( while it may seem like she isn't listening with her eyes glue to the plate before her and her loud munching along with it, jinx is being extremely attentive. so she needs to behave like her ordinary self and then steadily like to the top like one would with a step ladder. start small, he says. maybe her vending machine could be useful than just burrowing up loose change. but how can a contraption like that be flipped to something else? maybe instead of her checking in multiple times a day to see if her robotic monkey is full, get someone else to do it. and then maybe from there, have everything escalate to something more serious?
her face scrunches for a moment before taking another bite, the gears in her mind turning as she brainstorms over his wise words. which again... jinx usually ignores. never again she'll take it for granted, and although it's still too long for her liking -- she wouldn't exchange hearing his voice for anything. )
Is that how you've got people for your businesses now?
havent gotten a lot of replies yet! but kid ken thinks its and i quote "unnecessarily cruel" the council are slapping crimes on people just to make things interesting for them.
Naivety would be just not to expect them to knock at your door for one reason or another. What I am offering you is not something out of this world, is it? Be part of my eyes, and I'm on demand to your needs.
(racketeering, huh? could easily be dazai's own. much could have - murder, extensive torture, abuse, fraud, so on. and yet, they chose his never-ending desire to feel alive. sorta fucked, but yet, here we are.)
[Jinx was a sociable person, although some might find her mood changes to be jarring. He had grown used to them over the years, so he considered to be one of the best people to handle them. History had not dissuaded him from that notion so far. He had much to teach her and to help her adapt how she was naturally to being able to be an excellent leader and to draw people in to follow her. That took practice.
He shrugged his shoulders.]
I offered them an opportunity, nothing more. I presented it in a way that it was choice and if they gave me some of their time, I would compensate them. It helps that very few know my reputation back home.
( she plops her head down on the table, more so her chin, to be exact. and even with her head low like this, jinx still spears her potatoes then shoving it in her mouth. a very weird way to eat but she is a strange one. )
— I think I've already spilled the milk about my rep here. People got it figured out.
Which I have no intention of doing. I'll force them eventually, as I assume many intend to. So you prose being my enforcer should I need one?
[Silco had been rather offended that they had chosen that crime out of all that he had stacked up on his resume. He would lean into that crime all the same while also working on all the others that could be possible here.]
Define 'enforcer'. I've been many things -- a torturer, a strategist, a planner. If you want me on the front lines of anything, I would not be a perfect match.
(that was chuuya. dazai could manipulate that man into anything - and their hivemind also helped wonders. chuuya's the muscle, dazai's nothing more than the scheemer behind closed doors.)
[He made an effort to at least push the food around on his plate, considering her. She was still right side up, so he didn't blink an eye at her method of eating.]
That means you simply need to use the unpredictability of your antics as part of your reputation to keep people from guessing what your next move will be.
At this time, I don't require someone skilled in torture techniques. So far, protests against my helpfulness has been minimum so far.
[They could potentially be good for each other, even if he was sensitive to the idea of betrayal. However, that was a constant threat in Zaun, so he was used to being naturally suspicious of people coming to want to work with or over him.]
My current project is the Council. We should work together for infiltration and dismantling of their little city hall.
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