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[recollecters]

hey. looks like you're all busy right now and joanne is down with a cold, so this probably doesn't have to be fancy. r&d doesn't report anything major for the next month so don't be dumbasses and make a problem of your own. don't fuck with the liaison, we're not replacing him. looks like there's some weird fucking stone at city hall now. enjoy that, i guess. pretty sure zee warned you about the stones, but if you broke it, that sucks and we don't know how to fucking fix it yet so good job, idiot. you might need to be a little proactive. r&d probably has something in mind, but good fucking luck getting a straight answer out of any of them but the kid. maybe they'll at least tell zee what they need, though. or if you're chill with the loss, whatever. that's about it. wait, right. joanne wanted to thank two of you for letting her help with holiday shit last month. thanks for not being assholes. the kid likes having stuff to do, i guess. and that's really it. later. Wendy Guo Security/Archivist Retrspec Incorporated Per the mod plotting post, you may use this post to obtain this month's freebie! This month's freebie can be earned by turning in a thread on this post that has 10 or more consecutive comments from you. Please feel free to use this post as a network mingle. Every toplevel can be considered a new post, and threadjacking is permitted. No NPC response will be given. Usernames are the character's full real AU names, not aliases or chosen nicknames or usernames, and seemed to have filled themselves in; nothing characters do can change or obscure their names currently. Additionally, the heart stones from February are still in effect! They will be in effect until 3/3 and will be addressed on the event log. Thanks!

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[frostythehitman]

I thought it was obvious, dude. But yeah, I had a team and a codename and the costume and all that jazz. They made comic books about us and everything.

[thebeastwithout]

What do you mean, obvious?! You just said you were in the army!

[If this were an anime, Gar's eyes would be starry.]

I wanna hear all about it! What's your name?! Is it something awesome. Wait I wanna guess uh... THE CYBORG STALKER how's that.

[frostythehitman]

I was in both. We were a superhero team part of the war effort against the Nazis, who had their own team called the Super-Axis. I went by Bucky.

[thebeastwithout]

...Bucky?

[...]

OK, well, we're gonna hafta get you a cooler name, but that's fine. ...Did you just say Nazis? Like... World War II Nazis? Like... not a weird bad guy group name, but like, the Actual Nazis?

[frostythehitman]

Yeah man, actual Nazis. I joined the army in 1940, and by '41, they had me shooting at Nazis and vampires and fish people in Europe.

And what's wrong with Bucky?

[thebeastwithout]

Bucky is not a superhero name, bro.

[addressing the important part first]

Bucky is... the name of a sidekick in a sailor suit. I mean, you can rock a sailor suit if you want, no judgment.

And what, how did you never tell me this?! You're like... a superhero war hero? ...Never mind the vampires.

And wow, you're... really old.

Did you ever punch out Hitler.

[frostythehitman]

Bucky's my name, dude. Like, my actual real life name.

And I'm not even that old! I-slash-he was like the same age I am now, and I...don't remember anything after the war, either, so it's not like I'm secretly a grandpa at heart.

But no, I didn't punch out Hitler. [ He sounds real put out about it. ] Captain America might've, but I don't remember any of us even getting within punching distance of him in the first place. That's the one memory I hope I am gonna get.

[thebeastwithout]

...No it's not, your name is James.

[duh]

And if you fought in World War II, you're ancient, man. Sorry -- old man. You're probably like the only person in this city who lived through the war, bro.

Who's Captain America?

[frostythehitman]

Yeah, well, on post, it's Bucky. A guy can have more than one name.

And it helps in history class, at least. Mostly. A lot of the fine details are all messed up and different but it's not like I need to study up on Operation Uranus when I was there.

Captain America was one of my teammates. Hell, he was my partner in superhero stuff even before we got deployed.

[thebeastwithout]

...OK, well, you still can't use your real name in your superhero name, so we're still gonna hafta change that anyway.

Look just trust me on this one.

So why aren't you doing any superhero stuff now? You fought the Nazis, man. That's like, major hero cred. If I were you, I'd have started my own team or something already.

...WAIT let's start a superhero team!

[frostythehitman]

Yeah okay, that's fair. I don't know how the hell I maintained a secret identity when I ran around using my own name. Like, "gee I wonder where Bucky Barnes went, he should watch all the reels of Bucky punching Nazis!" You tell me, buddy.

What the hell would we do as a superhero team, Gar? In case you haven't noticed, Nazis aren't exactly invading Recolle and there aren't any supervillains around trying to wreck the city. Except Retrospec, maybe.

[thebeastwithout]

We would be awesome superheroes.

[Gar grins charmingly.]

C'mon, when has having superheroes been a bad thing for a city? So what if there's not that much crime; we can still like... do community service or something.

...Actually, that sounds kinda lame. It will be... community SUPERvice!

[...]

If that doesn't work out we can plot to overthrow Retrospec.

[frostythehitman]

Get on my level, dude, I've been plotting to overthrow Retrospec since like October.

But sure, I'll do it in spandex if you want to make it a superhero thing.

But I'm never doing "community supervice" if that's what you're gonna call it.

[thebeastwithout]

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