un: barnes | text

[counterstep]

how many people need a primer on survivalism for this mission?
general headcount and identifications would be useful, so others can keep an eye out for you also, once we're in.

( to be helped, of course. )

gathering some info on this already, so I'll edit a bit later to add a basic guide below.

Comments

@vdova

[waytodie]

I do not need any primer, but I can help if people need it.

un: shinra | text

[unionized]

Offering yourself as an expert, are you?

[counterstep]

sure
might be worth dropping your info here too then, in case people want to look for you for help out there

[counterstep]

don't see you volunteering, pal

[unionized]

Then that makes two of us. I haven't volunteered my services. You haven't volunteered your credentials.

[counterstep]

you didn't ask

un: hawkeye

[westcoasts]

( ""barnes"", interesting. )

If you're after numbers, you could just ask Aurora.

[counterstep]

you think I didn't try that already?

( you two should really not use the same username. cause bucky definitely thinks he's talking to kate right now. )

[westcoasts]

( no! also. )

She was helpful when I spoke to her.

( like, it took some work, but he eventually got there. )

[counterstep]

( proving his point, buddy. )

lucky you

she wasn't when I talked to her

( but like. barnes. so probably interrogation of a sort. )

[westcoasts]

( you need to do it the hawkeye (clint barton) way: be obnoxious about it. )

Did you try saying 'please'?

[counterstep]

( said like bucky isn't already obnoxious. )

did you?

( because he doubts that would have made her more helpful. )

[westcoasts]

No, but I did say thank you.

( ... )

Might have been because I rephrased my question about 5 times until she gave me the answer I wanted.

[counterstep]

didn't peg you as the sort to be infuriating

but she did the human equivalent of hanging up on me so
rephrasing wasn't going to do shit

1/2

[westcoasts]

[westcoasts]

( firstly, HAHAHAHA, secondly— )

You don't know who I am, do you?

What did you do to the robot lady, man? She said she doesn't take much personally. How'd you upset her?

[counterstep]

uh
are you not kate?

( welp. at least that means she's not the infuriating one. )

she wasn't upset, idiot
she was avoiding giving real answers

[westcoasts]

Nope.
Clint.

But I'm also thinking you haven't actually met Kate.

( kate is still infuriating, bucky. it's the hawkeye way, WHY DO YOU THINK CAP GAVE HER THE NAME. )

Hey! You don't know that! I got her to give me a bow, the only reason I can come up with her not helping your sorry ass out is your personality, "Barnes".

[counterstep]

oh

I'm guessing you're the Clint from her world then
cause yeah I don't really know her

though I have met her
briefly

[westcoasts]

( oh.

that makes it so much less fun. )

Yeah. She's my partner.

Cap gave her the name for a reason.

( "she can be a little shit too." )

[counterstep]

that
doesn't sound like the Clint I know

or the Steve I know either

but what do I know
I don't even know if the Steve that showed up with you new folk is the one I know or not either

[westcoasts]

Steve's here?

( hol' up, how did he not know this? WHAT THE FUCK—. )

What do you mean 'that doesn't sound like the Clint I know'?

Cause you sound like you.

[counterstep]

( ...huh. so they haven't run into each other yet. )

yeah

and it means exactly what it says on the tin
that doesn't sound like the Clint I know
who's considered one of SHIELD's greatest assets, before and after

I'd remember if annoying shit appeared in any of those reports

so you know me then?

[westcoasts]

( that's—. hmm. )

Still an asset, Barnes.
Hawkeye and Hawkeye are still the two greatest marksmen alive.

Pretty sure that's not the approved phrasing, by the way.

( "none of the reports on you say how much of a dick you are." )

I've read SHIELD reports. I know what they say.

[counterstep]

yeah
cause people who use guns definitely don't exist

it's what they called you in the other reports
the HYDRA ones
you gonna be mad if they called you a comrade of Cap's instead of an ally?

if we're from different worlds, I doubt they read the same
especially with SHIELD being defunct now