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Margaret 'Peggy' Carter

( at riverview | Private housing;

Internal Affairs | Perimeter Guard )

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Peggy, darling, I have a question only you can answer.

They're asking $200 for this and it's totally worth it, right?

[Is he just asking her to help justify his terrible life decisions??

Yes.

Is the picture of the dress he sends her actually worth $200?

Also yes.]

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Two hundred dollars?

Good God, Taako.

[ far too used to war rationing and almost no spending, this one. ]

Why so steep?

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[No Peggy the correct answer is "yes absolutely"]

This isn't assembly line shit AND it's on sale.

If I can't spend money on cool clothes what's the point of having it, right?

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Nothing that cost two hundred dollars can call itself a sale item.

Do you know how many dresses you could buy in two thousand dollars in 1946?

It is a pretty thing, I'd give you that.

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It was $315!

This isn't 1946 on Earth, pumpkin, $200 is just a couple days of work.

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three hundred and fifteen?

Crikey.

Well, have you tried it on at all?

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[Please hold while he sends her a picture of himself in the dress taken in the mirror of a changing stall, although he's added a black mini skirt underneath to make it a little less risque]

It could maaaybe use a little tailoring since I'm lacking, you know, tits. But I'm rocking it otherwise.

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Just taking it in a bit, nothing more.

Do you sew, too?

[ look at this point, it won't surprise her. ]

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I can sew, I can't tailor a dress.

Are there people who can't sew?

[They might have elevators and fake moon bases but he still lives in a somewhat scrappy fantasy world where most people have to take care of their own shit.]

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Oh come now, no judgement.

Not all of us can excel in everything.

[ she can't sew, alright. not at all. ]

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Different worlds are weiiiird

I know I've done this a lot but STILL

If I couldn't sew we would've spent our entire teenage years naked cause we could not afford new clothes whenever we got tears in our shit.

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I learned mending when I was a child.

Never took to it, I'm afraid.

Seems like I have someone to go to now if I tear one of my dresses.

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Oh gods please don't, just cause I can do it doesn't mean I'm any good at it.

Unless you're into jagged stitches!

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Not yet, I fear.

Modernity didn't catch up with me that much just yet.

well? have you bought it?

a note;

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[At her doorstep is a book in mint condition. Penned on the inside page is a note;

Following our discourse, I thought you might enjoy this.

J.M.]

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[ it seems to be like any other morning but the journey to take her breakfast tea is stopped short. She looks down, the tip of one high-heeled shoe touching the cover and finally bends down to pick it up.

it'll take her a few more minutes after that, to send off a rather cryptic message: ]

I'm quite cross, you realize.

[ can't win with peggy carter. ]

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Oh?

[lmfao god save him from strong women.]

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One usually says hello when one comes about to visit.

Could have been picked by anyone.

Hell, could have been picked up by the skeleton.

[ and then she would never see it again. lord knows what sans would have done with it. ]

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I'm sorry, skeleton?

[Now that he knows he's being chastised for something rather less serious than an awful transgression, he can focus on the important things. Why a skeleton?]

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He sleeps a few beds down from mine.

Horrible sense of humor, that one.

[ as if it explains anything.... ]

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My condolences.

Perhaps the book will give you some comfort in this dark and trying time.

But you are aware that you can choose to live elsewhere, correct?

[Flint officially likes you enough that he's comfortable being something of a shit, Peg. Sorry.]

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That sounds like a challllllenge :)

[New goal: get Peggy into something "modern"]

And yes, for sure, I bought it the second I took it off, I only asked your input to maintain the illusion that someone else agreed with my poor financial decisions.

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Good god, it certainly does not.

All this hassle and for a dress already bought. Where shall you wear it too?
Any Friday night dates?

[ look, she has to ask. ]

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And leave those poor people to the mercy of a half-mad skeleton?

Someone has to try and keep him in check.

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Presumably he can't be made to stay in the grave?

[He's still not quite clear on this whole... skeleton thing.]