Happy Hour

[mechanicalswans]

Weyland is still in his uniform (WWI, Imperial German airman)(and is going to stay Captain Adler until he is good and ready to move on to a new identity, not that just changing one's name is a very effective disguise or anything) and is absently working on some airplane schematics as he loiters behind the bar tonight.

Specials:
Tainted Heart
Cold

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[gammagammahey]

Maybe She-Hulk is impressive enough on her own, but she has tricks up her sleeves if necessary. She approaches the bar and goodie goodie, there's a bartender!

"Impressive enough?" she asks. "If not, I'll sing, dance, and try the Red Devil."

[mechanicalswans]

This is part of why just changing one's name is not an effective disguise. Where Captain Adler had had a totally ordinary upbringing outside Berlin, Weyland was raised by giants.

"I do like a good song," he says. "Haven't heard any in quite a while."

[gammagammahey]

"I come with my own theme song," she smiles. "You are looking at the queen of karaoke

[mechanicalswans]

That right there rates an E for enthusiasm.

Hey, his people were always known for their love of music, and he is no different. So he smiles, and starts mixing up her drink.

"How did you happen to get your own theme song?"

[gammagammahey]

"I made it my own," she replies, with a broad smile. "The refrain could describe the last ten years of my life. I'm Jennifer, by the way. Sometimes known as She-Hulk, at other times Jennifer as it suits."

[[OOC: I'm so sorry it took so long to reply - LJ is only loading for me sporadically.]]

[mechanicalswans]

"Captain Gustav Felix Theodor Adler," he says, giving her a polite half-bow (and heel-click) as he slides her drink over, "but my friends call me Theo. A pleasure to meet you, Miss Jennifer. I've always been partial to the stubborn and the tough."

[gammagammahey]

"Well, aren't you polite. A pleasure to meet you, Theo. I've answered to stubborn and tough before."

She tastes the drink. It's very, very good.

"So what brings you to tend bar at Milliways?"

[mechanicalswans]

"There was a note," he says. "I've paid my tab, but it never hurts to do a favor for someone else. It can come in useful later---unless you mean in the larger, more philosophical sense?"

[gammagammahey]

"Both, if you're inclined to answer."

Shulkie is endlessly curious about her fellow patrons of Milliways. The only bad experience she's had here involved sucker-punching an annelid, but that was on Zed's Earth, not exactly in Milliways proper.

[mechanicalswans]

"I'm returning from leave," he says. "I was home for a few days, and I was just on my way back--I'm helping to test a new aircraft design--when I ended up here instead, and I haven't had a door since. I can't wait to go back; I've been drawing some improvements here in the meantime."

[gammagammahey]

"You're Bound?"

Cue sympathy - no, more like anger - over Weyland's plight.

She sips her drink, meditating.

"Do you think that there's any rhyme or reason that people get Bound?"

[mechanicalswans]

"It's happened to me before," he says, "and the worst lasted half a year. I know that time doesn't pass at home while I'm here, or at least it never has before, but who's to say this time can't be different? And my comrades need me. I don't want to be trapped here."

He pours himself a drink of his own.

"Some people think that it's the bar's way of forcing you to slow down, to take a vacation. Some think that it's an expression of the cruelty of the universe."

[gammagammahey]

"Sometimes I think it's both and sometimes I think it's neither. When I think of all the evil people that I've met -- and I've met a lot as part of my job description -- who could be Bound to stop their rampages, I wonder why there aren't more of them here. I'm convinced the landlord doesn't care. Are you fighting a war back home?" she asks, because he's mentioned comrades and a need to rejoin them.

[mechanicalswans]

"We are," he nods. "For two years, now. It's going as well as one could expect, but every man is needed, and if I am here for so long that my reflexes or instincts weaken, well..."

He shrugs lightly. "I hope it won't come to that. Do you suppose there could be somewhere that would contain evil people? A prison at the end of the universe, or at least a holding cell."

[gammagammahey]

"Whose standards would apply? It's all relative. I've seen plenty of prisons designed to contain superpowered people of the evil persuasion - there's one called The Raft back home. Constant vigilance is needed there because the convicts, some of them mass murderers, always try to escape."

She regards him, taking in his uniform.

"What war are you involved in? Are you something close to German?"

[mechanicalswans]

"I think overall, most cultures have similar views on what is evil and what is good. Beyond that, it would depend on a person's faith and moral background, and that's not a discussion I feel qualified to have."

Weyland has a few opinions regarding gods and religion.

"But I can't say I blame anyone for trying to escape, no matter what their crimes may be. Captivity is an unnatural state for man. If I were to be shot down and taken prisoner, you can be sure I'd do everything in my power to escape."

He still has the scars from the last time he was held prisoner. Never again.

"German, yes. We are fighting the Great War."