INBOX ⦿ EDGE OF REVERIE

[gunmettle]

INBOX

"This is Juzo Inui. Leave a message."

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[bratsunemiku]

Pool hall

[ surprise, she's over there drinking! ]

[gunmettle]

Of COURSE you're hanging out where the booze is. On my way.

[ And sure enough, he shows up a short while later. ]

Hey, kiddo. How're you holdin' up?

[bratsunemiku]

Yo, old man!

[ she waves a hand - beer bottle and all - at him when he shows up. There is a very... Tall, but very thin present standing beside the perch she's taken up at the bar. ]

I'm good, choom! Kinda glad they didn't make us go all yippee ki-yay for Christmas or whatever.

[ if she's gonna commit murder(s) during the holiday season, she wants it to be on her own terms!! ]

[gunmettle]

Me, too. We all need a break after that last… what the hell is that?

[ Guess who’s just seen the present beside her? ]

[bratsunemiku]

Your present!

[ duh! ]

Look, it's not like any of us picked this shit out for each other, okay?

[ if he's curious and opens it, though... he will find a personalized cardboard cutout... ]

[gunmettle]

[ A PERSONALIZED CARDBOARD CUTOUT OF WHAT

He is going to step over to start unwrapping it, but on his way he puts a little box in Phoenix-colored wrapping in front of her. RNG said playing cards, but I have decided specifically it's a game of UNO. ]

[bratsunemiku]

[ OF SOME GUY.

while he's unwrapping her present, she puts her beer down and opens the little box up. ]

Cards, huh...? Hey, what'd you get, choomba?

[gunmettle]

... Who the hell is this?

[bratsunemiku]

[ she just. makes a face. ]

You think I know who this snooty gonkbrain-lookin' guy is? Hell no. He looks like his name would be like Benjamothy Crumbleworth or somethin' stupid!

[gunmettle]

Now you're just makin' shit up.

[ What kind of name is that, even!! ]

[bratsunemiku]

No shit, but apparently there's some dude named Herlock Sholmes around so I figured anythin' goes, y'know?

[gunmettle]

Yeah, I know. That dude is my boyfriend, Short Stack.

[bratsunemiku]

...

Huh? Vaux didn't mention you bein' one of her boyfriends.

[gunmettle]

That's cause I'm not. I've never actually met the lady.

[bratsunemiku]

The fuck? Figured she knew like the entire fucking prison by now.

Anyway, so this Herlock choom's got a girlfriend and a boyfriend then. Guess I'm happy for ya!?

[gunmettle]

You'll find out that this prison's full of unique... arrangements.

[bratsunemiku]

Oh, don't worry, I caught on quick as soon as people started throwin' around their picks in that elevator bullshit.

[gunmettle]

Ah. Doesn't make anything easier, that's for sure.

[bratsunemiku]

Yeah...

[ stares ]

So this Herlock guy. Your mods don't bother him or anythin'?

[ and also what kind of job is it called if there's a gun-head-muzzle involved ]

[gunmettle]

They don't. He just takes me as I am. Always has.

[ THERE ARE NO JOBS get your head out of the gutter ]

[bratsunemiku]

[ NEVER. she was probably birthed into a gutter or something!! ]

Huh. Well, good for you!

[ god she is so single ]

I mean it. Way folks like us look... I'm sure you've run into gonks who were scared as shit, yeah?

[gunmettle]

Truthfully, I've had more adverse reactions to my appearance back home than I ever had here. Sure, here people still kinda stop and stare or I'll startle 'em for a second, but they're surprisingly quick to bounce back.

[ Aki Hayakawa is an outlier and will not be counted. ]

[bratsunemiku]

That so...

Even the people who came from, like, old timey times?

[ she doesn't know anything about sholmes except for that he apparently likes to use his mouth in bed okay (thanks for that sprezzatura) ]

[gunmettle]

Even them. Herlock is from the 1800s or somethin' like that.

[ I cannot believe this is her only impression of Juzo's boyfriend. ]

[bratsunemiku]

Yikes, him too?! Why are there so many people from ancient times around!?