[ it's a quiet repetition, a correction, as t'challa commits that to memory. it is hard, sometimes, to forget title and all that. if he ever sees steve rogers again, it will be difficult to drop the whole 'captain' thing, though he's certain steve would rather he do so immediately.
royalty makes things difficult, sometimes. but what is not difficult is bucky's answer, and it warms t'challa's heart, in a way. because it is true -- peace is what t'challa feels, whenever he returns home from the chaotic landscape that is the outside world. hatefulness, anger, frustration . . . all of that brought his father to his death, and nearly dragged t'challa with it.
here? his heart beats with the land, and the sky, and the city, and the thrum of vibranium underneath his feet. peace is what he feels, because he feels alive, here. ]
War is not, has never, and will never be our way, though we descend from the hearts and minds of warriors. [ he says it with great purpose, as he sets himself down to sit on the rock, to draw his arms around his knees, to be comfortable and at ease next to bucky. ] Men stronger than I have been tempted by it, and I am sure I will be no different, when the time comes. This, I think is worth fighting for. To defend such peace, from those who seek to destroy it.
[ t'challa pauses, there, though, and his lips tug into a faint smile, his tone becoming wry. ]
Though I am not so willing to house the Avengers once Tony Stark runs out of rental property to detroy in America.
[ the queen mother will object, and t'challa doesn't argue with the women in his life. ]
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Date: 2018-02-22 05:18 am (UTC)[ it's a quiet repetition, a correction, as t'challa commits that to memory. it is hard, sometimes, to forget title and all that. if he ever sees steve rogers again, it will be difficult to drop the whole 'captain' thing, though he's certain steve would rather he do so immediately.
royalty makes things difficult, sometimes. but what is not difficult is bucky's answer, and it warms t'challa's heart, in a way. because it is true -- peace is what t'challa feels, whenever he returns home from the chaotic landscape that is the outside world. hatefulness, anger, frustration . . . all of that brought his father to his death, and nearly dragged t'challa with it.
here? his heart beats with the land, and the sky, and the city, and the thrum of vibranium underneath his feet. peace is what he feels, because he feels alive, here. ]
War is not, has never, and will never be our way, though we descend from the hearts and minds of warriors. [ he says it with great purpose, as he sets himself down to sit on the rock, to draw his arms around his knees, to be comfortable and at ease next to bucky. ] Men stronger than I have been tempted by it, and I am sure I will be no different, when the time comes. This, I think is worth fighting for. To defend such peace, from those who seek to destroy it.
[ t'challa pauses, there, though, and his lips tug into a faint smile, his tone becoming wry. ]
Though I am not so willing to house the Avengers once Tony Stark runs out of rental property to detroy in America.
[ the queen mother will object, and t'challa doesn't argue with the women in his life. ]