“no,” said bucky simply. he’d received a rude awakening, though it hadn’t been the rudest of his life. he was taking what he could in stride, and abstaining from gawking at the sprawling strangeness of the cambria. “think i would’ve liked dubai better. you knew it was a one way ticket?”
❛ i’ll take you sometime if we ever get back. the whole team. we’ll call it a well deserved congrats on getting back from the future all expense paid vacation. ❜ at least the parts of the team that are here. nat would like dubai. it’s against tony’s nature to admit he doesn’t know everything, but the truth is an unfortunate better option, here. ❛ that part was a surprise. so was the time jump. ❜
entry : @astranomic : kate bishop for cassie lang
location : their room !
|| SHE DROPS HER PHONE ? DEVICE ? WHATEVER, onto her bed, some sort of anxiety itching in the palms of her hands. she’d like a quiver right about now, the slice of a bow through it, something that made more sense than — this.
maybe she can’t complain, though.
she has cassie. when has anything ever made more sense than her ?
“ okay. do we have a map of this place ? it might actually be on our little — phone things, but i don’t know how to work it just yet. a map would be so helpful, though, in trying to figure out where to explore first. i know we’re probably with all the … apartments. ” it’s unhelpful. she stands, the tug of her lip between her teeth in nervous display. “ we could just go the way we came ? ”
they’re young, spry, it’s not like either of them aren’t used to weird and making quick adjustments on their feet. their lives have both been one weird situation after another, from the second they met. it just seems like the universe outdoes itself; every time cassie thinks hey, at least it can’t get any more nuts! kate moves to california, or someone dies, or they get transported into space. not even in a fun way.
❛ we have everything we could ever need except a handbook. ❜ her voice goes mocking when she repeats the small amount of information they’ve gotten. she glances at kate’s phone-device, her own stubbornly shoved into her back pocket to avoid any more confusion. there could be a map, but she knows there’s contacts that don’t belong to her and people she doesn’t understand.
she makes her way to the door, opens it and pops her head out only enough to glance up and down the hallway. ❛ it still seems empty ? is that good or bad ? ❜
“stark.” steve wasn’t on board. bucky imagined tony stark was about as ill at ease with that fact as bucky was. perhaps it was projection. bucky doubted it, but the possibility did not go unacknowledged. “you volunteered?”
❛ barnes. ❜ familiar faces are a hit or miss around here, but this version of him doesn’t seem shocked that he’s here. that spells something semi-positive, that he’s not being looked at like bucky’s just seen a ghost. ❛ yeah, well, i had a little vacation time and dubai’s really more of a spring trip, but space is perfect this time of year. did you ? ❜
✰ it’s time to wake up, CASSANDRA LANG, you’ve been in cryosleep for too long and the people of MARVEL miss you. when you went into slumber you were TWENTY - TWO years old, your pronouns are SHE/HER, and you VOLUNTEERED for the cambria program. now that you’ve awoken, your position as a SECURITY OFFICER is waiting for you. remember, cambria one thanks you ! — stats . headcanons . mus.
AESTHETICS: sweet smile before throwing a punch, moving bugs off the sidewalk and onto the grass, weight of a legacy, rejection of normalcy
A DEEPER LOOK:
BACKGROUND: this is 616 land baby! i don’t make anything from her mcu version and i tend to incorporate the full scope of her history, so she’s pulled from having returned to new york after a time spent unwillingly living in california. she was getting back into the new york hero scene, interning at pym tech, and most recently reconnecting with kate bishop prior to volunteering!
WEAPONS: i want to say ... she still has her suit with her, but the weapons part of it is gone? so her little discs, pym particle wristlets, etc.
POWERS/ABILITIES/SKILLS: she grows! she shrinks! she does it all! but mostly she grows and shrinks. cassie’s also been trained in several forms of martial arts and hand to hand combat since she was young by avengers / x-men alike, so she’s very skilled in throwing a punch. with her suit helmet on, she can also communicate with all forms of insects / bug life!
GREATEST STRENGTH: i think her persistence.
GREATEST WEAKNESS/FLAW: it’s the stubbornness.
ONE FEAR: she’s mostly scared of making nothing meaningful out of her life.
ONE HOPE: i think for a while her hope is that her team would end up all in one place again.
HEADCANON(S): as i add them i’ll put them onto a page here. for now, (a.) cassie is perpetually bad at things but happy to do them anyway. it’s not an insult i think it’s actually a great thing about her, but she’s terrible at basketball and cooking and singing and playing drums and more! and she does keep doing them for the joy of it anyway. (b.) she has a bad relationship with her mom and step-dad and frankly, it’s not without inner guilt, but she’s glad they’re not here. (c.) she runs cold! she needs fluffy blankets stat!
THE QUESTIONNAIRE:
HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT BEING DROPPED INTO THE CAMBRIA PROGRAM? ARE THEY EXCITED? SUSPICIOUS? CONFUSED?: she’s definitely suspicious and confused. cassie’s seen a lot of strange things in her time, and she’s not entirely unfamiliar with the concept of different universes / timelines because of some of them, but experiencing it up close and personal is a different thing. it’s also not really what she signed up for. technically, maybe, but it’s definitely a lot bigger than what she was expecting to get herself involved in. she’s keeping an open mind because she thinks closing it would ultimately do her more harm than good, but there’s some cautiousness there.
WHAT DOES YOUR CHARACTER HOPE TO SEE THE MOST DURING THE CAMBRIA ONE’S JOURNEY?: i think in her heart of heart’s she’s just hoping to see more people she knows. if there’s anything she’s happy for, it’s that she came with her best friend, but nothing outside the cambria would make her more genuinely joyful than to see those she loves on the inside of it. after that, i think she’s pretty open to anything new!
IF YOUR CHARACTER COULD BRING ONE THING OR PERSON FROM HOME, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: her dad! but every other young avenger is in close second!
she has to stifle a gentle laugh of relief. it’s barely there to smother the crack in her voice, and she mentally beats herself for allowing a vulnerable glimpse into the woman she was supposed to be—a witch, capable of toppling grand cities and destroying entire realms, but truly? she was a mother who grieved for a family that never was.
“i’m very proud. i’m content to hear that, in another lifetime, my boys exist—that they’re not just a figment of my own emotion.” wanda speaks quietly as she scratches at the arm of her chair with a fingernail. her next admonition is gentle, one she’s hesitant to let go of. “i always knew that they were real, in some shape or form. i’m jealous, really … that they’re everywhere but here. i just wish i could find them, or see them again.”
❛ they live good lives. ❜ he’s tentative, perhaps. unsure of where the lines are drawn when it comes to meeting an alternate version of your boyfriend’s mother, unsure of what privacy is in this situation. whatever is open information there is probably open information here, and no one really seems to be guarding their secrets close to their chest here. except maybe david, and it’d be no surprise to anyone that knew him. in part, he can admit to himself that there’s some selfish desire too. he likes talking about tommy, and he’s fond enough of billy and teddy and everyone else that’s adjacent to their lives. it’s nice to talk to someone else that may want to know about them. ❛ i can tell you about them if you want to know more. ❜
he’s not much one for false hope. it’s never been something he appreciated, and david doesn’t like to give anything he wouldn’t want to get. still, even when he thinks of it through logic and nudges aside what he wants, the same likelihood appears now more than it did when he first arrived. ❛ i think they’ll be around, at some point. billy’s … well, he’s powerful. his husband runs space, where i’m from, and tommy’s the most persistent and capable person i know. if people are being pulled from their world against their will they won’t look past it, and tommy would look for me. ❜
the moment her eyes settle on, without a doubt in her mind, her daughter, caroline quickly wrapped her arms around her in a tight - though only human strength - hug. she’d always been good with control, but her restraint and gentleness was well practiced when her girls were still little and now was second nature. “i know, i know it’s all so weird here and confusing but i’m so happy you’re here. are you okay? did you volunteer to come or did they make you?” she pulled back, taking a quick look over josie to make sure she was well and at least physically okay. once she was mostly satisfied with her assessment, she let out a breath. “aunt bonnie is here too, and hope’s dad and uncle.” it seemed easier to explain in those terms, knowing josie and lizzie had only really met them briefly. “no sign of lizzie or anyone else yet?”
even amidst all the confusion, and maybe even especially because of it, the moment she’s in her moms arms is relief like nothing else. the twin thing means lizzie comes first in most aspects, despite all the complications, there’s no one that brings comfort like her sister either, but her mom is in close close second place. ❛ i’m okay. i didn’t volunteer, but i’m fine. i think ? ❜ confused, mostly, and it seems to count for a lot in the moment. disoriented probably wouldn’t be an unfair description either. she stays close, some still-childish part of her not wanting to be far at all from her mom, thinking there’s a good chance she probably feels the same. josie deflates, only slightly, when it becomes clear they didn’t just somehow miss lizzie upon waking up even if that had already seemed impossible. ❛ no, you guys haven’t seen her either ? i thought she must have woken up before me. ❜
“ well, if i recall correctly, you’ll have to forgive me, my comic knowledge is a tad rusty, but i believe emma’s half birthday is coming up on the 12th of december. i wanted to get her a little something, but she seems like i am in the ‘ i will spoil myself with lavish gifts because i can ’ realm. ”
she begins, shoving her hands in her pockets. “ i was hoping that you could take a look at her perfume collection for me? i don’t want to get her something she already has and then waste her time with having to return it. it’s literally the most annoying thing about getting gifts. ”
several things bring scott up short in the span of a moment. comic knowledge. half birthday. lavish gifts, the part of which is at least true. the implication that this is anything he’d have to sleuth. he regards her, curious gaze hidden behind red lenses, a benefit to the constant requirement of them. if there are any signs of her joking about the matter, they aren’t ones he finds, and scott considers himself a rather good judge.
❛ i could tell you every perfume she owns, but you’ll have more success getting something she already likes. emma has a very specific taste. ❜ could scott pick which she’d be more likely to take to in a line up ? of course, but that’s years crafting. doubt is in his nature the way knowing emma is, built in and intrinsic. ❛ don’t tell her it’s for her half birthday, either. she won’t like it. ❜
WANDA MAXIMOFF SAID ... “ you’re still coming over for dinner tonight, right ? ” @thruvalleys, with david alleyne
tumultuous isn’t the word; there’s nothing rocky about the relationship david’s formed with this version of wanda. she’s kind, and there’s a clear care towards the version of her children that she knew, despite them being very different from david’s. they’re both good enough reasons to enjoy her company, but a part of him also thinks tommy would want him to. despite his boyfriend’s (ex boyfriend? he’s not sure what the rules are on relationships through ship kidnappings) sharp edges, david’s never thought him an uncaring person. tommy might’ve been hardened, better at speed than he was with sincerity, but he was never unkind. he’d appreciate them being in each other’s corner in his absence. ❛ i am. are you sure i shouldn’t bring anything ? i really wouldn’t mind. ❜
( @astranomic ) ⚰️ LESTAT DE LIONCOURT & SCOTT SUMMERS
⚰️ ( location ) the lunar review bar, the cambria one
⚰️ - “you should get a piano installed in here,” lestat chimed as he turned his back to the other, a waved hand in the air. “i would graciously lend my talents for free, something to show emma at what she fails to do.” he smirked, finally turning to face scott. “you must be her amour, yes?” he looked scott over and hummed a bit before flashing a smile, “i can see why. you are handsome and i can sense a stalwart loyalty about you. maybe a bit boring but given someone like her, boring is a good thing.” he added, a shrugged shoulder as he moved to play with a leftover martini glass. “she has talked about me to you, hasn’t she? probably an ‘annoyance’ a ‘thorn in her side’? please, do tell me.”
it actually isn’t the first time scott’s been called such things, neither the good or the bad, nor is it likely the last. he isn’t one to take offense easily, regarding someone he may tentatively call some sort of friend of emma’s with nothing more than curiosity. he is familiar with lestat, over what he’s correctly presumed to be a series of emma’s complaints. he just happens to be better at reading her than most, good at perusing in between the lines. there’s always a difference between emma speaking about someone thoroughly on her wrong side and those she regards with her own brand of fond. ❛ you don’t come up much at all, actually. ❜ he shrugs, thinking it the only answer emma would approve of. denial; she wouldn’t want lestat to know she thinks of him in any sense. ❛ emma doesn’t fail to do anything, but a piano isn’t a terrible idea. ❜
MIA THERMOPOLIS SAID ... “ jesus, how much health does this guy have ? ” @lightyearns, with tony stark
❛ he’ll go on for a while. ❜ the same of which clearly can't be said for mia or tony, both seated atop foldable mats and regarding steve with a near admirable lack of subtlety. in tony’s defense, he hasn't had a reason to try for it in quite some time. there's only so many years of friendship and fighting and everything in between, of a certain closeness, before nothing is worth trying to be subtle about. plus, well, if there's anyone that's used to being looked at it's definitely steve. ❛ it's all fun and games until you're trying to keep up with him on a run. ❜
KLAUS MIKAELSON SAID ... “ out of curiosity, is this how we die ? ” @artificialvoyage, with josie saltzman
❛ i'm a witch, not a fortune teller. ❜ she provides, kindly, choosing for his or her own sake to ignore the very real death he'd already had back home. it's almost stranger that it's strange at all; with everything they've been through, people coming back to life, the very existence of one third of the salvatore school. something about seeing him back alive on the cambria is different, maybe because everything else about being here is too. she can't quite get the chill of emerging from cryofreeze out of her head, yet. pulled from a temporary moment of being lost in thought, she smiles, palm open and expectant. ❛ you have a lot more magic in you than what i need. it won't hurt. ❜
NATASHA ROMANOFF + TONY STARK ( @astranomic ) location: living quarters
“ happy … what is it now, three month anniversary? ” she teases and settles down on the couch across from him. “ i was wondering, with you being on the bridge and all, how close you can get to the captain’s quarters. or do you know someone who can get the schematics of the ship so i can see if i can fit in there. the longer we are here, the more anxious i begin to get. ” natasha shrugs a bit. “ i’d like to do something nice for steve. so, i need you to keep him distracted for a few hours while i set a few things up. in return, i’ll owe you a favor. ”
❛ thank you, thank you. shame it doesn’t look like we’ll be taking an anniversary trip. ❜ he tsks, thinking briefly of the long stretch it seems like they’ll be taking on before the cambria stops anywhere again. back home, they could’ve done paris, or dubai. ❛ surprised you don’t already have the schematics. i can get you a copy, but there’s not much more revealing on them than what you’d find out walking around. a lot of blank areas that should have something, in theory. ❜ it’s safe to say tony’s pretty much stretched the limits of what he could be nosy in around the bridge and the ship without risking anyone else’s safety. his is one thing, even the other avengers on board he’d feel fine making a call for. it’s everyone else that’d be an issue. ❛ do i get to know what you’re setting up ? it’ll be our secret. i can keep secrets. ❜
|| “ WHERE DID YOU EVEN LEARN TO MAKE THEM ? ” the question comes with a little bit of thrill, some kind of excitement borderline bursting with the way she asks. the point is, it doesn’t come rudely, like it’s strange he knows how to make tarts. like she finds it weird he does. “ do you like to bake ? that’s pretty cool. i can make, like, bare minimum if i need to, but there was a period of time where i tried to put drink recipes on instagram. you know those really fancy coffee shop edited vlogs ? yeah. got old fast. ” a little bit steamrolled, but she means well. always always always, there was something harrowingly lonely about space. she’s learned this over the last few months. “ yes, please. would i prefer them readymade ? kind of. but i’m not going to say no to tarts. ”
if he wanted to give a legitimate answer, it’s one he’d have to trace back. much of his knowledge would require it. who did it come from? who did it belong to before it was david’s for the borrowing, then to keep? ❛ i had a roommate back home that was very skilled in the kitchen, ❜ which isn’t a lie either. he’s not sure that’s where the talent came from, but it could have. everything in david’s life requires a little loose definition, even describing the team back at the boneyard as roommates is something of a stretch. mary jane is far from the first person he’s met that took to chatting more than he did, and he’s happy to wait her out. it’s actually more familiar than anything else. ❛ i don’t mind baking, i didn’t have a lot of time for it back home. i am good at it, though. ❜ skills versus fun hobbies, one always wins out.
caroline may have convinced one of the members of the crew - more tech savvy than she was - to set an alert if any of her friends or family suddenly registered aboard the ship. it was a small bit of hope, fueled by the pit in her stomach where she missed those she loved, but it’d kept her moving forward so far. when the alert came that at least one of her daughters had arrived, there wasn’t a moment of hesitation before she was suddenly looking up her room and moving quickly to find it. “josie?” she called from the other side, her knuckles tapping on the door gently at first. unfortunately, she was lacking patience today. she twisted the handle and pushed the door open enough to slip inside. “i’m sorry, i’m barging in, i just.. really wanted to make sure it was you here.”
it’s surprisingly hard to rank waking up on a space ship among everything else in her life. is it more or less weird than going fully evil, or locking up their magic in a little glass case, or her pig in a fairytale moment ? unfortunately, the really honest answer is that their life’s gotten too complicated to even attempt some sort of ranking system. josie might try, for lack of anything better to do. she’s midst trying, and failing, to set up any sort of mental game plan when the door knock sounds. it opens just as quickly, the same way it tends to at home with half the school moving at a much faster pace. ❛ mom ? ❜ it’s a voice she wouldn’t mistake anywhere, even the second before she emerges from the little bedroom and comes face to face with her. ❛ i’m pretty sure i’m me, but it’s been a really confusing day. ❜
✰ it’s time to wake up, JOSIE SALTZMAN, you’ve been in cryosleep for too long and the people of TVD/LEGACIES miss you. when you went into slumber you were NINETEEN years old, your pronouns are SHE/THEY, and you WERE VOLUNTEERED for the cambria program. now that you’ve awoken, your position as a STUDENT is waiting for you. remember, the cambria one thanks you ! — stats . headcanons . mus.
THE BASICS:
NAME: josette forbes-saltzman
ALIAS(ES): jo, josie
AGE: nineteen
PRONOUNS & GENDER: she/they, genderqueer
BIRTHDAY & ZODIAC: march 15, pisces
FACECLAIM: kaylee bryant
AESTHETICS: bright light breaking through surrounding darkness, loss of innocence, fire as a destructive and purifying force, difficulty in being one half of a whole
A DEEPER LOOK:
BACKGROUND: ok ... i’ll say josie is mostly just all of legacies based but frankly it gets cloudy for me post s2/3 of legacies so don’t ask me details about her s4 vibes. i do think i’m going to nix her ever having left mystic falls entirely (per her end on the show) because i just don’t see the point aside from a necessary exit. otherwise though! legacies!
WEAPONS: n/a
POWERS/ABILITIES/SKILLS: all those of a siphoner witch, which is basically a regular witch except josie has to siphon magic from another source in order to be able to use it. this can include magical items or magical creatures / people. look out vampires!
GREATEST STRENGTH: i think it is her big huge heart (:
GREATEST WEAKNESS/FLAW: ok so she’s a little insecure and resentful
ONE FEAR: losing lizzie! being a Bad Person!
ONE HOPE: that she can maybe feel comfortable and have her own place in the world (ship?) one day
HEADCANON(S): as i add them i’ll put them onto a page here. for now, (a.) not a headcanon but josie is pansexual! she’s very open about this! (b.) she’s always had something of a complicated relationship with her dad due to both loving him and also feeling like he put way more attention onto others than he did his two daughters. (c.) she does have a particularly strong skill with pyro-esque magic
THE QUESTIONNAIRE:
HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT BEING DROPPED INTO THE CAMBRIA PROGRAM? ARE THEY EXCITED? SUSPICIOUS? CONFUSED?: she was definitely confused! upon waking up! i think for a solid little bit she was very much convinced it was a dream or another weird magical trip.
WHAT DOES YOUR CHARACTER HOPE TO SEE THE MOST DURING THE CAMBRIA ONE’S JOURNEY?: i think she probably once she’s settled would look forward to meeting different people and sort of getting a fresh start in that sense.
IF YOUR CHARACTER COULD BRING ONE THING OR PERSON FROM HOME, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: incredibly complex relationship and all, there is no one josie wants to see more than her twin sister lizzie!!
