eversohandsome | Duplicity IC Contact

[ Tennal has run through their status in this city and class, and he's pretty sure he can rule out neuromodification and military division affiliation as being too specific to Orshan society to guess at any equivalent wherever Bob is from.

Bob had mentioned there not being freedom to have sex with men but other than that being bullshit, Tennal has no idea how to use it, or really think of it as usable. ]

I suppose you would look for that in others, to try to get someone else's spark to reflect on you. It must come from knowing that you couldn't keep up without some kind of assistance.

[ This is...probably not helping. ]

You must take after your gen-parent that way.

[ Because insulting someone's parentage does have a way of escalating things. Usually. ]

[ It's surprisingly difficult to find the right access point, mostly because Bob has invited this upon himself. There's a little bit of work on his part to understand what gen-parent means, but the overall message he works out after a beat.

It's probably right on the money to dig into a sore spot, but he takes a moment to snort and then lean back in his seat, as if he's trying to put more distance between them. ]

You what? You saying something about my mum?

Your mum clearly never taught you respect for your betters.

[ Tennal feels a little dirty, but it’s a dirtiness without particular attachment. His gen-parent is dead and his aunt is the legislator, she’s received plenty of public criticism but it’s not Tennal’s problem. ]

Someone should have showed you both your place, but maybe she wasn’t bright enough to know it.

[ A flash of anger is what he'd been aiming for. Bit of a spark to make at least part of what he intends to happen next more plausible. He's no stranger to getting into play fights just as he's no stranger to having a proper scrap. At least there's no weapons involved, here and now, that would make it difficult to present this as completely genuine. ]

Yeah, that'll do it.

[ It's a murmur more than anything, as if he's speaking to himself. But it's audible enough for the other man to pick up on should he be paying attention.

One last moment where Bob sounds like his soft and generally friendly self before he launches into his next persona.

Handsome Bob, who knows how to fight just like the rest of the lads he grew up with back in SW8, is skilled enough at scrapping that he's confident he won't hurt Tennal in the process. ]

Fuck you!

[ A sharp call to action and then Bob's launching himself across the space between them, hands outstretched to grab Tennal both by the throat and by the hand. It's all a ruse, a quick tussle to bring them close together before the guards have a chance to intervene. The packet of pills Bob sourced outside of these walls is pressed firmly into Tennal's palm.

How else is he supposed to sneak in drugs to his new mate here? ]

[ Tennal is used to his own defiance and the consequences of it. Given who he is - or at least who he’s related to - those consequences have been more likely to take the form of mind control to shut him down and take over his mind rather than violence. But violence has never been out of the question, not with either boarding school classmates or the army involved, and while Tennal isn’t a fighter he’s also not immediately cowed by it.

It shows in his eyes, a stubbornness setting in even as he gets grabbed. His hand closes around something and it’s only because he’s so very practiced at lying with his body language that he keeps from grinning. Instead he clenches both hands into fists, bringing them up like he’s going to try to throw a punch.

He doesn’t get the chance, a fact that’s probably more protective for his hands than for Bob’s face, before the guards are rushing in, pulling them apart and shoving Tennal towards his cell. ]

Yes, that certainly proves your sophistication.

[ Tennal realizes he’s shaking slightly, adrenaline and terror and satisfaction all blending together as he tries to get the last word in. ]

You can take your sophistication and stick it up your arse, pretty boy!

[ Bob's voice echoes down the hall after the man being bundled away, and at least he hopes the nickname softens the faux aggressive goodbye. Mission accomplished, though. A bit of boredom-relief coupled with delivery of some illicit substance or another.

Fuck knows if the pills in that packet will actually be the psychedelic he asked for. It would be naive of him to think there's not some weird city shit infused in even the drugs here.

Still, he hopes it provides some entertainment for Tennal. Better than rotting staring at the inside of a prison cell.

And he's very used to being slung out of doors by bouncers and policemen, so much so that he smirks as he's thrown out on his arse by the guards. It's been completely worth the visit. ]

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