01 🦇 video; un: c.cain

[cassassin]

[Cass is in the common living room on Floor 6 when she records this. She's wearing a purple hoodie that's a size or two too large for her, and she holds up her phone, thinking.]

So, um--hi. [A little wave at her phone's camera, and it's definitely kind of uncertain and awkward.] I'm Cassandra. Tim, Jason, and Damian's... sister, if you know them. Got here a few weeks ago. I was... wondering, if any of you knew anything about... neurology? Brain structure. Um, language centers, especially. Maybe... different ways to teach? I had a scan done--back home. About a month before I... got here. I'm not... wired right, I guess. Or just... different? It's...

[She cuts herself off with a frustrated sigh, closing her eyes for a second. The words aren't lining up right. Scrubbing a hand back through her hair before she continues, moving onto another point. Forget where she had been trying to go with that before, doesn't matter now.]

So. I need to, uh, learn to read. Normal ways don't work.

[She pauses, thinking, before changing gears.]

And, um, Steph and I are... joining the Guard. So if anyone wants to train, or spar... uh, let me know? I'm a good teacher. Learned from... all of the best.

[Yeah uh. She guesses that's it? Video over.]

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audio, @jb.barnes

[anotheroldsoldier]

[Well, he's not sure he's much help for the first part of this request. Bucky doesn't think he'd be much help, teaching reading, but this is Jason's sister and he feels like he should offer something. He likes Jason, knows how much he does to look after his family here.]

I ain't the guy to ask about brains, but I know what it's like to have somethin' messed up in your head. [Granted, his own brain damage was from a traumatic injury, exacerbated by different brainwashing techniques, but still.] There are a lot of smart people here. Maybe one of them can help.

I'm with Search and Rescue, but I spar with the new recruits sometimes. If you want someone to go up against who ain't a newbie.

[cassassin]

Don't know if it's messed up. [Sure, she's got her share of mental illness and trauma to deal with but that's a separate issue from how her brain's wired. Even if the wiring is definitely a result of something that was Done To Her. ... Okay yeah it's kind of messed up.] Just different. But... thanks. I hope so.

[It's nothing wrong with her, she thinks. Still, it's a matter of getting more information and finding an approach that works.]

Sounds good. I don't get a... challenge, often. [are you ready for tiny 5'1 taskmaster, bucky]

[anotheroldsoldier]

Different, then. Sorry. [He didn't mean for that to sound offensive, he's just not the most tactful with his words. His once silver tongue is more of a heavily tarnished thing these days. It's probably telling that his own mental state equates "not wired right" with "messed up".] Someone here can probably figure out how to help.

Let me know when you're around for it. I can move my patrols.

[cassassin]

It's okay. [Bucky seems like he's being sincere at least, even if she can't see him. No reason to hold anything against him, at least; she gets where he's coming from. She just can't be sure if she's put together the way she is entirely because of her father's experiment, though that's definitely where most of it comes from. And the first well-meaning attempt to "fix" her had... well, anyway. Moving on.] People are offering.

And I'll let you know.

[anotheroldsoldier]

Good. Hopefully it works out for you. [She seems sincere enough about wanting to learn, and this place is a new start for a lot of people - a place to learn new things or be whoever you couldn't be at home.]

Okay. Just ask for Barnes.