could (which, he honestly doubts would ever happen) he's too scared to be actively violent, scared of where it could lead him.

helping the heroes get the job done has to count for something too, right? while they're training, they don't have time to do the research necessary for backstage support. that's why it's backstage. ]

Kara's sister's like that, 100% badass and brilliant.

[uprightness]

Alex.

[ he nods. it seems to be a thing between those two, saving the world, helping people, each in her own way. he never enlisted to be Captain America, he would have done anything he could have in the army, just to serve. ]

At least now you know I wasn't kidding about being smaller than you.

[winn]

Yeah -- yeah your story checks out.

[ he smiles a little. ]

Though, I mean, you're Rambo now, so I dunno that it counts anymore.

[uprightness]

-- That's a film, right? I'm pretty sure that's a film.

[ Sam said something about it, he's pretty sure. the name rings a bell, anyway. ]

[winn]

Yeah, yeah that's a film.

[ he offers him a hand ]

Ok either you sit down, or help me up, looking up that far is killing my neck.

[uprightness]

-- Sorry.

[ he gets a bit of a sheepish smile as he sits down. ]

I'm still catching up on those things, films, music, technology. It's a learning process, I did miss 70 years, the world changed quite a bit. Films in color, 3D -

[ ... ]

Twitter.

[ that he'll never understand. ]

[winn]

[ he lets his hand drop, and smiles more genuinely now, feeling calmer now that steve doesn't seem angry anymore. ]

Oh man, I could give you the ultimate education on all of these if I just had my laptop and like -- a couple hard drives. [ the internet is asking too much, he knows, but come on, at least give him his media library! ] Or well, at least the ultimate education on pop culture and technology of my world - but they seem similar enough that it'll take.

[ the release of nervous energy results in babbling, sorry steve. ]

Twitter has some really cool stuff on it, like historical accounts relaying daily news from years ago that -- probably wouldn't be very interesting for you -- it's got something for everyone, though. And a lot of trolls and spam accounts. But I could weed those out for you.

[uprightness]

[ he has to concentrate very keenly if he wants to follow along these waters, Winn talks and parts of it he understands just fine while the others - he's pretty sure there are some terms that needs to catch up on ]

Trolls?

[ cue confusion. ]

[winn]

Eh -- you know that bored kid in the back of the class disrupting everything cuz they think it's hilarious and nobody ever agrees? They're the online version of that, basically.

[uprightness]

So you're fighting bullies online.

[ he smiles a bit. you're the network's super hero winn. all safe cyberspaces need one ]

You know, I should introduce you to a friend of mine, he's a bit of an expert in technology.

[ with a firm warning that he must behave since tony stark ]

[winn]

Oh yeah, online, I'm the Superhero.

[ or more like, the guerrilla fighter cuz he doesn't really tend to take people on head-on, just sneakily kicking them out. of course, there's so much online bullying to really take it on he'd have to quit his job and his life and his sleep and do nothing but deal with them 24/7, and he still wouldn't really make a dent but...why get into specifics when you're making a joke? kind of ruins the punchline.

leaning in with obvious excitement! another nerdbro? yes please! ]

Yeah - introduce me! Who is it, what's his specialty?

[uprightness]

His name's Tony, Tony Stark. I knew his father, too, back at the war. He's one of the top minds when it comes to technology, he built everything from peacekeeping robots to technologies of clean energy.

[ he won't, by any means, speak of the Ultron mess. He came down hard on Stark when the whole thing happened but he will never speak to others of Tony's errors.

they don't see eye to eye on most things but it doesn't mean Steve doesn't appreciate him. ]

He's a bit of a character but I think you'll like him.