ptoma: (↳ o74)
мιcнael aғтon ([personal profile] ptoma) wrote2022-03-30 05:56 pm

ic contact; open rp

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backdrafter: (i don't know if i can be alone again)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-12 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
i'm curious!!

and i always want something more when someone tries to withhold it so you might as well make this easier on yourself
backdrafter: (you never gave up on me)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-12 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
boooooooooo

any around the restaurant?
backdrafter: (i'll never know what you see)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-12 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
good, you're learning

deal!
backdrafter: (you hear it clear in my tone)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-12 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
omw

[She's there in 10, peering in with uncharacteristic caution before taking a step inside.]
backdrafter: (and you're qualifed to me)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-12 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rather predictably, Gen spins around with her lighter struck the moment that door slams into place, but she doesn't actually make any move to attack. He did that just to creep her out, didn't he? Asshole...

Gingerly closing and pocketing her lighter, Gen turns and gives the office a slow once-over before stepping in deeper.]


Yeah, and you're really fucking weird.

[All the empty-eyed animatronic heads make her skin crawl. She actually starts to reach out toward the Fredbear torso before withdrawing her hand with a frisson of fear, but then it occurs to her how much satisfaction she probably just gave Mike with that movement so she gives it a light shove and turns her back on it.]

This place is a... [Her gaze falls on Helpy and she just looks slightly pained that one of them should be so cute. Not today, Satan.] ... scratch nightmare, this place is a fucking fever dream.
backdrafter: (i thought i lost you this time)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-13 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
... yeah, you're right. [She probably doesn't mean it the way that he does, but it's still true. She'd have no interest in him at all, of any kind, if he were just a random 50 year old dude who owns a creepy kid's restaurant.] And be honest, you're flattered I want to know anything about you. It gives your sad old ego a little stroke.

[Watching Helpy chug around the desk so cheerfully just makes Gen look even more pained - she's obviously, visibly fighting the urge to be charmed by him, like an anti-cat person coping with a kitten curled up asleep in their lap. Appreciating cuteness is weakness and yet...]

"Family photos..." [Said with a slight mockery of his accent.] There's a concept. Did even shitty families take those back in the day? [If she sounds bitter, that's because she is - for all the evidence that Michael's father was an absolute monster, at least he apparently got his family together to take nice pictures. That means he must have wanted someone in the family around.]
backdrafter: (suppressing who i was inside)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-14 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gen almost, almost thanks Helpy as she takes the picture, but then she gets a hold of herself. It's a robot. She's not letting herself get sucked into the madness here.

The picture itself causes her eyebrows to shoot up, and she glances back and forth between it and Mike in his current form several times.]
Huh. So I was right. [With that cryptic statement, she hands the picture back to Helpy and gives Mike an innocent smile.]

That wasn't so hard, was it?
backdrafter: (now that we made it this far)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-15 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[He's so wonderfully predictable sometimes. Gen can't help but laugh at the high drama of his response, but there's something... not quite kind, but at least a bit warmer in the sound of it. Or maybe just more genuine, not so much for effect as usual.]

I was just thinking awhile back, that based on... what's left of your face, you probably weren't bad looking before all that shit happened. 'Cause I mean, all fuckin' things considered, you're still not bad.

And I was right. You were hot as fuck.
backdrafter: (who do we owe it to?)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-15 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Mike showed any arrogance about his appearance, present or past, Gen would roll her eyes and leave. If Mike got really weird about the compliments, something like explosive rage or sadness or any huge emotional reaction, Gen would leave out of pure self-preservation instinct.

But instead he gets quiet and flustered and then flatly tries to usher her out, and that actually stirs up a somewhat warm feeling inside her. Lashing out at kindness is understandable (and more her style, if she's honest), but just bluescreening because it's so unfamiliar is a bit heart-wrenching.]


I could. [She brushes aside some food wrappers on his desk to make room for her to sit, one leg crossed demurely over the other. Did she actually expect to make this offer when she came into his office? Not really, but she has to admit that the possibility was on her mind - honestly, the possibility is what started this whole thing.

She doesn't wear seduction all that comfortably but at least she knows she has youth and attractiveness on her side. They're just things that she's had to protect for most of her life, not offer.]


I could leave, but I gotta say, you don't have much imagination when it comes to what I could do here.
backdrafter: ('cause i'm heartless)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-16 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ooooh, that choice of word. "Services." It's so obviously deliberate and yet it crawls right under Gen's skin, prickling with the familiar heat that demands retaliation in the form of flames. She balls her hands up so tight that her nails carve the shape of half-moons into her skin and reminds herself that she's got a sweet deal here, that the only other options are homelessness or back to Xavier's, weighing Mike's life and livelihood against her wounded pride with all that unhinged rage as plain as day on her face.]

I've got some bad fucking news for you, Mike. [Her voice is thin and hoarse from the strain of keeping herself together. She climbs down off the desk and storms right up to him but stops just short of jabbing a finger against his chest - pointing will be good enough, she thinks. He doesn't deserve any contact at all.] All this... isn't what's keeping you from getting fucked. Enjoy knowing from this point forward that it's all your fault, and bitching about it really does make you no better than an incel.

[She needs to burn something. She needs to burn something.]

I'm leaving for awhile. Lock me out and I burn this place to the fuckin' ground, then pin it on you in case you really are part cockroach.

[Okay. With that said, she can walk out of the office and head for the service door of the restaurant. She's saved enough face.]
backdrafter: (i don't know if i can sleep alone again)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-17 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Immediately upon stepping out the service door, she sets the contents of one of the restaurant's dumpsters alight and texts Mike a picture of the fire with a smiley face. It shouldn't be too hard to put out as the garbage was only taken away the day before - just closing the lid would probably ensure that it burns out safely.

The next morning, Gen actually does return. A strong smell of smoke lingers around her but it's a pure woodsmoke smell, nothing too chemical or sweet, so it's hard to say exactly what she's been up to. Her clothes are smudged with dirt, her ponytail loose and mussed, and she has one cheerful Helpybot sitting on her shoulder. They went on an adventure!!

Although she has become strangely fond of the little guy, she still stops at the door to Mike's office and kicks it several times with her steel-toed workboots.]


Hey. Come get your bear.
backdrafter: (how much to light up my star again)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-18 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[So that's where they're at, huh? She offers him something he very clearly said he wanted and thought he'd never find, and offers it out of pure interest and curiosity in where things might go, and it gets her the accusation of being a whore and now the Business Face. So has this completely reset whatever... whatever they built up to this point?

Lesson learned. Maybe. Probably not. Lesson learned until the next time.

Dodging bots left and right, Gen goes to her backstage home to grab a few things and then heads to the bathroom for a quick sink bath before work. There's a YWCA nearby that she hits up for a free shower about once a week but mostly this is how she gets clean - a cloth, a bar of soap, some dry shampoo, and a bathroom sink. Since the sinks aren't hidden behind any kind of stall door, this could lead to an escalation of some kind or another between them if Mike happened to walk in on her almost entirely naked.

If he stays in the office, they probably won't cross paths until the day is over and Gen emerges from the kitchen with an entire birthday cake that had to be sent back because of a decoration error by one of the bots. She sits down with an extra-large soda, a fork, and that entire cake and prepares to make sure it doesn't go to waste. She may be a psychopathic flame demon, but she can still sulk with the best of them after being rejected.]
backdrafter: (i'm living someone else's life)

[personal profile] backdrafter 2022-09-18 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gen has no idea what she was expecting but this... isn't it. She glances down at Helpy just to give her someplace neutral to direct her gaze and accepts whatever the bear has brought to her but doesn't look it over just yet.

(She may pet Helpy's smooth metal head, but she'll neither confirm nor deny the accusation if it's ever made.)

That's a generous offer to some kid who sleeps in his storage room and washes some dishes for room and board. It suggests that he understands the gravity of the bind she's in as a young mutant with no official schooling on the books after twelve years old, something she never really thought he cared about, never mind considered all that closely. And - he does sound somewhat guilty, which Gen really isn't used to after she's thrown a fit.]


Keep talking. [She even sets down her fork to show that she's really, truly and honestly paying attention.] I'll decide after.
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