duplicity — inbox

[vestments]

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[redhourglass]

( that’s a euphemism just waiting to happen, but she doesn’t take the bait )

weight should be fine even though you’re taller
let me know if not, i might be able to modify it

[vestments]

It's fine.
Just different to what I'm used to.

( a pause and then as explanation— )

Also functioned as a grappling hook.
Used to have a friend who'd ( make whatever marc requested somehow work ) figure out the finer details.

[redhourglass]

i have a friend like that

( specifically not saying it was tony stark — she doubts they’re mutual friends )

how do they handle it when you lose their stuff?

[vestments]

Losing generally wasn't the problem, breaking was.

But being paid to replace it probably helped.

( ignoring the fact that that's not exactly the question. )

[redhourglass]

i don’t usually pay
perk of knowing the owner or something

( pepper isn’t stingy )

[vestments]

He got bed and board out of it.

[redhourglass]

never said you stiffed the guy
he down for all the moon- branding?

[vestments]

He didn't get a say in it.

( and marc had never asked. )

[redhourglass]

wow
think stark would lose his mind if i tried that
he doesn’t make all my gear though

[vestments]

( "stark deserves—"
"well, he's a—"
" ... " )

Not everyone has Stark's ego.

[redhourglass]

yeah, you think?
i know some other guys
he hates when i remind him of that

[vestments]

So he hates when he's reminded the Earth doesn't circle him, what's new?

[redhourglass]

sounds like he’s not that different in your timeline
universe
whatever

good to know some things never change
he chilled out a lot after he and pepper got married and had morgan

[vestments]

( firstly: ???
secondly: does he care? )

I dont stay up-to-date with his personal life.

[redhourglass]

( fun to make someone else feel how she does when the other bucky shares something about his world. )

after half of the universe was snapped out of existence
i started keeping closer tabs

[vestments]

Given you had half the things to focus on.

( statement? question? who knows, because how is he supposed to reply to that—. )

[redhourglass]

yeah well
nothing buries the hatchet like mass murder

( look, she’s FUNNY )

[vestments]

Tends to bury a lot more than that in my experience.

[redhourglass]

cute
maybe you have a missed career in comedy

[vestments]

It was my brother's weapon of choice.

( just

ignoring that comment, apparently. )

[redhourglass]

i didn’t know you had a brother
were you two close?

[vestments]

( marc planning on talking (briefly) about how randall was, for a time, a hatchet-wielding serial killer; natasha, throwing in that question—

—A DELAY. )

I killed him.

( "it was a challenging relationship". )

[redhourglass]

( ah. well. sometimes you step in things you don’t mean to. but — )

where i was raised, that was common

( “raised” as a loose term; consider it an olive branch )

[vestments]

Less common in Chicago.

( anyway. )

He looked up to me, at one point.

( to sort of answer the question. )

[redhourglass]

younger brother?

( she’d say she knows how that is, but … #it’s complicated )