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). ]

Comments

[have_hat_will_travel]

Maybe, just maybe, some of us prefer to have motivations besides sex that we are trying to explore in spite of a pretty shittastic environment for doing so.

And please tell me someone didn't try to sell you on those tattoos by claiming they'd work as holy symbols against vampires or something.

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[freewoman]

Says the man who is talkin' on this thing... [Her head cants to the side, brows raised. Honestly, this thing is still a mystery to her-- how it works, what it is, even. It's been explained to her that it isn't any kind of magic.

But it's just as foreign as those metal buildings and all the rest this world offers.]

perma video;

[skypsalms]

[ he's question concerning the fucking completely goes over her head so she'll move to something she's a bit more familiar with. also if he was trying to be intimidating, somehow that goes over her head too. ]

Is there something wrong with being Japanese?

[justthedriver]

Only stupid people put protection on hands. Invites knives to cut hands off. [ Idly.

(And actually, it's completely true. You hide the protective symbols under your clothes, because if they're seen, they invite people to try to remove the entire piece of skin. Welcome to Russian prison.) ]

Only stupid people make stupid assumptions also.

[ He's kind of rude. ]

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[justthedriver]

[ He's just sitting here waiting for you to keep going. ]

[charming_jerk]

Have you forgotten how to fuck? Get off the damn network then. [Oh no it's yet another American]

permavideo here too;

[justthedriver]

[ He's not trying to be intimidating. He's trying to be offensive. Intimidating just comes to him naturally.

Also what is his life now that he is attracting teenaged girls to his post. :| Nikolai eyes her for a moment. ]

Not as bad as being American. [ Have some smoke. ]

[justthedriver]

[ Wait he's got to do this properly. He sets the tablet a little further away. Balances cigarette on his lip. And he's giving you a very slow applause. ]

Listening comprehension, zero. Da, da, very good.

[skypsalms]

[ oh well that also goes over her head then too because she just thought he was asking honest questions and venting out frustrations. you know, all healthy and normal behavior.

his life is special, clearly. ]

I see. [ she'll take it as a good then then ] Um... Do you have something against them?

[charming_jerk]

[Have one lazy middle finger waved at the camera.] We got enough shit around here, and we don't need assholes like you to add to it.

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

[His Russian's rusty, but passable]

Maybe they don't trust the Soviets not to fuck things up again, hm?

[He sounds like he's joking. Probably]

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[implying]

Oh, and what's so wrong with elves and aliens?

[solitaire]

_{( He glances at those tattoos with a knowledgable eye but doesn't otherwise comment. )}

Big enough universe, homme, that one country prob'ly don't even register.

'Cides, not like there's much quality entertainment 'round. Talkin' is about all we got.

[have_hat_will_travel]

When dealing with smart opponents, everything invites knives to cut your hands off. Gun? Spell? Sword? They all have something in common: Removing your hand makes it harder to use them.

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[freewoman]

Throwin' your lot in is just as useless. Have y'anything useful t'say or are you like every other man that thinks with the worm between his legs? [Still looking at him.]

Or've y'gone mute now, too?

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[onlyasong]

My, what colorful hands you have and an equally colorful tongue, it seems.

[If she appears amused? It's because she is.]

[justthedriver]

[ Eyebrow. ]

You always like making noise about things you don't know anything about?

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[justthedriver]

[ Completely unoffended. And unimpressed. Ygritte gets smoke on the screen. ]

Waiting for you to say something worth hearing.

[justthedriver]

[ ... Very special. He looks at her for a long moment before he snorts. ]

You cannot tell from way I speak, don't matter to you.

[justthedriver]

[ Now he gets smoke on the screen. Goddamnit, this technique is spoiled by the screen and Nikolai is a little annoyed by that. ]

You speak for everyone here? [ Eyebrow. ] Must be very powerful man.

[justthedriver]

[ In English, because people, stop fucking up his native language. He's allowed to fuck up yours, but no dice on the reverse. ]

Not been 'Soviet' anything for long time. [ Unimpressed look. ]

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[justthedriver]

[ ... Oh, it's you. Hi, Vanadi. ]

You are a smart man. [ Drawl. ] You tell me.

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[justthedriver]

[ Amusing little girls is new. Nikolai just looks at her. ]

Black is not colour. [ Just... fyi. In case you don't know. ]

[justthedriver]

[ You should see the tattoos on the rest of his body. Very informative, if you know how to read them. ]

Very lazy of you. [ ... Referring to both sentences. ]

[skypsalms]

O, oh.

[ sorry but that's not going to fly with her. she has to know and so, she takes a few short moments to think of what it could be. wow it took her much longer than it should have. ]

Russian... I, I guess that would explain few things.