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FEARbruary 😈

🔪THE FEAR MEME 🩸

There are two kinds of fears, rational and irrational.
Being afraid of realtors is an irrational fear.

— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events

HOW TO PLAY:

Comment with your character. In the body of your top-level, your character is forced to admit their biggest, darkest fear. Maybe they assumed no one was listening, or perhaps this is the work of a magical truth serum. Either way, it's out in the open now.

Other characters can offer comfort, judgement, or probing psychological questions to delve into the root of this.

An especially evil character might look for ways to exploit this newfound information... but you wouldn't do that, would you?

Anything involving images, especially spooky images, should be linked and tagged.

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[....that expression is so damn sweet.]

Hundred years or so, thanks to cryofreeze for him and the old fashioned ice cube method for me. You?

Damn, cryo? You are from the Dark Ages. Bet that shit hurt like a bastard to come out of. Surprised either of you survived it. The only people I've ever seen do that were genetically modified super-soldiers hell bent on killing anything in their...way..s..

[Steve? Steve he doesn't like that look he's getting. STEVE. The last guy who was one of those things killed him real bad.]

Uh. Uhm. Decade or so at this point feels paltry to say.

Edited ((Spelling is hard~)) 2025-02-23 20:34 (UTC)

[snorts] Nineteen hundreds, pretty similar. It wasn't super fun, no.......

A decade's enough!

.......Jim? [concerned frown] Not everything in my way, if that helps?

Sorry. I uh.

[He nods quickly. Smooth recovery.]

It wasn't an experience I'm looking to repeat, let's say. But no, I wasn't worried about you or your man. Just. Bad memories. Is all.

[He'll circle back to the main topic in a second here.]

[Steve tilts his head a little, not wanting to let that go quite so quick. Jim seems like a decent man, and Steve would like to work on their friendship further. Which means, unfortunately for Jim, that Steve's bossy worrywart tendencies are on the alert.]

I have some bad memories in terms of fighting a super soldier, too.

Are you okay? Seriously? Getting any sleep?

[ooc: ...outside of my head that is.]

Me? I'm fine now. There's a few lasting effects from the whole ordeal--

[That's what he's calling dying and being brought back. An ordeal. understatement of the millennium get this man some therapy.]

But I've got my ship, my crew, and my work. I'm honestly doing better than I ever have in my life.

[He didn't answer the question about sleep.]

[ooc: lmao]

I'm not going to say I know everything about your life, but I suspect that's a reasonably low bar.

I'm glad you have all of that.

If you ever want to talk to someone who's separate from it... well. [embarrassed but genuine gesture at himself]

Given how the fleet's been damaged it's really not as low a bar as you think.

[Jim knows what Steve means, he's just dragging his feet a little because talking about things is....not something he's good at when it's His problems. The thing is Steve is as good at coaxing others to trust him as Jim is though.]

What, you looking to be prepared for when you're expected to still be active in the 2200s?

[Still deflecting, but he's at least willing to talk. That's a start, right? Steve's wearing him down.]

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FEARbruary 😈

Pine pines so prettily!

Steve's stoic simping is no slouch either ;)

lmao you are GOOD

So far as secret talents go, alliteration is a niche one lmao

it's a neat little niche! :D

This is where I point out I also have a Steve muse and I am just so chuffed to see them talking

that's so cool! <3 I have a Jim I should play on DW, and I have other Marvels if Steve wants...

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