if we can call them friends then we can call them on their telephones

[fingersandteeth]

Who: Steven Durante + the other Rockets
Where: Various places in Goldenrod City + over poke-Skype
When: Late March/Early April
Summary: Steven has a few emotional conversations with his co-workers
Rating: PG-13, with the inevitable likeliness of some threads going up to R in terms of language and conversational subjects. Anything too wicked goes to an inbox.

[This is a catchall post for various inter-Rocket threads with Steven taking place at the end of March/first half of April, with the starters for those threads in their own comments inside.]

Comments

[asmywitness]

I mean, currently I'm working full-time in the labs, but I doubt the admin are going to get too upset if I'm just working for another branch of Rocket shit. It's not like data entry is actually difficult, most of my day is just processing Pokemon handovers. You have no idea how many Trubbish I've had to enter. Steven.

But yeah, sure. Sounds like it'll be an interesting diversion, if nothing else.

[fingersandteeth]

I mean, if the admins are trash don't they deserve to get trash?

Steven certainly thinks so.

But yeah. Exactly. Though it's not an official Rocket thing, because we want to maximize how much off the profits *we* get to keep--and you're included in that 'we,' of course. If you're going to be my right hand in this, you'll get your cut too. If this works out, we'll be able to afford all the little luxuries we'd like.

Not that Steven can't get most of those anyway, being the live-in boyfriend of a very rich man--but he'd like to get his boyfriend nice things from time to time. Nicer things than he's been able to afford on his receptions' wages--and you can't get your rich boyfriend presents with his own credit card. It just doesn't work that way.

Plus, the Fight Club itself should be a lot of fun.

[asmywitness]

With two queer people running it, it's going to be the full homo text version of Fight Club, probably. Which will be interesting to see.

But I'm not, like, officially licensed for any of this, I've never actually done accounting and things as a JOB, just as like. General life skills. Living with a big family and my boyfriend, later on. How big are you planning on making this?

[fingersandteeth]

Oh, that's what I'm looking forward to. Especially since, if you believe Connie, transplants in general tend to skew queer.

Jack will make sure about the licenses.

And-- not super big? At least not at first. Just a tiny little place. With room to grow later. Probably doing a lot of the advertisement of the Fight Club aspect to other transplants, because we're more likely to be chafing against the violence restrictions.

We'd be calling it 'Jack's' because otherwise *someone* want to call it 'Club Handsome' and that just. Did not fit what kind of thing I want to do? So 'Jack's' works as a compromise.

Not sure what Lydia's calling hers yet.

[asmywitness]

Honestly that's not surprising at all, we tend to flock like penguins.

Hm. An anonymous post on the network, maybe, advertising your hole's free-for-all services? But if it's affiliated with Jack then people are already going to know off the bat that it's a Rocket related venue, aren't they?

Also if people really wanna fight something just for the sake of getting fucked up, I could offer Football to use as a boxer.

[fingersandteeth]

No, they won't. Because nobody who's not a Rocket already should that Jack's a Rocket. No one who isn't a Rocket already should know that *any* of us are Rockets, unless we've been very indiscreet. Not even Jack's enemies know--and yes, he has them here. Not even Jack's own estranged daughter knows he's a Rocket.

An obnoxious asshole, sure. A sleazy, cutthroat businessman, sure. A ruthless and amoral man whose idea of dealing with bandits and squatters on his planet was to kill them all... well, that's mostly just circulated among his enemies, but *yeah*.

But not a Rocket. If that were common knowledge or even fucking *rumor*, then I guarantee you it would have been the first damn thing Armin Arlert would have brought up when he tried to convince me to break up with Jack. Since he did not, I feel like I can safely say that it's not at all common knowledge or even casually suspected that Jack is a Rocket.

That said, using Football is an *excellent* idea. He might as well be good for *something* besides being a high-powered babysitter.

[asmywitness]

You're not selling the image of Jack as a person I would like to personally interact with, even if you're fucking him, but definitely a fitting archetype for being a low-tier mafia boss.

He calls it like he sees it.

I don't have much experience with graphic design personally, but we could probably make some fliers or something as well. Maybe Football could hand them out while we do admin work so people know exactly what they're getting into.

[fingersandteeth]

I mean, besides everything I've mentioned, he's also as funny as hell (and doubly so if you've got a dark sense of humor) and he's very good to the people he does give a shit about. You might actually like him if you interacted with him socially. People are rarely only one thing.

I know how to use Photoshop/the GIMP and do some very basic image editing, but nothing more complicated than the stuff you pick up in fandom and somewhat out of date these days. I never took any formal classes.

But yeah. That sounds like a good idea re: Football.