Bucky Barnes (
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Entry tags:
- marvel (616): bucky barnes,
- marvel (616): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): bucky barnes,
- marvel (mcu): sam wilson,
- marvel (mcu): steve rogers,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): dick grayson,
- ✖ dceu: clark kent,
- ✖ dragon age: sera,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): scott lang,
- ✖ prison break: michael scofield,
- ✖ the last of us: ellie,
- ✖ the raven cycle: ronan lynch,
- ✖ vampire: the masquerade: fatima merali,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson
survival of the fittest
who: Bucky and anyone!
what: Bucky is a big old thief, tracks down his name twin, and also goes monster fighting with Clark
when: Anytime between March 8th and March 12th
where: Around Quarantine
warnings: Probably violence
[i: Around Quarantine; open to anyone]
[Bucky has chosen to eschew the communal housing gifted to him, as well as all the benefits that affords. Like food, shelter, and access to a shower. The last two aren't such a big deal, but he needs a lot of food to keep him going, the bastardised serum in his veins makes him burn through calories at a ridiculous rate.
Which is why he's ghosting through Quarantine on the look out for empty housing or possible a not very well attended street food stall, in order to snatch a hand out and take something. He can be found shoplifting in the street; or, if you'd prefer, breaking into your character's housing in search of food.]
[ii: Down a back alley somewhere; closed to Bucky Barnes]
[Ever since he saw that name on the network, his own name, Bucky has been in overdrive trying to figure out what's going on. It takes him a day or so to track down who owns the username, and then another day to just follow them around and try and figure out who they are. It's only when he catches the imposter out alone, whatever he might be doing, that he reveals himself by trying to drag the other man down an alleyway in an explosion of movement and bad decisions.]
[iii: Monster hunting; closed to Clark Kent]
[The perimeter is of interest to Bucky, partially because it means an escape from this town and partially because he knows that Stark is going to be making upgrades to it. It's why he's scouting around it today.
He's too focused on the possible security measures, trying to find surveillance equipment or defence mechanisms, that he has completely failed to notice the large monster shaped like a monstrous caterpillar creeping up behind him on silent feet.]
what: Bucky is a big old thief, tracks down his name twin, and also goes monster fighting with Clark
when: Anytime between March 8th and March 12th
where: Around Quarantine
warnings: Probably violence
[i: Around Quarantine; open to anyone]
[Bucky has chosen to eschew the communal housing gifted to him, as well as all the benefits that affords. Like food, shelter, and access to a shower. The last two aren't such a big deal, but he needs a lot of food to keep him going, the bastardised serum in his veins makes him burn through calories at a ridiculous rate.
Which is why he's ghosting through Quarantine on the look out for empty housing or possible a not very well attended street food stall, in order to snatch a hand out and take something. He can be found shoplifting in the street; or, if you'd prefer, breaking into your character's housing in search of food.]
[ii: Down a back alley somewhere; closed to Bucky Barnes]
[Ever since he saw that name on the network, his own name, Bucky has been in overdrive trying to figure out what's going on. It takes him a day or so to track down who owns the username, and then another day to just follow them around and try and figure out who they are. It's only when he catches the imposter out alone, whatever he might be doing, that he reveals himself by trying to drag the other man down an alleyway in an explosion of movement and bad decisions.]
[iii: Monster hunting; closed to Clark Kent]
[The perimeter is of interest to Bucky, partially because it means an escape from this town and partially because he knows that Stark is going to be making upgrades to it. It's why he's scouting around it today.
He's too focused on the possible security measures, trying to find surveillance equipment or defence mechanisms, that he has completely failed to notice the large monster shaped like a monstrous caterpillar creeping up behind him on silent feet.]
ii
First, he tries to find out for himself who it is, in subtle ways, while he spends time with the other Avengers or around his floor-mates. It gives him a smokescreen to act normally. Unfortunately, his stalker is good.
Finally, he decides to go out alone, thinking maybe then he can either lose the guy and figure it out, or draw him out into the open. On the way back from an innocuous grocery shopping trip, taking a different way back to the building, the latter happens, with the stalker trying to drag him down the alleyway.
Bucky drops the bag of food immediately and lashes out with a metal fist to try and escape his hold, slipping easily from his pretend-relaxed civilian demeanor to highly trained soldier in an instant.] Who the fuck are you?!
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He's expecting resistance, so he's got his own arm up to deflect what comes in as a surprisingly heavy hitting blow. His eyes are fixed on his opponent, blank and focused, like a machine carrying out a task rather than a man in a fight.]
That's my question.
[Voice low and rough, obviously not used often.]
You're using the name JB Barnes on the network, what the hell does that name mean to you?
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He pulls back from his attacker, gives himself a bit of space, tense and ready, his brows furrowed and brown eyes fixed on the man in front of him. He needs to reassess this threat, clearly, and his gaze is calculating.] You're the one who's been stalking me, pal. [His accent is natural, very American, fairly Midwestern.]
It's my name. The hell do you think it means?
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How?
[Another metal arm, another Barnes, that's impossible. Not how, why? Why is someone pretending to be him? Is this a way to get at Steve somehow?]
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Why the interrogation over a name?
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Because it's not yours. What game are you trying play?
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There are at least four people here who can independently confirm that yeah, it is my name. I'm not playing any games. I was going about my business before you started stalking me.
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Show me your arm.
[It has to be a fake. It has to be some kind of trick.]
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The pieces are there. s.rogers and sg.rogers on the network, the way some people were acting strangely toward Tony. But Bucky doesn't want to put the last two pieces in place, maybe.]
Show you mine if you show me yours. [He says, voice hard, but he's rolling up the sleeve on his left arm, revealing inch after inch of shiny metal, smoothly sculpted to match his right arm in shape. He pushes the fabric up over his shoulder, and there, on the curve, is the painted white star inside a blue circle, surrounded with a thin ring of red. His shield.]
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Almost, but not quite.
What scares him the most is that it's obviously not a fake now that it's out in the open, which means this might very well be another James Barnes. And that is not a good thing. He slowly peels off his glove and then tugs off his hoodie at one arm, pushing up the sleeve of his t-shirt to reveal the Soviet-branded metal that he still carries.]
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They're both James Buchanan Barnes. Just different versions.
Bucky straightens slightly, slipping halfway out of his attack stance (but still standing ready, wary), and breathes out a long sigh through his nose.]
Well, fuck.
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He has no idea how to deal with another version of himself, let alone one with what looks like a shield on his arm instead of a Soviet star.]
I thought you were taunting me with that username.
[He had no idea it was real.]
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He quirks an eyebrow.] Little egotistical there, huh? I didn't even know you were here until you started followin' me around.
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Why are you staying in the communal building?
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Because it's a roof over my head? Besides the sorcerers, it ain't much different from the barracks. And Steve is there. My Steve.
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You're--
[A slight hesitation. But if he can't ask himself this, who can he ask?]
You're not dangerous?
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How do you mean?
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Doesn't matter.
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Maybe I can help. I think I'm uniquely qualified.
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The Soldier.
[That's all he's going to say. If Bucky understands, then maybe they can talk more. Maybe.]
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You're afraid of any lingering programming or trigger words. [Whether this Bucky means himself, or he means in James, that's up in the air.]
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I'm not safe. How can you be sure that you are?
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I work with SHIELD now, unofficially. [He decides to leave out the Captain America part.] Tony is- was, the Director. One of my conditions was that they remove all of that from my brain, so no one could turn me against my country again.
I'm as safe as I ever will be.
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He understands, but it just proves they're nothing like each other bar the arm and the name. That's good in a way, it means that maybe there won't be another Winter Soldier to worry about.
Doesn't mean that he's not going to keep a close eye.]
Fine.
[He backs up a step, clearly preparing to just disappear now that he has the information he wants.]
If you become dangerous, I'll stop you.
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Likewise, you know. But let's not let it come to that.
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