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[pursuitofcappiness]

[ Action, 627 Topper ]

[ Uh yeah, so Steve is waking up next to a drone for the first time and falls out of bed because hey, wasn't he in 2012 a second ago? And wasn't he, you know, taller? He's going to do the right thing this time, which is not freak out and tear a hole through the wall, probably because it would kill him to do so.

Instead, he will walk downstairs and snoop around and-- there's a picture of him on the wall, smiling, with his 'wife' and two kids.

He sees a rotary dial on the phone and he picks up to call numbers he remembers from 2012. And then numbers he remembers from 1943. And then zero. And then hangs up and goes to rifle through anything he can find in the shoeboxes of the downstairs closet to tell him where he is and why he's there.

Have fun waking up to your new dad sifting through files all over the kitchen table. ]

[ Action, around town ]

[ He doesn't believe this for a second. But this isn't just any sort of thing; he's small again. Someone's trying to make him forget. So he walks around town, because the one thing he needs right now is to get out of town. ]

Excuse me. Do you know the way to the train station?

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around town

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[Because the best thing for someone new here, would be to see an eight foot tall suit of armour clanking down the street, right? And even better would be if that suit of armour then spoke in a prepubescent boy's voice, right? RIGHT? Today is Steve's lucky day...]

Um... no, I don't think there is a train station around here.

Re: around town

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[ Good thing Steve's seen armor walking around. But not with that voice ]

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...

[ CRANES HIS NECK WAY UP ]

Well, thanks anyway, sir.

[ Sir?? ]

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[He's not used to being called sir, so he just chuckles awkwardly.]

You don't have to call me sir. My name is Al... Alphonse Elric.

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I'm Steve Rogers. It's nice to meet you, Al.

[ He holds a hand out to shake. He is roughly Edward's height. Sob. ]

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[Aww, someone else who didn't drink their milk. Al is carefully shaking that hand with his own huge one.]

Nice to meet you too, Mr. Rogers! Are you new here?

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Yeah, I just got here this morning.

Is it always like this?

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[He won't mention that often it's a lot worse.]

Mm. It's a pretty small town, but I guess it's not what you were expecting when you woke up.

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...No, not at all. If anything, I was expecting to wake up in 2080.

[ He smiles a little to himself, exasperated. ]

This is a pretty bad joke.

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[He shouldn't be surprised at the date by now, but he still is... even this is a far cry in the future from his world.]

It's not all bad! [So speaks the eternally optimistic.] And it'll still be 2080 when you get back.

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[ He laughs a little, because wow, way to not clarify anything, Steve. ]

No, I'm not from 2080.

It's just, I was sort of in suspension, like a coma, for a really long time. And I woke up in what was the future for me. So I just sort of expected to skip more time forward, not go back.

[ He looks around ]

But I guess this is closer to where I belong than where I was before I woke up.

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Oh.

[He thinks about it for a moment, but... nope, that doesn't make any sense at all.]

I don't think anyone here is actually from this time, so... I guess you're ahead of most of us because you're from a similar time.

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Now that's new.

[ He inhales deeply ]

If you don't mind me asking, are you... a knight?

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Me?

[Oh no! He laughs in a nervous way.]

N-No, I'm just... I'm not a knight.

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[ Uhh, throwing darts now... ]

--A superhero...?

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No... This is just a hobby. Um, from my world, it's a very common hobby!

[AHAHAHAHA.]

[pursuitofcappiness]

...Putting on suits of armor? Isn't it... heavy?

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It's good endurance training, for... muscles!

[Oh no, now he's flexing one of his arms with a clank.]

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I... guess so. There wouldn't happen to be a gym around here, would there?

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I don't think there's a gym, but there's a rec centre with sports equipment!

[pursuitofcappiness]

Could you tell me where that is?

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Sure! It's just between the two schools, near the centre of town. You can't miss it.

[pursuitofcappiness]

Oh, alright. Thanks, Al.