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Juno Steel You know what to do. [Text/Voice/Video/Action]

 

 

 

 

[art by Robin Kasznia]

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[noirtrope]

1. i can feel my liver failing just LOOKING at that thing. order me one.

2. Don’t get me wrong—I love silver and bracelets—but handcuffs are not a good look on me.

3. She yelled “outlaw country” right before we heard the police siren

4. texting me the drink specials one by one is not going to convince me to come out

5. You know how fear has a smell? Well turns out shame has a smell too. It's pina colada flavored lube.

6. she's 6'2. you bet your ass i slept with her.

7. I am not wearing that. I'm not even objecting to the dress I just don't know why you think I'd look good in that color.

8. it wasn't funny the first time i don't know why you think i'd laugh on the fifth.

9. text him, misfires welcome

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[commanderforehead]

As both a doctor and a former addict I cannot emphasize enough how inadvisable that is unless you have a genetically engineered liver and didn't disclose that.

[noirtrope]

[he's got a cybernetic eye so why not a modified liver?]

comes standard on all new PIs

un: thearchivist; text

[compellingstatement]

I'm aware Christmas isn't something that really exists anymore in the future.
But in my time, it's a gift-giving holiday you're supposed to spend with friends and family.
Are you going to be spending it with Morrigan, before I invite just him to a small party?
It's the 25th of December.

[noirtrope]

Yeah I've heard of it.

[Sort of.]

Like you said it isn't really a thing anymore so
invite him wherever you want

[The day before isn't really worth noting either, but Juno suspects he will spend it in a bar.]

Delivered on Dec 24th

[compellingstatement]

[Juno will receive a card in the mail on the morning of the 24th. It's a "Happy Birthday" one and contains a gift card to Plumage Boutique for a substantial sum of money.]

Get something better to wear.
-Jon

text; un: shogun

[collateraldamaging]

Hello. I arrived a few days ago, and reading back on the network I saw you were offering dance lessons for Valentine's Day. Was that a seasonal thing, or would it still be possible to sign up now?

[noirtrope]

Oh sure
I mean it's not seasonal, I can do lessons whenever you want

[Well this is unexpected and a kind of exciting.]

[onevoice]

[She shows up after worked, as promised and less 'knocks' than she raps lightly, sharply and until the bloody door opens.

Just in case 'state of sobriety' turns out to be 'not'. ]

[noirtrope]

[He's not that far-gone. But Juno still looks cranky when he opens the door and he doesn't say anything as he moves out of the way to let Kathryn in. He doesn't reek of alcohol, so maybe that's a good sign.

He's definitely still wearing whatever he slept in. Just a t-shirt and pajama bottoms.]

text; un:prince

[rosebyanyother]

A question for you, dear detective: are you still looking for a contract?

[The question is a little disingenuous: Peter knows he'd know if Juno signed one, they talk often enough that it would probably come up.]

[noirtrope]

This feels like a leading question.
I am also definitely not a detective anymore, yknow

[Because he would've said something to Peter by now if he had.]

un: thearchivist; text (backdated to the start of May)

[compellingstatement]

You need to contract with Morrigan.
Now.
He's not renewing with me, and he's going to be thrown out of his apartment and into the Down because he can't legally live somewhere outside public housing without a contract.
He's waiting for you.

[Is this designed to make Juno feel guilty? Yes. Does Jon care in this instance? No.]

[noirtrope]

first: what
second: what the fuck
third: fuck off

[Despite that brusque response, Juno is now frantically trying to remember if Nureyev said anything about losing his fucking apartment. He--Is this this is fault?]

he's waiting for me?

Text: CptCoffee

[onevoice]

How are things?

[noirtrope]

fine



wait
what things
why is things typed like that

a gift

[wolfehawke]

[ Tonight when Juno gets home from work, there's a little something extra in his bag. A terrible looking movie called The Singing Detective and a package of gourmet chocolate and peanut butter popcorn. Alongside both is a note. ]

Juno-
Surprise! It's Satinalia where I'm from, which is our gift-giving holiday. I tried to find a dancing detective movie but this is what I could come up with instead. I hope the joke still lands. If not, at least the popcorn should be good.
Enjoy.
- A. Hawke

~Delivery

[vonumberwolf]

[In an envelope is a gift certificate to a swank shoe store and a guaranteed appointment with a dress maker who is hard to get in with.]

Hope you can spend your holiday in style!

~The Christmas Elf

un: thearchivist; text

[compellingstatement]

https://www.zildo.com/homedetails/1445-marzipan-ln-up-duplicity/6789345_zpid/

[That's it. That's the entirety of the message. If clicked, the link leads to a very nice, three-bedroom house suspiciously right across the street from Jon's home, Marzipan Terrace.]

[noirtrope]

uh
nice house?

text | un: bigred

[redrighthanded]

[ A digital invite arrives! It's a photo of a very nice looking butt wearing lacy red lingerie, pulled up to show off a tattoo of a red heart with devil horns and a spade-tipped tail. Some might recognise said butt and tattoo as belonging to Harley Quinn.

Underneath, in flowy font, is written: ]

PLEASE COME TO OUR
TOTALLY ROMANTIC VALENTINE'S ORGY!

FRIENDS AND COMPANIONS AND +1'S WELCOME
BYOT (BRING YOUR OWN TOYS)
AT THE WAREHOUSE, VALENTINE'S WEEKEND (ALL WEEKEND!!)

~ LOVE AND KISSES,
HARLEY & HELLBOY ~
XOXOXOXOX

UN: Suit-and-shades (U Up event)

[not_actually_a_bad_guy]

I'd like to show you my rope collection.

[noirtrope]

[whoa, ok]

In a "oh no, be a shame if you were all tied up and at my mercy~" kind of way or in a "this is actually a threat" kind of way?

Action

[knightbynight]

Bruce 'just' wants a cup of coffee - or that's the justification he uses when he wanders into the cafe. In truth, the place has been on his radar for quite a while and he's been avoiding it.

given the current state of the city (and himself) and looming deadlines, he's no longer avoiding.

He's dressed very, very well of course, if somewhat boringly when he enters, gets his coffee and then pauses.

Just a little bit lost until he accidentally makes eyecontact with Juno. At that point he takes a couple of steps that direction.

[noirtrope]

Juno freezes when someone makes eye contact. He's out here collecting glasses and plates and mugs to keep the tables clear and so the cats don't have to do it. But he is out here. He never did ask if that means he has obligations other than bussing.

"Can I help you...?" Customer service is not his specialty. The guy looks expensive, though, and Juno is pretty sure he'd hear about it from someone if he scared off a possible patron.