oo1; voice + video

[justthedriver]

Biggest country in world I know but Initiative don't seem to bother to bring anyone else but me. Too many goddamned Americans and Japanese. [ Says the heavy Russian accent. ] And aliens. And fucking elves. [ For all the emphasis he puts on that word, he doesn't sound angry. More of a 'fuck, what the hell, man?'

... Sorry, elves. He's targeting one elf in particular and he doesn't much care if there's more of them.

Sharp snort. Sound of a lighter snapping on, and the crackling of cigarettes. Then the camera switches on.

Have a pair of heavily tattooed hands, one of them curled around a white stick. Then he tips the tablet upwards until it shows his face, and Nikolai pulls off the sunglasses. ]

You lot ever get tired of talking on this thing? Bunch of stupid questions lately. [ He takes a drag of the cigarette, and blows it at the screen. ] You've all forgotten how to fuck, or something?


[ ooc; for any character with knowledge of Russian criminals, Nikolai's hands carry tattoos that basically says he's one of the worst ones out there. Yeah.

Also, content warnings for sexual assault for the thread with Steph (controlledvariable). ]

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[justthedriver]

[ 'At home'. It makes sense to him. Nikolai wonders why is it that there are so many worlds in which children are made into soldiers- and he laughs mentally at himself because it's better to be soldiers than be what he became at her age.

At least as a soldier, you have a purpose beyond purely survival.

(Whether that is true objectively or not, he has no idea.) ]

Da. I do.

[ So what is she going to do about it. ]

[controlledvariable]

[Seriously, she wishes she had a cigarette so she could do the same thing to him that he's been doing to her.

Instead, she leans back in her seat, pulling a leg up to her chest and lazily wrapping an arm around it, chin resting on her knee. It's a stalling tactic for the sake of stalling, but it also makes it seem like she's getting comfortable.]

Do you always ask little girls so many questions, or am I special?

[There's amusement in her tone, her expression, and something a little like a challenge. She wants to see how he'll answer.

And being called dyevochka is annoying, but she has a feeling he's not going to stop calling her that anyway, so she might as well make it seem like she doesn't care.]

[justthedriver]

[ He shrugs at the question.

(It's easy to tell a stalling tactic, but why call her out on it when it'll just leave him vulnerable to being prodded at?) ]

Only little girls who have enough to talk about.

[controlledvariable]

[That gets a quiet laugh.]

Most people tell me that I talk too much.

[Which is usually when she's mouthing off to Bruce, or being a little shit to Babs, but the principle still applies.]

[justthedriver]

[ Hah. Nikolai tilts his head again. ]

You think you talk too much?

[ Yay double meaning of 'talk'!!! ]

[controlledvariable]

[Her smile twists a little, wry and amused.]

I think I know when to talk and when to shut up.

[Talking can have it's uses, especially in a fight, where it serves as a distraction. But just because she's chatty, doesn't mean she doesn't know tha value of silence.]