Bucky Barnes ★ Captain America (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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driftfleet2019-02-16 03:39 pm
stillgotmyleftarm) wrote in driftfleet2019-02-16 03:39 pm
★ 1 | ACTION ★
Who: Bucky!Cap Barnes
Action: Throughout the Marsiva holding area
When: Feb 15-17-ish
[Bucky is new. He's new, and confused, and he figures the best way to get answers is to go find them. For better or worse, there's not a whole lot of space in which to find them, since he's limited to the same holding area as the rest of the passengers, but on the plus side, given that everyone else is confined to the same area, he's more likely to run into said passengers. When he spots someone who looks like they might be amenable to talking, he's very likely to approach.
For the most part, the faces are not familiar; he wanders the living area and the kitchen (where he's likely to stop and get some coffee, thank God that seems to exist here). He pokes his head into the bathroom and gym, too, and of course actually makes use of the former to take a shower on a regular basis. The gym he doesn't so much use as inspect and note; he's still too wary of where he is for anything resembling recreation, and thanks to the serum, he doesn't actually need to do much in the way of regular training to keep himself up. Maybe later.
Mostly, what will strike people is the fact that his face looks like the Bucky Barnes already on board, if you've managed to get a good look at that, but his hair is cropped short and his face is clean-shaven and his left arm is definitely not metal. All he's got to wear is the dark blue STRIKE uniform (sans helmet and shield) that looks - to some people, probably - like it should belong on Steve Rogers instead.]
Action: Throughout the Marsiva holding area
When: Feb 15-17-ish
[Bucky is new. He's new, and confused, and he figures the best way to get answers is to go find them. For better or worse, there's not a whole lot of space in which to find them, since he's limited to the same holding area as the rest of the passengers, but on the plus side, given that everyone else is confined to the same area, he's more likely to run into said passengers. When he spots someone who looks like they might be amenable to talking, he's very likely to approach.
For the most part, the faces are not familiar; he wanders the living area and the kitchen (where he's likely to stop and get some coffee, thank God that seems to exist here). He pokes his head into the bathroom and gym, too, and of course actually makes use of the former to take a shower on a regular basis. The gym he doesn't so much use as inspect and note; he's still too wary of where he is for anything resembling recreation, and thanks to the serum, he doesn't actually need to do much in the way of regular training to keep himself up. Maybe later.
Mostly, what will strike people is the fact that his face looks like the Bucky Barnes already on board, if you've managed to get a good look at that, but his hair is cropped short and his face is clean-shaven and his left arm is definitely not metal. All he's got to wear is the dark blue STRIKE uniform (sans helmet and shield) that looks - to some people, probably - like it should belong on Steve Rogers instead.]
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It's called calibrations. I know what it's like for us, but I don't really know the purpose. Ratings? Torture? Experimentation? Some actual recalibrating of the augments maybe. There's no way to know for sure what their intent is. And they call themselves the Atroma, but we don't know much. There are some clues. Could have been put there by them to get us to run around the maze though. [She gives a little shrug, but it's not really dismissive. She knows it's a serious situation. The gravity of it all isn't lost on her, but she's also lived here for three years and at a certain point your life just reasserts itself and things are more about the moments and the relationships and the day to day.
There's also the part where this is her second time in mysterious overlord captivity and the first time it turned out everything she was living was a shared virtual reality with much more manipulation than this place has thrown at her, but it still makes it difficult and maybe foolish to trust anything at face value. But that's also not a great starting point for getting anywhere.]
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It's a lot to take in, but at least it seems... well, relatively straightforward. That's something.
He definitely looks wary as she goes on, but not at her - it's definitely directed at their situation. On his end, it's not the first time he's been a prisoner. And that first time was kind of a doozy. He definitely doesn't like the sound of the word calibrations.]
Do you know how many people are here? It sounds like they come and go.
[Then, even before she can answer, he breaks into a small, apologetic smile.] Sorry, I don't mean to stand here and demand answers. It just seems like you have more of 'em than me, at least.
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Counting the Marsiva and Iskaulit who no one live on we have sixteen ships in the fleet. The number of people keeps shifting, but around seventy five now. People get brought in and other people disappear. Some within days of arriving and some stay for years. Some leave and come back with or without memories of ever being here. They might not be the same person exactly though. Multiverse is funny that way.
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[Seventy-five people or so? Sixteen ships? What the hell? It really is a fleet.] I guess what that tells me is whoever's doing this must have bigger numbers than that.
[Not that that's anything more than vague. It's something, but not much.] Everything's funny if you look at it the right way, [he jokes, if wryly.] Or entertaining, I guess. You think people get kicked off if they're not entertaining enough, maybe?
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They might just be infinitely more powerful, but considering there are a couple of gods on board that's...a lot of power.
[A nod.] I think that's what they want us to think. That's the reason that I've heard floated around, but I can't really buy it.
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[That's interesting, and he definitely files that away. Maybe it means something.
Her opinion, though, definitely gets his attention.] Yeah? You think it's something else, then?
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[Bucky considers that, and,] That makes sense.
Unless they want a balance of people, 'cause dragging quiet people out of their comfort zone is funny or something.
[He doesn't sounds like he thinks it's funny.]
Guess I can't assume to know, though. Never been kidnapped by aliens before. Just tried to punch them off my planet.
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Yep. [He feels the same way.]
Called the Chitauri? And sure there are, but I didn't have a rifle handy. And I did have a Hulk.
[She probably won't know what that means, he thinks as he says it, but too bad, it's out of his mouth.]
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(*00C: They should exist in Earth 295 since it only diverged from 616 shortly before the formation of the X-Men and all previous history is the same, but since 616 didn't introduce them until after they got popularized in the Avengers which happened after 295's arc I figure they were keeping their distance or something during 295 and she didn't know about them.)
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[His lips quirk up into a wry smile.]
Sounds like you've got some experience, maybe? With aliens in general, I mean.
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I meant from home, [he says, a little thread of bemusement in his voice - but yeah, okay. He can see how dumb that question probably sounded, without the clarifier. He's just not used to being in space yet. Give him time.]
I haven't heard of any of those - but then, I admit, I've kinda been trying to deal with the problems closer to home.
[But now you can bet he'll be asking around. Or keeping his ears open - when he gets home. Because he's getting home.] I wonder if we've even got the same, uh, "cosmic" neighbors, anyway.
[Who knows how different their worlds are.]
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[Bucky has to shake his head at that, though, because,] I've never heard of any X-Men, if that means anything. But then, as far as I can tell, all the other Avengers here are from a the same universe, and that's not mine.
Makes a guy feel like the odd man out.
You got anyone here that's from where you're from?
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Having met some of the other Avengers here could you say what the biggest differences are in your world and theirs?
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Blue, huh? [Well. The Hulk is green. The Vision is... magenta, or something. (Fancy color names are definitely Steve's department.) Blue seems reasonable by now.] I'll keep an eye out for him.
[He considers the question - but not very long before he laughs dryly.] Steve's alive - Steve Rogers. He's not the one who died in the Alps, and he's still Cap.
[It's definitely a bittersweet thought.]
Most of the other stuff seems like it's the same, but a lot of them are from later than I am. Which is also weird, you know?
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Is that why you're in this uniform? [Nodding to this clothes.] Are you Captain America back home? [And also here. It's not like their identities don't come with them even if she wears regular clothes more often than her uniform and rarely identifies herself as Shadowcat anymore.]
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[Bucky blows out a breath. Yeah, it sounds like she does know what that's like, then.] I seriously thought waking up seventy years in the future was as weird as it was gonna get, [he says, almost with a laugh underneath his voice.] But I guess I was pretty wrong.
Yeah, [he says, in answer to her question - well, both of them.] Steve... I guess I thought he woulda wanted someone he knew to take over. And the Army kinda wanted me, so -
[It had been the only decision he'd really been capable of making, at the time. Now... it seems even more like the only one he could have made.] Seemed like I might as well keep doing the job when I woke up, you know? What else was I gonna do?
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[She listens to his story, nodding along.] It probably felt good to have some kind of continuity after everything that had changed. [Which was pretty much literally everything. "What else was I gonna do?" isn't a great reason for having or continuing a career much less one doing what she at least imagines he does, but she also understands how that kind of thing happens. She didn't have much of a choice when she chose to join the X-Men, but she can't really imagine doing anything else then either.]
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It felt better than sending the shield back home. Or handing it to someone who didn't even know him, [Bucky says quietly. It's true. He hadn't been about to let someone else take the job, and the idea of sending the shield back, to be laid over an empty grave... no fucking way.
But now he's just being maudlin, so he grins again, and it's a little more charming.] Besides. Blue looks better on me than it ever did on Steve.
It's still weird to think it happened the other way around somewhere, even if I'm glad it did.
But I'm talkin' an awful lot about me. Tell me something about you.
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I mean...blue looks pretty good on Steve. [Smiling.]
Me, huh? What do you want to know? I'm an open book with mostly very dark chapters. [It sounds like a joke. It's not a joke.]
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Now, you go and say something like that, and it makes me want to ask why the chapters are so dark, [he says, a little teasing, but he's also serious when he says,] I'm guessing that's maybe not the kind of thing you really want to talk about though, is it.
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