baby's first successful track

[provocate]

[He’s been here too long. He knows that, to some extent. Staying in a single base for too long is liable to attract attention to his ever-growing band of revolutionaries and anarchists. But he’s been feeling sort of tapped for creative energy for awhile now and that’s depressing. As much fun as the little disruptions can be, they are nothing compared to the high of a proper crime. And he hasn’t had one of those in… lord, a perigee now at least]

[So yes. He’s been here too long after they co-opted a rather large, if run down hive stem on the edge of this city’s lowblood slums, but he just… doesn’t… care… This evening, like a number of evenings before this, he finds himself lying on the floor of the penthouse block that he took for himself when they first arrived, staring blindly at the ceiling, trying to find the will to cause some proper trouble for someone… BLUH]

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[vigilantee]

[ In what universe is it ever okay for him to JUST LEAVE with Baron okay. Besides that would not be very redrommy if he did B( gosh. Even if he does...glance at the window once or twice.

The sigh gets him though, and pursed lips or not he will gather the nerve to ask, awkwardly: ]

Will you be....alright.

[provocate]

[Just... kinda chuckles tiredly. HEARING THAT QUESTION FROM ANYONE IS AN ETERNALLY SURREAL EXPERIENCE]

How honest would you like me to be.

[vigilantee]

.......Honest. [ sobbbb ]

[provocate]

[...aww baby you're so sweet to him. Sorta... muttered... something like sadly]

Alright is a word applied to people who aren't as old as I am. I haven't been alright since sweeps before your ancestor hatched. [Leans off him and paps him on the face 8'>] But I'll be back to the way you remember me in no time at all, if that's what you mean.

[vigilantee]

Ruining lives and blowing things up? [ So wry it hurts, but unlike usual there's not any real bite behind the retort as he watches Baron carefully ]

[provocate]

[HEH]

With any luck! [Said with... an extraordinarily fake grin... which fades away a moment later anyway as he glances off... over to the glass. Baww he doesn't wanna stand but he does want something to drink life is so hard]

[vigilantee]

[ OH BARON ): Overseer sees that and will...wordlessly do the flushed thing and pick it up for him so he can wordlessly go get more water :c you're a mess honey ]

[provocate]

[......oh okay that's...]

[Hhhh he really appreciates that )8 Watching him, suddenly sorta unsure what to do now]

[vigilantee]

[ TAKE THE GLASS I-IT'S NOT LIKE HE CARES OR ANYTHING GOD. >8( ]

[provocate]

[OKAY OKAY FINE GOSH. He will take it yes but... will continue to watch him while he drinks? You've gotten pretty hard to read yourself since the last time he saw you, dear]

[vigilantee]

[ He would like to be even harder with his mask 8| but someone mucked that up didn't they. At least right now he only looks vaguely ruffled, looking pointedly to the side so he doesn't get all jade looking at Baron.

His eyes are probably a much deeper Jade color now that he's 11 sweeps old and all and it's been a few since he's last seen Baron, but other than that he's p. much the same ]

[provocate]

[Yep yep yep notes that as he finishes the water off and sets the glass beside his knee. He for his part looks... as always... exactly the same, though there's... exhaustion slowly settling around his eye. His quiet misery slipping through his usual mask...]

[Gestures for him to bend down to him after another moment spent watching him]

[vigilantee]

......? [ FFF his default reaction is to recoil warily--at least for a split-second anyway, before he reminds himself that Baron is nooot really in his usual dapper-as-fuck mood so he kneels a foot or so away inquisitively ]

[provocate]

[...just KINDA STARING for a second, and then he smiles... the sort of desperately fond smile he usually reserves for Tameless ('8]

Your eyes are coming in quite pretty, my dear.

[vigilantee]

[ ;A; o-oh....oh Baron♥

Overseer does a double-take as jade streaks across his face, almost the same shade of dem eyes now ]

A, ah......

[provocate]

[lkajsdf little chuckle, rubbing a hand over his face, doing his best to hide his smile CAUSE GOSH WHAT ARE ALL THESE GROSS FEELINGS ALL OF A SUDDEN]

You don't have to stay if you don't want, you know. [...he's pretty sure you don't feel quite as intensely about him as he does about you so... yeah, doin' the redrom thing and letting you go so you don't feel obligated );]

[vigilantee]

Aren't I....supposed to stay? [ sdhfjs his voice is so tiny and embarrassed rn he can't even look at baron he's just looking at the floor ]

[provocate]

[LKJSDLFKJADF no stop you are the most pitiable little jadelet he's ever seen goooood]

I wouldn't mind. [But you don't have to...? Kind of teasing: ] Long as you get rid of those flash bombs anyway. [...but also kind of serious lakjsdf Please dude. Never use those things again]

[vigilantee]

[ sdjkgjdks he twitches and looks harder at the floor. NOT GONNA SURRENDER THE ONES HE HAS LEFT but uhhh yes he'll nod--no more of those then ]

I won't use them.

[provocate]

Thank you.

[Little nod. Well that's nice, at least. Still watching him though. So what'll it be bro]

[vigilantee]

[ IT'LL BE HIM STARING AT THE FLOOR LIKE A MORON because gdit baron seeing you flushed without Tameless turning him into a glorified pincushion is weird. ]

......

[provocate]

[...YOU ARE SO AWKWARD. Well he will... try to slide closer, though he has to wheeze faintly when his gills shriek at him for doing so]

[vigilantee]

--Don't move. [ jskgsk BARON STOP TRYING TO CHAMP LIFE?? ]

[provocate]

[KSJDLFJ DUDE LOOK AT HIS FACE?? HAVE YOU SEEN HOW MANY SCARS HE HAS??? HE IS A MASTER OF CHAMPING LIFE OKAY OKAY. But fine. He will]

Then come here.

[vigilantee]

..... [ UGHHHHH HE DOESN'T WANT TO but he will if it will get Baron to stop looking so pathetic, it's weird. So he will shuffle like half a foot closer there look he moved 8| ]