It's 3 am everyone! Have an evil, AU version of Steve Rogers cos I couldn't help myself

[notyourgerbil]

Really don't know what you're doing, do you? I'm just here cos you want to do more RPing, but you've got no idea where to put me. And it won't be in a game, either, won't let you do that. I'd rather have one of those PSLs you keep thinking about it.

And you do realize Peggy's pretty rare, right? Not much chance in finding one for me. [He'd like it very much, though, but he isn't gonna admit that to everybody.] Besides, she'd never agree with me.

Think you should let me out, but I doubt you'll like what I'm gonna do. You can go on about "evil Steve" being sexy, but you're really a nice, good person. [He makes a face.] But I know you're gonna let me out anyway. I've got important things to do.

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[notyourgerbil]

[His gaze is already meeting hers again. He's still smirking, too.] Course I am. And who said you saying please was what I meant by asking nicely? Probably couldn't hurt, though.

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

[Clio considered that and then moved in a step. It wasn't the first time she'd played the game, suddenly looking all coy and cute. Well as cute as a woman armed to the teeth like she was could look.]

So, Handsome, do tell. Just what important things do you have to do? [She paused and then smirked.] Please?

[notyourgerbil]

[Except cute wasn't the word he'd use to describe her, not when she was dressed the way she was. Still... he took a step forward, too. Again he looked her up and down.] Saving America from the Soviets. [He speaks softly, and he doesn't mention the part where his plan involves taking out the government and putting himself in power.]

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

[It wasn't the answer she was expecting, not when the word evil was being thrown about.] What's so evil about that? Seems like a noble cause.

[notyourgerbil]

Nothing evil about it, my mun just likes sticking that label on me. [Only because you're crazy, Steve.]

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

They're good for that. Have to pigeonholes and all that. [She wasn't sure she was buying it all either.]

So why would she think you're evil?

[notyourgerbil]

Guess it's my methods. [He shrugs] But what is it they say? The ends justify the means. Yeah. I'm just doing what has to be done. [Lala, dancing around actually giving any details.]

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

Can't say you don't have me curious. [Not to mention spouting beliefs she held herself. Not a good thing at all.]

Begs the question, Handsome, just what are you doing that is such bad means, no matter what the ends?

[notyourgerbil]

[Small smile.] I make lots of girls curious, but I only care about the interesting ones.

If I wanna save this country from the Russians, first I gotta get rid of all those idiots in the government. They can't beat the enemy, but I can. Just like I did with the Nazis.

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

I can't argue with you on that. Government holds a lot of people back from doing good things which lets more do bad things.

[notyourgerbil]

[Colour him surprised, at least a little.] Here I thought you'd call me crazy just like everybody else.

Course, you could still be a spy.

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

You might be. [She wasn't going to deny that.] But the basic idea of stopping the enemy makes sense to me. So does a government that isn't easily swayed. Money keeps countries in wars, just like everything else it does.

You're right though. I could be. Hard to know in this day and age, huh?

[notyourgerbil]

Then I guess the question is... Now that I've told you this, what are you gonna do with it, miss...?

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

That entirely depends on so many things. What you actually do. How much of it is true. What government takes over because if it got worse, I would have to blame you.

[She smirked.] Barton. Go with Barton.

[notyourgerbil]

It'd be my government, till the Soviets are beaten. And don't things have to get worse before they better? Don't we have to lose some things for a little while, for everybody's sake?

[He smirks right back.] Miss Barton. Spose it'd be too forward to ask your first name, too?

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

[Okay, now that wasn't quite something she was behind.]

So... You plan to install yourself as leader of... the United States? [Or did he mean the world? Oh those weren't good thoughts.] And collateral damage is expected?

Kind of forward, yeah. You prompted with miss, but it's Clio. [She'd used enough names over the year she wasn't worried.]

[notyourgerbil]

Yeah. [Maybe he would follow with the world, he'd thought about it, because why not? It wasn't like he couldn't do it, and he'd be better at it than anyone else, he was sure.] Isn't there always damage?

But you already know my name, Clio. Maybe that makes you a spy, or is everybody still talking about Captain America?

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

[It was a disquieting question for her, one that she'd dealt with over the years.] Yeah, but you should always be working against it, even if you know it is inevitable.

That's unfair. You're recognizable and historical. That's like faulting me for knowing who the president is.

[notyourgerbil]

[He shrugs, he really doesn't care that much. It would be worth it.] You could try, yeah, but that's what happens in war. No sense getting emotional about it.

[And then he smiles, shaking his head.] Really? So the government still kept using the propaganda about me, even after I became their enemy? They still sell those comics and make those movies? Hope you see what I mean about incompetence. [He is gonna use this to his advantage.]

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

[Death happened, she wouldn't deny that, but that sort of gallant attitude about the lives of those for whom wars should be fought, rather than against those that perpetrated them was more than a bit skewed in her mind and it showed in her frown.]

The reels are shown. Not to mention, I like bad comics.

[notyourgerbil]

Don't like my goals now because some people might die along the way? Least it won't be for nothing.

And how'd they explain it when I disappeared? They just find themselves an actor to replace me? [He gives her a pretend hurt look.] Bad comics? My comics were never bad. [Yes they were.]

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

I don't like how cavalier you are about it. That people can and will die and that you shrug it off isn't the same thing.


Depends on which medium. Some did, most didn't. Least they didn't replace you with a chick. [She smirked.] I'm sure you wouldn't think so.

[notyourgerbil]

Sorry. [No you're not, Steve. At all.] I don't let it get to me, why should I?

Can't believe they even kept up with it at all. They should've just used an actor to begin with, and let me fight. [Yeah, he's bitter. But still, he smirsk right back at her.] You gotta admit, some of them weren't so bad, right?

[ex_mygenuinepleasure660]

Because when you don't let it get to you, then you stop thinking about them as people and then you don't care if they die. Makes you the same as anyone else people try and stop.

You were a symbol for a lot of people. Still are. That should mean something. [She very nearly smiled.] Maybe a few were good.

[notyourgerbil]

Yeah... maybe I just don't care. I'm doing what I need to.

It does mean something, specially to me. [Again, he could really use this.] Just a few? Probably a little too old fashioned for people nowadays.