is it a toktik or is it a business ad? @chocobo

[mesospheric]

[ It begins with… a blink. Some guy with gravity-defying blond hair looks around, as if surveying the area for passer-by before he engages in what must surely be an embarrassing affair, like the filming of a TokTik. ]

This isn’t necessary, but—

Do you… need things done?

[ He sort of starts off strong before trailing off in classic Embarrassed Delinquent-esque reluctance. His eyes, locked ahead. His expression, stony. ]

For a fee, certain troublesome tasks can be done for you to satisfying completion. This includes but is not limited to: monster slaying, bodyguard duty, and… errands.

The fee will fluctuate depending on what a hassle I find it to be.

[ Another blink. Another look around. Something surely comes next, right? Damn. Is Cloud his own PR department? ]

… I look forward to working with you.

[ And just like that, the feed ends. ]

MERC WORK
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Comments

[photosympathies]

It's not that I even mind! I've met some real nice prostitutes. But it's false advertising. I'd be super bad at it.

( 😫 )

[shadowban]

...you'd be bad at being a prostitute???

vash-san that seems a little demeaning towards yourself. are you not confident in yourself?

[photosympathies]

Well, Four Finger Jenny says you have to offer discounts for missing parts and I only have one nipple and I really don't want that to be my defining characteristic, okay? It's embarrassing.

Anyway don't you have to be like ... skilled???

1/?

[shadowban]

[ four finger jenny... a sex worker partner? close friend? perhaps a mentor of some sort, like how gojo satoru is "six eyes gojo"? ]

2/?

[shadowban]

[ but that's neither here nor there, is it? we are not entirely the product of our circumstances, and we can overcome our perceived missing parts. megumi believes in this, for others if not for himself. ]

3/?

[shadowban]

[ but what does it mean to be skilled as a prostitute? experience? isn't sex a natural instinct? every human being is, ideally, aware of its innate desire to procreate. megumi's read about sexualities among feral populations, but didn't vash-san say something about not being human? he's over a hundred years old. maybe he only appears to be a mammal. or mammal-based? carbon-based life form? is vash-san an organic alien??? wait how do you ask someone if they're human or not, you can't just ask someone that— ]

4/5

[shadowban]

[ none of this matters anyway because megumi's a tiny skinny GAY TWINK VIRGIN so what's he trying say here??? he doesn't know shit either!!! ]

done!

[shadowban]

are you a virgin, vash-san

[photosympathies]

No! I've had sex. More than once, even! ( This doesn't really matter to him, so he doesn't know why he's defending himself so vehemently. ) But okay, I've hung out with a lot of sex workers, that's all. Sometimes I get to work on the doors for them. Kick out any undesirables. So I know a lot about the effort that goes into it. They're always nice when they know you're just hanging out and they love to chat.

( Sex is complicated. It's very human. He doesn't do it a lot because ... well. He's on the run. He's 90% scar. He's other.

He's a tiny stupid dummy that needs it to mean something. )

I'm just saying there's probably way better options!

[shadowban]

like a bouncer. or a... a john? no, a pimp. weed out the bad guys from the sad ones. i understand.

[ you take a child to the seedier parts of tokyo a few times and he thinks he understands the bigger world outside of his narrow field of vision. ]

some people appreciate inexperience, i've read. maybe you could find your niche that way? if you mean to pursue this line of work, i mean. it makes a lot of money.

[mesospheric]

Have you ever been to a red light district????

[shadowban]

a few times, it smells like piss if you go down the wrong alleys. why?

[mesospheric]

You’ve never been inside to use the services? Your file says you’re pretty young.

[shadowban]

i don't need to pay for a sex worker's time to know what they do. i'm sixteen. what are you getting at?

Still lurking

[mace_pray_love]

[wow, Megumi seemed like such a nice boy when he was helping her with shrine architecture, but now the truth is exposed… he’s secretly a mega-perv who lurks around in sketchy districts!]

[shadowban]

[ por que no los dos, señora jessica? ]

[photosympathies]

( A PIMP. )

Ahahahaha. ( Sorry his very nervous laughter gets brought along for the ride. ) How much money?

( Vash, no. )

Actually I think I'm okay. I get why people would but I threw out all my flyers! So.

[shadowban]

no one advertises with flyers anymore. you go on apps like onlyfans or LINE or katalk now.

some make more than enough to only work a few days. or they get adopted? sugar babies, or hosting. if you have no scruples at all you could just scam women.

i know people who did that last one, it's not that uncommon.

[ you know, like his father. ]

[photosympathies]

( FUSHIGURO MEGUMI. )

I'm not gonna scam women?! I'm not gonna scam anyone. Jeeze. Also I'm too old to be a baby.

( Help. )

How do you know all of this?

[shadowban]

your age isn't necessarily part of being a sugar baby. it helps though, but it gets more dangerous the younger you are or greater the age gap between you and your 'daddy'.

[ as for how he knows— ]

my sister and i lived in a bad neighborhood before [ oh wait, hmmmmm ] we were fostered.

and back home, we have curses. few people can see and exorcise them, and i'm one of them. curses are born from the misery, guilt, and fear of people; to understand how they're killed you have you learn how they're created.

a lot of red light areas have many curses, as you can imagine.

[mesospheric]

Why

[shadowban]

why what?

[mesospheric]

Why are you asking this?

[shadowban]

if he's a virgin? why does it matter?

[mesospheric]

You don’t just ASK someone that.