[Open] And outside, the world slipped over the brink

[communish]

WHO: Bucky Barnes & others
WHAT: Catch-all, open & closed starters, continued TDM
WHEN: April
WHERE: Free Cities, Nocwich, maybe Horizon
WARNING: None yet, but discussion of violence seems likely with this guy.
OTHER: Brackets and prose are both fine.

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Comments

[catholica]

"I've only been here a few months so it was a first for me."

And hopefully a last. He'd really like to avoid a repeat of that happening again. It wasn't a great time and he'd felt pretty hopeless for awhile. He shrugs.

"The war's something that's been brewing for awhile. I don't know if it's going to happen anytime soon but every day seems to bring the factions a little bit closer. A few months ago, Thorne bombed another city in the Free Cities. So, you know, it's not great."

[communish]

"Sounds pretty fucked up. The kidnapping thing." Bucky offers, remembering for a moment that most people aren't kidnapped often enough to have a ranked list of their best and worst abduction experiences-- but not quite remembering how to have a normal conversation. "Sorry."

There. Saved it.

"Bombing sounds par for the course with a war, I guess. Casualties?"

[catholica]

"Yeah, unfortunately."

That's how bombings went, wasn't it? He's quiet for a few seconds.

"There were casualties and refugees which is what I tried to focus on. Rehoming those from Libertas in Cadens and Aquila."

Some of that was still ongoing.

"But they've been rebuilding for awhile. Libertas isn't in terrible shape."

[communish]

Bucky wouldn't think that a place like this has the technology for bombs, but he certainly isn't an expert on pre-industrial warfare. He doesn't even consistently remember the Alamo.

"Probably the right thing to focus on. Not much you can do for the dead but avenge them." There's the barest hint of sarcasm in his intonation on the word avenge. Bucky loves Steve, but he's not exactly sipping the Avengers kool aid.

"Seems like you know a lot about this place. You from around here, or just been here a while?"

[catholica]

"Been here awhile. Not as long as some people but long enough to know the ins and outs."

Until this place surprised him. He makes a face and offers a hand.

"Matthew Murdock. It's good to meet you."

[communish]

"Oh, shit." That is a name that Bucky knows. It's hard to spend a lot of time in New York without hearing about Daredevil. And it doesn't hurt that Matt is one of Natasha's ex-boyfriends.

"I know you. Well, I know one of you a bit." Bucky and Matt haven't spent a lot of time together, but he was once brainwashed to murder Daredevil, so you know. They've met. "Bucky Barnes."

[catholica]

"The name...rings a bell. Steve's friend?

His experience with Bucky is more distant, a name that he's heard in passing, a news report on television, something like that. He knows of Bucky but he can't say he truly knows him.

"You know me? Or one of me? That's a first for me. Usually no one knows me."

It's always Matt knowing them.