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citynet2023-11-06 08:10 am
nichocolatine) wrote in citynet2023-11-06 08:10 am
video | un: NAILS
[ the video begins with badou wearing one of his usual tees, carefully setting his phone down so the camera angle can spot him sitting on his living room floor surrounded by an array of dresses. affixed to his wrist is a little cloth pumpkin, stuck full of needles and pins. he's without his usual cigarette, instead sucking on a lollipop that stains his lips bright red. last time he made a post on the network his neck was bruised and bandaged — this time it's the same thing, but the bruise is angrier, spreading across his neck and shoulder, disappearing under a bandage and gauze that looks about ready to get changed in an hour or two. ]
Evenin'.
[ he picks up the skirt of one of the dresses, flipping it inside-out to access the pocket he'd been working on attaching. ]
So I'm sittin' here, mendin' dresses — as you do — and I nicked myself pretty good and I'm thinkin', well, shit, that's another one I gotta wait on, y'know?
[ he lifts a forefinger, displaying a bandage that looks an awful like like dora the explorer, and wiggles it in the direction of the camera. ]
It got me thinkin'—
How many of us here are just regular ol' humans? Or whatever. I'm talkin' no magic, no special augmentations, no fancy shamcy abilities that got you doin' better than the average guy.
[ he pauses to finish off a stitch, making a knot with his thread and cutting the excess with his teeth. ]
See, where I'm from, that ain't the norm. But that doesn't seem to be the case around here.
[ oh, one more thing— ]
And if you are one of the special ones, go ahead and tell us what you can do. Why not, right? What else do any of us got to hide at this point?
Evenin'.
[ he picks up the skirt of one of the dresses, flipping it inside-out to access the pocket he'd been working on attaching. ]
So I'm sittin' here, mendin' dresses — as you do — and I nicked myself pretty good and I'm thinkin', well, shit, that's another one I gotta wait on, y'know?
[ he lifts a forefinger, displaying a bandage that looks an awful like like dora the explorer, and wiggles it in the direction of the camera. ]
It got me thinkin'—
How many of us here are just regular ol' humans? Or whatever. I'm talkin' no magic, no special augmentations, no fancy shamcy abilities that got you doin' better than the average guy.
[ he pauses to finish off a stitch, making a knot with his thread and cutting the excess with his teeth. ]
See, where I'm from, that ain't the norm. But that doesn't seem to be the case around here.
[ oh, one more thing— ]
And if you are one of the special ones, go ahead and tell us what you can do. Why not, right? What else do any of us got to hide at this point?
@keter, audio
I'm a Fixer. A mercenary, in other words. Nothing too flashy.
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"Human" was just the best thing I could come up with at the time. [ he will begrudge alhaitham this one thing: he definitely could have phrased himself better. ] More just... "special" versus "not." You'd count as special, I reckon.
What's it your augmentations do, exactly?
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[ like don but... fuck don LMAO ]
My bioaugmentations aren't worth writing home about either. They just let me hit harder and move faster. Everyone in my line of work has this so long as they can afford it, and they aren't exactly cheap.
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So you gotta have some cash to throw around to even get good work, huh? Sounds about right.
What's a guy to do around there if he don't got the money?
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They die. Simple as that.
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On their own or — with help?
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[ roland that's not helpful at all. ]
Taxes don't pay themselves, y'know. Megacorporations can also pluck you off the streets for their experiments and dump your corpse right back when they're done with you. You can also pay for an Office to kill somebody for you, and they'll lap it up 'cause it's easy money. Those are just the few ways the City can get to ya, which is why I'm not used to not having money in this world at all. Aren't you?
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And you prefer that? Not having to work anymore, that is.
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But if I had to choose between what I know, and what I don't, I'm gonna go for the first one every time.
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What was your line of work back at your place?
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[ yanno... merc stuff, kinda. grunt work. a delivery boy. ]
Did some PI work too. Private investigatin'.
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A PI, huh? You found anything important about this place recently?
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not here
[ SIGHS.... ]
Well, there's gotta be somethin'. Not every megacorporation can keep their shit under wraps forever. Maybe if we combine all our powers together, we can strike 'em in one spot where it hurts.