[HE DID NOT KNOW IT WAS TRASH, THANK YOU!!! Why are you just drinking nearby while he's in the trash?!?!
Once out, Frumpkin clambers up to his shoulders, and Essek dusts himself off. VI GETS A LOOK. She really does have Beauregard energy. Why is that? Why is that...]
STOP ROASTING ME IN YOUR META she watches him curiously as he brushes himself off. ]
Yeah, it's creepy as shit. I told Jacopo it's got backalley energy. Like I'm going to turn around and someone's going to have a knife at my throat and a grubby hand in my pocket.
[i forgot i used this shitpost help me why was it so accurate for them
He is standing in front of the new, non-Cowboy bar. The unfortunate one which requires secrets. He's looking at the sign below the open speakeasy, frowning into the darkness.]
[stop tagging me when i'm writing your starter you fuck
He opens the door to go back into one of the new suites he's claimed for himself, thinking it perfectly fine, wary a little, only to find out IT ISN'T FINE. He steps directly into Vi's which has somehow suddenly merged with his own.
I don't even know if she would be in one of these, but she is now. Your drunken emo apartment room.
He pauses just inside, then says what is probably a curse in another language.]
she blinks, after this memory - laughs, actually? she just huffs out a laugh, because hey, at least this one isn't as terrible as the others she's seen today. ]
... Who was that? Friends of yours? [ a beat. ] The lady was pretty hot.
Don't laugh. Okay, maybe laugh. It is better than him getting bullied to hell and back, and it is better than some traumatic ass memory, as if she might not get one of those later anyway.
His exhale is Tired, but wry. He makes a disgruntled noise at the question, and then quickly lifts both hands up. DO NOT.]
I'm sure she would be thrilled to hear. [He waves dismissively in front of himself.] Beauregard and Fjord and the rest of the Mighty Nein.
w0, monday
He is coming out of the baggage claim whippy, wiggly belt machine with Frumpkin.]
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she's day drinking nearby, so when he comes out of the baggage claim she just raises an eyebrow. ]
What a weird shape for luggage. [ ok ]
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Once out, Frumpkin clambers up to his shoulders, and Essek dusts himself off. VI GETS A LOOK. She really does have Beauregard energy. Why is that? Why is that...]
Very funny. Have you been in there?
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STOP ROASTING ME IN YOUR META she watches him curiously as he brushes himself off. ]
Yeah, it's creepy as shit. I told Jacopo it's got backalley energy. Like I'm going to turn around and someone's going to have a knife at my throat and a grubby hand in my pocket.
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I WILL NOT. It's true. They're the same picture.]
Backalley energy... [Well. He glances behind him.] It... does, I suppose. Have that.
The word... was it... "beware"?
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That's what me and Jacopo thought. [ stretches idly. ] Beware quick assassins. Beware... crazy quadrants. I don't know.
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A warning... [Or just insane ramblings.] You seem to be on good terms with Jacopo.
Did you explore there together?
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[ which is a yes, she likes jacopo, unfortunately. ]
I just caught up to him around the hangman, and we talked about how someone's super going to die in that area.
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I see you both waste no time in jinxing it.
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w2, monday
He is standing in front of the new, non-Cowboy bar. The unfortunate one which requires secrets. He's looking at the sign below the open speakeasy, frowning into the darkness.]
"Secrets only"...?
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peeks around him, eyebrows raised. ]
What, a guy like you doesn't have any secrets to tell? [ hehe. ]
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I have plenty, but that doesn't mean I want to tell...
[Looking back at the door. Well. This HOLE. He gestures at it. This thing. This hole.]
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Just do something stupid. You cursed anybody? Do that.
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[Remembers Megumi being balled in the fight.]
Just - give me a moment.
[HIS NERVES!! Ok, think. Something inconsequential.... Something useless. Whispering:]
Suguru Geto asked me for condoms.
[Why did he say this?!]
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she knows who this is so she fucking chokes ]
-- He what?
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He gives her kind of a flustered shot of a glance.]
Unprompted.
[The will open thankfully now.]
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No, no - this is. The monster guy, right? The one that has a bunch of gross monsters he throws at people?
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w3, monday
He opens the door to go back into one of the new suites he's claimed for himself, thinking it perfectly fine, wary a little, only to find out IT ISN'T FINE. He steps directly into Vi's which has somehow suddenly merged with his own.
I don't even know if she would be in one of these, but she is now. Your drunken emo apartment room.
He pauses just inside, then says what is probably a curse in another language.]
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she startles and immediately throws a bottle at him? IT'S INSTINCT. SORRY. ]
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He yelps and only manages to dodge by way of ducking out of reflex because of the whole ordeal. The shattering bottle startles him, too. DAMN!]
It's me!
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-- Fuck, sorry! [ A ] Essek? How did you even get in here?
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[And now, suddenly, he's in Vi's room, and he is getting a bottle thrown out of him (fair) out of defensive reflex (valid).
Out of the blue, she gets walloped by a memory. Why are Fjord and Beau so stupid????? HELP ME
anyway, shows your character to your other character]
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she blinks, after this memory - laughs, actually? she just huffs out a laugh, because hey, at least this one isn't as terrible as the others she's seen today. ]
... Who was that? Friends of yours? [ a beat. ] The lady was pretty hot.
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Don't laugh. Okay, maybe laugh. It is better than him getting bullied to hell and back, and it is better than some traumatic ass memory, as if she might not get one of those later anyway.
His exhale is Tired, but wry. He makes a disgruntled noise at the question, and then quickly lifts both hands up. DO NOT.]
I'm sure she would be thrilled to hear. [He waves dismissively in front of himself.] Beauregard and Fjord and the rest of the Mighty Nein.
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So you weren't kidding when you said you had experience with rowdy groups. [ hehe. ] Wahoo must've been familiar.
They just wanted you to fit in, I think.
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