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photosympathies) wrote in synnet2024-07-10 12:16 pm
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I need advice!
( Hello network, here's your friendly neighbourhood Stampede about to fully launch into something with no forewarning and no introductions. It's how he makes friends ... and also enemies, don't worry. ) So, we have to get jobs, right? But I'm not exactly sure what I'd be good at. I usually just do whatever people need around the towns I'm visiting, which means I know a little of most things. But I figured this place was new and people might be a little more cautious about that. So I made flyers!
( In one hand - metal, blue sometimes sea green - Vash holds up a stack of leaflets. )
Only when I was trying to give them out I got a lot of dirty looks so can someone tell me what I've done wrong! I really want to be useful while I'm here.
( Turning the flyer around so that his ( unfortunate ) captive audience can see. The design is obviously home made, and probably in a rush. On the paper it proudly proclaims
VASH THE STAMPEDE
RENT BOY
WILL DO WHATEVER YOU NEED
COST: ???
Below that is a crude drawing of the man himself - a stick figure with a triangle body ( his coat, sadly missing ) and a mass of spiky hair. It has a crude beaming smile on the circle of a face. )
Is it the drawing? I could have done better I guess, but I was in a hurry. ( A pause, a slow dawning realisation. ) Aw, shoot. It's the name, right? I didn't use my civilian name! Crap, that's probably a no-no.
( Nothing else could be the issue.
... Right? )
( Hello network, here's your friendly neighbourhood Stampede about to fully launch into something with no forewarning and no introductions. It's how he makes friends ... and also enemies, don't worry. ) So, we have to get jobs, right? But I'm not exactly sure what I'd be good at. I usually just do whatever people need around the towns I'm visiting, which means I know a little of most things. But I figured this place was new and people might be a little more cautious about that. So I made flyers!
( In one hand - metal, blue sometimes sea green - Vash holds up a stack of leaflets. )
Only when I was trying to give them out I got a lot of dirty looks so can someone tell me what I've done wrong! I really want to be useful while I'm here.
( Turning the flyer around so that his ( unfortunate ) captive audience can see. The design is obviously home made, and probably in a rush. On the paper it proudly proclaims
RENT BOY
WILL DO WHATEVER YOU NEED
COST: ???
Below that is a crude drawing of the man himself - a stick figure with a triangle body ( his coat, sadly missing ) and a mass of spiky hair. It has a crude beaming smile on the circle of a face. )
Is it the drawing? I could have done better I guess, but I was in a hurry. ( A pause, a slow dawning realisation. ) Aw, shoot. It's the name, right? I didn't use my civilian name! Crap, that's probably a no-no.
( Nothing else could be the issue.
... Right? )
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but can't we just chalk it up to a misunderstanding? i'm new in town, i don't know the lingo!
( Never mind that the lingo is also lingo'd back home. )
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call me 'sheriff' again and i will let it slide.
[ listen, it sounds cool. ]
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whatever u say, sheriff!
( He is not above ass-kissing, apparently. )
also just fyi.
i'm totally not one. a prostitute i mean.
not that i think there's anything wrong with that!!!
... apart from the very real problem of legality.
( CAN'T ARGUE MORALITY WITH A COP, VASH. )
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yeah, i know.
nothing about the way you tried 'selling' yourself was exciting. it was kinda funny to watch.
[ alright, enough tormernting this guy. ]
sooo
what kinda job you wanna' do?
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Are you saying he is not a catch? He's so limber! )
i think that's probably because i don't have a corset.
( That's how prostitutes on Gunsmoke did it anyway. )
but honestly?
anything.
i'm not picky.
i think that's the problem, because where i'm from i just sort of breeze in and see what needs done for a while.
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[ vash PLEASE. ]
i guess pick a job that's fun for you.
i used to work in the local theater because i enjoyed watching free movies all the time.
[ and then he got fired for that ... but that's not the point. ]
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( He's so cute, wdym. )
like an actual movie theatre?
and i guess i don't know what's fun.
like i like wandering.
and meeting people.
and being useful.
but what does that even mean when it comes to ~ gainful employment ~?
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and why are we discussing your waistline and whether you're fit to be a prostitute or not?!
[ can we not?!! huff. ]
maybe you can do delivery services.
that's helpful and you'll be wandering around.
the pay is shit, though.
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who says they don't?
( Champion of the People, Vash the Stampede, ready to fight. )
i don't really mind bad pay as long as i'm doing something useful. i don't really need money for anything much beyond food, right? they gave me some for the crabs and that's already more than i had before so i'm good on that front!
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okay.
why, though?
why do men wear corsets? give me one good reason and then i'll be convinced you're not lying to me.
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He takes a little longer to reply this time, mostly because his brain is helpfully not supplying a single thought. Saying to look cute feels vapid and in all fairness, Vash hasn't met many men in clothes like that. But there have been some. Usually the town outcasts ... )
maybe because they want to??
why do men wear shirts? it's just clothing.
( And then, entirely too late, and with far too much enthusiasm because his compression suit is kind of like a corset, right? )
posture!!! back support!!!