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Bucky Barnes | Victor of District 10 ([personal profile] hollowvictor) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2018-04-01 03:17 pm

Video/Action- First Pirate Transmission

Who: Panem!Bucky
Broadcast: Yes
Action: The Bridge of the Wonderduck
When: Now

[The video opens with a view of Bucky's face, hair short, face scruffy and a steel determination in his expression as though challenging the very fleet to suddenly do something and prove all his paranoid assumptions correct.]

The last time I was on a show for other's entertainment, we were made to fight and kill each other until only one person was left. Supposedly that's not the case here. Yet.

I assume some of you have been making attempts to learn more about this place and the people behind it.

[A pause. 'What do you know' was on the tip of his tongue, but he was the offworlder now. He didn't hold a single damn card in his hand he knew it too well. He hated it. He'd have to change that.]

What do we know?

[Anyone on the ship itself for any reason will find Bucky at the comms station, waiting for responses and seeing exactly how far the system would allow him to hack until the firewalls caught him. Sometimes you had to test the strength of the bars when you were in a cage.]
mucked: (☂ knowing it all this time)

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[personal profile] mucked 2018-04-06 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's a helluva twist, isn't it? she swallows hard -- the only brief and outward display of her uncertainty. it's a miracle she manages to keep her attention fixed upon the screen. ]

Peggy will do just fine. [ peg is a liberty she wouldn't mind him taking, she supposes, if she gets to know him better. but it'll never be one she offers from her own hand. but now she's also got to settle on what to call him.

bucky, buck, just seems so informal. and does he even go by it? nevertheless, she's got other fish to fry. ]


What, you and I? [ growing up together! what about steve rogers? ] I feel like I ought to apologize, [ she smiles -- wicked sharp, and it doesn't reach her eyes, ] I was a terror as a child.
mucked: (☂ deep asleep)

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[personal profile] mucked 2018-04-08 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I've grown accustomed to weird.

[ even so, this does take the cake. a childhood shared with those two? how odd. how novel. there are parts of her that almost wish it could be true. she listens to him describe a trio the likes of which she wouldn't have wanted to cross in a dark alley.

it's a miracle she manages to keep eye contact. ]


-- And I wouldn't go as far as to describe myself as amazing. But I can manage to dance the lindy from time to time. A good partner helps. [ steve, of course, she couldn't talking about anyone else but steve. ]
mucked: (☂ going with what i always longed for)

[personal profile] mucked 2018-04-14 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ the shift won't go unnoticed. before she was the starstruck's captain, she was its comms officer -- she is deeply acquainted with the ways in which these messages get encrypted. she watches the feed change. she knows something must therefore be coming.

but she doesn't expect this. huh. ]


That's -- harder to answer than it ought to be. [ truth is, she's happier here. but peggy doesn't know how to articulate that answer. so instead. ] But I'm doing fine back home. Things might seem bleak but -- I've been told they improve.
mucked: (☂ but baby this story)

[personal profile] mucked 2018-04-19 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ god, there's something tragic in it -- although she cares quite deeply for the barnes from her own world, from the one where hydra got its claws into him, there's no denying the winter soldier is different. and there's something in the open communicative way this barnes talks that...

well. he reminds her not only of jim but of the sergeant barnes she knew during the war. it puts a lump in her throat; she glances off-screen for a moment. ]


Of course. [ it's the easiest thing -- easier than it should be, maybe -- to accept his offer. ] I'm captain on the Starstruck. You really should stop by, only...

[ well. here it is. ]

Have you talked to Steve yet?
mucked: (☂ and i'll throw you the rope)

[personal profile] mucked 2018-04-23 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
He's the Starstruck's first mate. [ he's much much more than that, of course, but peggy thinks that steve's usual dismay that she doesn't rush to call him anything more than that can be forestalled given the current circumstances. ] He's -- less accustomed, let's say, to the fleet's ability to draw in versions and variations on familiar faces.

[ a careful and pragmatic pause. ]

He might wear his surprise a bit more on his sleeve, is all.

[ understatement. peggy might be a temperamental creature, but by contrast to steve hers is the cooler head. ]
mucked: (☂ ain't it just like you to kiss me)

[personal profile] mucked 2018-04-29 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a federal agent, Barnes. More importantly, I'm a captain in this Fleet. Now that you're here, now that you're part of it, you're one of us. No matter who you sound like or look like.

[ idealistic, maybe. certainly. but she's been sharing her time with steve rogers for over a year, now. some of the idealism rubs off. ]
mucked: (☂ i've been sitting here for hours baby)

[personal profile] mucked 2018-05-03 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll find I know precisely the value of being treated like a person in one's own right.

[ she can't speak for his peggy, won't dare to, but her own career has been a wild ride of underestimation and dismissal -- often purely because of who she was. how she looked. as odd as it is to see his face and hear his voice and come to grips with a whole other version of him, she's hardly prepared to undermine him for it. ]
mucked: (☂ any place is better)

[personal profile] mucked 2018-05-05 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm afraid it's still very much a work in progress. [ a sardonic smile. ] But a few birds of twittered and told me secrets from the future; things, I hear, get better.

[ before they get much much worse. ]