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[uprightness]

Who: peggy carter, steve rogers and all of you guys

Broadcast:  amazingly, yes

Action: on the starstruck, if you're so inclined
When: current.

[ New Year’s Eve has come and gone without anything exploding or going awfully wrong and so today is just safe enough for something else. Steve Rogers doesn’t address the network for no reason, after all. Only today he keeps looking back and eventually, calls: ]

Are you really going to stay there throughout the whole thing?

[ There’s a flicker to Steve’s left: dark curls and a flash of a silk blouse as Peggy leans into view. ] Perhaps. After all, of the two of us, you’re the one with experience in addressing the public.

[ But! Fine! Here she is, framed beside him onscreen, and refraining from making any more jokes about the old USO show. ]

Very funny.

[ but he is smiling, small but amused. For all of his experience, he seems as if he’s been practicing his lines for this one broadcast. ]

I know some of you will say this is long overdue, but after months of asking, mostly on her part, I’ve said yes and we’ve decided to get married.

[ -- and that’s when Peggy slaps the back of her hand against Steve’s shoulder, hissing something (something for him alone) about twisting the truth and tarnishing her well-earned cred. ]

I mean, after a careful observation of mutual interests, we’ve decided to get married. What this is really about is a simple matter of proving me right. I’d like you all to tell her three weeks is a perfectly reasonable duration for a honeymoon.

[ She reaches for the device, tugging its focus onto herself. ] -- For God’s sake, don’t encourage him. We’ve only just got engaged; it’s far far too early to start discussing the rest. [ Aside, to Steve: ] I warned you when I agreed to this ridiculous message. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

[ But she’s laughing. ]

It's not getting too ahead of ourselves. Call it careful consideration of facts.

[ he'll reach out and close the device for the sake of this banter. ]

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[kill_switch]

[Married. Furiosa is still a little fuzzy on the concept, but if they're both eager about it then good for them. She opens the feed with a small, bemused sort of grin.]

Congratulations, you two.

[mucked]

...Cheers, Furiosa.

[ she smiles. ]

[kill_switch]

So what goes into a wedding, exactly? Something about two people committing to one another, right?

[Not a big thing in her world, at least not anymore. Not since it died.]

[mucked]

There are vows. And, afterward, dancing and drinking. The other bits don't much matter.

[kill_switch]

Heh, I think we're agreed on that.

[Vows, though. It's a curious thing to Furiosa.]

Have you known Steve a while?

[mucked]

We've known each other for years, I suppose. [ a beat. ] Some of them back home. Some of them here.

[kill_switch]

Was this just somethign that developed in the fleet or is there history from before that's part of it?

[mucked]

[ this...is trickier to answer than it should be. not for a lack of a response, but rather peggy's unwillingness to give it. she hums a moment, settling eventually on a kind of chilly response: ]

I suppose nothing official developed until we were both of us here.

[kill_switch]

Not really a priority on some worlds, is it?

[Hers included, but she knows Peggy was busy on hers - something of a guiding force behind leaders, she imagined, and didn't seem the type of hopeless romantic she'd experienced here on other planets or with other Fleet residents.]

[mucked]

No. But perhaps it should have been.

[kill_switch]

Oh? Wish you would have done things differently?

[She has to admit; she's curious. As long as Peggy is alright with the conversation, Furiosa will see where it goes. She couldn't imagine romance being a priority in the Wastelands.]

[mucked]

[ she isn't quick to tell the story. but she will check: ]

What do you know about Steve Rogers and what happened to him?

[ because some of this requires context. and not all of it is easily given. ]

[kill_switch]

[Furiosa thinks for a moment, then shakes her head.]

Not much. I've met him in passing, know he's with you and Max on the Starstruck. Don't know much from his time before the Fleet.




Should I head over for further details? [Giving Peggy an out of she doesn't want to just lay out the whole thing over network.]

Video

[uprightness]

Thank you. It's been a while. it's good to see you.

[ they may never have been introduced but he knows this woman is Max's friends. maybe now he won't be so sad. ]

Re: Video

[kill_switch]

You too.

[She's seen im around when she's visited. He seemed nice enough, but it wouldn't hurt to know him better.] How long have you been in the fleet?

Video

[uprightness]

In a few months, it'll be two years.

[ funny, how time flies. he felt it stretch into eons back at the 21st century. something here makes it flow faster. ]

you?

Video

[kill_switch]

Same, thereabouts.

[Nearly nine-hundred days, if anyone is counting.] Do you miss your world, much?

Video

[uprightness]

Not too much.

[ it's something he never quite put into words, not like this. but especially today, the notion is true enough. ]

Most of the people I care about are here. I could do without Atroma but overall, it's been good.

Re: Video

[kill_switch]

A luxurious cage is still a cage.

[She agreed heartily about Atroma, but while she didn't have all the people she cared about from home, she knew it was overal beneficial being here as opposed to the alternative.][Everyone had access to basic necessities; that's important to her.] Your world, it had some large scale problems?

[She's trying to remember what she's learned previously from Peggy, but everything is still a little fuzzy.]

Video

[uprightness]

I guess I feel more free here than I do at home. We do have problems that we're working to fix but in many ways this is home. it makes more sense somtimes.

[ but it's very difficult to explain without the whole story, isn't it? ]

where I'm from isn't exactly home, either. I guess I've been looking for home for a while now.

Re: Video

[kill_switch]

I get what you're saying.

I spent [She has to stop and think - years, these people talk in yeas, not days] about twenty years, trying to get back to where I grew up. When I got the chance, I passed right by it. Didn't recognize it. Completely destroyed.

[That is a really hard thing to admit; even after claiming the Citadel, even after her two years here, thinking back on that moment when the Many Mothers had told her what had happened, she feels herself tearing inside. She takes a breath and lets it out, shaking her head.]

Do you ever think we'll be able to shake the Atroma? Live independently of the Fleet?

Video

[uprightness]

For me, I ended up back where I started from only about seventy years later. it was all there but changed. nothing really stayed the same.

[ it wasn't home. in many ways, it might never be. ]

I hope so. I would prefer to take them down completely.

[ of course he would. ]

Re: Video

[kill_switch]

That would be preferable.

[She'd take what she could get, though, and while she's grown past just cutting and running on her own, she's not above attempting escape with a favored few if the opportunity presents itself.]

Wait, so you traveled in time? You saw your world's future?

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[uprightness]

You can say that. I didn't want to but somehow it ended up like this. it's not a bad future.

[ not all bad. ]

but you know. it's not home.

Re: Video

[kill_switch]

[Furiosa listens and nods, considering his words.]

I think ... home is more the people in it then where it's at.

[The Citadel hadn't been home even those seven thousand and odd days she'd lived there, when Immortan Joe had been in rule, but now that it's been taken over by the Wives and the Vuvalini, yes; she could consider it home. And the Fleet, she could consider home, with Tyrion and Max and the rest. It sounded like Steve had his own people that could make it home for him. At the very least, Peggy.]