re: winter soldier #1

[kneecaptain]

There you go. Not really dead, and still better off than Jason Todd.

Comments

[kneecaptain]

A "marked tendency". [He is making fun of how you talk.]

[bests]

Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up, smartass. Let's see how long this conversation goes before you say something I can mock.

[kneecaptain]

I never talk like a mission report.

[bests]

People use the phrase marked tendency outside of reports.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, if they're you.

[bests]

You know, I'm thinking my fist and your nose should really meet sometime. They could be good friends.

[kneecaptain]

God, that must get annoying.

[bests]

What?

[kneecaptain]

Not being able to punch people because it'd hurt them too bad.

[bests]

You have no idea. It's especially annoying when trying to spar with someone.

[kneecaptain]

Does that even help?

[bests]

Being able to punch a dent into steel doesn't automatically mean amazing fighting skills. My form gets rusty if I don't keep up with it.

[kneecaptain]

Well, yeah, but none of the bad guys practice.

[bests]

Some of them don't. But you never know what you're going to run into. I'd rather be prepared than anything else.

[kneecaptain]

You're never gonna be prepared, so why worry?

[bests]

Oh, I don't know. Why should we train soldiers so much before we send them out to the battlefield? No amount of talking is ever going to prepare them for what's out there, and there's always going to be someone with a bigger gun.

[kneecaptain]

That's not the same as worrying.

[bests]

I don't worry about it.

[kneecaptain]

Right.

[bests]

I can't tell if you don't believe me or if you just don't have anything else to say.

[kneecaptain]

Well, what can I say? I'm a mystery.

[bests]

You're not dark and brooding enough to be able to pull that off.

[kneecaptain]

You know, I'd take it.

[bests]

It?

[kneecaptain]

Not being… [he doesn't want to say dark and brooding] that.