backdated a couple days, after his conversation with Charles

[thestarspangledman]

[Onscreen, there is a very recognizable shield. --Well, to be exact, it's the side of that shield, before a rag is quickly swiped over it and Steve adjusts the camera angle. Scattered behind him is an open sketchbook filled with various doodles of Barge inhabitants, views of the CES, and a tin of polish he scrounged up from somewhere or another. But he settles back and grins.]

Seems like every time we get new arrivals, lately, it's after a flood where everyone's distracted for a few days. So I'd like to say thanks to --everyone who helped me out when I was ...well, smaller than usual. Or offer apologies. I was kinda an argumentative kid, if you didn't notice.

[Spam for Tony:]

[After he's finished with polishing his shield, Steve meanders down to Tony's room with an empty sketchbook in hand and a few pencils, in search of one particular person. He knocks and rocks back on his heels, a little cautious.]

Tony? Hope you don't mind a visitor.

[--And once he's opened the door, hopefully:] I brought you something to keep you entertained. [And he offers the sketchbook, a little sheepishly.] I'm sure you're used to -- your computers, or those tablet things, whatever it was that Coulson showed me, but...it's something, right? Might get some of those ideas out of your head.

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[silvestris]

[The super-powered Nazi bit gets more of an eyebrow lift than aliens. Which is when Selina has to stop and think about her life to figure out why aliens make more sense to her.]

Does that mean you've got a few superpowers of your own?

[thestarspangledman]

Well, I don't ...I'm not bulletproof or anything, just...improved. I was part of a super soldier project back during the war.

[silvestris]

[Slow smile] An improved man? That's such a promising idea, and then the government ruins it with 'super soldier projects'. The world would be 'improved' if they could just teach you guys to put the toilet seat down.

[thestarspangledman]

If you say so, ma'am. I just wanted to do my part for my country. ....Maybe keep an eye on my best friend, too.

[silvestris]

Mm, well I don't blame you there. I imagine a lot of people could get used to keeping an eye on him. [Purr, purr, innuendo, purr.]

[thestarspangledman]

...Oh, uh, well. He'd be better to talk to about that than me, really. Seems like he always had a gal around him back home.

[silvestris]

And you didn't? I can't believe that.

[thestarspangledman]

....Well, I didn't always look like this.

[silvestris]

[Skeptical once-over. Liiiingering gaze over what she can see.] Well, it couldn't be too far off. What were you, the skinny awkward kid, or the weird one who sat in the back and set girls' hair on fire?

[thestarspangledman]

...The skinny asthmatic one who looked like he'd break if the wind blew at him too hard.

[silvestris]

[There's a clear moment where she looks like she's going to call his bluff. Then she laughs softly and shakes her head.]

Like my mama always used to say...watch out for the skinny asthmatic ones. Were you still a scrawny little thing when they...[uh, what's the phrase] ...enhanced you?

[thestarspangledman]

Sure was. Boy, was Bucky ever shocked when I showed up in Italy.

[silvestris]

[She laughs; she can't help it.]

Too bad you didn't have a camera.