you do not know the first note of the music that moves me [open]

[colonial]

Characters: America, open
Setting: January 13; a few places around the Tower
Format: I'll match you
Summary: America now believes he's been in the Tower for 250 years. He is a little different now.
Warnings: America is very fickle while evented and may attempt to hurt your character if you make him mad/for amusement; a lot of these options are him doing just that

A; staircases (let me know what floor you land on if you land on a floor)
[America is bored. This happens a lot, actually--he's worn through all manner of entertainment in two hundred and fifty years, played until his toys wore out and broke, and his search for distraction and games has come down to making his own fun. This isn't something he didn't do at home (oh, but he can hardly remember any home but the Tower anymore...), but now it's taken on a bit more sinister bent.

People are always fun to talk to and play with. Getting reactions out of people is always fun. People falling is funny.

Pushing people down the stairs, then, is a good way to get all of that at once! Unless you're someone he likes, someone England likes, a frequent playmate, or someone he's learned is likely to kill him without blinking, you're about to get shoved pretty hard.

If you are one of those people, help him/stop him/roll your eyes at him?]


B; Floor Thirty-Four
[America isn't on the floor himself--rather, he's looking out at it. He's thrown a very old-looking stuffed toy onto the floor, however, and he's watching and listening carefully for people to come by. When they do, and they're not someone he likes or has learned not to mess with, then the crocodile tears start.]

H-hey! Hey, can you help me? My toy... [He points mournfully at the stuffed animal.] The wind blew it all the way over there!

[He knows some people can get out and back without succumbing to the urge to fall off and some can't. It's a good sort of guessing game to play!]

C; Floor Thirty
[America isn't actively doing anything this time--he's instead sitting on the staircase eating some food he's taken from the cafeteria. Specifically he's sitting just above floor thirty, just above where the staircase would vanish if it decides to drop someone into the monster-infested floor he's watching. He likes guessing if the person can get back in time or not, you see. Of course, if you'd like to hang out with him, he's always up for conversation!]

Comments

[redwhiteandhero]

I was scared I was gonna drop you, buddy. I'm like five times your size.

[colonial]

[America lifts Alfred up again, over his head this time.] It's not like you're a real big tree! [This is about as close as he feels like getting to telling Alfred about his strength again--he puts Al down higher up on the stairs and offers him some of the food again.]

[redwhiteandhero]

[Alfred flails a little as he's lifted up. He sure as hell wasn't expecting that.] You're a crazy little dude sometimes, you know that? [He reaches out to accept the offering of food.]

[colonial]

[America smiles a bit as he hands the food over, sitting back down now that no one he likes is in danger of falling into the monster floor. It's a bit of an abrupt change, like at some point America developed some switch in his brain that let him turn on happiness whenever he wanted.]

Even most big countries can't pick up stuff as much as I can! It's my super power!

[redwhiteandhero]

So bein' a country's pretty cool, huh? You get powers and stuff?

[colonial]

I dunno if everybody does. [He hasn't heard of France being able to do anything cool, for example.] But some of us do!

[redwhiteandhero]

I'm gonna move to America someday, y'know. After I'm an auror, and the war's over, maybe... [He pauses, and his face falls somewhat.] After we get out of here, I mean.

[colonial]

[America drinks the juice he brought up.] It'd be really weird if we went home now. [After so long he's not sure he'd even remember how things worked there. Maybe it would come back to him?] Anyway, isn't it all gone?

[That wasn't what he used to believe, but now the whole situation is so distant to him that he's been able to consider it might be true for a while now, as far as he can remember.]

[redwhiteandhero]

But that can't really be true, can it? I mean... at Christmas I even got a care package and all. There's a way to get back there-- they're just messin' with us.

[colonial]

It can be true now and not true if we go back. [America nods as if that makes any sense at all.]

[redwhiteandhero]

... Huh?

[colonial]

Right now is right now! And they say it's destroyed so it's destroyed now. But if we go back then it's not destroyed so it's not destroyed then!

[Basically at no point does America factor the past in. He stopped factoring the past in about a hundred years ago.]

[redwhiteandhero]

I don't really think that's the way it works.

[colonial]

It can work like that if you want it to.

[redwhiteandhero]

[Oh no bb Al loves bbs they are so cute with their bb logic]

Yeah, I guess so. But either way, that means it'll be there when we go back, right?

[colonial]

If we go back and it's there then it's there.

[It's an if wide enough that America doesn't think he knows how to cross the gap anymore. And that's a thought that he can't quite fit in his mind--sometimes he feels like he grew up a little, or more than a little, in ways that stretched him and made him--

He chews carefully on an omelet and doesn't think.]

It doesn't matter right now.

[redwhiteandhero]

Guess not, huh.

[Quick, change subject!]

Eggs are good, huh? Way better than those bars, anyway.

[colonial]

[America accepts the topic change and pushes the old topic back far away.] Yeah! I've probably had ten trillion bars by now. Eggs're better.

[redwhiteandhero]

That's a lotta bars. I like over-easy best, what about you?

[colonial]

Ummm... [This is apparently a question worthy of some thought.] Sunny side up! Scrambled's second.

[redwhiteandhero]

Scrambled's real good with cheese, and ketchup.

[colonial]

D'you think it's good with tomato soup? [Since he could improvise that by combining breakfast and lunch and it sounds interesting.]

[redwhiteandhero]

I dunno! I never tried that before. But they're both tomato, right?