mission 02: voice, action

[unspangled]

Who: Steve Rogers (AU)
Broadcast: Fleet
Action: Heron or Iskaulit; Work, Art Therapy, Gym
When: During drift

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If you could have any name, would you keep your own or pick something new?


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[ If you're looking for this former star-spangled menace, he can generally be found one of two places. On the Heron, attending to his ship responsibilities, or on the Iskaulit, tentatively settling in with newer responsibilities. He can often be found in the gym, preferably at odd hours, and it's not inconceivable he might wander into the art therapy room to see what it's all about. ]

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[unspangled]

The Tesseract, [ He repeats, and almost winces when another slew of images promptly careens around inside his skull. It takes a lot of focus to ignore those images - at least as much as he can under the circumstances - and concentrate on what Vision is telling him. What he's saying. What he's infering. Steve may look, briefly, a little green around the gills.

And, frankly, it's only because the android has been kind to him from the moment they met that he actively makes the choice to answer at all. If it had been someone else, almost anyone else, the feed would be off and this conversation terminated. ]

I don't.

[ That's his opinion, and an underhanded admission that, yes, it is his main drive for asking about names in the first place. ]

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[unbearablynaive]

[That wince brings back sharp memories of Wrath, his first supersoldier friend. She hadn't been a Winter Soldier, but there were too many similarities. And one of them was that his questions often brought her to a point of pain, which was the last thing he wanted.]

Ah, I'm so sorry, I didn't intend to cause you distress.

[But even if there hadn't been another Steve Rogers already here, this man is very clearly not the same person the Vision has known all his life. Enough so that he'd assumed it was just another one of those mysterious doubles that showed up from time to time, with the same look and sometimes the same voice and never the same personality.]

Is there--that is, have you come across anything you like yet?

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[unspangled]

[ Steve calls up what acting skill he remembers, or ever claimed to have, and settles his expression into something less distressful than whatever Vision is reacting to. It's a front, very clearly one, but maybe the other man will give him some leeway here. It's a hope, anyway. ]

You didn-- It's fine. It's okay.

[ Or something less than okay, but he's okay with just being okay right now. And a shrug accompanies his answer. ] There's already someone else with my name. Dunno, still trying to find something that doesn't sound. Fake. [ like he's appropriating someone else's life. ] Do you have any. Suggestions?

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[unbearablynaive]

[The world's greatest actor Steve Rogers is not. However, as was just pointed out, this is not exactly Steve Rogers, is it?

He'll accept the front. How not? He bites his lip and is silent for a moment.]

Anatole, for the dawn or a new beginning. Or Cassius, for emptiness. I suppose it depends which way you would like to go with the name.

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[unspangled]

[ He emits a huff of something that approximates a laugh. ]

With the way I tend to feel, Cassius wouldn't be a bad choice.

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[unbearablynaive]

[His eyes widen a bit - is he suppressing a smile?]

That which is empty can be filled. You can draw whatever you like on a blank canvas. There are worse things to be.

Re: video;

[unspangled]

[ Eyebrow raise. ]

Or left empty.

[ You know, just to be contrary. ]

There are. I just wish I could find something that feels right.

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[unbearablynaive]

It's a rather Zen Buddhist philosophy, but yes. The absence of a thing can be art as much as the thing itself.

[But he nods, serious again.]

I hope you find something.