assholic: (Laptop - 1)
Jessica Jones ([personal profile] assholic) wrote in [community profile] elnysa2017-12-17 08:56 am

Text -|- un: nunya

Looking for work.

Previous Experience: phone operator, temporary office assistant, fast food worker, college bartender, sandwich board holder, private investigator, professional asshole.

Skills: owns own camera, capable of tolerating other assholes, not too up my own ass to do dirty work.

Special Skills: Specifics given upon request if I damn well feel like it.

Contact with offers. Anything related to strip clubs will result in learning how quickly I can track you down and hurt you with my special skills.
godwins: (thirty-seven.)

[personal profile] godwins 2017-12-25 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He tilts his head. ]

You think everyone who's in the Army volunteered? [ He sure did, but there had been a draft. ]
godwins: (eighty.)

[personal profile] godwins 2017-12-25 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He squints. ]

What idea?
godwins: (sixty-three.)

[personal profile] godwins 2017-12-25 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
We're all conscripted into something, sister. [ The way of the world. It's like FDR said— some generations, much was expected. ] You're going along with 'em too, so don't act like you're above it.

[ Or below it, maybe. He couldn't quite get a read there. ]

But you're right. This isn't war. Not yet.
godwins: (thirty-seven.)

[personal profile] godwins 2017-12-26 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's clearly touched a nerve, but he doesn't understand what about. Bucky had grown up in a time and at a moment where everyone was expected to be part of something— a country, the service, the homefront— and it wasn't your fault or your doing, but everyone did their part anyway. It was never something he'd questioned, or been inclined to question.

So, he thinks about it, and decides: ]


Buddy is better than kid.