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Dec. 14th, 2020 02:58 am
vrdantwind: (If I'm right here with you)
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"Hey, this is Claude! Pretty sure I'm doing this correctly. You can leave me a message here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Talk to you soon~."

Date: 2021-01-07 03:26 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (earnest)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
[Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Claude had the audacity to try to infiltrate the Rockets during the Christmas Heist. That took balls. While Steven doesn't really bear a grudge for anything that happened during it--they were all just trying to do their jobs, after all--he does feel like it would be a good idea for one of them to keep an eye on Claude and perhaps steer him away from trying something like that again.

So sharing something of himself to Claude? It's a way of cultivating that trust in Claude. To make him that much easier to keep an eye on.

And for all that it seems like he's disclosed a lot of intimate details to Claude, there's no real secrets in it. Nothing about what Jack did to his daughter. Nothing about how he snuck into Thace's dream during the weird weekend. Just that he'd met Thace when he was still with Jack, that Jack was a narcissist and that when things had gone bad with Jack, they'd gone bad fast. Steven was okay with people knowing that much.]


Oh, it can be hot. Definitely. But it's a fine line to walk and even when things were *good* with Jack, I was cautious of being on the wrong side of that line.

I'd like to think that Baby Jack could be steered away from the man he was going to become, but I don't think I could do it. I see too much of his future self in him to be able to interact with him consistently and comfortably. But maybe you or one of your friends could.
Edited Date: 2021-01-07 03:28 am (UTC)

Date: 2021-01-08 02:36 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (upfront)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
[It's fine. He's planted his seed and is willing to see how it grows from here.]

There might be. I'm not sure who would be, though. He's burnt a lot of bridges over the years. About the only people from his world that are here are people who I wouldn't feel comfortable asking this of.

And, well, I don't know how well people who knew the older him would work. A lot of our mutual friends are either gone now or, well, I got them in the break-up. I don't know. He seemed to get along with Scorpia in his post--maybe I could coach her through it, even though she didn't really know him before.

Date: 2021-01-08 08:37 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (upfront)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
No, I do get it.

And it's fine. If any of your crowd becomes friends with Baby Jack on your own, feel free to try to reform him, but don't become friends with him just for his reformation. He'll either learn better here with or without friends--or, well, he won't.

Date: 2021-01-09 12:03 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (earnest)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
It looks like your friend with the rats, Dimitri, sent him some booze at some point, so there's that. Maybe it'll turn into friendship--who knows?

And I do understand all about having friends who are naturally better people than you.

Date: 2021-01-09 05:45 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Well, I was always a partner in it. But Tyler was the one who ran things on site.

Date: 2021-01-09 06:55 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (earnest)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
If it were the second, do you think I'd admit it?

But no, I just have some friends who are really good people.

Date: 2021-01-09 08:00 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (pleased)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
I might.

Well, there's Scorpia. She's such a sweetheart. And my other employee, Chloe, is a real good kid too. And I'm friends with Armin and Shiro. They're both good people. Carly's also got a good heart. And so does little Kiri, the bird girl. And back home there was my sister, Charley, and Polly who rescued me once and Polly's girlfriend Petra.

Date: 2021-01-11 06:07 pm (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (smile)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Is your Petra a Canadian immigrant studying law and practicing the sword? Because that's my Petra.

Date: 2021-01-13 01:14 am (UTC)
fingersandteeth: (smile)
From: [personal profile] fingersandteeth
Yeah, my Petra's no princess. I'm fairly sure they aren't.

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