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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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[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.

[thelivinglegend]

[ Steve says nothing to that, mouth thinning. He doesn't mind inspiring the troops in a cause that's just and right. This new light on developments is not the best one. ]

[blots]

Oh, don't be naive. It takes the fun out of it.

The Capitol needs its citizens inspired and happy, and also docile and obedient. Are you saying you didn't realize you're the perfect example?

[thelivinglegend]

[ He's already not really trusting what's become of the Capitol. This is not helping. ]

...I'll decide for myself what I'm going to be.

[blots]

You don't have the luxury.

[thelivinglegend]

I know what I'm worth to them. I can't afford not to be.

That doesn't mean I'm going to follow what they've become with blinders on. If things have changed in a way I can't support in good faith, then I won't.

[blots]

I don't believe you.

[thelivinglegend]

You don't have to.