audience: cloud

[mygod]

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[residentmerc]

You want me to call you cute that bad?

[ watches her put the mask back on. cowardice. ]

[mygod]

It would make me feel better considering everything that happened.

[ the everything is caelus making the graveyard think she's a pervert ]

[residentmerc]

[ honestly. just because he does like pesto best. he sighs ]

Fine. You're cute.

[ IN THE MOST UNENTHUSED VOICE...... ]

[mygod]

[ she takes the mask back off. yay. ] The emotional damage has been healed.

[residentmerc]

Even if everyone else thinks you're a weird old pervert?

[ bully... ]

[mygod]

They won't when you tell them that I'm not... [ YOU'LL DO THAT RIGHT, CLOUD? RIGHT ]

[residentmerc]

That an official request?

[ :3 ? ]

[mygod]

I am being bullied... [ terrible!! illegal!! ] Yes...

[residentmerc]

If I was bullying you, I'd ask for payment upfront.

[ being a little shit ... ]

[mygod]

[ pouts... ] What would you even charge me here?

[residentmerc]

I don't just take money as payment. Items, favors. Whatever works out.

[ sometimes he lowers his pay to 5$ because it's for children. he doesn't admit this ]

[mygod]

[ fascinating... too lazy to grab the code ]

What would you have charged me?

[residentmerc]

[ makes a show of thinking about it ]

Mm... Let's call it an IOU.

[mygod]

Ohh, how mysterious... Cash in on something worth it.

[residentmerc]

Well, not gonna collect until I do my part of the job. That's how it works.

[mygod]

Oh!

That's pretty nice of you, actually.

[residentmerc]

[ nice of him in this very real scenario where pesto pays him for his services ]

It's pretty normal with work like that. You don't hire someone for a job and pay them before it's done when you've got no guarantee they'll do it.

[mygod]

Hm, that's fair... I know some people might expect a down payment though.

[residentmerc]

Most of the people I get jobs from probably can't afford a down payment.

[ HELPING OUT...THE POOR ... ]

[mygod]

[ CLOUD!!!!! YOU'RE SO NICE!!!! ] What sort of jobs do you normally do?

[residentmerc]

Pretty much anything people need done. Getting rid of fiends, wrangling up kids or animals, finding lost items or getting materials people can't get to, being a bodyguard... [ he shrugs. whatever the side quests god decide. ] Almost everything on that list of skills seemed based off a job I've taken.

[ sometimes the sidequest is turning into a frog to play leap frog with children. he doesn't share that ]

[mygod]

And all of this is in between trying to save the world? [ she talks to yuffie ]

[residentmerc]

[ it is what they're doing but it always feels wild to hear saving the world out loud ]

Yeah. I pick up odd jobs in the place we go to.

[mygod]

[ unfortunately that is the exact term yuffie used so that's the only way she can describe it. ]

Do the others work?

[residentmerc]

Yeah, they help out with jobs sometimes. Usually whatever catches their interest or when we go off fighting monsters.

[ so that cloud can divvy up his sidequests into relationship uppers ]