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Bucky Barnes ([personal profile] sidecars) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2016-11-13 11:01 pm

I Wish I Had a Castle in the Sky ( OPEN )

WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: All over America
WHEN: Nov. 14th-24th
WHAT: The Cosmic Cube is creating multiple realities for all the imPorts. Where are these "universes" coming from and who is wielding it? Are you strong enough to withstand the temptation of a new reality and thwart this misguided attempt at happiness?
WARNINGS: N/A

Hey, Davis! Did you move anything? I've got that Barnes kid's stuff logged. [ He has a digital tablet propped up on a clean, steel table full of plastic bags and baskets filled the different paraphernalia. It's rather reminiscent to an experience in the American security line at the airport. One such basket belongs to James Buchanan Barnes. ] Think something's missing. Says six item's logged, but only—Davis?

[ The man was right there a second ago, wasn't he? Looking around there's no signs John Davis had been there at all, except for in his memory. Shit, has he been talking to himself this whole time? Well, it isn't anything important. The string bean isn't going to miss one dumb little paperweight or whatever it was.

Little does he know just how powerful it is... ]



[ John spares no time or energy leaving Cap Canaveral. He doesn't even put up his cleaning cart before he's zipping through security at the blink of an eye. People've been calling him crazy for so long it's isolated him from the regular rhythm of society, but it's all been worth it for this chance. He will be a hero finally, just like the rest of the imPorts he idolizes. People will start to think twice about him and everyone else with powers. They will have the rights they need to protect this country and keep the Commies out.

This is the energy driving him to hold a dangerous item in his possession. He doesn't know a whole lot about it, only what he's gleaned from gossip rags and conspiracy theory websites. But it's worth the chance to find himself in prison, or worse. In the security of his lonely little apartment he holds the Cube in his hands as it pours out tremendous power. Without words it becomes in tune with his inner self and his wishes. It feeds off of it to create something more than itself. In his world imPorts will have just what they want, whatever it is, however contradictory.

But in truth, what good can come out of a thief too wrapped up in his own fantasies? That is no hero, and John cannot truly control the power he is playing with. As it feeds, the air around him turns hot—too hot to even breath. It's like the oxygen is burning up before it reaches his lungs. The world around him begins to fade as he holds on for dear life, but in the end his consciousness is snuffed out; a small sacrifice for a new world. ]

dirtyredneck: (Neutral (05))

[personal profile] dirtyredneck 2016-11-23 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I would not define my duties to the people as a hobby. Aside from that, my actual hobbies do not take much time to pursue. Hunting I am rarely able to partake of anymore and it's rather a pity.

[His career was not something he did 'for fun'. Even if it did manage to get him out of certain social expectations he did not enjoy having to to go into. Unfortunately, even Daryl understood the need to talk his way out of this particular one with dancing words rather than bluntly ignoring it. Better to go the long route of excuses and tire them than allow the idea to fester where it could grow in the wrong mind and it's seeds could fall and be planted in too many others.]

Besides, I doubt there's any real need to find me match. I'm already 43. I'd either need to find myself a very young bride or a groom around my own years. Neither of which I find appealing.

[And before Dorian could inquire as to why:]

The former because I'd have to treat them as teacher would a student and the latter because I don't have to patience the bend myself to their already set-in-stone way of life and I can't rightly expect them to do it for me. Very unfair all around.
Edited 2016-11-23 16:09 (UTC)
brushoff: (yeah perhaps NOT)

[personal profile] brushoff 2016-11-25 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Still, resigning yourself to live live as a perpetual bachelor? How... [ pathetic? sad? ] Well, there's hope for even the most hopeless of cases.

[ Dorian gives Daryl a dismissive little wave of his hand. But not bending others to his way? How ridiculous. That's the best way to do things! ]