(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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[survivalthroughhate]

I have a.....[He pauses, still not sure how to define Obi-Wan any longer. One part friend, one part enemy, and no clear title that Maul can assign him. Finally, he goes with a vague turn of phrase.] ....someone I have known for a very long time who is a Coldblood and does the same thing. [Maul snickers.] I can always tell when I've pissed him off because he starts looking a bit crystal-like in appearance.

[He zooms in on another thing that Jinx says.]

Oh? You have family here?

[opheliac]

Yeah, a big sister. You can't really miss her. Just follow the sounds of people groanin' in pain 'cuz they've been sucker punched.

(a beat.)

Aaaaaand if you're not hearin' that, she's also a walkin' wall of art. Crazy tats and stuff. They're pretty cool lookin', though. Kinda makes you wanna tell her to stand still so you can see all of 'em. I haven't seen all of it myself. Maybe I'll get her to stop moving so much so I can.

[survivalthroughhate]

[Maul chuckles for a moment quietly in amusement.]

That sounds like my little brother Savage. He'll punch you in the shoulder as a greeting if he's actually fond of you.

[And since Savage was seven feet tall and built like a moose, he could practically knock someone over doing that.]

I shall look for her then, for I can always appreciate good tattoos. All of this-- [He taps the black sections of his face.] --are tattoos. The culture I come from tattoo all their children.

[opheliac]

Now THAT'S a hardcore culture. But hey, that's one way to toughen up a kid.

[survivalthroughhate]

It's the way of the Nightkin. If you know how to read the tattoos right, they can tell you a lot of information about the person you are looking at.

[Hence why Maul and his brother have very different tattoo patterns.]

Dathomir is a dangerous planet. Those who are not smart or strong tend to perish in short order.

[opheliac]

Ooo! — Very adventurous. Zaun's a lil' like that, too. If you're not street smart or know how to hold your own, you'll get gobbled up by the big guys. Our people use to work together but we got tired of playin' nice.

[survivalthroughhate]

I gather you are one of those smart and tough enough to survive anything that is thrown at you.

[Jinx doesn't strike him as someone who would go down without a fight.]

[opheliac]

I had good teachers.

(teacher as in plural. while vi and silco are not in good terms (that's putting it lightly), the two of them taught her a lot of things. one is no better than the other in her eyes.)

[survivalthroughhate]

So did I.

[He pauses.]

Well, most of them weren't good by most definitions of the word but they were highly effective.