kazoo 19 - video [cw; alcohol]

[secondconflict]

[Kerry's brand new to the train and already feels stupidly raw given everything his first day made him confront. He looks tired when he starts the video.]

So the shop's the best place to buy a drink, ya? I just arrived here but could really use anything that dulls the senses. Problem is, don't 'xactly got the cred yet to start tossin' it around on somethin' like that. [As someone who has spent the last five decades with enough money to get whatever he wants, Kerry finds this very offputting, but he's trying not to seem like a rich bitch right off the bat so he still just seems tired more than annoyed.]

Any way I can set up an IOU or somethin'?

Oh, um, name's Kerry, by the by.

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[secondconflict]

Worse things to do than listen to some good tunes.

We usually have to worry about battles n' shit though? Heard about the demons, but folks talked that they were unusual.

[yondu]

Yeah, I was led to believe shit was pretty easy. But I'll be honest, even if it weren't usual I got trouble gettin' my head out of fightin'. I was raised in it, pretty much led to think it was all I was decent for.

[Still is inclined to believe that.]

So that's where my brain goes. But a couple of the teams ain't much for combat. Blue an' Orange don't get into it much. [Which makes it funnier that he's blue team.]

[secondconflict]

Not you though, I bet. You give off some crazy edgerunner vibes.

Uh, that's a kind o' merc back home.

[yondu]

[He flinches a lopsided sort of smile at that.]

Back home I'm called a 'Ravager', so that sounds like the same shape of animal whether it's a little differ'nt or not.

[Like so many other things that conveniently lined up and made the universe easier to understand.]

Edgerunner's a pretty good name, though. Yeah, I'm usually a li'l' more rough than what Blue Team needs. You ain't wrong. I stick with 'em just in case.

[secondconflict]

Never one to underestimate a good merc, personally.

Edgerunners have saved my life more than once.

[yondu]

Oh yeah? How did that go down?

[Though he perks up a little at having his credentials respected, even if in an indirect way. Being a Ravager doesn't always reward you with a great rep. He likes when people see the better parts of that kind of life.]

[secondconflict]

Once I was up for contract between two labels and corpos don't fuck around. Ended up being taken hostage over the whole thing. A solo named Morgan Blackhand busted in and kicked ass.

Edgerunners usually go to who pays 'em, but Morgan's also a friend of a friend.

[yondu]

I've done shit like that for people, yeah.

[Way back when, when he had friends regularly. He probably does here, but not the same kind of friends. Almost, but not quite yet.]

So did either of 'em get ya? The contract, that is.

[secondconflict]

Yep. Been makin' music ever since.

Popular 'nough now the corpos don't try ta fuck with me. When they care about PR.