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Bucky Barnes ☆ 32557038 ([personal profile] tookthewheel) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-09-11 06:14 pm

Take me down to the river bend [Open]

Who| MCU!Bucky, Elsa and Anna, MCU!Bucky and the Signless, MCU!Bucky and OTA
What| Bucky getting his murder on and also roaming the mall, come say hi
Where| The Marvel store, Centurion Cineplex and other various locations
When| First half of week 3
Warnings/Notes| Violence, death, Bucky's issues

Prompt A: The Marvel Store

The Marvel store has become his home base. Bucky spends every night here, bar something unexpected forcing him to seek shelter elsewhere. He varies his time between resting, pondering over the curious merchandise or taking care of his numerous collection of weaponry, cleaning the knives and gun in a routine that has proven a reliable way to settle his mind, especially in the long inactive hours of the night when sleep often eludes him.

Mostly Bucky chooses to stay in the part of the store dedicated to Captain America though he can be found wandering through other sections. Sometimes, through morbid fascination, he moves to the merchandise dedicated to him, which represents both his past and his current reality. Blue jackets, an old fashioned snipe rifle, stretchy sleeves of ridged silver material emblazoned with a red star and replicas of the black muzzle and goggles he wore as the Winter Soldier can be found here amongst other objects.

Prompt B: Through the mall, specify your own location

Almost every day Bucky leaves the shelter of the Marvel store and ventures out in the mall, patrolling down the levels and then back upwards again. He never does the same route twice and varies the times he visits certain locations, including what part of the day he'll venture into the food court to stuff supplies in a bag to take back upstairs to his allies, in case someone is watching out for him.

He can be encountered anywhere from the locker room on the ground floor to tribute personalised stores on the third. The only place he may avoid is the bookstore, only passing by the outside because even though he and the other Bucky destroyed all their biographies (so he thinks), the place makes him too uncomfortable to venture back inside when he has the choice not to.
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[personal profile] 69problems 2014-09-13 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It's probably best that he ignores the screen, because this is the theater that's dedicated to the miracle of childbirth. Probably not the most fun place to hide, but the Signless had felt for quite some time that the food court was too exposed and too well-traveled, and Kurloz's death only confirmed that. He had to move, and the theaters are large and dark and perfect for huddling in a corner and blending into the shadows.

He now knows more about human reproduction than he ever wanted to, and he's gotten so good at tuning out the sound of the showing that it takes him a few moments to register the nearby footsteps. Crap. The assessment is a pretty grim one: he's weak and tired, with one arm bandaged, unusable, and a ticking timebomb for infection. Even if he were healthy he couldn't -- wouldn't -- fight, and the only exit would require running past whoever is in here with him. That didn't go too well last time he tried it.

Maybe if he can just very slowy, quietly scoot around the outside wall of the theater and around to the exit, he can get out while this person is still preoccupied searching the seats. It's worth a shot... he just hopes the darkness will mask his movement, even with the bright white cotton bandages and the sequins on his skating outfit reflecting the light from the screen.
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[personal profile] 69problems 2014-09-15 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Bucky's aim is good. The knife hits, and even better it hits the Signless's uninjured arm. The other one he can't even feel through the burns, but this one is suddenly lit up with pain. It's not at all enough to completely drop him but it does make him cry out and once and for all give away his position. He doesn't stop trying to scramble away, but his speed is definitely hindered by two mostly useless arms.

This is probably it. He is probably going to die. He is going to die to the sounds of someone clinically explaining the miracle of human childbirth. He cant decide if it's a good thing that he lasted this long or a bad thing he lasted long enough for this to be how it ends.
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[personal profile] 69problems 2014-09-16 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
A second line of blood blooms across Signless's face and he would cry out again except that steel fist to his chest has knocked all the air out of him. Maybe if he just keeps still and doesn't fight it will at least be over quickly. This person doesn't seem to be interested in dragging it out, which is a small blessing.
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[personal profile] 69problems 2014-09-16 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. This is familiar, he thinks dazedly. Except last time was all the way back in the desert arena, it was sharpened metal twine, and he'd known the person murdering him.

This is maybe a little better in a weird 'still going to die painfully' sort of way. He closes his eyes and grits his fangs. In just a little while he's be back in his own room, whole and healthy without horrible burns and a cracked horn. He'll eat some proper food for the first time in weeks and then he'll find Karkat and hug him for as long as physically possible and everything will be marginally less terrible than it is right now.
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[personal profile] 69problems 2014-09-16 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Even tough troll skin eventually has to give way under the kind of assault the Winter Soldier can dish out. It goes quickly after that, a mix of strangulation and bleeding out weakening an already-weak body until it just gives up entirely.