UN: JINX | TEXT

[jinxs]

"for those who bring the most entertainment"

on a scale 0-1000000 how entertaining are you

you think you'll survive? let's place some bets.

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TEXT | UN: Laura

[shoplifter]

I'll survive.

How do you know if you're entertaining?

a kid........... oh my....

[jinxs]

two conflicting statements there

if you don't know if you are how are you

subjective! all very subjective!

[shoplifter]

If it is subjective, people can tell me what their subjective is, yes?
Then I would know.

I'm good at fighting. Is that 'entertaining'?

[jinxs]

and if they don't? oopsie, what then?

can be. how good? what kind of fighting?

[shoplifter]

I'll find a way.

It's important to find ways to live.

With my hands. My mutation.
I was trained. Doctors made me, then soldiers trained me.

[jinxs]

what's with doctors
in
*****EVERY****
universe
doing crazy stuff?
welcome to the doctors did crazy stuff with me club! we don't have a president yet. should we hold elections?

(singed saves her with shimmer, accelerator also was experimented on, now this???)

[shoplifter]

Some aren't so bad. One helped my father.

... I still don't like them, though.

[She can see there are layers! She just usually wants nothing to do with those layers.]

...... what is a president?

s2 spoilers

[jinxs]

and? one helped my father too. both of them, even! poorly. don't trust them. ever. turn that white coat into a straightjacket as it should be

... person in charge of an organization

(a blanket cw now for casual talk about child abuse in general!)

[shoplifter]

Oh, I know straight jackets.
Those do not work on me.

[That's grim, but she was absolutely casual about the recognition.

Very 'I understood that reference!' of her.]

And elections?
They have to do with these people in charge?

[jinxs]

oh. fun. entertaining, even

uh yea
you vote, they win
if you vote
there's that BIIIIG if in there

[shoplifter]

I see.

[Kinda, anyway. She's been too busy trying to keep her head above water in a shitty world to get it from the jump, but it's a stepping stone into some knowledge. That's the important thing, here!]

I don't think I would want to be president of a club.
But I would like to join if there is food and games.
How did the doctors hurt you?

cw shimmer and experiments

[jinxs]

you and me, friend

... not important
one did. and someone else
like i said
see boney fingers, weird lab with green fluid floating
get the hell out

[shoplifter]

I think you may be too late.
We were given those injections. The green fluid.
It is a mutant growth hormone in my world.
It helped force our mutations earlier than they were supposed to be.

[That, and trials of radiation when the medicine did not work.

But that's another story.]

We did escape, though. The lab.

[jinxs]

not gonna lie here
mutants is out of my scope of wisdom
and it is very large
so that surprises both of us

(does it? probably not.)

never again though, right?
... right?

[shoplifter]

Mutants are people with a special gene.
The gene, it gives them powers.
Sometimes it makes them look different, too.

Do you mean going back to the lab?
As long as they can't find us, we will be okay.
Many people from the lab are dead now, too.

[jinxs]

nothing like that at home. maybe the pollution might give someone a third eye
we don't know
to be discovered. so, you got one? what is it?

yeah well i'm pretty sure enough of us got a huge bone to pick with doctors
so, probably they won't be the only dead ones
good for us.

[shoplifter]

[Oh, a third eye. That would be an interesting mutation, if it means they can see very far, or maybe in the night time.]

I do have a mutation.
It lets me do a few things. I can follow scents, and I am a little stronger.
And I heal very fast, and I have claws. I can show you, if you're not scared of blood.

[jinxs]

scared of blood
me
scared of blood.

not scared. show me

[shoplifter]

Some people think blood is very scary.

[She doesn't really understand that, but maybe that's why she's strange.]

Should I find you?
I don't know your scent, but I am good at directions.

[jinxs]

my scent. ok. ok cool this is normal

subway, weird cart. figure it out

action. :)

[shoplifter]

Sí. It is very normal. [Is she being funny, or does she not register sarcasm as easily? She'll never tell.] I will start looking.

[She proceeds to start her little investigation.

The extracurricular tracking game, it will be nice.

Jinx is probably just minding her own business in the subway, a short time later. One minute just vibing in her train cart, the next turning and nearly running straight into a short, stoic child wearing cupcake-themed glasses. The child doesn't seem particularly concerned with the possibility of being shot or punched for this indiscretion — but then again, in her mind she's just completing what was asked of her.]

Jinx.

[jinxs]

(she was not sure what she was expecting, but definitely not a murder child walking through her door. not with all the talks of straightjackets and evil doctors; perhaps something more like herself, or accelerator.

older.

so, she was about to be dramatic and theatrical when she sees the kid who calls for her, arms dropping and gun set to the desk.)

... Huh. You're... Smaller than I pictured. A good 5 years smaller, at least.

[shoplifter]

I'll be twelve in May.

We picked birthdays. On the Chirper.

She meant it as a I'm actually older than I look, but it really isn't the gotcha that she thought it would be. More importantly: she succeeded in her goal! With the confirmation of this being Jinx, a subtly pleased expression crosses her face as she folds her sunglasses up and shoves them into the green backpack that she scarcely goes anywhere without.]

I found your subway. Sevika comes here, too, yes?

[jinxs]

... Yeah. She does. I'm much cooler than her though, so if you come to find her, then, well, maybe don't come for her.

(it's a habit to pick on sevika, always has been, even if lately it has been... amicable. they are okay, after years of bickering and loathing. still, she is objectively much cooler than sevika in her mind, so.)

Okay, kid. Show me what you got.

[shoplifter]

[Looking around the space, she considers her options.]

Do you have anything that I can mess up?

[There's no dummies to cut to pieces. Laura's used to showing off her skills on dummies when it's not real people... but maybe there's something else that would work just as well?]