(VIDEO) — UN: BOMBSHELL

[opheliac]

(the video begins of a zoom up of a pair of eyes. an animal to be exact. they blink curiously before it gets pulled back -- revealing it's a spider monkey holding the omni. he holds it up above him and even turns it upside-down and other various angles. hopefully the lovely people aren't easily to become motion sickness upon viewing this but if they do, their own fault really.)

Got it workin'?

(there's a voice coming from off camera; familiar to some or not. but the monkey looks off to the direction of the voice before turning the omni over so whoever is watching can now see jinx sitting in a chair -- slouching with her arm hanging over the top railing. there's a grin that slowly grows on her face, however, it's not... exactly a friendly kind. impish? troubling? dangerous? you'd be the judge. nevertheless, jinx hunches over now with both her arms drape over her knees -- looking directly at the omni.)

So! — Greetings people of.... whatever this place is. Kiiiinda forgot the name but not really important. I've been hearin' a lotta here and there that I've been here before. Don't really remember it, though. (a brief pause as she thinks.) Except the last time. I remember the last time but not the other times.

Buuuuuuuuut ♪! Since I've been here a whoooole BUNCH of times that means I gotta have some friends here, right?

(she bites her bottom lip to hold back a giggle as the video suddenly wavers around. but quickly it straightens up and focus with a closer look of jinx (it seems she's the one holding it now) in a bird's eye view. her spider monkey climbs on her body then curling himself along her shoulder and neck while also looking up at the feed along with her.)

So if ya know me, contact me. OH! And you got like, thirty minutes to convince me why my former self even bothered wasting my breath on you. Don't keep me waitin' too long 'cuz I get bored easily.

(a beat.)

ACTUALLY, NEVERMIND!!! — Decided to change it to twenty minutes. (her spider monkey seems to be screeching in laughter at jinx's sudden time change but resumes on nuzzling it's head against her cheek.)

OH OH! One more big thing. There's someone here by the name of Vi. If you know her, contact me too. So we can aaaaalll be friends and get along. No shame in that, right?

(she says this but there's something about that smile that really makes it... off putting. regardless though, jinx hums quietly as she cocks her head to the side.)

Tick-tock, tick-tock.

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[opheliac]

(her heart skips in her chest but not necessarily in a bad way. the only one who ever expressed jinx as close to a human was silco. beyond him, all of zaun and piltover treated her as a menace, terrorist, a heathen, a loose cannon. and again, she is fine with those things. jinx enjoys living up to those name-callings, honestly. but... it's nice to hear someone out here in this cruel world believes she is a person. and maybe one day, she'll even bathe in that sheer thought and pretend.

there's a small to her; small and saddening but it's there still. her sister is really trying so damn hard to make amends with her and making all of this... work. to untangle all the knots out of an enormous ball of yarn. they have such a long way to go and she wishes she could rush it and have it be done with. but she knows the only way is to take her time with it. and vi must know that too.)

... Hey, Vi?

[faceblocks]

Yeah?

[time. she doesn't know if there would ever be enough time to sort this out - and that some parts maybe can't be fully sorted - but isn't that life? and she wants to try, even if it's messy, and how can it be anything but messy? it's a snarl that's grown so big, lies tangled in truths tangled in assumptions and pride and suspicions all caught up with trauma on both sides.

vi wishes they could rush it, too. she has to remind herself that's ...not how to do this. this is going to be slow and steady and messy and with probably more than a few backslides. some of that's on trench. but fuck it.]

[opheliac]

(again, her heart is thumping in nerves. jinx bites her bottom lip with her gaze quickly darting away in a bashful manner. she's got her attention so what's with the shyness all the sudden? she curls up again with her legs all tuck in her chest. her lips are pressing against her knees and with the way she is slightly fidgeting, it's obvious she is trying to build up the courage to say something.

but soon, she moves her mouth away her legs and in a hush tone with a sheepish tiny smile:)

Uhm.... I love you.

(those three words that hadn't been said in...well, in years. in fact, jinx can't recall the last time they've even said that to each other. sometime waaaay before the heist but... she can't remember what that life was before that day nor their actual parents' faces, their names?)

[faceblocks]

[ever been punched in the gut but in a good way? that's what this, but it's a fist around her heart squeezing so tight she can't breathe for a moment - and when it lets go a lot of ..stuff goes with it. a couple walls. a layer of self hate. a certain level of fear. some anger, a bit of tangled feelings-twine she can't even give name to: just gone. and maybe jinx can her how her breath catches - and the exhale that comes after.]

I love you too, Jinxie.

[i always did. maybe not in the right way, maybe too much to allow you to grow, to change, to be ...something other than a memory that became an idea - an idealized version of someone that didn't exist anymore. i'm trying to change that. you were different at nine than you were at five and i still loved you. different at eleven than you were at nine and ...same. that's me, too. we don't have to be on the same page about everything, but maybe in time some things, and even if not you're still my sister and i love you more than anything. i know you're trying too. maybe even harder than i am.]

[opheliac]

(her heart is soaking in the heavens if heaven is such a place that exist. and it feels since the first time in forever, her world is showing colors. there are parts that are still dim for her; dull and worn. except now, there's a small dab of blue, green, orange, red, purple, just all the colors of the rainbow. jinx forgotten how lovely this could look with just a splat of color.

her smile is bigger -- again for the first time maybe, it's real. there's no hidden meaning behind it or some twist. a real love expression and vi can see her excitement by toying with her bangs; a mixture of blue and yellow. )

Hey, hey. Um... whaddya doin' out there anyway? Sight-seein'?

[faceblocks]

[it has been so long since vi has seen that smile she can't recall if it's the same one she remembers. she'd like to think it is.]

Kinda. I'm on my way home with some of what I looked at. [cookies, a blank book and some colored pencils - mostly brights. a second, separate set of pencils - all the colors, every one she could find.] Got a coupla things for you.

[the cookies will be handed over without ceremony. the art supplies will be wrapped (and wrapped brightly and well because she paid for this) and given to jinx after hiding her own hands behind her back and asking her sister to play a game of pick-a-hand.]

[opheliac]

Huh? What is it?

(if she were to guess, it must be something to help her with her way living here. more incense? wait, vi has plenty. another robe? )

[faceblocks]

If I told you, it wouldn't be a surprise.

[opheliac]

C'moooooon, don't I get a hint? Just a lil' teeny weeny one?

[faceblocks]

All of them have the potential to get pretty messy.

[opheliac]

.... If you got me a bucket load of dynamites, I'll promise to not threaten Sansa for a whole week and not booby trap her room anymore.

(did... she just said "anymore"? someone should probably warn her or try to diffuse whatever is going on in there.)

[faceblocks]

[it's not a bucketload of dynamites. ...she considers doubling back for some fireworks, but when she hears anymore she's now doubling back for smol explosives. sure, they're hunter weapons, and perhaps this is irresponsible but if this is the only way she can get a promise of no further boobytraps in sansa's room ever? sacrifices have to be made. she didn't know this had been happening. how is this her life??]

No booby traps anymore and we've got a deal.

[sansa can deal with threats, she's learned - sansa shrugs off threats better than a lot of people.

also, vi's gonna be a little later than she thought. and speaking of sacrifices, fang is now going to have to have a conversation with winter about how to defuse whatever ...is in there. winter needs to know, and perhaps has Knowledge. or maybe he's been defusing them all the while - that one is crafty.]

[opheliac]

Thaaa~aaanks, sis ♪ ! You're the best...!

(was this a sneaky tactic to get explosives all along? maybe not all the way through. but jinx managed to get more of them without lifting a single finger so overall, it's a win for her. this is probably something she won't be able to pull off again. with anyone else in trench, sure. but with vi? nah. she'll probably catch on later (or now) that she just got dooped. sucks to suck, tee hee.)