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restingslasherface ([personal profile] restingslasherface) wrote in [community profile] ph_logs2023-07-30 01:09 pm

Don't You Want...

Who: "Slasher Face" Jean and YOU
What: Catch-All & Founding CR! Come get your nugget
When: Early <-> Mid August
Where: Places, mayhaps even locations (check prompts)
Warnings: Jean's out of a cyberpunk horror setting and they think everything in it is Normal so, y'know, casually horrifying shit coming out of their mouth including but not limited to violence, death, organ theft (no really), descriptions or potentially memory shares of mental attacks, and the most brutal corporate exploitation you could ever ask for.



Zwei Association [Around Town]

Here's the thing about Jean: they like people. Here's the other thing about Jean: they don't know that. It's not that they think of themselves as disliking people, exactly, it's that they think they've adopted the City's cool detachment to keep you from Getting Hurt, and, well, they haven't. Y'all might have noticed. But the handy thing about liking people is they've got a pretty good eye for who, like them, does not belong here. The clients have little habits and cultural signs, things they just subconsciously or conspicuously do that the other hires don't, to say nothing of the easy asks like that giant dude in the diving suit.

When you're not actively working at your job you may find yourself approached by Jean, notebook in hand, toothy smile on their face. They explain that they're looking to organize information on the available 'talent pool' to provide to one 'Madam Princess Zelda', both to coordinate information gathered on the task here and in case of emergency ("Disaster planning is good planning!"). Are you willing to talk?

Shi Association [Shops]

After collapsing during the initial festival planning, Jean is trying to take breaks. They are not good at this, but they're better than they were by main force of imagining what their old supervisor would say to their internal complaints about being tired or overworked. Thank the god of your choice that said former supervisor was a good and caring person. Increasingly, those breaks drift towards the various shops. Jean is a window shopper, is the problem. Some of it is just that the technology here is unfamiliar in ways that can be unhelpful, just off what they're expecting enough to cause a problem (to wit: they've never made coffee without a coffee machine, leading to frowning worry outside the general store trying to figure out which of these things Makes The Fucking Coffee, How), but the tailor might be Jean at their most anxious. They're still in the outfit they arrived in, carefully washed every single day, and they really would like to fix this...

...But something about what they're looking at doesn't sit right with them, and it's making them miserable.

Liu Association [Night]

There's an injunction not to be outside at night. Jean wants to know why, and unfortunately for the mods reading this narration that might mean getting a bunch of annoying questions. For the first few nights they stay up observing the streets of the town through their window and noting anything they can observe, though their shit-ass night vision soon indicates to them that this will need to be hands-on.

If you're interested, your character may have been asked to be a lookout for the next phase: Jean, clad in her siren Page and smeared with smoke, leaves, and soil to blend into the colors of night on the town, lurks behind cover after dark, gently flexing her claws. The people here live in fear of these things, and Jean has been hired to lift that fear from them, show them that wins are possible, that being under Jean's aegis places them beside her and not beneath her.

Madam Princess Zelda said Jean had a hard life, and thinking about that still hurts Jean in ways she can't quite define to herself. But if that's true, there's still, hahaha, a silver lining. The beasts of this place are used to frightened and helpless prey, but that's not Jean.

She's a monster too.

Floor of Language

Jean works at the library! Find them here during operating hours, if you like.
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Shopping, for Blue Jeans

[personal profile] therichremember 2023-08-07 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Jean is also looking at the clothing in the shops; he doesn't have the brass in pocket to buy anything new yet, but he is considering how he wishes to present himself once he does. First impressions are already dashed, but who will he be once he's at home?

Noticing the other, less manly Jean...well, there's a couple blinks in quick succession and then a casual commiseratory upnod, the kind that (he damn well hopes) transcends cultures to be a universal sort of gesture.
prise_de_fer: (happy - wink)

[personal profile] prise_de_fer 2023-08-08 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
And there it is. Mo'rtajha knows that look, too. She's seen in a fair few times in Ala Ghiri, waiting tables of young travelers, and charming them out of extra gil before they left. Thankfully Jean is in no danger of being fleeced, since having a stipends and no family to send it to means Mo'rtajha has plenty of the strange looking money lining her pockets.

"That's gladdening to hear!" She squeals in delight, hands clapping together. "Tell me, is there anything in particular that interests you color-wise?"

She offers out a dainty hand, though Jean will find it's calloused from hard work. The rest of her skin is soft, pampered.
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[personal profile] therichremember 2023-08-09 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"You can't be Jean, I'm Jean. Jean Tannen, out of Camorr originally." Jean offers a polite bow, but not his hand to shake.
therichremember: (hopeful)

[personal profile] therichremember 2023-08-09 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Three, but I don't share the middle one. Bondsmagi could use it against me." And already have, but he doesn't think there are any here, which balances out. Somehow.
therichremember: (scholar)

[personal profile] therichremember 2023-08-09 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
“And by what authority can you—or the Madam Princess—direct my personal efforts? I am a free citizen, Agent Jean.”

This is all bullshit, but it’s good-sounding bullshit. Locke might have approved.
therichremember: (concern)

[personal profile] therichremember 2023-08-09 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
"On the contrary, my good agent." Jean smiles as well. "I've declined to choose!"

And this is what being a Gentleman Bastard is all about, isn't it? Mild fuckery that might eventually become a major fuckery.
therichremember: (tight-lipped)

[personal profile] therichremember 2023-08-10 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"It's simply...I don't know anyone well enough to be bold in declaring my skill set. Though I suppose if one needs an accountant, that's among the skills I can offer. My parents were merchants. And I'm not bad with a needle and thread. Oh, and I have a few traditional Camorri recipes I could probably find a way to cook, given the right ingredients."

All of those are true. None of them are what he plans to make his coin doing, here.
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Shi Association

[personal profile] skeletonkeay 2023-08-11 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
As Gerard is perusing the clothes himself, trying to figure out how to work his distinct clothing preferences into this Victorian vibe, he spies someone else doing the same. But they seem nervous.

Ah. He knows that look.

Stepping in to help strangers with monsters and fear gods was one thing, but stepping in to help with something so personal... He silently waffled for a long moment before coming up beside the other person.

"Y'know," he muttered, "just because you don't see anything that looks quite how you want doesn't mean it can't happen. That's... what tailors are for, right? Sewing things. Making stuff custom. Just sayin'."
skeletonkeay: (placid)

Re: Shi Association

[personal profile] skeletonkeay 2023-08-14 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The absolute tidal wave of Hunt energy that came off of this person as they faced Gerard in full was almost overpowering. It took everything in him not to recoil as if having smelled something foul. Not to mention the subtle Web influence underneath. This weirdo might as well have had a mouth full of blood and a head full of cobwebs as far as Gerard was concerned. But he was well practiced. He did not waver.

Gerard nodded his greeting. "Gerry Keay," he replied. "And thanks. I had a bit of help from the River Walker on the rips."
skeletonkeay: (flat scowl)

[personal profile] skeletonkeay 2023-08-14 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Unfortunately," he grumbled. "Hadn't seen the papers before jaunting off into the woods like an idiot." Reading is important, kids!

Also yes. Gerard has seen many, many people experience that same mix of emotions in his line of work. Although most of the time, the concern was fake. (Looking at you, Elias Bouchard.)

"Took a few hours to make it out of those stupid caves, but I've had worse. Can't recommend it, though," he joked dryly.
skeletonkeay: (solemn)

[personal profile] skeletonkeay 2023-08-15 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Christ, they're like if the Archivist was a megalomaniac. What has Gerard gotten himself into? "Fine," he muttered. "But let's talk outside." He was going to need a cigarette.
prise_de_fer: (neutral - ummm)

[personal profile] prise_de_fer 2023-08-16 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Her ears flick, matching the energy of her raise brows. What a way to describe it, but she hardly misses a beat. "Ah, hmm. Let's us call it rust colored instead! 'Tis a good, strong color and pairs well with other tones and fairly easy to accessorize I should think."

She begins to tug on their hand, practically pulling them into the shop. Time to get this shopping trip on the road! Even if they don't buy anything, they will at least have a good idea.

"Now...do you recall how that suit felt? Was it heavy fabric? Smooth?"

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