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Bucky Barnes | MCU
Damian Wayne
Cassie Lang

DAMIAN.

One thing first: Damian never pitied her, and by now there is little chance that he ever will. In the beginning, she was at a disadvantage through no fault of her own, and she sought to remedy that. He can respect that.

And she works hard, even now that she has her bending back. Which. He wants to understand the workings of that, but he thinks it more important to understand a little the people wielding it (especially after the hospital fiasco) - he wouldn't manipulate Toph for that, if he has questions, he'd ask them directly - but he would observe her and draw conclusions. His habit is to learn all the time, and the time with Toph is no exception. He also thinks her more responsible than Korra (which, admittedly, doesn't take much).

Also, Toph is one of the first people with whom he found that he likes teaching. It probably helps that she doesn't give up until she's learned something, which appeals to him a great deal.

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dustonmyfeet - 2013-11-11 03:16 (UTC) - Expand

/cackles?

nah. I shan't kill you with Kyle and Damian. How's Bucky > Kyle or Cassie > Monet, if she has any opinions?

*flappy hands* Considering how early in their acquaintance comics!Dick is, he can see the difference in Damian so clearly, and a biiig part of that is Kyle's doing. And it keeps working, even now. For the record.

Bucky likes Kyle. He thinks he's pretty good to hang out with, and is really glad, even when he's totally morose, to have somebody like that - a soldier, somebody who knows what it is to do what needs to be done - around. And somebody who might, actually, do something about Malicant, when the showdown happens, since Bucky is definitely in the 'normals' category, and against something like that? He's got nada. So, in the back of Bucky's mind, Kyle's somebody to help out and support. Which is Bucky's default role, and he's okay with it. More than - without somebody to support (even protect, though he's not likely to try to do that with Kyle... under normal circumstances), Bucky's kind of lost.

So, he's kinda keeping an eye on him? When he's not drinking himself into a stupor, obviously, and that tapered off a lot after Natasha and Rikki disappeared.

It always strikes him, though, how similar, in some ways, he and Kyle are. They can understand each other with way fewer explanations than he's used to, outside of Steve, and it's jarring. But not in a bad way. Only in a possibly-just-head-out-to-the-Head way. Just a chance to be ordinary and easy, which, for all that he's usually been comfortable on the turtle, he hasn't quite had.

Cassie and Monet. TOO SOON TO TELL in much detail, but Monet is pinging a lot of Cassie's Kate vibes. Which... probably helps? In many ways, too, because Cassie'll be very sensitive to areas that are no-go, conversationally, and very light and easy at bouncing away from them. Since she knows very little about Keeliai yet (though she's learning fast, especially about the people) and is not... allowing herself to be interested in what's going on back home, some of her initial conversation may be on the bland range, but it's light and kind and not stupid, and she knows those things. And she can stay quiet, too.

What I'm really curious is what'll happen whenever they get to the powers discussion. Also, Monet can totally take Cassie flying with next to 0 inconvenience, since. Tiny Cassie!

Ahem. Stuff. More as the story develops!

Damian ➢ Zee || Damian ➢ Midii

Damian -> Zee
SO MUCH NOT GOOD. He deeply mistrusts her judgment and her sense of responsibility anymore, and now that she's gotten/will get Dick hurt? Active dislike. He'll tolerate her, because he knows that if he hurts her, Dick'll be upset and by his doing, but trusting her? Not anytime soon. He'll probably avoid talking to her at all, if possible.

Damian -> Midii
~~He likes her smile~~ They are getting warmer. She's learned some things about him, which is... a little strange to him, because (unlike Korra), Midii would consider what it means, will seek out context to put it into, will analyze it and him with it. But he learned a lot about her, and not just shiny veneer stuff, and it seems only fair.
He does enjoy being seen for what he is, rather than an illusion, and she is one of the few people who are willing to do so. And he's willing to face the consequences of that.
(In short: he likes her.)

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Yours on mine. That's right. I went for hardmode.

DAMIAN WILL WATCH OVER VICTORIA 5EVA ahem. Victoria and Bean both, to be honest. She's a tiny, and she is brave and quiet and not stupid. She gets to be protected and, as much as he can, cared for. (But he doesn't think himself a person who can fix people, but only break them more, and he doesn't believe she needs that, so he mostly gives her space. It's one of those things where he's learning to be considerate of others, rather than doing what he whims. So when she asked him to come pick her up, he came.)

And he knows enough of Bean and that they spend time together to trust that he'll teach her stuff that she may need to learn.

Damian on Julie: TOO SOON FOR OPINION but he doesn't like people getting weak and vulnerable because of the ghosting, so he'll be willing to teach her to deal with lack of sight, if she wants.

Bucky on Julie: She reminds him so, so much of Steph sometimes that it almost hurts. He can deal with that, really, but. She's also amazing and young and he's too hurt, after a lot of people left, to spend much time around her. Especially after Rikki left, he's not been allowing himself much socialization time, if he can avoid it.

But if she needs him, he'll do his best to be there.

Any on Tony. Give me your thoughts.

CASSIE GIVES HIM HER THOUGHTS. It's kinda a lot easier now than when she had to skip school in order to wait for an appointment to see him, before she joined the YA. Or breaking into the Mansion. >.> she likes that. She used to like it when he could just drop in on their house, unannounced, or she could bump into him in the hallways of the Mansion on her one weekend a month. Because she can fight him, and she can disagree with him, and she can act against his advice, but he's family, and she loves him. And does respect him.

She'll be heartbroken when she realizes he's drinking again. But she doesn't do giving up, so.

Damian on Tony: careful respect for his engineering abilities. Maybe. He's far less certain about his judgment or about his superheroing or about his choices, but then, it's Damian. He judges everybody. At least he hasn't dismissed him, so, there is that. (He does like him better than MCU Tony.) (At least until he finds out he's destroyed some of Kyle's stuff.)

Bucky on Tony: he knows he's not his Steve's teammate, but he can see them working together. And that's a big plus in Bucky's book. Besides, he probably got along with Howard pretty damn well, whenever they were around each other and with time to waste - and, as we have seen, he can see Tony as Howard's son just fine. And not necessarily only in the bad ways. So that's linking him to two friends.

In all, between all the bumps, Bucky's taken on a slightly more passive role than he should/usually would. Compounded by the fact that, now that they've gotten a good look at what Malicant can do, he pretty much doesn't think he can do much against it, and that's crushing. So he's mostly keeping an eye on things, and trying to help with manual stuff so he can free up the people who can think better so they can come up with solutions. (And he basically considers himself cannon fodder, but, hey, he started out knowing/believing he was dead, so how's that any worse?)

That obviously affects how he acts in relation to Tony. If he's needed, he'll come; he'll try not to get in his feet too much, however.

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definingfuture - 2013-11-10 12:02 (UTC) - Expand

Damian on Barry because I'm curious :|a

Also same back at you: Cassie and Scott only if you feel like!

Barry, you are legit the first speedster that actually managed to surprise Damian, not in a bad way.

See, the kid's jaded. He's been trained all his life (well, since age three), and it's pretty damn certain that his mother and grandfather used metas to train him. It's known that catching arrows from thin air is a thing he does by the by, and when he was taught by Merlyn, he didn't have much to learn from him. So, he's not unused to dealing with metahumans.

But Barry is basically the first speedster he knows who actually stops and considers the information input, rather than simply reacting. That immediately set him apart (and above) most people he knows, let alone most speedsters. (He's learned that people relying on intuition are not necessarily wrong or to be dismissed, but he still considers actual analysis of the data better.) Compounded by the fact that he wasn't dismissed out of hand, he's built a bit of respect for Barry, and he's keeping an eye on stuff to see if that may turn into cautious trust. It makes up, in Father's teammates, for Hal. Oh gods, he can yell about Hal for hours.

CASSIE RE SCOTT: So long as he's there, she feels like she can deal with anything. (How well is a different question, but she's trying.)

She's missed him painfully and deeply for years, now, first when Peggy took her from him, then when she won complete custody, and then when Jack of Hearts exploded and took him from Cassie completely. A part of her is still confused by what her mom did, and why it couldn't be helped. I mean, Peggy had been practically missing from their lives for years, since before Scott went to prison and. Yeah. (That was the previous time she lost him, and he came back! Of course she expects to get it back again...) (Except it worked so much worse this time).

It's really a mess of feelings, but the fact that he's there, and she doesn't have to explain to him what will happen, and that she can just. Spend time around him and make everything all right, for whatever time they have there? Means that she can deal with anything else. Anything.

Also, the state in which he was when she showed up? Means that he clearly needs her around, so, she's going to make herself useful. Even if she's worried about whatever caused it, just so that she could make sure it wouldn't happen again.

(Also, I'm pretty sure I'm rambling at this point, in-between work stuff to do.)

But. She loves him, and has missed him, and will do anything for him. Anything to keep him safe that she can, too. She'd be curious about anything - what he's done back home, what he's done here, how she can help. She'll PROBABLY not let him spend days and nights in the lab, either, and if he's good with that, he ~~should~~ can move in with her so his place can just get assigned as 'lab' and. Stuff. (No, she's not worried about things like privacy. She's fifteen, she's never actually lived on her own. And she's clingy.)

I'm preeeetty sure they'll both be in for a surprise, because when they last actually lived together, she was, well, preteen, and not used to superheroing herself, and understood far less. But she's pretty determined not to let anything make this bad. In any way.

Damian on Bean, Robin on Julian and Spidey

Damian seriously appreciates Bean, and will help him in any way possible. Teach, train, protect as much as he can, encourage. Feed. He can really enjoy the discussions they have, with a mind and training like his. He's... never had a younger brother, (not yet), but if somebody brought it up, Bean would be as close to his choice as he could get. And it probably shows in the way Damian treats him - with respect, but not expecting anything less but his best. Possibly like a younger, less-combat-trained version of himself. I just. Cannot brain all the domestic things they get up to right now - I'm only sure they do.

Robin appreciates Julian. By now, he knows that it's an alias for somebody, but he's been a bit busy to dig into it - and the information Julian provides is relevant and precise, his questions are well-thought-out, and he doesn't feel the need to consider corrective action. (Hence, no real urgency to finding out the actual identity.) He doesn't consider him a danger - not because of underestimating him, but because of not seeing ill intent - so. That's a tentative approval.

Robin thinks Spidey is a danger to himself and people who should be protected. Not intentional danger, but danger all the same. His naivete and underpreparedness will probably just lead to more damage than the good his intentions suggest. ~~Damian's been there, done that.~~ He's keeping an eye on him. From a distance.

Damian about his stupid little big brother.

Yelp.

He'd never voice most of that. Ever. To anyone. Some of it, maybe, to Bruce or Kyle or the other Dick, but not all.

This Dick is not his... and, at the beginning, he couldn't believe that a person could change so much, with only time to go between point A and B. But, at the same time, it's still Grayson, and he knows that beyond the shadow of doubt. As such, Damian is willing to do a lot for him. Almost anything, really. Even the hard stuff - actually, since it's GRAYSON, especially the hard stuff. He'd protect him as much as he's capable, and so the current thing with Zatanna will make him furious. In a way, Damian doesn't quite accept this Dick as older than himself. Oops. Hence overprotective.

And, for all that Damian still acts - in company - a lot like he did when he first showed up, time around Dick has changed him. He might actually withhold scathing comments sometimes, because he knows it's somebody Dick finds important. Or give them slightly more time before he dismisses them as stupid or inconsequential, because Dick values them. Sometimes, he wonders what it would be like, to be able to. Make people better, the way that Dick can. And he certainly holds himself responsible for not being able to do it.

And he's watching, usually watching, in as many ways as he can.

Stupid place that's breaking his stupid little big brother. (nottalking)

Damian on Kal! And maybe Cassie on Frank?

Damian totally did not expect to see any reason why his Father insists on keeping company with Kal... but, by now, Kal's tentatively somebody whose opinion doesn't get discarded out of hand, too. And, after Death, he's grateful - something that Damian's still... uncomfortable with. Not merely for getting him out - though that adds to it - but because there is one more person who will watch over his people and make sure Damian doesn't. Just. Kill them. It's a level of trust that few people have, but Damian's ... actually grown up enough not to resent giving it to Kal. (He'd be crushed if Kal betrays it, but I'm sure Kal knows that burden way too well.)

Funnily, Damian's not yet made quite the connection of how many ways Dick is like Kal. ONE OF THESE DAYS, MAN.

Cassie? Cassie feels really bad for slipping something not good or fun to Frank when she first answered on the video post. Because it's not like anyone can do anything about it, so better keep quiet about it with people who don't know.

Other than the embarrassment, she's enjoying talking with Frank, and kind of wants to get to know everybody. (It's so nice to play a character who doesn't really do paranoia.) (Unless it'n Loki or Victor von Doom.)

MAN DO I EVEN HAVE TO ASK? Damian on Dick (has it changed at all?), Cassie about Billy here and not knowing anything with the future. These are my questions for now.