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[When the video feed starts up, Laughing Beauty looks to the camera nervously, still unsure if making this kind of request was the best to do publicly. But what choice did she have? LB knew she couldn't do this herself.]

Hey, uh -- heheheh -- hi.

[Yes, this was already getting off to a smooth start. LB gives the camera an awkward smile, before continuing.]

There's a lot of people here who can fix things... right? So, if anyone had any spare time, I was wondering if they wanted to try to fix-- [She swivels her communicator around, in a blur, until it focuses on a broken down, unoccupied Octopus Suit. With it occasionally sparking and one of it's tentacles broken apart, it's certainly seen better days, to say the least.]

I, uh... [The camera focuses on her face, deep in thought as she tries to think of a convincing lie as to how her suit got broken in the first place. After a while, however, she glances away from the camera.] Ah, fuck it, I broke it in a fight. But it's okay! Heehee! I... don't think I'll have to worry about that person anymore.

[Which is her roundabout way of saying that she hadn't seen Zer0, since after the fight, and she was pretty sure she killed him (even if that wasn't actually the case). It was a little sad, because he seemed like someone she could be friends with, but it seemed that wasn't the case. Regardless, she's not admitting to anything.

As she scratches her head and generally looks uncomfortable, it might be easy to tell that she's possibly hiding something.]

A-anyway, I'm not sure what I can offer anyone in return, but I guess we can discuss that later.

[After that, she had intended to turn her communicator off, but there was another burning question on her mind, lately. For this inquiry, she hesitates even longer, before finally spitting it out.]

Also... does anyone know if the masks give you any power or benefits? Hahaha? For a while, I had a bad feeling about them, but lately? I've been wondering if maybe I've been thinking of things in the wrong way.

[LB positions her deceptively cute mask next to her face, mimicking the expression with a smile.]

Besides, I'm no stranger to wearing things that are unsettling.

But - ah - that's all, I guess. Eeheeheeheehee... thanks in advance.

[[I've got it planned out for Peter Parker to fix the suit, but people are still welcome to inquire about it!]]

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My supplier's military surplus, but I got a feelin' the government wouldn't exactly be thrilled if they knew how their pieces were gettin' into my hands. Fellas I sell to are mostly gangsters and their militias, the ones who pop cops an' each other, rob banks, and are generally not real pals of the big wigs.

Anywhere in particular you'd wanna go? [ Because this is a much better conversation than evil masks and bad shit. Hypothetical vacations, bring it on. ]

Ah... I guess everyone has to make their living. Heehee -- as a mercenary, of sorts, I'm in no place to judge anyone's career choice.

But I never really thought of where I'd go -- haha -- I guess I always did want to see a big city. A place that never sleeps, so to speak. It's just that - ah - I grew up in a really small village and I always kind of wondered what the opposite would be like.

In either case, it seems like the kind of place I could just blend into.

Yeah? Never met a mercenary lady before.

Sounds like my city. Nieve's pretty damn big, anyway. Lots of tall buildings and tons of people everywhere. I grew up in the mountains myself, so I get the draw... You get to thinkin' that the city's big, yeah, but then you get there, and the place's so huge you feel like you're gonna get swallowed by it all. S'a pretty amazin' feeling.

Ha, really? They're pretty common, where I came from. Haha -- in fact, I was in a unit with three other women. Not to mention the man I worked for had an entire personal army of elite female soldiers.

The mountains? Which country are you originally from? Uh... that is if you originated from Earth. [Right, sometimes it was easy to forget that some people came from other planets here.] The feeling of people swallowed by a city... [LB pauses, imagining how it would be like to be so overwhelmed like that.] ...I like the idea of it. I'd love to see a place where one would never get bored, haha!

Women back home don't tend t'get the same kinda opportunities as the fellas do. Dunno why. Know quite a few dames who could kick my ass up an' down the block. Hell, I'm lucky that they ain't yet.

Earth's a popular place to be from, but I ain't. Place I'm from's called Pais, at least that's what we call it in Nieve. S'got different names dependin' on where you are. Nieve's the kinda place to go if you don't wanna get bored, yeah. Theaters, shoppin', hundreds of places t'go for dinner and a show. Then there's the boardwalk. Hell, I even own a jazz club there.

Heheh -- or maybe you're just lucky they haven't gotten their hands on a gun yet.

Pais? I don't even think that's in our solar system, eheh! A jazz club, though? Fond of the music or is it just a business kind of thing?

The moment Cleo picks up a gun, I'm runnin' like hell.

Don't think Earth's in ours, either. Ain't no astronomer, though. And s'a li'l bit of both. Mostly s'that it makes good money, but also 'cuz my best pal's a sax player. He likes playin' for a crowd and seein' him happy's nice.

Probably a good idea, heheh.

So you do it for your friend, then? You two must have been really close.

Well, he's also paired up with my cousin, yeah? So it makes both of 'em happy. And, like I said, s'a good legal moneymaker, and keeps my tax record clean. That way the government don't go gettin' curious.

Ah, so it's a family thing, then. Hahaha... [She goes silent for a few seconds, feeling a little melancholy as she remembers the family she had, in the past. The one she was forced to annihilate.] ...you must miss them a lot, huh?

But - ah - I never really understood how the government worked. Never had to know, haha. But if it helped you out, I guess it's a good thing, yes?

Like a cop on a diet misses a donut. S'real strange not havin' Aza 'round to yell at me when I do somethin' stupid.

Don't think anyone ever fully understands 'em, but fellas like me manage to figure a way 'round 'em.

Who's Aza? A girlfriend? Sister? Haha? Mother? [The name seemed feminine to her, anyway.]

Heeheehee, well good for you, if it works out in the end.

S'my cousin's name. Aza Zelle. Kinda the mother hen of the group, yeah?

[ And male, but Ladon's used to being from a world where the relationship between his best friend and his cousin could put them in danger if found out by the general public. Nieve's not the most open-minded of cities. So he just... doesn't mention that detail. ]

Here's hopin' it does.

Ah, I see.

Hahaha -- well, at least with really vague laws around here, you don't have to worry about that tax thing, right? Not... the most appealing tradeoff, but it's something.

No money t'be made here, period. [ He almost sounds forlorn about that. He misses his hoard, even if it's pretty much just numbers in various accounts. ] That, and we don't got the laws, but we still got the policin'. Already had t'deal with a porkchop givin' one of the kids here a rough time.

Oh, right. Haha...

Wait, what were they trying to pull? I've heard some of the announcements from security, [She lowers her voice to a mutter.] and I don't think their suggestions are going to work too well, personally. But I'm curious about this now.

He was givin' the kid a hard time 'bout how he talks. "Translatin'" without bein' asked, that kinda thing. Seems small, yeah? But these cops, all they are deep down are bullies for fuckin' hire. Only any good if they're on the take, and even then they're a buncha idiots.

Really? [While LB side-eyed some of the rules, on the ship, she figured that security was at least not being too bad to people. However, it seemed that at least a couple on security really weren't that good after all.]

That seems kind of... I don't know. Heeheehee... I don't know why that would be a big deal.

I don't think all of them are bad though. [Alex was on that team, after all, and she liked him. In addition to that, Raven so far seemed cool enough.]

Guess it's more personal, seein' as I know what it's like t'be mocked for bein' an outsider. S'the principle of it though, yeah? Cops're supposed to protect people, but you give 'em an inch and suddenly you're the welcome mat.

The ones here? Dunno, ain't met 'em all. God willin', I won't have to.

Hahaha... guess I'll have to watch out for that, then. [And be even more secretive around those types than she'd normally be; if they didn't treat mobsters well, LB didn't have a whole lot of confidence that they'd be too kind to someone who killed a whole lot of people.]

It would be hard to know everyone on this ship, I guess it's just something to keep in mind, I suppose.

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