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[deadtective]

We've got posts up playing icebreakers and asking for people to regale them with the exciting tales of their weekend, so I think it's safe to say that we're past the current crisis? We better be, because I'm sick of slicing my fingers up leafing through the classifieds and don't need anybody jumping on me for being flippant during a tragedy.

[so preemptively defensive, Hazel. maybe you should have had somebody proofread this before sending it out.]

I'm looking for a job. I had this whole thing typed up with my preferences and abilities, but it ended up sounding like I was looking to run bootleg liquor over the border.

Which. I mean, if there's an opening for that I'm totally down for an interview? But that's not exactly the kind of thing you advertise for.

I was a private detective back home, buuut honestly I think I broke more laws than solved actual cases. No convictions, though! Uh. The point is I have a shitty skillset and I am super desperate. If the job's not boring as hell and it can finance dozens of pre-ordered video games I'm interested.

Look, it's this or I start prying radios out of hovercars. The crime rate of Heropa is in your hands!!

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[enucleation]

Hm. I think I will live in terror from here on, then. [ he smirks back at her, plaufully ]

[deadtective]

Just make sure you're covering up all that stress with a decent makeup job. There's definitely going to be pictures, and it'd be a huge waste if you ended up looking shitty in them!

[she grins back, hands on her hips in mock authority.]

[enucleation]

You are right. Black eye shadow might go along well with my hair, so I will try that.

[ Kaneki pats the hoovervespa, finally. ] Don't break it on a first try, alright?

[deadtective]

[she shakes her head, holding a hand up in mock promise]

Third try at least, I promise. Or during something really heroic.

[enucleation]

Maybe trying to stop a guy with tendrils on his back.

[ YEAH NO KEN that's a bad joke ]

Sorry. Too soon. [ not for him, though. To him, that happened over 6 months ago ]

[deadtective]

What? Hey, if anyone's got the right to joke about it, it's you.

[his corpse, after all. Hazel's intimately familiar with trivializing horrible things through bad jokes, and she's sure as hell not going to deny someone else their chance at it.]

Although I don't know if I'll be able to find one that's as good-looking.

[hey, she won't start those jokes but she'll sure as hell ride along with them.]

[enucleation]

[ does he? Though people were a lot more upset about it than he was.

The comment about "good looking" gets him to blink ]

I think this one is perfect. Much better, even. [ said with a tiny hint of cockiness ] Because it's in one piece.

[deadtective]

[that gets her to snort, a smile pulling at the corner of her mouth even as she rolls her eyes.]

You'd be surprised. Some people really go for that nonsensical abstract look.