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[nimbuster]

Careful, or you might end up in a literal park for fucking.

[Is he serious or is this snark? Who knows?]

Don't want any flies on the wall, is that it? Sure. Got any particular place in mind?

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[wrenchedup]

careful, might interpret that as an invitation. work before play, though~[ observe, a location ping coming your way. its a roof, of course. ] be seein' ya.

[ You know the drill, he's there. Watching some people below. Well what do you know, Wrench is taller than Cloud. By like 2 inches or so. ]

[nimbuster]

[It's not long before Wrench hears, and then sees, the approach of a motorcycle with Cloud on it; he's easily recognizable at a distance by his hair because apparently he doesn't bother wearing a helmet. He drifts a bit and spins to a perfect halt at the curb across the street from the roof Wrench waits on. Then he takes a bit of a running start and leaps...a lot higher than a normal person could reasonably leap toward the building nextdoor, only to wall jump from there to grab the edge of the target roof and flip himself up onto it.

When he walks over to Wrench, it's at a casual pace and he isn't out of breath at all. On his back, he carries an enormous slab of sharpened metal with a hilt that probably qualifies as a sword.]

You the one who sent me that mystery message?

[wrenchedup]

[ Wrench stepped back from the ledge where he'd been squatting on when Cloud zoomed on up. Ooh, dramatic. 500% into this guy already. Impressive parkouring, too. Way more impressive than his own and Marcus' and Wrench didn't know of anyone that was more impressive than Marcus. Until now, apparently. Almost inhuman. Wouldn't surprise him. Also: that sword is fucking nuts.

Which of course means that Wrench is just a little enamored right now. Heart eyes and all for a second or two. Please. Pretty and a hazard. Be still his processing heart. ]

Sure am. [ It's mechanical sounding, but not fully so. Inked fingers pointed into himself. ] Wrench. You smoke? [ Yeah so like. Maybe he still had a thing or two from his visit with Sizhui. Don't at him bro. ]

[nimbuster]

[Cloud arches a brow at the mask...and the heart eyes...but has nothing much to say about either.]

Nope. The name's Cloud. You got a particular reason to think Emet-Selch or any of his people are the kind to hack into emails? Or just a general precaution?

[wrenchedup]

[ More for him. Don't ask how he smokes, he just does. it's obviously not a cigarette but fret not. he's functional. ] less about him and more about eyes in general. my problem with him is this hall of bullshit.

[nimbuster]

Don't suppose you come from Midgar?

[Not that Cloud will be surprised if yet another world out there has the same sort of bullshit Shinra inflicts on his. It's become clear to him how universal it is, and he hates it.]

As for Emet-Selch, claiming he's only there to encourage discussion doesn't exactly fly after he just decided he would do this without asking the rest of us if we wanted it.

[wrenchedup]

Midgar? Never heard of it. San Francisco. Entire city's wired up. Eyes and ears everywhere. [ Standby for toke and exhale. ] But it's not the only one. Fuckin' companies all in bed with governments to build a ~ brighter and more secure future ~ [ those words came with an ironic sweep of his hand. Quotation marks taking over for the X's temporarily. ] which really means complete and total control.

[ !_! He's quite expressive here. ] Yes. Yes, fuck! Exactly. [ Holy shit. This guy gets it. Cute, a hazard, AND observant? Triple fucking threat. ] And it goes all the way down to the location he decided to place this grand building of his. Right near central hub? Means he thinks its a central part of Amani. Either he's painfully aware of these optics or he's unaware which is an entirely different problem because that means that he's used to having power and doesn't even stop to consider how his use of power can be perceived.

[nimbuster]

Never heard of San Francisco, myself. But hey - least you got companies plural and none of them are the government. That 'brighter future' bullshit, we got that too.

[Okay, really though, how is Wrench doing that with his mask? Is he manually controlling it? Is it just...wired directly into his brain? Talk about creepy.

Cloud snorts quietly.]

No way he doesn't get exactly what he's doing. In my experience, they always do.

[wrenchedup]

[ That gets a laugh from him even if none of this was actually funny. ] They might as well be one, dude. But if you keep things separate the people still believe they have freedom when they don't. And that, my friend, is key. Keeping the public unaware. Making them think they're safe, and protected, and cared for. Like they have choice.

[ A fucking shame other worlds have this issue. Wrench isn't only concerned about Emet, though. He's also concerned about the people who are in change of Peacekeeper. Maybe a talk for later. For now? He'll just smoke. ] Uhuh. My hypothetical fuck-money is also on that one. When taking control it's important to make people think you've got their best interest in mind.

The big question is: the fuck do we do about it? [ You're just gonna have to ask about the mask sometime, buddy. ]