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polyphonics2018-05-12 01:57 pm
dinosaured) wrote in polyphonics2018-05-12 01:57 pm
come and get your love
①Comment with your character. Feel free to intruce yourself real quick if you'd like! This meme is open to Marvel characters of all iterations, not just the MCU!
② Pick a scenario or use RNG and respond to others!
③ PLEASE MARK FOR INFINITY WAR SPOILERS. We want this to be a fun place for everyone to play without fear of being spoiled! In the same vein, feel free to let others know if you are Infinity War compliant!
④ Feel free to go completely off-script and make up whatever scenario you want. These prompts are just starting points! This meme is your oyster.
⑤ Have fuuuun!
① Skrull Invasion → You're on planet Earth and the Skrull are coming! Are you ready to fight? Perhaps the better question is...are you really sure your friends are who you think they are?ANGST
② Sparring → There's few better ways to see what you're made of than to face off against your fellow heroes! Enter the sparring ring and give it all you've got. Or perhaps you wind up facing an old friend in the Grandmaster's Contest of Champions!
③ Chitauri Assault → Time to take down hordes and hordes of alien goons! Maybe they brought their space whales, too. They're bringing the party to you!
④ In Pursuit → Your enemies are fleeing and it's up to you to pursue them and bring them to justice!
⑤ Heist → Time to steal that invaluable vibranium shipment before the bad guys do. You'll need all your best covert stealth skills to pull this one off.
⑥ Training → Power up the Danger Room and throw yourself and a partner into a training scenario of your choice! Just try to be careful in there. It is called the Danger Room, after all!
⑦ Mind Control → Against their will, one of your comrades has begun to attack you! Will you fight back and possibly harm someone you hold dear? Or will you stand down and open yourself up to danger?
⑧ Escape → You've been captured by your enemies! Or perhaps The Collector just added you to his museum. Time to find a way out!
① Fallout → Heroism exacts a price, and it is often personal in nature. How do you cope with the fallout of your latest conflict? Was victory worth the price you paid? Or worse, did you lose?CRACK
② Injury/Illness → Even for the strongest of heroes, the battlefield can be tough. How's that broken arm healing up? That serious road rash? Or are you the one providing healing and comfort to one in need?
③ Last Moments → Somehow has gone terribly wrong and you are dying. What will you say? What will you do? Or perhaps you are the one holding your comrade in their final moments.
④ Betrayed → One of your teammates has betrayed you. How will you respond? Will you reach out and try to forgive, or will you fight the one you used to call an ally?
⑤ Fight → Sometimes, even your closest friends can become your enemies. Disagreements can lead to verbal, and perhaps even physical altercations. Or perhaps you're seeking reconciliation afterwards?
⑥ Worst Fears → Your worst fears have manifested around you. Maybe it's an illusion, but what if it's not? How can you go on faced with losing everything you care about?
⑦ Loss → You've lost. It's over. Maybe you're the only one left. Or...maybe you're not.
① Speed-heroing → It's like speed-dating, but with heroes and friends, at the Avengers Facility. A possible catch: you can only introduce yourself as your alter ego.FLUFF
② Dance Off → Maybe the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. Maybe you're just having a good time at a party. Either way, dance off, bro!
③ Team Building → Nothing boosts team morale like an outing to laser tag or paint ball! It's important to unwind every now and again, so why not shoot your super friends with a nerf gun for a change?
④ Party Bus → Are you up for a ride on Tony Stark's most technologically advanced party bus? Hope you're prepared to party like it's 2099. Also, it flies. Eat your heart out, Miss Frizzle.
⑤ Interdimentional Mixer → You're at this party but none of the people are the versions of themselves you expect them to be! What sort of timey-wimey tomfoolery is this? Why do all these universes have numbers?
⑥ Trapped in the Drive-thru → You're trapped in the drive-thru. All you wanted was an Egg McMuffin, dammit!
⑦ Truth Serum → You're forced to tell the truth! That secret you've been bottling up for years? Yup, it's coming out.
① Avenger's Tower → Remember that nice tower Tony Stark was working on before it got ditched for the New Avengers Facility? Everyone has their own room designed just for them! It's like a big sleepover and all your weird friends are invited.GEN
② Reunion → It's been awhile since you've seen some of these people. Will you give them a hug? A hearty handshake? Try not to get too misty-eyed!
③ Movie Night → Grab the popcorn and a snuggly blanket! Are you watching the latest action flick with your friend? Or perhaps something a bit spooky so you can have an excuse to cuddle with your partner?
④ Confessions → It's time to tell the object of your affections how you feel about them! Don't get cold feet now. This is the moment you've been waiting for!
⑤ Stolen Glances → Maybe it's the first time, or maybe it's been going on for awhile now. Either way, there's someone you've been making eyes at, and...did their fingertips just brush yours?
⑥ Domestic Life → Hey, sometimes even Earth's Mightiest Heroes need to cook and clean. What's the occasion?
⑦ Hobby Exchange → Teach someone about a hobby you enjoy and they can teach you about one of theirs!
① Trip to Knowhere → Get ready to gamble and drink yourself dizzy! And if that's not your cup of tea, perhaps visit the Collector's Museum, where you are sure to see all sorts of strange specimens from across the galaxy.WILDCARD
② Shawarma → After any great battle, a hero must have their victory feast. Who's on the shawarma bandwagon this time?
③ New York Tourism → You're in New York! Whether this is your first time or you live here, there's plenty to see. Why not hit up the Statue of Liberty? Go to a Broadway show? Take a pic with Times Square Spider-Man?
④ Beach Party → It's the Beach Episode. Put on your swim trunks, get out the volleyball, and fire up the grill!
⑤ Late Night → You're up late and wondering around HQ. Do you stop in the kitchen for some midnight baking? Take a walk outside? Reprogram the whole facility so the AI only responds to your voice?
⑥ Capture the Flag → It's a game of Capture the Flag, and powers are off-limits. You wouldn't cheat, would you? Everyone here definitely plays fair.
⑦ Denny's → It's 2 A.M. and you're at Denny's. Sure, you feel like hell, but how about that Grand Slam?
A scenario of your choosing! Go wild! Please remember to mark for spoiler warnings and/or any content warnings as applicable.
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and his heart a littlei'm not even going to pretend this prompt corresponds with any above numbers.
it's a question she's asked herself a handful of times: dozens and dozens, with a curiosity that brims over into mild panic. and panic isn't a state to which peggy carter is accustomed. it dries out the back of her mouth and puts an uncharacteristic tremble in her hands. in silence, she reminds herself that this mission (this ambush) is more a matter of state than of the heart. and yet, that organ is beating fast. it boasts an aggressive flutter under her ribs.
but why? because it's only been a handful of months since an accident, a mishap with a volatile substance known as zero matter, spat her out on this side of the century. it was shield that found her first -- not the rotted out and crumbling one that hydra had left in ruins, but the one that clung to faith and conviction and the underground. a man named coulson explained everything to her (everything but why -- he didn't have that answer either) and then he put her on a path. one intended, with all the delicacy of a stampeding bull, to cross with steve's path at the first best opportunity.
so here she is. the safehouse is a small and cramped one, furnished to a spartan's taste and tucked inconspicuously into the corner of a small town in the south of france. according to the intel, there's a decent chance rogers is due to land here today, soon, and with a handful of hours to spare before moving on like a ghost to the next problem he can't help but try to solve. some things, it seemed, were left unchanged by ice and time.
it's just...peggy doesn't know why she's here, or exactly how the science worked -- but she's been briefed on the political snafu into which rogers has found himself. or at least she's been briefed on as many details as coulson's team could get their hands on. deep down, she suspects they hope to apply her like a kind of nostalgic honey pot -- to bring 'the captain' in, to straighten the crooked lines, to put the world to right.
sod all of that. for now, she'll content herself with simply seeing him with her own two eyes. pacing the room, heels quiet on old carpet, she waits for the telltale turn of the knob. ]
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He felt that loss like he felt the others- a constant ache that he could ignore when he was with his team or kept busy, but when left to his own devices just another loss that threatened to consume him.
Sometimes he wonders if he would had done things differently knowing what these past two years would be like. He regrets getting his friends mixed up in this- even if he knows they chose the paths they did because they believed in him. Still- Clint under house arrest, Natasha, Wanda, Sam and him constantly on the run, Bucky across the world, Tony and him not speaking- no more Avengers. He wonders if it was all worth it. He wonders if in doing what he knew was right he actually cost them all a lot more.
It’s not a path he likes to go down- self doubt. It’s one he tries to avoid but after leaving his team underground and traveling on his own it’s one he finds himself returning to more often than not.
It’s a world weary Steve that opens the door to the safehouse, hair longer than Peggy would remember, facial hair that had definitely never been there before.
It takes him a moment before he notices her, his mind else where- something Natasha would have scolded him for, always be on guard even if the place is supposed to be safe. But when he catches site of her pacing the carpeted floor it’s like the bottom drops out of his stomach.
It’s Peggy- the Peggy he remembers, not the one he had to bury two years ago. ]
Peg?
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-- and if the beard catches her by surprise then she says nothing of it. not yet. as changes go, it's a fascinating one. but peggy keeps her focus lasered on other details. like how her attention flickers over his shoulder, confirming he's alone, before she takes a good wide step in his direction. she leaves a chasm between their bodies. it doesn't make one whit of difference how sorely she wants to grab at him, his hands, lay fingertips on him. they were pragmatic during the war; they can be pragmatic now.
(even as a hundred mortar shells shaped out of missed opportunities fall, burst, bomb up her heart.)
peggy folds her hands together. she stands there, before him, with as much belonging and composure as she once did in the war bunker. ]
That's right. [ something in the corner of her mouth twitches. her lips press together as she swallows her smile. ] Might I suggest taking a seat?
[ his safe house, his mission, his world. but in barnstorms peggy carter and she's already fixing to take the reins. she wants to control how she breaks the explanation to him -- get him seated, get him near, get him understanding that she's real and she's here and she's on his side. ]
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he's openly staring at her, drinking in the site of her- wondering if he's finally cracked and if she's not some sort of hallucination. But after all this time he's pretty used to things not making any sense. ]
How are you here?
[ straight, to the point, get the particulars out of the way, the how the why, so they can focus on the fact that she is here, and so he is. ]
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and why she feels that faith renewed.
steve takes a seat and peggy stays standing where she is -- petty, perhaps, in how grateful she feels for that extra bit of height in such a vulnerable moment. that slim and superficial advantage helps her measure out a beat, and then another, so that she doesn't rush into answering him too quickly. as if (maybe) there might be a sin in seeming too eager.
peggy clears her throat. bless him, she thinks, for not asking why she's here. ]
Excellent question. [ and it is -- barring, perhaps, the fact that it's got a multitude of answers. ] Brighter minds than mine are still trying to work out the science. I think the only one thing that's been agreed upon is that I absolutely shouldn't be here.
[ but she can't quite bring herself to regret the risk to history and timeline. so she takes a step, sighs out a measure of tension, and tries to get a better read on his eyes. ]
Then again -- the same could be said for you.
[ captain steve rogers, stolen away from his own decade! how dare the 21st century hold him hostage. ]
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I guess it could. But I’m assuming we both got here by different means. I didn’t know we had time travel back in the 40s.
[ He knows she’ll explain, eventually as much as she can, so he’ll play along for now. ]
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[ tenses are an issue, clearly, because she doesn't think to change hers. peggy does experience a momentary flicker of uncertainty -- she considers a correction -- but ultimately the diversion doesn't feel worth it. ]
I suppose it's less like travelling through time and more like getting lost in it. [ a puff of her cheeks. if she's going to have to explain it, then at least she's explaining it to another layperson. ] All thanks to a bit of rather dangerous interdimensional radiation.
[ she takes just one step closer to where he sits. progress. ]
At least, that's the current theory.
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[ because she’s not really telling him much of anything and this is really not going how he imagined it would go if he ever got the chance to see her again- this her. ]
Inter dimensional radiation explains why you’re here in 2018, but not why you’re here, in what is supposed to be a secret location. Nor how you knew I would be here.
[ She had been expecting him. She wasn’t surprised when he walked in and he was a wanted man. The delight at seeing her again had thrown him- something he didn’t usually let happen, but it’s was Peggy, but he needed to keep his guard up. ]
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well. from how she's been brought up to speed, she's not certain she should even mention shield. but that little team had gotten her this far. and she's damned grateful.
so -- reaching for his hand -- she tries to skip the part where she's been asked to show her credentials. ]
Steve. Do you trust me?
[ it's not said with ego or assumption. but hope. ]
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It doesn’t matter if I trust you or not if I don’t trust the people who sent you here.
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[ not because she imagines them to be duplicitous. rather, she fears this underground shield might be too idealistic. too hopeful. too expectant that they might pull steve rogers in from the cold and fix whatever rift was made. ]
Which is why I'd suggest you and I make an effort to find another safehouse. Preferably one safer than this one.
[ which still doesn't answer his question, of course... ]