inwhichwar: (if looks could kill)
Doctor Maria Gordon | OC ([personal profile] inwhichwar) wrote in [community profile] exsilium2012-09-30 04:12 pm

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[The feed is staticky and has an annoying old-TV-on-the-fritz roll going on. Maria's sitting on a folded-up blanket with her back to the catacomb wall, bad leg stretched out in front of her. Not the best furniture in the world, but displaced persons can't be choosers.

She's also managed to scrounge up a tiny petroleum campstove and a very battered tin pot, in which she's currently making tea. The sky may be falling in a screwed-up, filthy future that none of them can escape, but THERE WILL BE TEA, DAMN IT. Her expression is meditative.]


In the world I come from there was once a war which wasn't a war. Two great powers running roughshod over little countries to prove how big they were to one another.

[There's a burst of audio static that drowns her out, although she keeps talking while she pulls the tea off the flame and cuts the gas.]

. . . never seemed to me that either one of them cared that much for what became of the little people they were using for their pawns.

I do not consider that the Initiative or the United Earth are any different in that regard. It is not so much that we are caught between good guys and bad guys. Only between two great powers who see us as means to their own respective ends.

[She gazes calmly down at her tea, her body language and her placid delivery very much at odds with how pissed she actually is. She takes it personally when people drop bombs on her, okay?]

Nevertheless. I cannot speak for anyone else. But I intend to find my own best way to show the more brutish of the two great powers just what a very bad decision they made when they decided to fuck with me.
boughtabookstore: (neutral: certainly)

permatext woops forgot that ;;

[personal profile] boughtabookstore 2012-10-03 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's all good Ros is pretty used to carrying on most of her conversations by typing at people talking. ]

Earth, United States, 2011.

Are you referring to WWII then?
kneecaptain: (brooding & angry kitchen cabinets)

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[personal profile] kneecaptain 2012-10-04 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
I just got here.
ofthegrey: (Default)

Re: [perma-video, here!]

[personal profile] ofthegrey 2012-10-04 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He waits out a static burst that he can hear.]

I am not certain when we'll have the opportunity. It may be that we meet underground if we must. You'll find that you aren't alone in your thinking.
peaceinchaos: noveria @lj (We're going to have to actually talk)

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[personal profile] peaceinchaos 2012-10-04 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Individuals of power running roughshod over everyone else seems to be the basis of most conflict.
Edited 2012-10-04 04:16 (UTC)
kneecaptain: (brooding & awful hospital coffee)

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[personal profile] kneecaptain 2012-10-08 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Charming isn't the word I'd use.

[He doesn't sigh, but there's a moment of resignation.] If you wanna know the truth, though, I'm used to it.
kneecaptain: (brooding & possibly confused??)

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[personal profile] kneecaptain 2012-10-08 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Civilians get used to it, too.

[That's not a denial. But if they're talking about the Cold War, he's a bit cagey about admitting to any of it. He's supposed to be cagey. They drilled that into him.]
kneecaptain: (brooding & brilliant conversationalist)

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[personal profile] kneecaptain 2012-10-09 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Perspective. [Poignant silence, possibly marred by static.]
kneecaptain: (brooding & he's naked under that cape)

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[personal profile] kneecaptain 2012-10-09 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Barnes. I'm Bucky Barnes.
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[personal profile] ofthegrey 2012-10-09 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I most certainly shall.

[And when he does, it will be in reference to this.]
boughtabookstore: (neutral: certainly)

[personal profile] boughtabookstore 2012-10-09 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes.

That does seem like a rather apt analogy for this situation.
feel_nevermore: (Default)

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[personal profile] feel_nevermore 2012-10-09 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Neither do I. But wishing rarely helps with that.
peaceinchaos: (Clint slept with what now.)

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[personal profile] peaceinchaos 2012-10-10 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
And then there are those of us who've been dragged into the middle of it... I suppose that would make us the pawns in this case, yes?
loyalism: (pic#)

[personal profile] loyalism 2012-10-10 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Heroes are rarely ever what the stories make them out to be.

[They are infinitely more human.]

But it's hard to blame people for not wanting to see the ugly truth.

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