voice test of rule63!steve

[starshielded]

What do you mean, 'only hipsters wear their hair in victory rolls nowadays'?

Why can't I wear my hair how I want? What's wrong with victory curls?

And what on Earth is a hipster?

Comments

[starshielded]

Oh yeah! I think my mun knows a couple of people with those. She should make one, I think, but she won't. She's like that. Stubborn.

[gamblinglady]

Mine's jus' kinda too busy t'start a full fledged game, but wants t'play wit' others. He tends t'be pretty ornery when it comes t'what he wants. He's a dear though.

[starshielded]

Mine's about to start some internship that'll keep her busy. Not really a good time for uh-- a 'game'?

[gamblinglady]

Mine jus' got mobile net access on his iPad. Kinda insists on "keeping up with tags" wherever he goes now.

[starshielded]

That's neat! That always amazes me, you know? That you can have all that knowledge and just carry it around with you.

[gamblinglady]

S'pretty convenient, I'll give you dat. Mos' people ain't usin' it for knowledge though.

[starshielded]

It's more the principle of the thing, really.

[gamblinglady]

[ A pause. ] Y'wouldn't happen t'be related to a certain red white an' blue boy scout, would you?

[starshielded]

Boy scout? No I don't have any siblings.

[gamblinglady]

You sure? Big "A" right 'bout here, [ She points to her forehead. ] coupla wings, big shield? [ Cause you sure remind her of Natasha Stark's husband.]

[starshielded]

[Blink. Blinkblink. She's describing Steph's uniform. What?]

I'm not-- That's-- That's my shield. I mean, I have a shield that I use and a big "A" and everything. What do you mean?

[gamblinglady]

[ Well that makes sense then. How fun! ]

Judgin' by the way m'mun is laughin' I figure you're jus' who I think y'are. Captain America, huh? You prob'ly don't know me, but I'm one o' de X-Men. In mos' places I hear I'm a man though, you too. Pretty disturbin' stuff if'n y'ask me. Mos' people call me Gambit.

An honour t'meet you, ma'am.

[starshielded]

Oh, pleasure. Don't have to call me ma'am, though. Please.

[gamblinglady]

Stephanie, then. If'n you don' mind me askin', which time period're you from?

[starshielded]

The 40s. What, the victory rolls didn't give it away?

[gamblinglady]

Hey, for all I know y' might secretly be a hipster.

[starshielded]

I'll never tell.

[gamblinglady]

Girl's gotta have her secrets after all, non?

[starshielded]

Exactly.

[gamblinglady]

Gotta say, you're a sight more fun than the Cap I know, name's Steve. Kinda a stick in the mud. Then again, being' married to Stark'll do that to a body. [ Yes, the Iron Man is the same in pretty much every universe, male or female. ]

[starshielded]

That's funny. My mom used to call me "Stevie." [Wait, a Stark?]

He's not-- Is he married to Howard? Is that-- allowed?

[gamblinglady]

Doubt anybody'd call him "Stevie" these days.

[ That gets a laugh. ] 'Pends which State you're in, but generally yeah. Not Howard though, his daughter, Natasha.

[starshielded]

Daughter? Oh. That's-- interesting.

[gamblinglady]

[ Another laugh. ] Not as strange as it sounds, petit. Your aging ain't 'xactly what a body'd call conventional.

[starshielded]

Oh, I meant that Howard had a daughter! He never struck me as the marrying type.

[gamblinglady]

Don' know much 'bout Maria Stark. All before my time. But I reckon she was some woman if' what the books say 'bout Howard's true.

[starshielded]

He was a dog when I knew him. People can change, though.

[gamblinglady]

Or dogs can be tamed. [ Take it from her, Steph. She knows all about it. ]