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thecapitol2015-05-30 07:35 pm
impaledqueen) wrote in thecapitol2015-05-30 07:35 pm
But if to live, we have to be numb
Who| Peggy and You
What| The spitting image of her dead best friend/only love is now running scared in the arena with the spitting image of her not-so-dead best friend chasing him. This has caused serious flashbacks and unearthed a lot of repressed trauma. Peggy deals with this by destroying her body with the gym.
Where| Training Center
When| After the Arena begins
Warnings/Notes| Discussion of trauma, addiction to exercise, possible mentions of bidding (but that's not in the header and threads with it will be labeled)
Peggy has a very rigid schedule that no one can get her to deviate from. Two and a half hours of exercise in the morning. Two hours in the evening. Two hours midday. Minimum. Even if she has to skip meals or cut into her ability to sleep, she will do that minimum every day. When she can't, she gets moody and anxious and very unpleasant to deal with.
This is well beyond her minimum. She's getting into her fifth consecutive hour with only the bare essentials of hydration and skipping her meals. She's covered in sweat. Her throat is dry. Her muscles have gone past the point of pain. She's forgotten about things like eating and drinking, only remembering to drink from her water bottle when the pain in her throat gets searing. She picked a time when the gym wasn't crowded, but it doesn't stay that way, and people are coming in.
To those who don't know her, it looks normal. She's wearing a little bit of waterproof makeup so the sweat doesn't make her look too unseemly, and she just seems to be deep in an intense workout. To those who do know her, there's something very wrong. The biggest sign of that is that she's not wearing one of her signature scarves. The scar on her throat is knotted, mottled, and exposed to the world. She had to take it off to keep her neck cool. She never takes it off unless she's getting into a spar or working with heavy equipment.
What| The spitting image of her dead best friend/only love is now running scared in the arena with the spitting image of her not-so-dead best friend chasing him. This has caused serious flashbacks and unearthed a lot of repressed trauma. Peggy deals with this by destroying her body with the gym.
Where| Training Center
When| After the Arena begins
Warnings/Notes| Discussion of trauma, addiction to exercise, possible mentions of bidding (but that's not in the header and threads with it will be labeled)
Peggy has a very rigid schedule that no one can get her to deviate from. Two and a half hours of exercise in the morning. Two hours in the evening. Two hours midday. Minimum. Even if she has to skip meals or cut into her ability to sleep, she will do that minimum every day. When she can't, she gets moody and anxious and very unpleasant to deal with.
This is well beyond her minimum. She's getting into her fifth consecutive hour with only the bare essentials of hydration and skipping her meals. She's covered in sweat. Her throat is dry. Her muscles have gone past the point of pain. She's forgotten about things like eating and drinking, only remembering to drink from her water bottle when the pain in her throat gets searing. She picked a time when the gym wasn't crowded, but it doesn't stay that way, and people are coming in.
To those who don't know her, it looks normal. She's wearing a little bit of waterproof makeup so the sweat doesn't make her look too unseemly, and she just seems to be deep in an intense workout. To those who do know her, there's something very wrong. The biggest sign of that is that she's not wearing one of her signature scarves. The scar on her throat is knotted, mottled, and exposed to the world. She had to take it off to keep her neck cool. She never takes it off unless she's getting into a spar or working with heavy equipment.
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How strange. Is that what she will be one day? Will she be wandering around with a man named Howard, meeting his son? Will she be without Steve and Bucky for decades upon decades?
"How did she treat you?" What was she like?
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"He helped develop a lot of things that helped you win the war." he says with a mixture of pride and dismissal.
But at the thought of how his Peggy treated him, he gives a slight smile, before looking around then moving to sit on a bench near them.
"Uh. I mean it was a long time ago. I'm going to start with sweet, like a better Mary Poppins. She'd scold you one minute, then sit you down for tea the next."
Sure, he sounds a little vague about it, but remembering is hard past 'she was amazing' but it feels weird for Tony to gush like that to her doppelganger. He crosses his arms and leans back a bit.
"She was probably considered the perfect English mom."
She wasn't over that often, but even at a young age Tony could tell she was better at being a mother than his own was.
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Seeing that dreamy expression on his face as he described someone who was basically her in another world is strange. Even so, she feels drawn to it.
She slowly releases her punching bag, but she doesn't move away from it yet. "I find that hard to imagine. I don't intend to have children." At least not unless the Capitol is destroyed and the Hunger Games abolished. "She was a mother. And she was your..." Aunt? Babysitter? (Was she actually this man's mother?)