Laura kinney

I fear no monsters, for no monsters I see. Because all this time the monster has been me.

[ofvalkyries]

“Pretty soon whatever’s howling out there is going to make it’s way in here,” Valkyrie said, looking out into the night. She did not want anything to do with that. “Let me be clear when I say I will sacrifice any one of you if I have to if that’s what it takes to keep us alive. So my suggestion would be someone figures out another plan. At the moment, throwing someone to the wolves is my plan.”

[laura-kx23]

“Sacrificing people would be counter productive with your intention to keep us alive...” Laura pointed out with a shrug, “And I’m pretty sure most people would frown upon doing that, I don’t know what they’d decide on doing, I never had to deal with this much... Talking before taking action, I think a reckon mission with people who can be stealthy, fast and well... not easily killed would be the best option but I don’t know what they would decide on.”

[inejofwraiths]

Traveling to a new planet should have played to Natasha’s strengths. She’d spent most of her life never being tethered to one place. She never got too comfortable, knowing she’d eventually have to give it up. Change didn’t phase her, but this was a little different. It was a completely different planet. Orbulite had been fine at first, but it was slowly becoming more of a mystery as each day passed. The redhead looked out at her surroundings as she pondered over the next steps. To anyone else, she looked distracted, but Natasha was rarely doing one thing at once. So, when she heard steps behind her, she immediately turned to face whomever it was, a stern but slightly amused look on her face. “You’d think you’d know better than to sneak up on someone around here.” Especially on her of all people. “What do you want?” 

[laura-kx23]

Laura stopped in her tracks and looked at the redhead, of course she knew the woman, not personally but even before she became an Avenger, Laura knew who she was, she was raised as a weapon, she was raised to be better than Logan, The Winter Soldier and the Blackwidow.

“I wasn’t trying to sneak up on you.” She would have been disappointed if she had been able to in the first place. “Nothing.. I... our powers are back and there’s too many... new smells and sounds and it can be a little overwhelming. I just wanted a chance to... process things and get used to them.”

[yelenqbelovq]

         ‘ such emotional attachment to something  as  flighty  as  powers  .  ’   yelena  herself  preferred  …  more  solid  things  .    ‘  learning  to  fight  or  point  and  shoot  is  far  more  capable  and  in  your  control  .  ’    a  pause  .    ‘  i  miss  having  my  own  tent  .  ’ 

[laura-kx23]

Laura looked at the woman and studied her for a moment “I can do that without powers but...because those of us who have them, is not like having a gun or a knife that you can pick up and drop, it’s a part of us, is like if you suddenly lost a sense, they’re not just tools, they are part of us.”

[elektraforhire]

The familar face of Laura had the tiniest of grins forming. Finally! Someone who’s company would be not just welcomed but fun to have around. With a playful expression, the assassin turned to grab the bottle of whiskey she had “found” and waved it slightly in offering. “Kinney, want to share?” 

@laura-kx23​

[laura-kx23]

Laura smiled a little but it was a genuine smile, being good was something she choose to be but it was hard and there were very few people that understoood that sometimes you get angry and anger results in someone being stabbed and out of those few there were even fewer she liked but Elektra understood and she was definitely someone Laura liked.

“Yes!” She said and approached the other woman, “I’ve never been drunk in my life is almost impossible, I just drink because I like the taste but I may as well take the chance.”

[laura-kx23]

thewintersoldicr​:

While Bucky had some increased abilities, sight, scent, and hearing weren’t any of them. He could imagine that it must feel like having a bag pulled over his head, which would be quite unsettling. “My arm’s a prosthetic. I can take it off. I think yours is worse,” he said honestly. “I’m sure you’re right. We’ll have to work together to figure out how to get them back, if we can at all,” he agreed. He didn’t really like the long discussions as much, but he listened in anyway. “Well, I can say I’m not waiting for the food to run out,” he said with a small laugh, though he really meant it. Waiting for everyone to be even more anxious and concerned was the last thing he wanted to do. 

Laura couldn’t help the llittle smirk that spread over her lips. “I am smart but I like brawns over brains, Reed Richards and the other science and research people can get together to try and figure out what’s happening, the... leader-y people can talk all day to try and come up with a plan but for the likes of us, I think our job is move and do. So, I think we should just try and walk around and try and find a way out of here, climbing, digging or whatever it takes.”

[laura-kx23]

hisnameiswilson​:

Lifting a brow, Sam thought for a moment. “I mean, I suppose that wouldn’t be too bad.” He suggested. Pulling a few extra tool boxes out of the box, he stood to his full height. “Well, if you’re up for it, we can go take a look at them then.” Sam said putting his hands on his hips. “But, I mean I’ll leave you to dig if you want to.” The man teased. 

Laura rolled her eyes and huffed playfully as she stood straight. “I’m more likely to find a body here than something useful.” She said and she was joking but honestly that was actually very likely considering all the people around. “There’s a mutant with wings but they’re part of him, his name is Angel.” They looked heavy though and she preferred Sam’s cause at least he could take them off. “How did you get them?”

[ohlexa]

#oh he dead 💀

[laura-kx23]

thewintersoldicr​:

Bucky kept his eyes trained on her as she looked him over. If he had to guess, he would say she was thinking a mile a minute. It certainly seemed that way. Perhaps she was just gathering her thoughts as many were. When she sighed, he felt a release of tension between the two of them. His frown mirrored hers, and he tried to tune into any of his powers. He tilted his head for a moment then turned back to her, giving her his attention. “I guess a little different. I hadn’t noticed, honestly,” he answered her truthfully. Without actively using them, he didn’t really notice them. It was likely different for everyone.

“I imagine this is how most people have it but for me it was as if usually... every sense was muffled, I can see, hear and smell about half as good, it’s... very unsettling but just like your arm... I still have my physical mutation...” Laura looked around tilting her head but sighed as she couldn’t really hear anything, not even Bucky’s heartbeat. “If it happened to you too it’s likely we’re all suffering from whatever this is. So I’m guessing there’ll  be another long discussion about what we’ll do, if we should wait it out until we run out of food see if it passes or get out there.”

[laura-kx23]

hisnameiswilson​:

“I’m surprised Stark doesn’t already have like a list of everything we’ve got laying around somewhere. Granted, Pepper tends to be more organized than he is.” Wanting to make himself busy, Sam pulled open another box that was near where Laura was digging. Not even sure what to be looking for he pulled out anything that could be remotely useful. “Yeah I can. But, when that earthquake hit, some gusts of wind knocked me out of the sky. So I’ve got sand in places of my wings where it shouldn’t be and some damage to them that I gotta fix from where I fell.” 

Laura wondered if the wings were that fragile or if it was the planet’s magnetism or whatever it was that screwed up their ship. “I’m good enough with technology and I’m a fast learner.” She also had photographic memory but up until she decided against it, the less this people knew about her the better, she was still a little defensive and it was hard for her to trust, “Fixing them may be easier than them building something from scratch and way faster than them coming to an agreement.”

[commanderlexas]

Alone.

[laura-kx23]

hisnameiswilson​:

He’d been talking in circles with his group for what felt like hours. No one at the moment having a decent idea as to what to do next. Wandering off, Sam needed to find something else to do. Or find someone who at least had a better idea then just sitting around twiddling their thumbs. Coming into a tent he had assumed was empty, he was a bit surprised to see Laura rummaging around. Shrugging his shoulders, he kept walking in as she posed him a new question. “I mean we should. And if we don’t, there’s got to be enough stuff around here to at least attempt to build one.” Leaning against the side of the tent, he watched her for a moment. 

Laura sighed deeply, “While I appreciate taking inventory and knowing what we have to work with, I feel that this whole sitting around and discussing things is just dumb, we should be out there scouting at the very least.” She said shaking her head. Laura didn’t know a lot about the avenger, not personally at least,  from the moment she had joined the project to now she had spent it trying to learn about as much as she could about the people she’d be... well basically colonizing a planet with, she wanted to know their skills and abilities, for protection just in case, but mostly strategy. “I thought you could fly... Actually I think right now you’re the only one who still can.”

[almostparaiso]

“Laura.” A friend of Remy’s was … honestly usually a criminal. However she was sort of familiar with the blonde and offered a small but friendly smile as she walked over to the other female. “What made come to Orbulite?” 

@laura-kx23​

[laura-kx23]

Laura looked up and smiled at her, they didn’t know each other that well but Remy was the closest thing she had to a big brother so the other woman was more than alright in Laura’s book. “Coming here offered a clean slate in a way... And I didn’t have that many ties to Earth, the ones I did have decided to come here so it was an easy decision I guess... What about you?”

[laura-kx23]

Laura sighed heavily and sat down next to the other girl and pulled out a chocolate bar from her pocket.

“You know, this is not what I imagined our new planet was going to be like... I figured we were gonna end up perhaps fighting alliens maybe die at some point during our travel due to some equipment malfunction... Right now it seems more likely we’ll probably end up killing each other once we’re all hangry.” @cndysmoon​

[laura-kx23]

Laura had packed light, she didn’t have a lot of things, she traveled around and so she only did so with the essentials but she had learn early in her travels that food and water were actually beyond essential, she healed, so she knew she’d never die of famine or anything like that but the feeling of an empty stomach was just awful.

She had walked around their camp examining the sand dunes and just the terrain in general... With normal human eyes that couldn’t actually look that far away.

“I can climb that...” She spoke out loud and tied her hair up in a pony tail and took a running start towards what seemed like the easiest one to climb, she was able to go a couple of yards before the sand became to loose, her feet sinking further and further and eventually, very, very short of the halfway point she tumbed down and rolled down all the way to the ground and she growled and groaned. @trainedwidow​

[laura-kx23]

thewintersoldicr​:

Most of Bucky’s time on Orbulite was spent on the sidelines. It wasn’t that he didn’t have his use, he did, it was just that he would rather listen and observe than play any part in discussing with others about what they should do next. He was a soldier at heart, always had been. He could follow an order and then some, but getting involved in game plans? That was Steve’s wheelhouse. And while he’d kicked into action to do what he could today to make sure everyone was okay after the chaos, as soon as everyone started launching into plans, he retreated back to the sidelines. After doing that for a while, he grew tired of it and wandered off to find something else to do and clear his mind.

It was while he was walking that he happened to catch sight of Laura. Or more accurately, he heard her first. He frowned, noticing the obvious distress in her voice. He knew these were stressful times, but he couldn’t pinpoint what exactly was bothering her. He cleared his throat, trying not to startle her as he approached her. “Hey, you doing alright?” he asked. It felt like a stupid question, as she obviously wasn’t doing alright, but he figured she’d fill him in on whatever it was exactly that was bothering her. 

Laura stopped and looked at The Winter Soldier for a moment, studying him, there had been three people she had been trained to surpass, Logan, in abilities, and when it came down to performance in the job she was literally designed to do, it was the Winter Soldier and the Black Widow, Laura wasn’t so much a spy as she was an assassin, after all she had beenn a kid but before her was Bucky, not the Winter Soldier and she sighed. “I am... Don’t you feel... weird? Different?” She asked with a frown, she didn’t know if she was the only one affected, the only one that lost her abilities, she didn’t think so because even withoud her enhanced senses she could hear that the people around were freaking out a little.

[laura-kx23]

gw3nstacy​:

Gwen needed a break from this whole conversation of how they were going to get out of there. Too many people were involved, nobody would want to hear her theories out just from her age and her headache was growing something fierce. When she noticed Laura stumbling around with the bottle, she was confused nobody else had seen her but quickly approached to her see what was going on. She couldn’t help but be amused when she realized the woman was drunk, but she knew action needed to be taken so nobody paid much more attention to her. “How about we go this way.” She motioned for other woman to follow her, away from the big crowd of people. From the decent amount of time they’ve known each other, Gwen has taught herself to respect Laura’s space, so she decided to just have the tipsy person follow her would be better than physically trying to help guide her.

Laura followed Gwen for a while and then just took a seat and sighed heavily. “Alcohol doesn’t affect... nothing really does, I could go forever without sleeping and I would heal, I don’t tire easily cause I heal.” In Laura’s opinion it was one of the best mutations out there, she wouldn’t be able to do half the things she does without it, no matter how much you train. She took a swig from the bottle and stopped, the polite thing according to stuff she has read was to offer the other some but was the other girl old enough to drink? Did it matter? There were a lot of moments, a lot of moments in Laura’s life when she would get struck by the thought of how complicated it was to be decent and moral and how sometimes she wondered if it was worth the effort, she mostly did it out of pettiness, she had vowed to try and be as different as what they intended her to be but after all the stuff she had done as a kid who was she to judge?

She shrugged it off and decided she might as well come off as rude that risk it with Captain America so nearby, mostly because part of her felt like he was just waiting for her to slip up, she knew it was all in her head and she was working on it but still...

“I am no longer healing though and if history has taught me anything is that the decision making process will probably take a while for everyone to agree to every little detail, I decided to experience something new.”

[laura-kx23]

Captain America made her nervous.

That was the simple truth of it, not in a way that she thinks her life is at risk with him nearby and he knew that in this new planet it was a new begining, a clean slate for a lot of people... like her but Captain America made her nervous because her very first mission had involved fooling him and she had succeeded, she had bested him and then years later he had caught up to her, but she wasn’t X-23 anymore, no, she was Laura and so years later she understood what she did was wrong even if it wasn’t by choice and she understood that in an ideal world the people that did that to her would pay but perhaps she owed some retribuition as well and so she froze, upon seeing the Captain, while she was holding weapons and she stilled.

“I... Just... Just in case, with everything that happened, it’s better to be prepared and I would rather not wait until is a close combat... you know... in case there is any combat to begin with.”

@ofcapsicle​