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apocalypsehowcomm2022-09-20 10:09 pm
worthallthis) wrote in apocalypsehowcomm2022-09-20 10:09 pm
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Who: Winter (Bucky Barnes) and OPEN
When: September catch-all
Where: Various, see prompts
Summary: What Winter gets up to in September
Warnings:
I. Movie(s) - his apartment, close CR only
In the end, Winter chickens out on setting up another outdoor projected watch party for the movies he wants to watch. Instead, he invites people to his apartment sporadically, sometimes one at a time, sometimes in pairs. He always has food and cocoa for them while they watch The Wizard of Oz or Buck Privates or Snow White, all movies that apparently came out during the time he was supposedly living in New York being a normal person.
He watches each one with dedication, hoping for... something. He's not really sure what.
Buck Privates makes him laugh, at least, startling even himself-- even if it's also kind of uncomfortable. He remembers more flashes of the war during that one than he does the movie.
II. Weeding - in town, OTA
The lamb plants sprouted in one place: he and Yelena rooted them out, burned the remains, and salted the ground where they'd sprouted. Now he's prowling the town making sure there aren't any more around. Find him poking his nose into alleys around Thing of Beauty, haunting warehouses near the one they'd cleaned out, and glaring at the fences around Dogtown as if suspecting the things to be in there, lurking, waiting to spread outside the confines of the weird places.
III. Lost - Dogtown, OTA
Winter is... not great at simply drifting along and not thinking. He is not great at being careless. So when he dives in after some stupid kids late one afternoon, he finds himself soon hopelessly lost. He isn't afraid... but he is frustrated and that apparently counts as enough to keep him turning around on himself for hours. He misses dinner. He misses curfew.
Someone might have to come in after him and lead him out, or else let him stumble out whenever the woods simply get bored of him, in the middle of the night.
IV. Passtimes - around town, OTA
Even when not "weeding", Winter patrols the city on his days off, because he can't not work even when he's not on call at ADI. His patrols are, often, more of an amble than a stalk, hands tucked into his coat pockets and gaze roving around to interesting and familiar things about town rather than fixed and open to take in as much as possible at once.
He sits on benches in the (non-Dogwood) park and reads out loud to himself from whatever book he's working on that day. He checks the local papers on streetcorners (those he doesn't read out loud). He buys a milkshake at a little drive-through and looks surprised at how good it is. He looks for any sign that there might be an event related to swing dancing anywhere in town, and is largely disappointed at the lack.
A friend passing by might get offered a sip of his milkshake. A stranger paying any attention to the newspaper stand might get his newspaper offered to them, even if he isn't finished with it.
When: September catch-all
Where: Various, see prompts
Summary: What Winter gets up to in September
Warnings:
I. Movie(s) - his apartment, close CR only
In the end, Winter chickens out on setting up another outdoor projected watch party for the movies he wants to watch. Instead, he invites people to his apartment sporadically, sometimes one at a time, sometimes in pairs. He always has food and cocoa for them while they watch The Wizard of Oz or Buck Privates or Snow White, all movies that apparently came out during the time he was supposedly living in New York being a normal person.
He watches each one with dedication, hoping for... something. He's not really sure what.
Buck Privates makes him laugh, at least, startling even himself-- even if it's also kind of uncomfortable. He remembers more flashes of the war during that one than he does the movie.
II. Weeding - in town, OTA
The lamb plants sprouted in one place: he and Yelena rooted them out, burned the remains, and salted the ground where they'd sprouted. Now he's prowling the town making sure there aren't any more around. Find him poking his nose into alleys around Thing of Beauty, haunting warehouses near the one they'd cleaned out, and glaring at the fences around Dogtown as if suspecting the things to be in there, lurking, waiting to spread outside the confines of the weird places.
III. Lost - Dogtown, OTA
Winter is... not great at simply drifting along and not thinking. He is not great at being careless. So when he dives in after some stupid kids late one afternoon, he finds himself soon hopelessly lost. He isn't afraid... but he is frustrated and that apparently counts as enough to keep him turning around on himself for hours. He misses dinner. He misses curfew.
Someone might have to come in after him and lead him out, or else let him stumble out whenever the woods simply get bored of him, in the middle of the night.
IV. Passtimes - around town, OTA
Even when not "weeding", Winter patrols the city on his days off, because he can't not work even when he's not on call at ADI. His patrols are, often, more of an amble than a stalk, hands tucked into his coat pockets and gaze roving around to interesting and familiar things about town rather than fixed and open to take in as much as possible at once.
He sits on benches in the (non-Dogwood) park and reads out loud to himself from whatever book he's working on that day. He checks the local papers on streetcorners (those he doesn't read out loud). He buys a milkshake at a little drive-through and looks surprised at how good it is. He looks for any sign that there might be an event related to swing dancing anywhere in town, and is largely disappointed at the lack.
A friend passing by might get offered a sip of his milkshake. A stranger paying any attention to the newspaper stand might get his newspaper offered to them, even if he isn't finished with it.
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He can't leave it at that, though, because he doesn't want to spread fear himself. "It's not something that runs, though, if that makes you feel any better. It won't hurt you unless you run into it and do something stupid like touch it."
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"You know what? It does."
It sounds a lot better than the encounters he's had over the past months. He really wouldn't mind a lack of being chased around for once.
"So what is this mystery thing?"
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For a moment he stops and marvels how he doesn't even bat an eye at this wild combination of concepts - sheep plants with... yeah. It's almost like he can see himself from the outside, shrugging off supernatural events.
That's not good. He doesn't want to get desensitized or jaded about any of this but what can you do?
"Don't touch the creepy skin phone cases. Got it. What are you gonna do? Spray some pesticides?"
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Carter frowns, looking around as if those things might sprout around them any second now.
"I'm no supernatural botanist but from what I've encountered in the med wing I don't advise breathing in potentially evil fumes."
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He's worried about everything in this place. But he doesn't actually know anything about these plants and he knows Winter is a lot more capable of dealing with most stuff of the 'can absolutely kill you' category, so he doesn't argue the case.
Much.
"Fine. But if I have to drag you back with any kind of fume poisoning, I'm gonna be very I told you so about it."
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