(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.

Comments

[opheliac]

Uuuuh 'cuz it's fun? Have you never tried it before? To take somethin' and get away with it scott free is the best feelin' in the world!!

[inkedspell]

I've stolen plenty of shit before, but never from someone who needed it. There aren't enough grossly rich assholes around who deserve to be taken down a peg or three.

[There are some but not nearly enough to justify making a whole game out of it like Jinx seems to think she should.]

[opheliac]

Hooooow about i offer up the Princess then? She's fancy and prissy lookin'.

(that would also mean robbing vi and L since they live in the same home. and would that mean she would be taking from jinx, too? not at all because she doesn't have anything. )

[inkedspell]

Offer up? Like a challenge, huh? I take it she's a "friend" of yours, too?

[She thinks she's pretty sure who the Princess is, considering Vi's talking about Sansa before, but just checking.]

[opheliac]

Don't make me vomit. She is nowhere near of a friend to me.

(down with sansa, up with air. or whatever.)

[inkedspell]

[Well that answers that. Except not at all. She wonders exactly how easy it is for someone to end up on her Not Friend List.]

So you trying to get me to do your dirty work and mess with her?

[opheliac]

Is there a problem with that?

[inkedspell]

Not as much fun if I don't have a personal stake in it. Nice try, though.

[opheliac]

Okay, fine! How about I'll let you in an embarrassin' secret about Vi?

[still not here]

[faceblocks]

[just waits here, facepalming]

[inkedspell]

[Oh. Oh. This is what normal siblings do, huh? Saeri maybe definitely shows some interest. Yeah, things between her and Vi might be...Something That Isn't Anything But Maybe Something, but she's still her friend. Because Saeri says so. She'll drag them back to normality and acting like nothing happened if she had to fight Vi for it. What a perfect opportunity.]

What kind of secret? The kind she'll hate me for or the kind I can tease her about for the next month and she'll get over it?

[opheliac]

The kind where she ate somethin' without knowin' it was old and she had the WORST breath. — She was quiet for three days 'cuz whenever she spoke? It was pure death.

(a small smirk as her omen, mr. bananas, decides to show up in the video feed to curl up in her lap. jinx holds him like he's a toddler and scratches along his head with her index.)

Goes to show how much she goes in without thinkin'.

[inkedspell]

[A metal hand comes up to her mouth as she snorts in laughter, unable to hold it in. She could mention that she now knows more than enough to not need to barter for a secret, but she also knows only more amazing things could come after the start being something like that.]

Some people are good at adapting and thinking on their feet. That comes with risks.

[Like eating rotten food.]

If you've got more like that, I think we could come to an arrangement.

[not here]

[faceblocks]

[she doesn't know whether to laugh, cry or breathe a sigh of relief. yeah, this is embarrassing and she'd likely never going to hear the end of it, but it's better than worrying about a confrontation, a bad start. and it gives her an idea to tuck away.]

[opheliac]

What? C'mooon, what I told you was pure gold. Stinky Feet-Vi would wanted you to say "yes" on me and not pass this up.

[inkedspell]

[Saeri gives a little careless shrug.]

Yeah but you already told me that one for free. If you've got anymore then I'm willing to barter a Sweet Pea for ya. Whatever you do with it after is up to you.

[opheliac]

Well, unfortunately, I don't have anymore. There was a big gap of life between us so who knows what other embarrassing stuff she's got under her belt.

[inkedspell]

[Saeri laughs.]

You could have made so much shit up and I wouldn't have even known. [She would like to think that the fact she didn't means maybe Jinx is crazy but still a good sister?]

How about a work swap? I give you something I made and you give me something you made. Nothing deadly or explosive.

[opheliac]

Ugh, come on! Nothin' deadly or explosive? That's my whole thing! What the heck do you expect me to make?

(actually, she immediately thought of something what she could make that would be useful. but she will still try to convince her to do something dangerous.)

[inkedspell]

Because I don't want it to blow up before I have a chance to tinker with it myself. Where's the fun in getting new tech if I don't get the time to enjoy it?

[Not giving in on that point, Jinx.]

[opheliac]

OKAY FINE! Sheesh, you'll get somethin' that's not explosive. Happy?

(maybe next time, she'll send her a little pop paint bomb as a punishment for denying her the first go round. jinx will make a note of that somewhere in her books.)

[inkedspell]

Positively brimming.

[She doesn't exactly trust Jinx, but she does think she'll hold to her word...this time.]

And the name's Saeri.

[opheliac]

Saeri, huh? Sounds fun to say! If you forgot my name, I'm Jinx. Make sure you drilled it to your head. Or I'll force it in.

(a chipper giggle while attempting to wiggle her nose like a rabbit.)

[inkedspell]

[How does someone go from being crazy to acting cute like that? Probably the crazy part. The whiplash, wow.]

Hard to forget a name like that.

[opheliac]

Okay, great! Soooo get use to me 'cuz I'm gonna be around a lot. I'm here to rule all of Trench, ha ha ha!

(will she? most likely not but she will definitely to make this place way more interesting than it was before her arrival.)