Part of it is due to having no one to celebrate with, yes; part of it is because I rather enjoy the paycheck that comes with working through the holidays.
Well, there goes my invitation! I do understand though. I have a fair amount of work throughout holiday months like this one, so it's hard to find time to do anything. Effort is always repaid tenfold.
[Goro's going to be treating his friends so nicely when things settle down? He's going to be treating them so well.]
Don't worry about it too much; I'm fairly sure at least one of the people I've gotten to know better through this godforsaken app will insist that I do something with him during the coming season, so I doubt I'll be alone this year.
[So. Today's been sort of a thing. It hasn't necessarily been a bad thing, but there are a couple of new people Jaeger recognizes on the network and that's always fun. One of them is slightly more pressing than the other though, and so when he shows up at Wesker's that evening he's even more over-the-top than usual.]
The name is familiar, at least. He's likely attended some of the same galas I've gone to with Elda; I'll probably know him when I see him.
[One of our assistant district attorneys was a hooker in a past life. That's what he's getting out of this.
...That said, though.]
...Is it a good thing for you, knowing that someone else from your world is involved with Retrospec as well? Or does the obnoxiousness outweigh any benefits?
His name is Sergei Vladimir; I believe I've told you about him before, though not by name. He's one of the men I knew with an affinity for knives - the one I met in that abandoned facility.
[...The one that likes cutting himself, for whatever reason.]
I remembered fighting him, after dealing with him in the fog. It was...a highly insipid fight, if you want me to be honest. It shouldn't have happened in the first place.
Because I had a gun with me at all times, and yet I never shot him until we were already fighting.
[HE'S SO MAD? He's very understated about it, as is his general way, but he's so fucking mad.]
I could have circumvented the entire thing, but for some reason chose not to.
[...He knows he shouldn't be this irritated about not straight-up murdering a dude, but oh my god that turned into a bossfight that he is not giving you details about because YIKES when it really didn't have to.]
...I can't be sure. I haven't been able to work out how I felt toward the man back then, in all the memories I've had involving him. It's...conflicting, for lack of a better term, though I remember being vaguely pleased to see him when it turned out to be him in the fog.
[...]
The fight I remembered was also...strange, along those lines.
[...was...was he into sergei? he has no idea but he thinks he might have been into sergei. um.]
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