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David Alleyne ([personal profile] helpdesk_hero) wrote in [community profile] metalogs2022-03-28 11:41 am

OPEN | Paint Yourself A New Life

Who: David Alleyne [personal profile] helpdesk_hero, Mina Ashido [personal profile] pinkxeno, Harry Osborn [personal profile] nepotis, Bucky Barnes [personal profile] sinistral
What: David Has Many Meetings (Including Open Post)
When: [Forward Dated] April 1st through 5th
Where: Excelsior - Guild Housing #1, Excelsior - Connoisseur Coffee,
Content Warnings: Only in Thread Labeled V - Seeking Comfort: discussion of murder of children, attempted suicide, David's death, hate crimes

I. A Home Of Clashing Styles | Closed to Mina Ashido | Excelsior - Guild Housing #1
David had been living in the guild apartment for a month now, or just a shade over, and all that time he'd been holding his tongue. Beyond introducing himself to Mina when he'd first moved in at the start of March, he had not engaged with the young woman much, and definitely didn't stay long in the public spaces of their shared home. How could he when he was faced with the absolute disaster of the appearance? A living room painted electric green with zebra stripes? Horrid. A kitchen filled with insanely colorful and not always matching touches and appliances? Oh god. Even the small touches of decoration in the public spaces made David try not to wince.

Honestly, he hadn't even invited his boyfriend over because of the state of things. Most days he just came home from work or other things, walked in the door, visibly winced, and went right to his room or attached lab. But today, as he came back from the office in full business wear, vest and long sleeve shirt and tie and all of that. And walking in like that, with his back pack and a bag of groceries for him to cook dinner, he just couldn't take it anymore.

"Just... do it like an adult," he told himself before lifting his voice, hoping it would carry to wherever his housemate was.

"Mina, can we talk for a moment?"


II. Looking At The Moving Pieces | Closed to Bucky | Excelsior - Guild Housing #1
The weekend. David made a hard and fast rule to not go into the office on weekends, which made it the perfect sort of time for outside consultations. Today was one of those instances. After a previously successful first meeting with one Bucky Barnes (because of course David had recognized the man for who he had to be) back in March, today was going to be the first full check over, for the two of them to determine if David would be a good emergency tech for the man.

David waited in the living room for the knock at the door, knowing he'd have to let the former Winter Soldier choose his own pace at being comfortable with his arrival. What what little first hand knowledge that had been shared with him by people back home, he imagined the man would be... nervous. But David couldn't be certain. He'd met people from other versions of his world, and they didn't always line up personality wise.

But he was going to do his best to support the guy, and try and hide that he might have pre-formed opinions based on a whole other man. So he kept himself quiet and patient until he heard the knock at the door. David rose quickly and moved to it, opening the door to meet the other man.

"Mister Barnes, good afternoon. Come on in. Would you like any refreshments before I guide you back to my work room?"

He had no intention of calling it a lab. Not with a man no doubt tormented by his universe's Hydra.


III. The Coffee Conundrum | Closed to Harry Osborn | Excelsior - Connoisseur Coffee
Coffee. It was something that mattered to David, quite a bit actually. Caffeine was part of his diet, perhaps more than it should be. And, until he had the money to properly kit his kitchen out with a good brewing set up, David found a local coffee shop to indulge his needs. The world had blessed him with a great coffee shop between the apartment and his office, and it was here that David appeared multiple times a day. A quick stop in first thing for a coffee on the way to work, a trip in the evening for a cup to take home, and of course this, his lunch break.

David was currently settled in the cafe as he was most afternoons, in a table near a wall that normally wasn't the most desirable area of the care. His back was to the wall, and in front of him on the smaller table was a laptop. The other chair at the table was taken up by a back pack, and taking up the rest of the room on the table was another laptop, sitting closed, which was a weird thing, unless one knew David. Truth was the two laptops were interfaced, and he was using his technopathy to boost the processing of the one he was currently working on.

Thing was most days David did this, and it wasn't a problem. But today? Today there was a convention in town, something David wasn't aware of, and the cafe had packed to almost bursting when David wasn't aware of it. He'd been too engrossed in his current design project, his attention flicking back and forth between his typing and the medical journal at his side, opened to a recent article about a new study on regenerative rates of the nervous system. Truly, he had no idea how rude he was being taking up a table that could be used by others, especially after he'd finished his packed punch and coffee just a few minutes ago.

Perhaps someone should go and shuffle the man out of the space.


IV. Wildcard | Open to all
[OOC: I'm open to anything here, giving David a chance to hang out with his standing CR or meet new people. My only rule is that interactions would happen in Excelsior. If you have an idea that the above open post doesn't allow for, either private message this account or hit me up on plurk at [plurk.com profile] churbooseanon or discord at Churby#4290. OR throw your own starter out in here. I'm happy to do many things.

IF you're looking for things that may be good hooks, David's a technopath, associated with a company that makes prosethetics and assistive technology, an accomplished chef that will be hitting up stores around the city for quality food and cookware/appliances, a technopath that will be around many computer shops, and honestly? He's a hockey nerd so you might find him at sports bars sometimes. Other than that, he'll likely often be out reading books in parks, or even just scientific journals. Guy has a spread of interests and we can talk it out to figure what might best hook a character into paying attention to him or coming over to say hi.]
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 098)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
He still thinks the guy could be a meta. He just doesn't think he's one from another world, who came here through a Confluence.

"Yeah, sorry about that. I'm responsible for at least one crater, myself." He tries to laugh it off, at least.

"Do you know what the housing market is like— specifically for people not on a trauma surgeon's salary?"
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 103)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"That it is." Harry lifts his own cup in cheers and takes a sip.

He's slightly less interested in the guy's line of work when it comes to prosthetics. Only because it doesn't directly apply to him. But that's just Harry's self-centered nature slipping through the façade of friendliness.

"Fascinating." Not really. "I don't have that kind of scientific background myself, though back home I did used to run a biotech firm, for a bit."

It's definitely going to be hard to start from scratch, here.
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 048)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"It wasn't all biotech, but that was a large part of what we did. We had some military contracts, some civic engineering... We designed and built a new power grid for the city of New York. But maybe our most groundbreaking research was done in the field of cross-species genetics."

He's great at talking about what Oscorp did, not so great at contributing to the work itself. In another life, he would've done well in the marketing department.

He laughs, shaking his head self-deprecatingly. "All of it was far over my head, really. I just inherited the company when my dad passed."
nepotis: (05)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Harry. Harry Osborn." He says openly and without hesitation, seeing no reason why some native would know who he is or have formed any prior judgements.

"It's an ethical minefield, to be sure, but the potential applications to the field of human medicine make it worth the effort, in my opinion."
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 053)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry's open, genial demeanor instantly shifts. He leans back in his chair, eyes narrowing, expression growing closed off.

What the fuck?

"I thought 'here was home' for you."
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 082)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry presses his lips together, nodding as the pieces fall into place. So Loki is talking about him behind his back, and as more than just 'my boyfriend's best friend.'

"You're from Loki's world, then. The world with a thousand heroes." It's clear from his tone what his opinion on so-called 'heroes' is.

"Did he tell you we don't have that, in our world? That we have just the one, and he's a selfish, selective jerk?"
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 010)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry's nostrils flare in anger.

"Look, I'm the last person to sing my father's praises, but he wasn't some supervillain, torturing puppies for his own personal amusement. He invested in this research to try to survive, as long as he could. And even then, he couldn't manage to do that."

The hand holding his paper coffee cup is white-knuckled and trembling. Part of that tremor is anger, but most of it is because stress hormones trigger a worsening of his retroviral hypodysplasia.
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 192)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-02 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry lets out a shaky exhale, trying to calm himself down before he has a full blown meltdown in the middle of the crowded coffee shop. He's been walking on a knife's edge, emotionally, and his father— and his father's illness— has always been a sensitive subject for him. He forcefully shoves down his anger, letting go of the vice grip on his cup, moving his hand to scratch at the now irritated patch of skin on his neck.

"Yeah. As I was trying to say, our worlds are very different. I can't talk much on what your Norman Osborn did to you, but from what little I've heard about your world from Loki, the two really aren't comparable, beyond having a few key names in common."

Norman Osborn, Spider-Man. Who knows what or who else?

"If it helps to clarify, the name 'Green Goblin' means nothing to me. My father never went by that name."
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 149)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-03 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"Electro... That's what the press decided to call Max Dillon when he went apeshit in Times Square. Don't know who the rest of those names are, but they sound stupid as hell."

The Shocker is a sex move. What kind of pervert villain names himself after something like that?

"Yeah, it is." He barks a hollow laugh. "It was the last thing he ever gave me."
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 072)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-08 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
"What mask?" Harry doesn't get why Dillon would wear a mask. It's pretty obvious that he's a big blue glowing guy, not sure what the point of hiding that would be.

Also, 'Doctor Doom' is maybe the stupidest name Harry has ever heard.

But whatever. Talking about people with dumb names isn't half as important or interesting as the rest of the conversation.

"It's called Retroviral Hypodysplasia. And it's fatal."
nepotis: (09)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-08 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's what we had access to back home. That was my dad's avenue of research. Obviously, there are other options here worth exploring. I've got a few irons in the fire trying to cure it, or at least stop it from getting worse."

One of those irons is Josh, actually. That's what happens when someone advertises their healing powers online.

He glances around, thankful that the cafe is busy enough that no one is paying their table much attention. Satisfied no one besides the man across from him will see, he pulls aside the popped collar of his jacket, showing the deformed patch of greenish, scaly skin.

"That's the biggest issue right now. That, and my hand shakes when I'm stressed."
nepotis: (Harry TASM2 073)

[personal profile] nepotis 2022-04-16 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"That'd be... I'd appreciate that. Thank you."

Display over, he pulls his collar flush against his neck again, back to covering up the problem now that he doesn't need to explain himself.

"And... I'm sorry, for how I snapped earlier. It sucks, that your universe's Norman Osborn did whatever he did to you and... your people? Are you a god, too, like Loki?"

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