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]

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.