[ the form does not follow the function, then -- although peggy isn't snide enough to suggest that it might be described as the aesthetic trumping the pragmatic. after all, if she lived a purely pragmatic life then she wouldn't be wearing heels. she wouldn't be missing her pin-curls. she wouldn't have gone out of her way to at least have lipstick on despite having essentially shut herself out of her own room.
-- and when he fires she winces as though she's expecting a different caliber of noise. but it's not a bullet; there's no powder. no brief familiar ringing of tinnitus after the trigger's pulled. ]
I've seen it's like. [ she explains all too easily. ] Not in style, maybe, but certainly in its lack of bullets. Although -- the ones I saw would have disintegrated the wall. [ ... ] Probably.
[ peggy hums out her curiosity as she holds out a hand. eager, perhaps, to inspect it for herself. if he'll allow it. ]
They were powered by something called a Tesseract. [ one of many artifacts, according to steve, that need to be better kept out of bad hands. ] What powers yours?
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-- and when he fires she winces as though she's expecting a different caliber of noise. but it's not a bullet; there's no powder. no brief familiar ringing of tinnitus after the trigger's pulled. ]
I've seen it's like. [ she explains all too easily. ] Not in style, maybe, but certainly in its lack of bullets. Although -- the ones I saw would have disintegrated the wall. [ ... ] Probably.
[ peggy hums out her curiosity as she holds out a hand. eager, perhaps, to inspect it for herself. if he'll allow it. ]
They were powered by something called a Tesseract. [ one of many artifacts, according to steve, that need to be better kept out of bad hands. ] What powers yours?