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[thelivinglegend]

Mundane, you got a minute?

I might be wrong, but didn't you say you didn't have any intentions of putting me in one of these games?

I'm not bucking orders, here. You want me to go, I'll go, no arguments here. But is there a particular reason why you chose this game?

No, I understand the choice in canon point, as you put it. I get it. If I'm going to end up waking up in a new world anyway, that does seem the obvious choice.

However, it doesn't help matters much if my actual past, Bucky and the squad and Peggy, is going to be a set of alternate memories. Just a mirror of a past you made up just for this game. Dealing with one past where I lost everything isn't good enough, I've got to have two, and not know for sure which one is the real one?

...

Ma'am, I'm starting to get the impression you just really don't like me.

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[sorcerous]

Do they ever like us?

[thelivinglegend]

You'd think they'd have to, a little, to keep us around.

[blots]

They like watching.

[thelivinglegend]

Great. Dancing monkeys all over again.

Still, they have to know we've got limits. No fun for them if they break us early, right?

[ How did he get to be this old and bitter? He can't even remember. ]

[blots]

I never worked right in the first place. Six jolts of spin in a five-jolt mainframe.

[thelivinglegend]

...you're just as messed up, in other words.

[ Yeah, you got the blankest stare just then. This is gonna go swell. ]

[blots]

Ah, don't they have slang where you come from, old man?

I won't recognize you, you know. They only teach your exploits in the Capitol, and I'm... an immigrant, shall we say.

[thelivinglegend]

[ 'Think they traded slang for manners', he thinks but doesn't say. Instead he lets it pass. ]

If it's one more person treating me like anyone else, don't expect me to start complaining.

[blots]

I don't think you and I would get along.

[thelivinglegend]

You're probably not wrong.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, I don't expect it'll matter.

[blots]

Dear Captain, I hurt people just by being alive and well. Every heartbeat and every breath wounds. I'm an awful leech, and I play well at being a man.

[thelivinglegend]

Does that include the awful poetry or no?

[ Yep, this dude is cray-cray. He's gonna have his eye on him. People who talk like that are never up to anything good. ]

[blots]

Allow me to be clear.

In this world, I am king. I'm a code-witch, and you're a relic.

[thelivinglegend]

I suppose that's meant to intimidate me somehow.

You were right. You don't know me at all.

[blots]

I suppose we'll find out.

[thelivinglegend]

If it comes to that, yeah. We will.

[blots]

The Twin City is different now.

[thelivinglegend]

Everything's different. I understand a lot can happen in two hundred years.

[blots]

It's a shithole. Pardon my Tesh.

[ Tesh being a nation in the snow. Another one that's degraded since Steve was around. ]

[thelivinglegend]

Well, it was never the classiest joint.

It was home, though.

[blots]

Really. You considered the Twin City home.

[thelivinglegend]

I didn't always live in the Capitol.

[blots]

The propaganda artists are going to have a wonderful time with you.

[thelivinglegend]

Thought they said the war was over.

[blots]

Propaganda: not just for violence anymore.