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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

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[unclesam]

it's all about the costumes and gimmicks, man

[ true story ]

alright you know what, you win that. at least the snake bits went down the hatch in one gulp.

oh everyone knows where she usually lurks. teach your kids where not to stick their arms in the water, y'know.

[dissemblance]

In that case, I get the EXO unit. And Redwing. Full custody, no take-backs.

I can probably jury-rig us something after a crash-course in the local tech. Are you thinking barbershop quintet intranet, or... something for all the little Gigers, too?

@s.wilson

[unclesam]

how many of those are tolkien invented?

[dissemblance]

I'm guessing Klingon's in there too.

[nonscriptum]

Can I opt out of the biohazards and call in my chit later?

Swing and a miss. I actually got really lucky. The plane caught fire and a hole blew through the fuselage and ripped the cabin open. I got sucked out and managed to grab onto one of the cargo drops while falling before deploying the chute.

So I guess technically I did have a parachute, it just wasn't meant for people.

[wittingly]

I've never actually seen I Am Legend, but if they're zombie-ish then definitely not that one

Probably a split between Independence Day and War of the Worlds, but if Will Smith didn't exist and they tried to use Nicolas Cage but he was still busy with the National Treasure sequel everyone forgets about

[unclesam]

oh, so you're betting on full nerd. yeah I could see that.

I'm not up to date on my 'how up to date is barnes&noble' trivia, though.

[medik]

[ 2023. Just over 100 years since the last moment he himself was on earth. It explains the new emergence of emojis, at least, and her manner of speaking. ]

What is life like in 2023? Is it as things are here?

[unclesam]

y'know I'd offer you the old unit as a fixer upper if I had it on hand. unlike mr roger's neighborhood and old man barnacle, I'd actually trust you to learn how to fly it

that's a no on redwing and buckabee though.

primarily barbershop quintet - might not be a bad idea to give all the egg yolks a way to talk without prying eyes.

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[dissemblance]

'Barnes&Noble', is that the new thing for the Rogers and Barnes dog and pony show?

[dissemblance]

Sounds like someone got an upgrade. Stark?

（ she just assumes it would be tony's doing. he owes sam. ）

I'll see what I can do. I might need to do some sort of manual push through their system.

[unclesam]

nope, all buckadoodle. I started a collection.

[unclesam]

wakanda actually.

[ cue a bit of an internal crisis. are the things he's not saying as damning as the ones he is saying? perhaps.

how does he even begin to explain the mess of the present to her? ]

anyone can do it, it's you for sure. I've had redwing run perimeter checks, and I figure I could use both drones to scan for food sources outside the camp. making footage like that accessible would be convenient. I just don't wanna blast everything I ever get to everyone who can access the network, y'know? and I don't want anyone to get a backdoor into my shit, either.

[nonscriptum]

must be nice. we had a shotgun a stone's throw from the river, probably not quite as picturesque as you.

[ Your folk. It's hard not to immediately think about what he lost. Who he lost. ]

but yeah, been all over the place. didn't really lay down roots until louisiana, though. y'all born and raised?

[freightcars]

You want your apology letter hand-written or on official letterhead?

[lifetothefullest]

Thanks, I feel appreciated.

I wish that were the lie.

[He's so over this world-hopping thing, though to be fair--]

Technically two were Earth, and only two were other planets, but they were all different dimensions so I'm counting them separately.

[He's purposeful with what he's revealing, though he can't tell through text that she chose the wrong answer intentionally, so it doesn't bother him to discuss it further. It also might tell him a little about her in return.]

[dissemblance]

（ she's used to reading between the lines.

even with their last stand in wakanda, she imagines the relationship that great nation and a man descended from the african diaspora are probably not going to be all warm and fuzzy, all the time, but she can see king t'challa reaching out like that.

thing is, though.

t'challa isn't an avenger. he's got his duties, his kingdom, his people. she has no doubt that he will always answer the call when the world has need of him, because he's like steve in that way. but sam said six months.

six months isn't long enough for any sort of real power shift to happen behind the scenes in the avengers. it's not long enough to have built up enough of an alliance with wakanda in a time they'll be looking after their own returned citizens for them to do have any real time or resources to do a favor for sam wilson, who had been there only briefly and had died on their soil.

so, those six months either put sam in wakanda directly and bought him credit and goodwill enough there that they gave him an upgrade, as a treat.

or barnes called in a favor from his time there.

or, something else happened, that made it necessary for one of the other genius engineers in the world to step into stark's shoes.

she hasn't asked yet, how it ended. she only knows it did end. who'd we lose? she can hear the echo in steve's voice. but she isn't going to put that on sam. ​ ）

Bragging rights. Shuri knows her stuff.

And I agree, it's logical. Necessary communications DM only for now.

[freightcars]

If you're letting me pick the honorific I'll take Post Master General

[freightcars]

36 of them are beeping noises, the other one is English

[dissemblance]

So that's how that's going, huh?

[dissemblance]

You think you should be rubbing shoulders with Benjamin Franklin?

I'm impressed by the ego.

[dissemblance]

Considering your new appointment, I think official letterhead is the least you can do.

[unclesam]

what do you mean 'that's how that's going'?

[dissemblance]

Called it.

[unclesam]

[ How 'bout we don't bullshit our friends?

But not saying something ain't the same as lying.

But goddamnit, it's Natasha, and he's not ashamed to admit that he cried his damn eyes out over the news of her the second he was alone to let that grief sink deep into him and grow roots he will feel for the rest of his life.

In his nightmares, Riley falls. But sometimes it's Natasha instead. He catches neither. And neither leaves behind anything to be laid to rest. ]

you know I'll tell you if you ask, just not here. it's all complicated.

[ And he won't tell her the things that Bucky doesn't even know about yet. Sam's just going to keep the doors a little more shut on a lot of those fresher hurts and aches. ]