( text )

[hyperkinesia]

For those who knew them: Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Clark Kent, Scott Lang and Foggy Nelson are gone.

[ Bruce doesn't know whether or not to leave it at that. He wants to keep it a brief announcement, almost detached, but in the process he's making it fairly obvious that some of these people leaving has affected him a lot. But then again, that's why he went with text, so he can avoid any slip of his expression or tone of voice that might betray just how upset he is.

He doesn't really want to talk about it. Or maybe he does, but he doesn't know with whom, or how to bring it up. It's not like he's ever been the best at expressing himself.

Best to just leave it at that. Short and... not really sweet, no. ]

That's it.


(( ooc: forward-dated a couple of days just to avoid overlapping recent drop notices! ))

Comments

☄ PRIVATE

[vengeance_driven]

Are you doing okay?

[Because Niko knows Clark stopped Bruce before. He'll miss Scott, but he doesn't know how Bruce knew him. But Clark, though. Clark was one of Bruce's tickets to feeling safe with himself, or so it seems.]

text.

[wallcrawls]

Sorry to hear that. [ and he is, but he didn't and doesn't know any of those people, so: ] They disappear all at once?

text

[clericals]

Foggy...oh no. Then it's true.

text; private

[peridork]

[Looking at the names, she remembers Tony being mentioned in the past as a friend, but she isn't really familiar with the others... Nor is she much use for emotional support, but she remembers all too well how upset she was when Steven left. It feels wrong not to say something.

She doesn't feel confident enough in her social abilities to risk video in what she perceives as a sensitive situation like this, so Bruce gets a very plain text message to start:]

Are you ok?

text;

[ventifact]

is that a lot to leave at once?

text;

[isdronning]

Oh, Bruce...

[ She didn't know any of these people, or their level of importance to Bruce. However, just reading the text, she's getting the idea that he's upset. It's...too brief and flippant to not be. ]

I'm so sorry.

Text

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Both of my roommates are gone too.

[He never really had a chance to get to know them and Eric's revelation about his empathic powers had been unnerving, but...

The red scarf the witch had given him is folded neatly atop his bed and Nihlus watches it out of the corner of his eye.]

Is this normal for this ship? I'd heard that crewmembers can just disappear but I never expected this.

[text]

[soldiergenes]

[ Snake is still recovering from time spent in cryo (time that Banner himself might have observed, come to think of it), but this isn't something that he can ignore. Scott was one of his roommates, and Clark hadn't quite been a friend, but he'd been an ally at the least.

It brings up a question that's been bugging him for a while now. ]

Do we have any clue where people go when they leave? Or is it all just speculation?

text

[knaval]

scotts gone??
where
will he be back???

text;

[ergon]

[ He's suspected. Still, it sucks to get confirmation. ]

Thank you. Do you know if he's gone home?

[forfeits]

Where'd they go? That's a lot of people in a short amount of time.

[ He knew Scott, at the very least, and trusted him. Knew some of the others just by name, at most. But it's worrying that people can just disappear like that. ]

Action

[notpatsy]

[ Yeah, no way in hell is she going to respond to this over the network, she knows what a blow this is to Bruce, not to mention the fact that Foggy and Pepper were some of her closest friends on board.

So, wherever he is, he will feel arms envelop him from behind in a hug and if she's interrupting him at work then tough. He's getting held. ]

Hey.