005 ¤ [video]

[fe_male]

Oh, fantastic. This place again. Thrilling. So happy to see you all again. JARVIS, daddy's home.

Text; filter to Tali:
[ because. uhm. who are you you're in his room. ]

hope you haven't broken anything in the apartment yet. watch out for the blender btw

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[kneecaptain]

Maybe you're just unlucky.

[fe_male]

Again, I'd rather believe they just have it in for me. At least then I have someone to be annoyed with.

[kneecaptain]

Of course you wanna believe it, Stark. That means it's about you.

How long were you out for?

[fe_male]

[ like you honestly expected anything else. ]

A few months. Maybe three. Looks like I was gone from here for maybe a week. Kind of disorienting.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah. [ He goes quiet for a second, remembering when every time he woke up it was a different decade. ]

[ And now back to your regularly scheduled awkward smalltalk. ]

Anything good happen?

[fe_male]

Uh. Got a girlfriend. She's not here though, so. Right now, kind of a negative.

[kneecaptain]

Yeah, I know the feeling.

[fe_male]

Anything good happen here?

[kneecaptain]

[ Brightly. ]

Nope.

[fe_male]

Well at least I didn't miss anything...

[kneecaptain]

This place is at a standstill. They just keep bring in new people and shoving 'em out, and who knows if we're winning because they're careful not to tell us that.

It's a recipe for a lot of the same.

[fe_male]

You'd think they'd be a bit more into trying to boost morale. I always thought that was a big part of strategy where armies were concerned.

[kneecaptain]

Not always.

You fight, or the other guy's gonna kill you. You fighting, you just won't feel that good about it.

That's what I figure they're going for.

[fe_male]

Yeah that's... That just makes me want to fight everybody.

[kneecaptain]

I know that feeling, too.

[fe_male]

Oh good. Hate to be misunderstood here.

[kneecaptain]

You haven't been doing this all that long, have you?

[ ... ]

The superhero thing, I mean.

[fe_male]

[ ... ]

Why?

[kneecaptain]

The Tony Stark I know's less peppy.

Figure he'd been doing it too long.

[fe_male]

I've been informed in triplicate that the other main version of myself is also kind of a dick, so.

[kneecaptain]

I didn't say that.

He's… he's not a bad guy.

[fe_male]

Super convincing there, Barnes.

[kneecaptain]

He's not. [ Deep down, Bucky thinks he was the asshole in that awkward semi-teamup, but that's typical for Bucky. ]

[fe_male]

[ hey, okay, he's not about to actually get into this. ] Okay, sure. Conflicting opinions from the peanut gallery, but honestly, it's not like it matters. I'm here. I don't care. It's all good.

[kneecaptain]

Hey, you asked.