Video/Action- First Pirate Transmission

[hollowvictor]

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.]

Comments

[mucked]

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. ]

[hollowvictor]

[It takes the wind out of his sails as much as it releases a tightness in his chest. He shouldn't even be thinking about getting close to these people, his own Peggy was back home, Sam was back home, the entire movement to rebuild Panem was back home.

But home would always be a little bit wherever Peggy and Steve were too, no matter what corner of space that was.]

Stubborn as always.

Thank you. That means a lot more to me than you probably know.

[mucked]

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. ]

[hollowvictor]

[He nods. He can believe it, even if he wishes it weren't true for her. He knew enough of her world to know just because people weren't being forced to fight to the death for entertainment, didn't mean things were perfect. Sam had talked about wars and people's rights and what Bucky'd read himself gave him enough of a picture.

Funny how Panem could mess things up so badly and yet not have some of the problems other places did. He supposed there had to be some sort of balance.]

I'm sorry you had to deal with that. I'm sure the people who put you into that position ended up more sorry.

[mucked]

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. ]

[hollowvictor]

Good.

[He seemed to hesitate, not quite sure what to say next. For a bit, he could just be Bucky, and it was a difficult thing to let go of. And there was a ridiculous part of him that felt, if he hung up, she might just vanish and he wouldn't get to talk to her again.

A silly sentiment.]

I should let you go, there's other things I need to look into and I've taken enough of your time for one day. We'll talk again soon. [He smiled.] At least, I hope so.