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[hyperverbose]

Question that I'm already sure I'm going to regret asking:

Is someone actually expecting us to wear these uniforms?  They're not exactly GQ, and the fact that one seems to keep magically appearing in my closet when I try to toss it out is starting to scream cult dynamic.  I'm not gonna wake up sewn into one next week, am I?

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[expatriates]

Good to know you have.
They're just clothes, Tony.

[hyperverbose]

That's how they want you to look at it. Next thing you know, you're singing Kumbayah around their campfire.

[expatriates]

[ Goddammit, Tony. Your stupid moralizing is getting in the way of her practicality. She's gritting her teeth to try and find a way to make him understand that marching to ALASTAIR's beat is unimportant in the long term, as long as it gets them home. To Nat, it's no different than the Accords. A means to an end. ]

You're being paranoid.

[ which really more reads like hey buddy hey friend u doin ok in there how's that anxiety ]

[hyperverbose]

[ it's cute how she says that as if it's a conditional thing, and not a permanent part of his personality now. ] Oh, my bad. Next time, I'll take this whole "being forcibly enrolled into service in order to get home to my own planet" shebang without the grain of salt.

[expatriates]

Right. In order to get home.

[ So maybe you should bring it down a notch and not riot against them on their technology where they can ? ? ?see it oh my god why is Natasha the only spy of the group. ]

That's the leverage they have. What's yours?

[hyperverbose]

[







welp. ]

... You think they come in black?

[expatriates]

Mine did.

[ She's tired of wearing the colors of so many different organizations, but even that couldn't make her hesitate in putting it on. ]

Some of them look like the early models of Hawkeye's tac suit, and some of them aren't so bad.

[hyperverbose]

Yikes.

Setting a real high bar there for 'not so bad'.

[expatriates]

I'm playing to your standards.

[hyperverbose]

Was that a zinger? Was I just zinged?

[expatriates]

Do you have to ask? I thought the feeling would be familiar to you.

[hyperverbose]

Lately it's been more being 'openly rebuked'.

[expatriates]

Don't tell me your feelings are hurt.

[hyperverbose]

It was an observation.

[expatriates]

Just wear the suit.

[hyperverbose]

It's fine, I'll just build a better one.