text.

[dislocked]

3 questions.

1. What is the mortality rate?

2. Who enforces discipline?

[ You can learn a lot about the culture of a ship through its rules. He rules out HYDRA -- they're usually more cruel and efficient than this. Here, he and the others are animals in a trap, at the mercy of unknown entities powerful enough to draw and keep all of them in here. He doesn't give voice to these thoughts.

Eyes and ears in the walls, in these devices -- he doesn't trust them, his paranoia is his greatest asset. ]

3. Where and when were you from, at the moment you were taken?

Comments

[warandpeace]

1. I don't know what happened to the crew before the current one, or what happens to people that disappear. Not enough information.

2. No. They seem pretty set on keeping us alive if they can. Punishments have been comparatively mild. No one's even been dismissed from the ship for killing crewmates.

[dislocked]

1. How long does it take?
2. No universal code of conduct?

[ ie. compliance will be rewarded. he still can't shake it, the mark HYDRA has left on him. he sees ghosts in every corner, every person in this too-small ship. ]

3. Sergeant, 107th. Howling Commando.

[ At least, from what he'd read on a dead man's display panel; the designations don't mean anything, not when they belong to one of the many ghosts that haunt him. Bucky wonders if he's just told a lie. ]

Did you know of Steve Rogers?

[sidecars]

1. Couldn't say
That is the extent of my knowledge on the topic

2. Don't be a jackass I guess
We're all stuck here together
We may as well keep the golden rule in circulation

[ Man he is so glad this is happening via text because the look of shock and envy is turning his face green. ]

Wow
A sergeant, huh?
So that means you worked under Sergeant Fury, right?

[ You sonuvabitch. You know how long he's been stuck as a PFC? FOUR FUCKING YEARS!! ]

Maybe
I mean it's the Army
Lotta boys had the same names
But yeah I knew one

[saveyourserpent]

1. I don't know, sounded like it was supposed to be some sort of bloody space utopia or something.

2. Yeah. Still adjusting.

3. I was a bit busy at the time. Last thing on my mind was remembering the date.

[dislocked]

[ well, uh........... he killed fury. ]

Fury wasn't a part of them. How did you know him?

[ Because the timing doesn't add up, by all counts Fury was probably in diapers, right? ]

There's only one who was Captain America. [ probably? he's not sure about that either. But wait -- ] You knew him?

1/2

[sidecars]

Uh because!
He's the leader of the Howling Commandos!

[ AND OMFG SCREAMING SCREAMING THIS IS A PUBLIC NETWORK WHY ARE YOU BLATHERING ABOUT STEVE'S REAL NAME AND CAPTAIN AMERICA ABORT ABORT!! ]

Sure!
Everyone knows Captain America
But Steve was a whole different story
One I knew was only a Corporal

Re: text

[diamondslap]

1. But of course. You put a load of morally ambiguous people on a space ship and expect peace? Didn't work for Helios, won't work for this one.
2. "The Brig" seems to be the answer to every crime.
3. No. I don't have the precise galactic co-ordinates any more, but it's close to the Eden system.

private 2/2

[sidecars]

OK look
Steve told me you needed time to get sorted
But you can't just be going on about Steve AND Cap in the same text
People are gonna put two and two together!!

private;

[dislocked]

[ ???????????????? wait what ]

Rogers was the leader, not Fury.

[ was he remembering things wrongly? he had vague impressions, and the exhibit had said... ]

Everyone knows who he is.
Not in 1945, but 2014.
What else did he tell you about me?

[ Settled in, what? Who is this? Are they planning something? If they are, he knows where to escape to, how to hide. If he's going to be betrayed -- ]

private;

[sidecars]

Captain America led the Invaders
Weren't you part of the Invaders at all?
With The Human Torch and Toro
Union Jack?

Are you serious?
And the government's OK with this?

Nothing!
Forget I said anything
I'm a good friend of his is all

private;

[dislocked]

I don't know any of them. I didn't invade anything.

Who are you?

[ fuck the government -- alarm bells are already ringing, and bucky's one wrong word away from disappearing into the vents (again). ]

How do you know who I am? Are the both of you in this together? Are all of you?

[ Is this all just an elaborate trap? ]

video; private

[sidecars]

[ Whoa paranoia much. No wonder Steve told him not to talk to him, at least about some things.

But this is already fubar, so Bucky may as well salvage what he can of this bizarre meeting. He switches to video so the man can see him. ]

I'm you, dummy.

video; private

[dislocked]

[ bucky has enough presence of mind to press his thumb over the little camera thing. it's instinct, pure and simple, and he stares blankly at the face on the other end, trying to rack his brain and -- well. he's coming up with nothing. ]

You don't look like me. [ He's pretty sure he knows what he looks like, before and after. ]

text

[petridish]

3. Rannoch, 2186.

[He's got enough contradictory answers to the first two questions already. This is just an opportunity to publicly establish her story.]

video; private

[sidecars]

Well we can't all be lookers, pal.

video; private

[dislocked]

[ whaaaaat. Bucky's uncertain, still suspicious. ]

He didn't tell me about you.

[ He hesitates. ] Why weren't you in the 107th?

video; private

[sidecars]

Honestly, I... probably shouldn't have opened my big mouth. Finding out there's another one of you is a lot to take in at once.

[ Bucky raises his eyebrow. ]

Why were you? Look, it's classified. Let's just say I was in the Army solely to be Cap's partner.

video; private

[dislocked]

...You seem to be taking it well.

[ He's still struggling to wrap his mind around this; he has so many questions. This one looks so young and fresh-faced, what were they thinking? ]

You're... also James Barnes? How old are you? What is classified?

[dislocked]

Rannoch?

[dislocked]

[ so at least it looks like they're not a brutal administration. at least on the surface. ]

1. How regularly do they disappear?
2. So there are killers onboard.

[petridish]

Quarian homeworld in the Tikkun system.

[dislocked]

1. Any external threats, or are they all amongst the crew?

3. How did you get here?

[warandpeace]

1. Also unknown. Just sometimes I see people, then I don't see them again. Contact names will change.

2. There are. But arguably, anyone who is a soldier is also capable of being a killer, and there are plenty of those. So I will assume that you're referring to people that have done so since being here.

video; private

[sidecars]

I'm really good at compartmentalizing. I have and will continue to freak out about it later I'm sure!

[ America wasn't. They all kinda tug at their collars when he dies, 'cause man is that bad for PR. ]

Yeah, that's right. I'm twenty, and, well, everything really. Who I work for, what I do... Didn't you have a secret identity in the war? You know, like Cap?

video; private

[dislocked]

[ IT'S OKAY, PUP. YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE FREAKING OUT.

also yes young men dying is always bad for pr :c ]

If I did, it wasn't written. [ And he doesn't remember. ] James Barnes' face and life history is plastered on exhibition panels at a museum for everyone to see.

[ A life summarised in under 200 words. The only consolation is that Bucky knows he doesn't look much like him anymore. And no one's ever going to believe that he's that larger than life man that's plastered everywhere in that museum. ]