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

[deadthenred]

That's the one. [ Did they have him memorize all the US capitals as part of the Captain America test? No. ]

Your world must not be too far off mine.

[ If the United States existed, that's a good start. But she's clearly from someplace else. ]

[sestra]

I am knowing New York. [ she can barely name all the states, much less the capitals. america is too big, and she only ever went places they told her to before. ]

[ she wrinkles her nose. ] It was Earth, just much different from this one. I am not thinking Canada exists anymore, but I know Ukraine does. New Kyiv they call it. They spell it right way, at least.

[deadthenred]

And how's that? [ Not Киев, he's guessing. ] I don't really understand how the translator they put in supposed to work.

[ Most people seem to be speaking English, anyway. But maybe he just can't tell. ]

[sestra]

They spell it Ukrainian way, not Russian way. [ and the russian romanization got more mainstream for a long while. ] At least when it is being in English.

[ she speaks english and ukrainian, her translator does funky things sometimes. she stopped trying to figure it out too. ]

[deadthenred]

That's complicated. [ He means, translating it into Russian and then translating it into English, again. ] People who live there know what to call it.

[ Bucky Barnes comes out against the occupation of Ukraine? ]

[sestra]

Yes. And I lived in Ukraine, so I am knowing what to call it.

[ bucky barnes is CORRECT. go away russia let her country be free of your meddling. ]

[deadthenred]

[ Never forget. ]

Is that where you're from?

[ Bucky lived in London for a while, and it didn't make him English. ]

Or Canada?

[sestra]

I live in Ukraine until most recently.

[ she always thought she was born there, but now she! doesn't know! amelia never actually said where she gave birth, or maybe helena just ignored it before killing her. ]

Now I stay in Canada. [ a beat. ] When I leave this strange fake Earth, I go back to Canada. You live in America?

[deadthenred]

Indiana. [ And sometimes space, but, that's a secret. ]

It's in the middle. [ Bucky was born there, as it happens. ]

[sestra]

Is very big middle. [ american is very big! not as big as russia, geographically speaking, but she doesn't care enough to know individual states or oblasts. ]

Is it nice place? Do you want to go back there also?

[deadthenred]

[ Not as big as Canada, either. ]

It's fine. Quiet, mostly. [ And he hadn't chosen Shelbyville at random. He was born there, sure, but it gave him a bead on most of the Midwest. He could ride to most of the big cities in a couple of hours, tops. ] But I've never stayed in one place very long.

[sestra]

[ she barely has the toronto landscape down, you can't expect her to know canadian geography too! ]

You like to move, or you had to move?

[deadthenred]

Both, I guess. [ Still mad about Clint Barton wrecking his house, though. ] My dad was in the army.

[ So they moved every couple of years, until he died. But by then, Bucky was already closer to grown than not . ]

[sestra]

I do not have dad. [ she says so very casually, carelessly. she grew up in an orphanage, she had no parents ever. ]

Grew up with nuns. They did not take us on many field trips. I like this about here. I can go to many cities for no reason.