retrospec | backdated to 4/12, welcome to ultimate nerd hell

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marvel 616: bucky barnes

backdated to 4/12, welcome to ultimate nerd hell

James Barnes shared a photo.
April 12 near Recolle

There's got to be at least one comics nerd on here. Someone explain to me what all these old comics are supposed to be, and why they all have me in them.

And before you say "just google it," I did and I couldn't find anything. I have no idea where Retrospec dug these up from.

Also, I've got one free ticket to the shooting range I'm willing to share. The only catch is you have to be 18+ and willing to take me too. Let me know if you're interested.

((To view the comics in larger size/more detail, click here. There was no way i was gonna manage to embed that in a DW post. EDIT: also i added a bit to this post at 4/17 11:38 EST because I was a dumbass who forgot to include it originally, sorry for any possible confusion! ))

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[ Forgive him his rudeness, he's just curious and tactless. ]

Did they seriously just not notice? That makes no sense. And what did your mom do, just shrug about it and act like it's no big deal?

Does the studying actually help, at least? Or are you just stuck with whatever level you're at for all those languages?

Yeah, at least I'm the hero and not "Netman". I wouldn't want to be known as a hero for beating up guys like that, though. A hero should at least have some respectable villains.

[admittedly it doesn't register as rudeness just yet - it's direct enough that anya only bothers to be honest. she's had enough people ask her about her language regain anyway]

mama does not pay it any mind anymore
but it is like when i talk to her about the chocobos and she does not remember horses
there is nothing i can do to convince her ? i am worried but i do not have an answer yet

studying helps !
i am already better with words than i was a month ago when it happened i think
people practice with me a lot and i have to use english everyday and no one lets me speak too much russian
so i think it is ok and getting easier
even if i miss having all the words to say what i want

is it possible to be respectable and a villain ?

Weird. And creepy.

What about for things like school? You go to school, right? Do you just do really badly in English class now?

And when I say 'respectable villain' I mean a villain that a hero would get respect for beating. You don't earn respect for beating up "Netman."

not really badly
but it is harder to read and understand so i always google words
it is not as easy but if i keep trying then it turns easier with time
that is what i believe

you are still saving people ?
i think that is worth respect

And I guess you're not expecting to get your English back any time soon, either.

Yeah but saving people from someone who's trying to blow up a city gets a lot more respect than someone who saves people from a guy throwing a bunch of nets around.

i hope i do
but if i do not then i do not want to be sad

you do not need to compare
saving people is always good

[ Good lord is she blindingly optimistic. It's like staring into the sun. It's burning his flesh off. You know what, that's a good analogy. ]

Yeah yeah,
good deeds are their own reward and all that, but people aren't inherently nice like that. They want something in exchange that isn't just "the satisfaction of a job well done"
or whatever load of bull people think of.

People are greedy. Fame and acknowledgement is one incentive for getting them to do stuff.

[ whoa step back folks we got an edgelord over here ]

[he sounds like yuri

it clicks with her immediately, because yuri loves to talk about how people are jackasses and then here's bucky and she's wondering if it's just some sort of shared illness that afflicts teenaged boys]

is that what you think ?
you would not help because you want to help ?
odd
there are a lot of nice people who will give their time if you ask i think
even if you do not ask

[no anya, that's literally just you]

[ ...well. Honestly this doesn't really jive with James's own experiences, where everyone on base is like a huge family all helping each other out. But he assumes that's just an edge case, as opposed to the angsty navel-gazing truth. ]

It depends on what you mean by 'help.' A stranger asking for directions to someplace is nothing like saving them from an impending car crash.

I bet lots of people would give directions, but not save someone from a car crash. It's way too risky. That's why you need to give people some incentive to take some crazy risk like that.

i think that most will want to save someone
but they do not know if they can
and they have to worry about their own family
and not getting hurt
and that is okay too

but at heart people want to be good ?
probably

If at heart people all wanted to be good, then why are there so many assholes?

some people were not good to them
and then that is all they know
the not good
so they act that way too

that is what i think

So every asshole is just someone who tried to do something good and got screwed over for it?

maybe
or they did not know how to handle feelings

[she's seen yuri kick at doors so]

the world was not nice to them
so they did not learn how to be nice
something like that ?
i think

Well, regardless of whether people start out nice and then become jerks or not, the point is: heroism doesn't come naturally to people.

If it did, it wouldn't make the news every time it happened.

maybe
but a lot of bad things are news too ?
i do not know what the base is

Well let me break it down for you then:

Bad stuff happening is the norm. Because people suck.

And good stuff is rarer and more notable because it's so unusual. Because people suck.

are you sure you and yuratchka are not friends
he says the same

a lot of people say things like that
but i do not believe

Yeah well we all thought like that too once. But then we grew up and saw how ugly the world really is.

it is not growing up
are you saying anya is wrong ?
that is not very nice

It may not be nice, but it's the truth.

no it is not
it is your truth ?
which is different
it is not bad
but saying that someone else needs to grow up
because they are disagreeing with you
please do not do that
it does not feel good

[ God. Even James has a heart, and he doesn't want to make a perfectly nice girl feel bad for no reason. ~~Even if she is still wrong.~~ ]

Okay, okay, fine, you got me.

Let's just say we have very different views of the world and call it there, alright? No need to get upset.

[well she's not upset - closer to pouty than anything but she'll let him have that much at least]

it is okay to have different views
but i hope that you are able to see more good things soon too
if james were happier then i would be happier too
but i know sometimes to be happy is hard

Yeah, well, don't get your hopes up too much. Not everyone needs to be happy anyway.

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