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( 03 ) video ✵ i got six friends and they all know your name

So, look, I get everybody's all jazzed about that list or whatever, and people wanna do the mourning thing. All good, have at it.

What I'm wondering though, is what we got working to find out who helped the dead dude get that way. Still pretty new around here so I don't know what you got rigged up already, but where I'm from something like this happens we mount up before there's a dead guy number two.

[ so that was... kind of a job application. if you tilt your head and squint. and to seal the deal. ]

Wouldn't mind helping out.

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Works for me, I'm not looking to start my own club. Tyke got a number?

She's 001 » 011.

You have a name?

Sweet. I'll grab her in a second, leave a message.

...Faith. You? [ faith this is a job interview not a singles bar.

no it's not even a job interview. ]

Edited 2012-08-15 23:27 (UTC)

Might be a good idea. She's busy with all of this.

John. [ Who is an oblivious jarhead. ] John Grimm, since there are several Johns around here.

That's me, whole package. Brains and all.

[ faith, your self esteem. look at it. ] Grimm, huh? Sweet name.

[ hot oblivious jarhead. ]

[ Whole... package...

Hold on, he's catching on slightly. ]

Thanks. Most people just mention the fairy tales. [ He snorts slightly, rolls up one of his sleeves; there's a tattoo of the Grim Reaper on his left arm, and he shows it to her. ] Or this.

Nice.

[ brb turning to the side and showing off her own ink, the tribal tattoo she picked up before leaving southie. ]

So, security around here see much action?

[ There's an approving noise of his own. Reaper's... not great with words. ]

Only been here about a month and a half, but considering what happens here, I'd say it sees a fair share.

Yeah, first day I showed up some guy went all to pieces, literal style, and the hits keep coming. Security seems like the place to be.

[ nice reverence for human life there, faith. ]

[ Well, at least she can handle death. Last thing they need is someone freezing on them. ]

Tyke'll ask you this sort of thing, but I'm curious. Do you have any sort of experience?

Experience, sacred calling-- [ her expression communicates exactly how seriously she takes that calling thing when expressed that way. ] same difference.

But yeah, I got plenty of experience.

[ Eyebrow raise. ]

Should I ask?

'Bout the calling thing? Pretty boring story. [ she grins, and it's both amused and barbed all to hell at back. not directed at grimm, but at a group of men he's never heard of on behalf of a long line of girls he's never met. ] All right, whatever. I can do storytime. Okay, so back when everything that's pretty freaking old now was just pretty old, a bunch of old dudes decide they want to fight demons, save people. Problem is, they're too freaking British to do it themselves-- so they grab a teenage girl and they juice her up on magic 'roids, hand her a piece of wood and shove her out the door. Since everything outside the door sucks and wants to slit her throat and eat her insides, chick only lasts so long.

Which isn't a problem with those old British dudes-- one girl down, the next one pops up and they go ahead and grab her. Repeat that shit over and over and that's the deal, pretty much.

[ there's more to the story, about one of those girls who had a real problem staying dead and fucked up the line for everybody, but that's personal. ]

Edited 2012-08-17 06:23 (UTC)

[ ...how is that boring at all, Faith? ]

They sound like a bunch of assholes. The old British guys, that is. [ Well. They do. ]

So you've got... demons and magic all over the place where you come from?

[ her life is pain okay. that's the shiny happy version. ]

I know a couple that don't suck too bad, but in general? Yeah, they're pricks. [ the watchers council sucked in its beta version, natch. ]

If you're in the know. Most of the world figures everything's normal 'till something thinks they look tasty, though.

[ THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S BORING... ]

Yeah, seems like that's always the way of it.

[ There's a slight snort. Yeah, he... knows how that goes, too. ] What year is it for you?

[ doesn't everybody have backstory like that just waiting tho. ]

Easier that way, I guess. People got a habit of freaking out when they know what's really going down outside their door.

[ for a destiny ordained hero, faith is kind of a misanthrope. ] Just hit 2003. You?

[ Yeah but they don't know that... ]

Guess that's true. Something like that, they might actually do something about it.

[ Reaper is just kind of super bitter about how easily the government gets away with shit. ] 2046.

[ same with her-- there's a whole demon angle nobody knows yet. timelines, man. ]

Or they'd just die faster.

[ fuck tha police, faith always says. ]

[ There's a sigh. ]

Yeah, or that.

Sorry, not really a sunshine and rainbows kinda chick.

[ kanyeshrug. ]

Can't say I blame you.

[ He's just still sort of recovering from a mission where almost everyone died. ]

Life's a bitch and then you kick off.

[ ...now why does that sound so familiar. ]

Quickly, if you're lucky.

[ There's a rub at the back of his neck. What he ought to do is go see that counselor, but he really, really doesn't want to. ]

Only luck I run into usually goes the other way.

[ there's a cheerful grimness to her tone, because Issues. ]

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