these are the times that try

[deadthenred]

WHO: Bucky Barnes + various
WHERE: Red Wings, the safehouse, ???
WHEN: Late March.
WHAT: Catch-all log for March, with some open prompts.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: N/A, will update if it changes.

[ Prompts are in the comments below. PM or message me at lightfellows if you'd like a closed starter. ]

Comments

[kgbs]

I would be concerned if she wasn't the type to throw her weight around in any universe. It's good to know that I'm right.

( it's still strange to think of another version of daisy though. )

Do you miss her?

[deadthenred]

I miss a lot of people.

[ From his first life, and his new one. ]

She's one of them.

[kgbs]

Maybe they will show up here.

( or maybe they won't. it is all left up to luck and chance. )

Maybe you will just be here drinking while you miss them. I have done that.

[deadthenred]

Probably better for them if they don't, right?

[ He wouldn't want anyone to be kidnapped just to keep him company, that's for sure. But maybe there are people who have made their lives here better than the ones they were taken from.

It's strange to consider. ]

But yeah. Maybe I will.

[kgbs]

Probably but sometimes you just cannot stop it from happening. Twice now, people I knew at home have come here.

( and twice, they've been taken away. )

This place does not listen to our wishes.

[deadthenred]

You think it's weird? Theoretically there are infinite universes, right? Hell of a coincidence if you know one or two people from home.

[ But even if it weren't coincidental, Bucky isn't sure what that would mean. ]

[kgbs]

It is absolutely strange but...

( so is this place. )

I came here from the sixties so I had to learn that strange was very possible very quickly. If I allow myself to get stuck on it, I will go out of my mind.

[deadthenred]

I dunno if knowing how to use the internet really prepares you for all this. [ Does Bucky actually know how to use the internet? ]

Strange things happened in the sixties, too. The space race. [ Maybe that seems quaint in 2512, but fifty years before that going to the moon was something for H.G. Wells. ] I always felt like time was moving fast.

[kgbs]

I don't know if I ever felt like that. I was...focused on my work.

( he keeps the mention of his employment to that so he doesn't dredge up an argument with the other man. )

I suppose there is an argument for strange things happening anywhere but you have to admit they are especially strange here.

[deadthenred]

[ He's about to say something about it being a matter of perspective, because time travel and other dimensions aren't new, but— ]

I guess my life has been weird for a long time.

[ That's an understatement. ]

[kgbs]

And now you are here.

( congratulations. )

Where it will get even weirder.

[deadthenred]

[ Will it, though? He doesn't really know, he hasn't been here long. ]

What's the weirdest thing you've seen, here?

[kgbs]

( that is...a good question. )

Here? I do not know. I know there have been giant monsters that I avoided. And there are a lot of people from different planets here. That is strange too.

( and took some getting used to. )

[deadthenred]

[ Okay, normal things. ]

Yeah, I heard about the monsters. And vampires. [ Man, it's been a while since he had to deal with vampires. ] Aliens, I think people've been cagey about.

[ Or he just hasn't really talked with many people from Star Wars. ]

[kgbs]

Vampires?

( well, someone had missed those. )

There are vampires? They are not a myth?

[deadthenred]

Oh. [ Well, he doesn't actually know much about the vampires here. ] Well, we had them back home. Not a myth.

Same with the monsters, and the people from other planets.

[kgbs]

We had none of that.

( illya bets he's very surprised. )

I still do not believe it sometimes until it's right in front of my face where there is no choice but to believe it.

[deadthenred]

Or you did, and you just didn't know about it.

[ He takes another sip of his drink. ]

Tricky time to be a skeptic, that's for sure.

[kgbs]

Do not tell me that.

( because it would be all he could think about. )

I prefer it my way.