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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[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| ]

[provocate]

[...oh my god you make him want to cry you dick. He told you you could leave if you don't want to be near him so badly!!!]

[Leans his elbows on his knees and props his chin up on his hands]

You can just say no, dear.

[vigilantee]

[ jksdfs jadejadejadejade ]

--It's weird. Without her. I can never read either of you. [ and that he says a bit too quickly UGH UGH HE SHOULD LEAVE THIS IS HORRID FOR BLACKROM ]

[provocate]

[Gee thanks bro]

You think I can't be flushed for anyone without her around? [YOU ARE WROOOOOONG]

[vigilantee]

[ sdkjfsdkgs ]

Th-tHAt's not..... [ NO FUCK YOU WARBLY VOICE HE WORKED SO HARD TO GET RID OF YOU ]

[provocate]

[...lkajsldfkjasdf aww his favorite speech impediment 8'>]

Then it shouldn't be weird, my dear. Just relax. You can't do anything wrong. [He still adores you through getting set off twice in one night. You're basically flawless okay okay]

[vigilantee]

.... [ HUFFHUFF staring down at the floor forever now, and he's determined not to make anymore noise until it feels like his voice won't further embarrass him. Stubbornly, more to try and prove to to himself than anything, he'll move so he's sitting at Baron's side and cross his legs THERE SEE HE DID IT OKAY ]

[provocate]

[Yes good 8'> Then let him just... bend over closer and kiss his cheek! And then he'll give him his space again, a... sort of carefully happy note in his voice]

See, you'll be alright, my dear.