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Death//Eighth Sound of her Wings//Video

Aug 21, 2011 10:10

Hm. [Death is clearly taking stock of herself, flexing her (now normal length) fingers and touching her cheeks, making sure there isn't any trace of the devastation that was left on her body last week]

Seems like I'm back. [She smiles] Peachy keen. [And then a look of slight confusion. Why had she said that?]

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death(didi), c: alex forbes, c: bucky barnes

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[Video] bucky_cap August 22 2011, 03:19:37 UTC

[He's facepalming so hard now that he's remembering bits and pieces of last week, Didi.] Ah, hey, I... think you and I were much, much younger last week and had a bit of a run-in.

Which... might be where the 40s slang came from.

[Video] dyingwings August 22 2011, 22:06:30 UTC

Oh really? Sounds peachy keen to me.

[She pulls a pair of sunglasses out of nowhere and puts them on dramatically]

Don't worry about it, hon, you were a sweetheart.

[Video] bucky_cap August 22 2011, 22:58:31 UTC

It was considerably less than peachy keen being sixteen again. [He chuckles kind of sheepishly.] I was a bit of a brat, actually, and it's probably best to just disregard anything I said that week.

Bucky Barnes. I'm not sure we were properly introduced.

[Video] dyingwings August 23 2011, 00:30:43 UTC

Ahhh, the follies of youth. You spend all your days wishing to be young again, and then it happens, and you remember why you spent all that time wishing you were older.

[She chuckles] What, I shouldn't keep in mind that keen is better than swell, and a loony's someone that acts real weird?

Probably not. I'm Death.

[Video] bucky_cap August 23 2011, 01:47:25 UTC

Aaah, I don't think I've ever heard a truer statement in my life. [Seriously, no longer longing for youth. Or at least not... that much youth. He can't say he'd mind being twenty again, but not sixteen.

That gets a little laugh out of him, though.] Well, it's true. But the terms are a little outdated. I'm a little outdated.

A pleasure. We might have met before. [Har har, Bucky, you and your 'I died once' jokes.]

[Video] dyingwings August 23 2011, 01:57:02 UTC

By the way, in case I didn't mention before, that was some quality spandex you had going on there. You design that yourself, back in the day?

[She laughs] No such thing as outdated. It's an illusion invented by people preoccupied with now. There are things that never go out of style.

No. [She winks] I remember faces very well.

[Video] bucky_cap August 23 2011, 02:19:36 UTC

[Oh gosh, have an embarrassed laugh. He hates that old outfit nowadays.] Ah, it was military-issued. I didn't have any say in the design or the... fabric. [You should see his newest costume though. Clings to more than just his legs.]

Well, I guess that's a matter of perception. I still get teased when I talk like I used to.

[A quirk of the eyebrow.] Well, you said you're Death. I have died once before. Not here though, I suppose that explains it.

[Video] dyingwings August 23 2011, 02:29:22 UTC

Some military. I guess you couldn't get sued for dressing up underage boys like that back in the forties, could you?

I have a very broad view of things, Bucky. Humanity's not old enough for anything to be outdated yet, except possibly not wearing any clothes or living in huts.

I am, hon, but I don't recognize people from places other than my world. I do know a few of your hero friends, but for some reason a few of them I don't recognize....

[Video] bucky_cap August 23 2011, 03:38:50 UTC

Well, I didn't legally exist at the time. It isn't a big deal, spandex pants are still all the rage with my set. [It isn't like- Oh god, he is not remembering that conversation with Eliza. Nope.]

You don't? Huh. I think I might know which universe you're talking about... [Hero friends. Yeah, he knows which one. There are really only two, the Justice League Earth and the Avengers Earth.] That's fascinating, actually. I wonder who your counterpart on my Earth would be...

[Video] dyingwings August 23 2011, 04:00:22 UTC

Legal. What a funny thing. Real, but not real, a pure fabrication of a universe of averages and perfections. I can't help but be amused by it, sometimes.

Oh, I know. In my world, I've seen them all, from the very first one, the outcast man from Krypton.

Such an old, beautiful world... I was there, at the end. I never thought the survivors would amount to so much, but there they are.

[She shrugs] Another version of myself, if what holds true from my universe is the same in yours. The Endless are so for a reason, but we can die like any other. One takes our place, afterwards, takes up the mantle of their duty, or one of us changes to suit it. Or maybe it's something completely different. I don't know.

[Video] bucky_cap August 23 2011, 16:21:12 UTC

Well, there's a sort of importance in records when you don't live forever, I guess. [He remarks with a slight smile, then shrugs.]

Sounds complicated. [Meaning, he doesn't quite get it and is chalking it up to mystical mumbo jumbo.] Then again, the mystical isn't really my department.

A pleasure to meet you under circumstances other than dying, though.

[Video] dyingwings August 23 2011, 16:34:40 UTC

you'd think it'd be the opposite sort of situation.

Magical? Kal-el is simply from another world, and on earth, he was surprised to find himself a great hero. Others followed suit.

[She smiles] Well, there's plenty of opportunity for that, here. I seem to have an abundance of time.

[Video] bucky_cap August 23 2011, 16:44:16 UTC

Not really. If you don't record things, how can you give your children and their children the advantage of the knowledge of the things you figured out before? Keeps them from having to figure out the same things.

[Bucky shakes his head slightly.] Oh, no, I get the alien lifeforms thing. Aliens aren't exactly unusual on my version of Earth. It's the things about... the Endless, did you say? That sounds complicated to a fella like me.

Don't we all. It's a game of hurry up and wait around here. Hurry to get through experiments, wait for the next one to hit.

[Video] dyingwings August 23 2011, 17:26:07 UTC

I understand that. It's one of the things that makes humanity so resourceful.

The Endless. We're... we just are. Concepts. Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair and Delirium, things that are and always will be, until the universe is ended.

I'm sorry, it's a little difficult to explain.

[She leans back] I don't have much of a problem with that. Patience is a virtue, don't you think?

[Video] bucky_cap August 26 2011, 17:03:20 UTC

[He mulls over that bit of information on the Endless for a few moments. It really doesn't exactly make sense, but then again, this was more Dr. Strange's forte than his.] Understandable, I know how it is when something you just know is hard to put into words.

[A quiet chuckle.] I've never been a very patient man.

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