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Sam Wilson ([personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2015-01-07 03:57 pm

tried counting sheep

Who| Sam Wilson and YOU! All of you!
What| Sleep issues and trying to settle post-arena
Where| Various spots in the Tribute Tower/over the Capitol
When| After the end of the arena and through the first week after, mostly before Panem Nightly
Warnings/Notes| Prompts for specific locations under the cut! Nightmare and PTSD-talk likely, probably mentions of violence and death


Late Nights in District 5
It’s probably not a secret that Sam hasn’t slept much since getting back from the arena, the same way that he can pick up the signs that he’s not the only one with sleeping problems in District Five. Some nights, he doesn’t even try - he either doesn’t return back to the floor at all, or when he does, he heads straight for the couch or the kitchen.

The nights he is there, he can be found in the common areas at all hours of the night, watching bad Capitol TV with the volume on low, in the kitchen making snacks, or even occasionally catching a few minutes of sleep on the couch before he jerks awake again.


In the Training Center
He’d been in the training room a lot before the arena, sure, but it’s even worse now. Whenever he has downtime that he can’t fill up by something else, Sam ends up here, going through a workout, practicing with whatever weapons are available, or just attacking the punching bags.

When he’s alone, he goes all out, sets up a playlist full of fast-paced, heavy workout songs and just loses himself in them.

When there’s other people there, though, he goes slower, reduces the pace so he can maintain a conversation, if they’re the type that will put up with him when he attempts to strike up one.


Out and About in the Capitol
Now that the curfew’s gone, most mornings he goes outside for his run. He hasn’t found a path he likes enough yet to make it a regular one, so he alternates routes through the parks and on the sidewalks.

When he’s done, sometimes he lingers in the Capitol, going shopping or just wandering around to get a better feel for the city, keeping an eye out for anyone he knows. Or anyone who looks like they might be a Tribute, instead of another… interestingly dressed Capitol citizen.


For Close CR
Some nights, he just can’t stand the thought of being alone. All right, a lot of nights, and he’s not too proud to seek out company when he needs someone else’s presence to pull him out of the thoughts that get stuck in his head.

Even if he does feel a little guilty at the late hour, but he figures they could tell him to get lost if they actually are sleeping, and don’t want to be disturbed.

So he when he can’t sleep, he makes his way to rooms that aren’t his, knocks quiet but firm on the doors of the people he considers himself lucky to call his friends.


(Starter prompts for specific threads in the comments!)
onedirectiony: (pic#8287735)

That training center is so popular ;)

[personal profile] onedirectiony 2015-01-09 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Loki is only at the training center because this is the first time in what feels like ages where he has his full movement again. After the children's arena, his broken ribs kept him hospitalized until just before the arena. Then, he had go to another arena without training. He had done well there, but not his best.

He feels like he should stretch his limbs and maybe attempt to train. Perhaps also use this time to people watch and get a glimpse of other tributes. He needed to know who he was competing against, after all. New people had appeared recently, so he would make a point of keeping his eyes open for them.

Even without his powers, Loki's still fast and strong. He is running around the edge of everything - keeping his pace quick, not shy about showing some of what he has to offer, but careful not to give away too much. He stops when he sees someone going at a punching bag.

This guy is familiar, though. He goes through a mental list of tributes. Sam - he thinks. He takes a few steps towards him, and lifts his hand up in a sign of greeting. He's always cautious when approaching people.
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[personal profile] onedirectiony 2015-01-19 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Sam..." Loki repeats. He thinks over the Tribute list and realizes who he is talking to quickly. He recognized this guy with good reason. The unfortunate thing about the Tribute lists is that it made lying about his identity difficult if he were meeting someone face to face. This entire place made lying about who he was a task.

"Loki. Thor's brother," he says, particularly cautious with his words and taking in every movement of Sam's.
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[personal profile] onedirectiony 2015-02-07 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Ten points to Gryffindor," Loki answers. "And you're not the Sam I know. All about what I should have expected." There wasn't anyone from his version here, at least that he had met - not anymore. They all seemed to be cautious once they knew who he was, but didn't immediately guess it. Things are different for him. He'd heard in passing bits and pieces about the events in New York - but none of that ever happened with him.

"I'm the good guy one. Not a fan of that other one. Not sure there's many people who are."

He didn't even sound like he was trying to be convincing - partially because it was the truth.
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[personal profile] onedirectiony 2015-02-17 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
"So inelegant...and we all know that storming the castle never works. Not in movies, not in TV, and not in real life." He shrugged his shoulders, and attempted to appear to care that Sam's opinion mattered to him. And it wasn't like he knew the Sam from his earth all that well - or well enough to share many details.

"So consider this a start from scratch. A 'you don't mess with one of mine, I have no reason to mess with one of yours' - sort of truce."
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[personal profile] onedirectiony 2015-03-06 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
He knew the victims of the invasion probably had a lot of words for it. Still, it lacked the subtlety that Loki really enjoyed. The grace, patience, and end results weren't there, either. It was inevitable that there would be much tension between himself and the other him. And that was fine by him.

Loki often looked for reasons to mess with people. "I will continue to mess with Thor, of course, brotherly affection," he waved his hand around, "I mean, but nothing fatal."
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[personal profile] onedirectiony 2015-03-12 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Big quite literally," he answered. It was no secret that Thor was bigger than him in every way. Now, with Loki's more recent look (his, of course, not the impostor), Thor even looked to be older than him. Sam has every right to be concerned, after all, how many of the fights between the brothers had intended to be fatal.

"It'd be disappointing. It also makes good for the cameras," he looks up and around the walls of the room. "Good for the cameras is good for us."