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[powerhungry]

HEX CLUB/PINK SLIP GROUP CHAT. SILCO HAS ADDED YOU TO THIS CHAT. 28 people: Silco, Jinx, Eunhyuk, Hawk, Buffy, Devon, Koby, Shadowheart, Zephir, Sebastian, Riley, Jake, Saber, Steve, Eula; Ani, Richie, Sam, Armand, Shauna, Freya, Roza, Emmrich, Clarisse, Danny, Eddie, Iggy, Joe.

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@sgr

[altercates]

It's behind the bar counter. The lighter, I mean.

What does it mean when the owner wants the guy out back?

[haggle]

means it's time for his complimentary personality adjustment
u walk him like he’s late on rent and lucky he got a warning
and if silco's already rollin up his sleeves? u pretend u ain't see nothin

(thx for finding my lighter u angel. ur officially my favorite bouncer this week 🫶)

[altercates]

So we rough him up for being disrespectful.

[ he's not judging. just trying to figure out what the line is, where it's drawn. ]

And thank you. I think. I haven't done a lot of bouncing yet.

It's Ani, right? Ms Ani?

[haggle]

or the kinda talking to that makes him rethink his whole damn life
scare him up just enough so he knows not to fuck around again but leave the heavy shit to silco

don't trip about not bouncing much yet
u want some tips from the playbook: the hosts gotta shine, and you're their damn shield
if shit's about to pop, get between em and the mess
always stay alert, always know where ur gonna step if shit goes sideways, and don't get pulled into bullshit fights

and yeah, it's ani
but i like the sound of miss ani

[altercates]

Miss Ani it is. Happy to keep the ladies happy. [ oh, wait— ] Is that okay to say? I'm told it can come off condescending.

[ natasha would just roll with the punches and hit back harder, but natasha isn't like most people. most of the women he's met aren't, and steve's starting to think it may be skewing his perspective just a bit. ]

How often do guys
Actually, that's a stupid question. I'm not going to finish that one.

What's the rule on guests waving sharp objects?

[haggle]

nah, i don't mind "ladies" if ur mouth knows how to say it right
u say it sweet and not stupid and we're good
i like being a lady. means i hit prettier 💋

how often do guys do stupid shit?? that what u were gonna ask??
all the time. that's why we got code words and sharp heels

ur rule? one warning
second time they're losing the knife or a kneecap. tell em to pick one

[altercates]

Pretty girls always hit hard, in my experience. And yeah, I was going to ask that. Then I remembered doing stupid shit is how I ended up in the army, and I had to backtrack a bit.

[ give him a sec. ]

Just the kneecap?

[haggle]

pretty girls gotta hit hard
fist gets u taken more seriously than a cute face
but army, huh? so u got some discipline or just a veteran of dumb shit?

just the kneecap? babe, that's the polite ask before we break out the big toys
sometimes a broken nose or a black eye come free with it
depends how stupid the shit is, steve

[altercates]

Big stupid gets the big hits, got it.

[ which means he should hold back just a bit less. then again, half the guests of the manor aren't baseline human. note to self: ask silco if there's a handbook for this.

easier to figure which rules to break if there's a list of them to read through. ]

And both. A lot of discipline and a lot of dumb shit to my record. You do enough of the latter, the army sometimes gives you a shiny medal.

These days I'm just trying to do good with the stupid.

[haggle]

got it in one baby
love a man who don't need shit spelled out twice. saves me a headache and my time

sounds like u got a medal and a punch card for trouble, huh? scars and stripes — real overachiever shit
that's the right kinda attitude to keep our girls and guys safe from the dumbest of the dumb

u got loyal dog energy and a jaw built to take a punch. ur gonna do just fine
but u ever need help adjusting to the chaos, u know who to come to
this place runs on instinct and experience and i got more than enough to loan out

@hangman

[ailerons]

[ Pointedly answering this text and not that one: ]

Hard to believe you've never seen a little roughhousing in a bar, rogers

[altercates]

Never said I didn't, Seresin. Just never been asked to exit out back before.

[ before the serum, he's getting dragged out front. after the serum— well, not a lot of people willing to pick a fight with captain america in a bar. ]

You ever get thrown out?

[ailerons]

[ Ironically, throwing a captain out of a bar is a very fresh memory for Jake. Luckily, it'll be a snowball's chance in hell before there's a need to repeat that. ]

Just the once
Navy bar in Pensacola
Made five hundred bucks and was told never to come back to the Blacktop.

Glory days of youth
Which for you would've been, what
Just after Franklin discovered electricity?

[altercates]

You were hustling? Flying wasn't doing it enough for you?

[ like steve has room to talk, seeing as he did the same thing back in the day, betting with other COs who didn't know better about the pretty boy from brooklyn. cigarettes, liberated booze, firearms and bullets — it helped with morale, and it helped keep them rationed the further into cold territory they marched. ]

Closer to Oppenheimer than Old Ben. You're pretty bad at guessing.

[haggle]

( ignoring her is as feasible as ignoring a glitter spill — a factual, sparkly, in-your-face impossibility that keeps popping back up. case in point: )

don't go pickin on my puppy, he's learning tricks real fast