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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? )

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has it ever happened like that for you? things just completely ending?

( Because it's an uncomfortable thought for Vash. He's far too aware that Nai would find this fascinating, that his brother had thought them gods. But his brother is not here - is not anywhere now - and he finds himself wanting to, what? Defend humanity? Talk about their survivability? Denounce pessimism in general? )

where i'm from, even if the worlds end humanity still finds a way. their last one is long gone and they made it all the way across the stars. not as many as they'd have liked, but they still did it. they're resilient.

sure. four times. the first world was one of my own creation, and my brother's the one that fucked it up beyond repair.

[ Now, granted, Tezcatlipoca is also the one that destroyed it, but. He still blames Quetzalcoatl for its fall, since Quetzalcoatl is the one that removed the sun from it. Erasing the world was a kindness at that point. ]

each world we made after still had a flaw that led to its downfall. fifth time was the charm, in a way, but the way things are going? prospects aren't good. you think this world is struggling, mine would impress you with how dire shit is.

( Brothers, amirite? But Vash isn't going to comment on that because he isn't Thinking!!! )

you make the worlds?
that must be a lot of pressure.
i don't think i could ever do that.

is it the world itself? or the people? can you help them out?

to be fair, you aren't meant to. I was made for it, literally. so it's no pressure to me. but it's not a responsibility anything but a god should shoulder.

[ It's part of what he'd found troubling about his last deal in Kenos. The situation on this Earth is much more his speed. ]

but yeah to all of those. caveat with the first one that I don't mean an entire planet, since that's outside of my power, but so far as people are concerned? we're talking continental, so it's their world.

making people is easy, relatively speaking. helping them, though, that's complicated. they have to help themselves, generally speaking.

do you make them and just watch what happens?

( It feels cruel, but Vash could be wrong. His own feelings on humanity are all ensnared within each other. He can't necessarily expect other people to see it the same way. )

essentially. it’s the right thing to do.

think of it like a parent and their kids, but on a way bigger scale. parent shouldn’t do everything for their kid. they have to learn how to thrive on their own. we can’t make a perfect world, so… the people have to learn to survive it. for all the good and bad that means.

though I also have my own view on it, I admit. there’s gods that would be more coddling than I am.

i guess you're right.

i just think sometimes people need more help than they know of. sometimes there's a solution and they can't see it, sometimes they get tired. i think if i were a god i'd have to step in. i wouldn't wanna control them, but i'd want to help.

but hey! luckily i'm just a guy.

haha well. you wouldn't be alone there at least. like I said, there's gods that have that kind of hope.

but I'm conflict and providence. so, that ain't my bag, exactly.

not to say that I'm not a people-person, though. my help is just more like harsh tutelage. or tough love. either or.

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and who knows! maybe you just haven't made the right group of people to change your mind!

there's that optimism again.

won't hold my breath, but sure, maybe.

then again, I'm helping out with this whole situation, so that's pretty close to counting. not like I have all the shit that makes it a problem to interfere with human affairs, so that's why I don't mind it so much.

you're right! you're helping lilith, right? that means you're going to get to know more people. i guess it's going to be a bit of an adjustment, right? so if you need any help you can absolutely count on me.

huh? why are you talking about it like I'm some kinda shut-in?

[ that's the other fate/ god, duh!! ]

I talk to people all the time. like not in ideal conditions maybe, but still.

well now you can have ideal conditions!!!
isn't that fun?

oh yeah for sure. you won't hear me complaining about getting to chill this way.

like sure the world's in trouble, but it ain't that bad. solidly fixable.

exactly!

i'm sure they'll send us all back home eventually but i don't mind helping out while i'm here. it's always good to feel useful.

they better. I got shit to do back home and I've been away from it way too long??

can't say I'm the helping sort (at least not this directly) but whatever. I'll do the work in my way

well! if you ever need someone to come with i'm ur man! i like helping. point me in the right direction and i'll do it.

then I'll remember that. you'll be first on call.

but for now, you don't get a lead for a job elsewhere? can always come slum it at the bar I work at. it's never boring.

a god works in a bar.
sounds like the kind of joke a buddy would tell!
but maybe i will! do you guys have wild turkey? ... probably not, actually.

technically, david suchil works in a bar

but yeah, actually, we do. so long as you mean the american bourbon anyways

ok david suchil!
eriks stryfe is coming in for a drink!
don't worry i tip.

atta boy

see you around sometime, then

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