Pre-Game catchall stuff

[rhygret]

Who: Rhys & whoever would like to know him pre-game!
Where: Qresh, Leith, or Westerly which is like everywhere
When: The last 4 years
Summary: Any and all CR from pre-game!
Restrictions/Warnings: Rhys is rich and he doesn't understand why he has to be unhappy like, ever????

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Comments

[rhygret]

Whaaaat? Pff, that's n...that's totally not what I...I mean, there's a really good reason for. For....

[ Rhys tries to scoff out a retort but he more or less just flusters about with all that, and ultimately just lets his shoulders slump. ]

Yeah no that's totally it. But come on! Look forget about those others guys alright, I'm Kendry. No one's gonna bug you about it unless I tell them to. And I have had to deal with that guy way too much not to complain about him alright?

You've gotta have something to say about him.

[ofobedience]

[He watches as the attempt to lie unravels, gives way to slumping shoulders and an admittance of the truth. And it is the truth, he thinks, as this exchange continues. This man really does just want him to complain about Jack because he, himself, will get something out of venting.

And Rhys is right, after all. He is Kendry, and as such Giovanni observes him carefully for a further few moments before finally he shrugs. He's blood of the Nine, and if he wants something from him, even something as strange and obscure as this, then really it's Giovanni's duty to give it to him. He knows to whom he belongs.]

All right.

[He takes a breath, tilts his head, considering what to say. He doesn't want to allow anything personal to bleed over into this, to give too much of himself away, but there are things that can be said about Jack without straying into that territory.]

He's obnoxious and smug and self-satisfied. I can't stand him. Every time he opens his mouth I think about how much fun it'd be to smash his head through a wall.

[Too much?]

[rhygret]

[ The wall-smashing bit maybe? But Rhys actually agrees with pretty much everything else that's there! So that's a bonus right? He's only going to blink a little bit before nodding and gesturing with his hands. ]

Yeah, exactly! I mean...except that last part. But that's what a I mean! He's so...urgh, frustrating. Like he isn't even anyone important but he goes around acting like he's the greatest thing since ever, that I should be grateful for having met him or something.

[ Technically for Jack helping him out of an almost-mugging, but that's a tiny, technical detail. Definitely not relevant to his complaining at all. ]

[ofobedience]

[But the last part was the best bit... :{

By his sides his trigger fingers twitch just once, but he makes a mental note to keep a lid on the overt expressions of violence. It's not so very strange to discover that someone in Rhys' position has delicate sensibilities, though why, then, he chose Giovanni for this particular exchange remains something of a mystery.

No matter.

He says nothing of it. Demonstrates his agreement with a perfunctory nod. Never mind that Jack is of higher standing than Giovanni himself-- it goes without saying, when he only ranks slightly above a gun or sword in terms of importance within the Company.]

He does that, yes. Yet somehow manages to get himself involved with people who're far too good for him.

[Okay that part might have been a tad personal, but Giovanni says it in such a smooth, flat voice that it's probably impossible to discern that he has someone specific in mind when he says this. Why Professor Einsturzen (MotherMotherMother) ever had anything to do with him is just another of those things that Giovanni can't begin to fathom.]

[rhygret]

[ It's a side-effect of Jack opening his mouth. After long enough you can almost forget what an ass and how annoying he is. Almost. Rhys isn't anywhere near that stage yet but he could probably see how someone else might be moved by that stupidly charming smile of his and a few well-timed lines.

He talks a good talk. For a Westie. ]

He's definitely spread more widely in the Quad than I thought he'd be. Turns out he's kind of infamous? And a lot of people know him. Which of course he loooves. [ Rhys rolls his eyes hard, scoffing. ] Guy loves the attention.

[ofobedience]

Clearly.

[Giovanni's face creases in an obvious expression of displeasure. Why bother to hide it, after all, if it's what his superior is asking for?]

But perhaps we'll get lucky eventually and the order will go out to dispose of him.

[It's something he hopes for, and that he'll be the one who gets to do it.]

[rhygret]

He's got to screw up pretty majorly for that to happen though. Changing his Company name from "Jack" to "Handsome" isn't enough to get rid of him. [ Unfortunately. If anything it's probably funny to anyone who hasn't had to deal with him yet. Lord knows Rhys would have found it hilarious if he hadn't had the misfortune of meeting the man. ]

We tend to be fond of the loyal ones and he's...pretty loyal, I guess. I mean he's not a first-genner or anything, so that's brownie points.

[ofobedience]

You're right, of course. It would need to be something significant. Theft of dangerous and expensive Company equipment, for example.

[Again, the smooth flat voice that indicates he's just pulling examples out of thin air, nothing to suggest he's using a concrete example of something he's certain has happened. Should the Company ever discover that it was Jack who stole one of the Cerberus Units and released it among the general population, Giovanni suspects his moment will come. That he may, if he's lucky, even get to do the honour of dispatching him.

But he has no evidence, only his word and his suspicions, and no-one would take his word over that of a higher-standing employee, one who's actually recognised as an autonomous person. And so he'll say nothing of it. It'd only be making trouble for himself.]

But alas. I suppose, for now, we'll just have to put up with him.

[rhygret]

Ugh, unfortunately. [ Rhys misses the allusion, as intended, and just rolls his eyes. Technically Jack hasn't actually done anything wrong or to rightly offend him beyond the falsely-familiar touch when trying to drag him out of trouble, but the man's just so goddamn smug and full of himself Rhys can't help but feel petty and irritated. Jack doesn't even have any reason to act the way he does--he's just working Intake. That's hardly a position of real power, but he walks it and flaunts it as if it's the greatest thing ever.

And worst of all people know him; he's made a name for himself. And that's what Rhys wants. ]

Maybe we'll get lucky.

[ofobedience]

[Whereas, for Giovanni, the offense was a significant one, something that cut him right down to the bone. Taking away the one good thing he'd ever really had, a stability and friendship the likes of which he's unlikely to ever see again. Perhaps that hadn't been Jack's intention, but he did steal something from him, and it's a crime he is neither likely to forget nor forgive.

But, being what he is, his hands are tied. There's nothing he can do, bound by loyalty and restrictions like tangled barbed wire.

Still, when Rhys says that, Giovanni flashes him a serrated smile-- a small slip in his professional demeanour, but Rhys has invited it, hasn't he?]

We can but hope.