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Skye ( M̶a̶r̶y̶ S̶u̶e̶ P̶o̶o̶t̶s̶ ) ([personal profile] risewithit) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2014-07-31 12:24 pm

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Who | Skye + you!
What | Skye arrives and is upset with this entire situation, to absolutely no one's surprise.
Where | Training Center, various locations therein
When | Now
Warnings/Notes | Mild language warnings.


[ District 6 Suite ]

At first when Skye wakes up she thinks Hydra must have her, and it's only the nausea and disorientation sweeping over her that prevents her from trying to physically assault one of the peacekeepers when they come to lead her away. 

(Portals are such a bitch. Thanks for nothing, stupid Nordic alien gods.)

It's once they get her to the Training Center and give her the vague welcome spiel that she realizes how wrong she was. This isn't Hydra. This is, if it's even possible, much worse.

She drags herself into the bathroom and stares at her reflection in the mirror, feeling numb and cold as she tries to process what she's been told. A battle to the death. Things were just starting to seem like they'd be able to make a go for the better, and now she's here, trapped in some foreign world for a celebrity deathmatch. Are you kidding me? Are you freaking kidding me? And then: there it is, anger, bubbling up hot and fast. She wrestles it down.

First things first: she needs more information, and she needs to see if she can find her team. Skye pushes her hair back and steps out of the bedroom to meet her suitemates.


[ The Commons ]

She's fiddled with her network device by now, and already figured out the vast breadth of digital information is locked to her--for now. The Tributes list and network had no records of her team, but that doesn't mean anything. They could be here off the record, under lock and key. She knows nothing about how these people operate.

On the other hand, she did see several other familiar names and faces, and her stomach flipped nervously when she saw them. Really? They're pitting a Level 1 agent up against the Avengers? Talk about unfair play.

So in the meantime, she's stuck to good, old-fashioned info hunting. Which is to say, she'd changed into a brightly-colored dress upstairs and is now approaching strangers downstairs with a stunning, confident smile, one hand held out to shake. "Hi! I don't think we've met yet. I'm Skye."
capitolprivilege: (would you be upset)

[ D6 ]

[personal profile] capitolprivilege 2014-07-31 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Stephen has had a shower and a good, solid nap in between meeting Molotov and now. He's going to hang around the D6 rooms today, since a -- well, a few of District 6's Tributes didn't come back from the last Arena, and one of them won. Those empty rooms are going to fill up quick.

(He feels for whatever Avox had to clean out Punchy's. He also feels sadness, because he misses Punchy.)

When she walks in, he stands to greet her.

"Hello," Stephen says, then taps his chin. "...is it Belle or Skye?"

(He's wearing a lot of glitter. A lot. The vest under his dark blue jacket has silver glittery swirls, and -- yes, that's eyeliner. With glitter in it. His ears sparkle, too, but that's just the five or six diamond studs in them. Stephen is a little ridiculous.)

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soldieronwards: (hold on)

[ commons ]

[personal profile] soldieronwards 2014-07-31 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
He's on his way out into the Capitol when he sees her: someone altogether too cheerful and outgoing for the newcomer she must be. It's enough to make Bucky stop in place halfway across the room, leaning back against a sofa as he studies her. That attitude can't be real. It must be a mask. And he knows from masks.

After a moment, he makes a point of approaching her himself. He's not particularly conspicuous at the moment--something that took endless arguments with stylists to accomplish and left him with the compromise of gloves and a fancy leather jacket studded with metal stars rather than the plainer versions he wanted. But his face has been on the network and in the records.

He heads towards her from behind to give himself the momentary advantage of surprise. "Having fun with your new digs?"

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Commons

[personal profile] tookthewheel 2014-07-31 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
As usual when he leaves the confines of either his own or Steve's quarters this Bucky attempts to make his way through public spaces as silently and swiftly as possible while gaining as little notice as he can. With his height and the propensity to find his wardrobe filled with black clothing and leather, as well as the generally emptiness of expression on his face he generally manages to put off anyone from approaching him -- though the recent haircut at the hands of the Widow has slightly lessened his threatening aura.

So when this woman in her bright dress approaches him with her hand out and a smile on her face he doesn't immediately reply and instead simply stares back at her, not understanding why she's chosen to approach him.

Then, after the initial surprise wears off, his eyes sweep over Skye (in a way that's more looking for hidden threats than it is checking out a pretty girl) and slowly, jerkily, nods an acknowledgement of her introduction.

It takes him a further moment still to remember he is supposed to return an introduction and speak, "Bucky." and as he does his hands remain firmly where they are, the right down by his side and the left jammed in the pocket of his dark jeans.
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The Commons

[personal profile] gardienne 2014-07-31 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Eponine just stared at that hand for a good few seconds - definitely enough to create an awkward pause.

"Miss? What do you want?" she asked. "Are you new here?" There was another pause. "Oh... 'Ponine. Eponine, Miss."
She reached for Skye's hand, shaking it gingerly.

She looked over Skye's shoulder. Eponine had been on her way to find that dratted dog of hers - whoever thought of giving Eponine a dog [coughOrccough] was a little bit soft. She never knew where that thing was, and more often than not, she forgot it. Like now.

"Have they just brought you, Miss? To fight with us?'

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arrogantalloy: (A: 062 Yeaaaah?)

Commons || I so wanted this up ages ago but my tablet crashed

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-07-31 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Tony had not expected to have a girl in a bright dress approach him. Mostly because none of the girls he regulalrly talks to wear anything resembling colours most days. So when Skye introduces herself, Tony raises his eyebrows at her.

"No, I think I would remember those colours on someone I've met. Uh, nice to meet you and your sudden greet- They just brought you here, didn't they?"

For a moment the he looks annoyed but it is quickly replaced by vague curiosity.
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Swipe is eeeevillll to me

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YEAH Does that too me too

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Oh fuuuuun

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[personal profile] ka_sera_sera 2014-07-31 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Staying unnoticed and out of the way isn't how Roland had used to move through the world, before. But with one thing and another it's become a habit, and before he's quite realized it Roland's become used to moving around the corners of a crowd, to not quite meeting anyone's eyes and making his way past all the social life of the city unremarked, if not unnoticed. So when it becomes clear she's addressing him, rather than someone else nearby, Roland is surprised and almost instantly suspicious.

Suspicious, first, because he assumes she's a reporter - but no, while far more colorful and striking than his own, her outfit isn't nearly ridiculous enough for that. Her smile's confident, but not fawning, so not a Capitol citizen. The realization that she must be a tribute drives a good portion of the suspicion from his face, and gives him a reason to grip her hand with his own - his right, missing its first two fingers as it is, doesn't always get a good reaction from people but there's really no getting around that even if he'd cared to.

"We haven't. Did you need something?"

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[personal profile] bunnybrat 2014-07-31 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
When the hand is presented to her, Chibi-Usa blinks at it. She had been wandering around aimlessly for a few hours so she wasn't really thinking that someone could talk to her.

After a second she looks up at the introduced Skye, she looked really nice and really pretty, once she realises she has to take the hand she does and offers a smile.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Usagi. But everyone calls me Chibi-Usa."

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lolll this is gon be gud

[personal profile] aintyourdad 2014-08-01 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
He's on his way back into the tribute center with a large coffee in one hand and a bag with some comics in the other when the young woman in the brightly-colored dress approaches him like she's selling something.

Joel raises his eyebrows skeptically and makes no move to shift his stuff around to shake her hand. Because no.

"And you're introducin' yourself to perfect strangers because...?" he drawls in his usual Texas lilt.

he's heard worse!!

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bears everywhere are jealous

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he would love that tbh

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the commons!!

[personal profile] worldsaway 2014-08-02 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
By this point, Thor is sort of used to new arrivals, even though he'd been among them not long ago. What he isn't used to is being approached BY them rather than taking it upon himself to extend the olive branch. He's dressed pretty casually himself, and considering what most people are used to seeing him in he doesn't quite look identifiable from the get-go. Sure is the supposed god of thunder in jeans and a t-shirt that you're approaching, Skye.

A small smile crosses his lips from the friendliness alone and he takes the offered hand with a smile to give it an enthusiastic shake.

"Thor." He returns. "Are you among the new arrivals?"

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common area

[personal profile] parenthetically 2014-08-02 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, it was a relief to be the one being approached. Had Buddy known when he took this posting that part of the job would be learning about the Tributes, he might have reconsidered. He was soldier, first and foremost. He might have had something of a penchant for chatter in his unit, but that didn't mean he was outgoing necessarily. Talking was, if anything, a nervous tick, a liability. He had secrets now, stuff that could get him and his siblings, Les and Bessie, all of them killed. He couldn't afford nervous ticks, not behind enemy lines, as it were.

He eyed the girl, his horn rimmed glasses catching a glare in the light of the common area. He fumbled, the passing an overstuffed manila folder from one hand to the other to reciprocate her greeting politely. "Buddy Glass. To what do I owe the pleasure, Miss Skye?"

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[personal profile] celebrityskinned 2014-08-02 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Venus is used to picking out the fresh meat either by the way they throw themselves into their exercises at the gym or by the quiet, shy disorientation that pushes them to corners, to trying to be inconspicuous if they're not outright drowning their fears. She isn't really used to being accosted with friendliness, but she finds she prefers it a hundredfold to the usual glumness.

She's in a similarly colorful dress, plus big sunglasses with rhinestones on the sides, when she meets Skye. Her handshake is firm, if slightly defensive - a hold that could quickly be broken or turned into a throw, depending on the need. Her other hands holds a half-cup of bright red smoothie with a little yellow umbrella peeking from the top.

"I don't think we have." She greets Skye with an equally wide smile, the not-entirely-genuine one that once was the face of a toothpaste ad back home. "Venus Dee Milo. You're a Tribute?"

She isn't dressed like a Stylist or Escort.

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[personal profile] aboveangrybees 2014-08-04 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
Well, the brightly colored dress isn't easy to ignore and Steve supposes that's the point. Just like how he's dressed casually, plainly, almost unmemorable if not for his impressive build and looks. He already gets enough attention, he doesn't need to draw more.

So, when she approaches, he stands from where he's seated. His expression is friendly and welcoming as he takes her hand. Not wanting to hurt her, he keeps his strength tempered back when they shake.

"I don't believe we have, Miss Skye," he remembers everyone, but he's polite before all else. "Steve Rogers."

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[ the commons; stumbles in late ]

[personal profile] onedirectiony 2014-08-04 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
People didn't really do that here, at least not with him. Maybe they had seen his behavior in the arena, or maybe they knew who he was sot hey felt no need to fraternize with him. Still, he had been making attempts to be friendly with the people he had been encountering, even those that he had happened to kill inside the arena. He wasn't too shy about the fact that he didn't mind killing people.

Loki was figuring out the game still, so he continued playing along and taking things as they came. After all, the most important part was his performance once everything started up again. So, he offered his hand to Skye, "Loki," he said. If she wanted to find out more about him, she could always look at the tribute list. "You must be part of the collection of newbies."

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