OPEN POST 2020.

[legalized]

【my ❝CALL ME OUT❞ post】
get my ass in gear.

♛ here is my muselist. ♛ post "calling" one of them out — you can do so by putting their name in the subject line! ♛ can be informal/formal/comment spam/crosscanon/explicit/whatever tickles your fancy! ♛ feel free to make up a scenario at the start, or wait to see where things go. meme code.

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[ketterdamn]

[ She has every right to be suspicious, he definitely could've gotten her something ridiculous. Though truthfully, she could still probably pull it off.

(He's biased, though).

Her delight when she pulls it out of the box is enough to make him crack a small smile, always enjoying when her face lights up like that. And maybe he's staring a little again as she models it—the only word that comes to mind is cute. But she's attractive even when she's brandishing a knife—or perhaps especially when she does—so perhaps he's a bit skewed. ]

It suits you.

[wraithes]

Does it?

[ amused, as she rests her chin in a hand, leaving the hat on. it felt . . . unpractical, and inej had spent the last handful of years trying to vanish and disappear. it felt a little weird, to wear something that deliberately calls attention to yourself, but she supposes that there's a time and place, for hiding. and there's a time and place for a fun hat. ]

I suppose you have to get a passing grade, for your first attempt at taking orders. Points deducted for arguing with an old woman over her cat.

[ :) ]

[ketterdamn]

[ So much suits her. He's thought it before and he thinks it now: she'd look fine in a burlap sack. Saying as much is a bit more difficult, though he finds some phrasing that hopefully doesn't make him look like the lovesick fool he is. ]

Most things do.

[ Well, close enough. ]

I didn't argue with her. That assumes I managed to get a word in amongst the chatter.

[wraithes]

[ the comment most things do doesn't escape her notice, and inej's smile becomes a little softer, at that . . . before she rolls her eyes, settling back into her chair. ]

She looks forward to your visits, you know.

[ knowingly; inej knows exactly where kaz buys his stupid hats, having had to go there once or twice or four times. and while she, too, has been greeted to a mess of chatter, it's usually not as bad as it is with kaz. ]

Maybe you reminds her of one of her grandchildren. Or her cats.

[ the cat is more likely, given kaz's penchant of clawing eyes out and hissing, but she'll keep that to herself. ]

[ketterdamn]

I can't imagine why.

[ Aside from being a steady customer, that is. He pays on time, every time, not keen on having any little debt that could choke him later. ]

If I remind her of a grandchild, I almost feel sorry for her. [ Look, he knows he's a difficult personality. At least recently he'd acknowledged it more.

A far cry from when he'd called Inej an investment– he hopes. ]

[wraithes]

[ kaz is lucky inej doesn't hold grudges and is a lovely pious girl because being called an investment is probably in his top ten fuck ups.

still, inej gives a sigh before she removes the hat and delicately puts it back in the box, talking as she does so: ]

Maybe it is the cat, then. [ amused, as she puts the top back on the box. ] But thank you, for the hat. Especially in light of the struggle you endured to get it.

[ at least she's grinned a little, at the jib, her nose wrinkling. ]

[ketterdamn]

[ There's a different retort on his tongue but it dies when she grins, her face lighting up. It doesn't even matter that she's laughing at his expense, he would do anything to keep her smiling so much. ]

I'm glad you understand my plight. [ He says instead, faintly amused. This kind of banter he enjoys and misses when she's gone—no one in the Dregs knows him well enough to be so familiar. Anika comes close but she's still too nervous about pissing him off.

He'll hold onto these little moments until he can spend more time with her. Not just these two week stints and then seeing her off for at least a couple months. Silently, he reminds himself to really work on getting the gang to be sustainable without him. ]