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[ekkoeffect]

You mistimed your call but that's okay. I'll still get back to you. Leave me a message.

[BEEEEEP]

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( VIDEO; UN: BOMBSHELL ) // misfire ➜ turning on // cw: lyrics....

[opheliac]

(suddenly he sees jinx in the living room of her tree house. she is sitting on the floor, cross-legged with so many bolts, screws, wrenches, all that good stuff all over the ground. there's faint music playing in the background as she is hunched over working on yet another mechanical project that may or may not be familiar to him. but it's not just these butterflies on the floor, there's also mechanical bugs (he should really know), too. some finished, some half built.

she is humming along to the song before she sings:)

♪ — And I know that I got a couple issues
But it's fine, keep playing with my loose screws
It's so insane the things we do
In the name of love ♪

(she then bobs her head to the music while twisting gears on a few butterflies and firelight bugs so they can hover around.)

♪ Damn you always get your way
Guess it's written in your nature
You know everything to say
Just as long as I'm in danger
But I like when you take me under
It feels so good when I suffer
It's so insane the things we do
In the name of love ♪

(she peers up at the her flying contraptions -- her index out to see if she can any of them to land on her finger. they are only meant to hover around for a minute or so given they are prototypes and not the real thing yet.)

♪ Got both feet on the edge
Are you gonna come and save me?
I'll take one final step
All you have to do is make me
If you ever walk away I won't think twice
I'll go bye, bye, bye
Even though that it hurts me, baby
I'm in love with the way you hate me ♪

[ekkoeffect]

[Ekko doesn't know what to think at first, because it's just Jinx tinkering around. Nothing dangerous or threatening. But the song...

There's so many things that need to be said about it and Ekko knows he is not the least bit qualified to be the one doing it. He's sure someone else who is a lot less close to this situation could handle it better. Someone who doesn't have a twisted feeling in his chest. No, it's really not his place to say anything at all about that.

So instead he says,]

Might want to check your communicator. It's glitchin'.

[What other reason would it have for cutting on when she's not even paying attention to it.]

[opheliac]

( she stops singing and moving when she hears a voice from afar despite the song still tuning along. that voice sounded a lot like...

jinx glances over to her omni and sees its been activated all on its own. being mixed with shimmer has its upsides and downsides. upside, she has inhuman ability and her blood can help others with wounds and pain relief. downside? it's also tuned to her emotions. so when jinx gets flustered or embarrassed, it's so noticeable. if the redness over her pale complexion doesn't give it away, the pink of her eyes shining vibrantly is another.

she scrambles up to her feet to rush to the omni and in sheer impulse, she throws it across her room. the feed now in hectic and crazy wavers that's hard to make out until he can see her ceiling. )

What did you do?! Did you just hack me?! — OOOH, YOU'RE SO DEAD, BOY SAVIOR!!

[ekkoeffect]

[Maybe he should have said nothing. Yeah, should have said nothing.]

Your comm called me. I was minding my own business. Ask your monkey if he did it.

[opheliac]

Mr. Bananas would never —

( then there's sudden silence on her end. did she get distracted out of nowhere? it wouldn't be the first but no, more so she is thinking over the possbility.

then peek-a-boo, jinx comes to view peering down on the camera with her long braids dangling. )

... Actually, yeah he would do that.

( her omen is a lot like her in a few ways. especially when it comes to pranks. )

Just forget what you heard and no one gets hurt, deal?

[ekkoeffect]

[At least she'll admit that much. Ekko rolls his eyes just a bit.]

As much as I don't believe you about that, it's none of my business anyway. Your time, your space, you do you.

Which usually involves someone getting hurt.

text un: vi backdated 11/27

[faceblocks]

cait's here
thought u should know

i already told jinx
didnt really go the way i expected
surprise surprise right

[ekkoeffect]

oh. her.
not surprised.
silco going to show up next
or the captain who tried to kill all of us.

[faceblocks]

yeah her
its kind of a mess
as if it could be anything but

marcus
i doubt it
but ur not 100% wrong
my moneys on silco
but if i see marcus we can both dump him back in the ocean

even though i keep hoping for vander
maybe i should keep hoping
i hoped for u

[ekkoeffect]

try hoping for world peace
or a better barter system.

who knows.
there's a six degrees of separation going on here.
that's still lot of people to pick from
but there's always the chance.

[faceblocks]

did that
did that one too
didnt get anywhere

barter's still a step up
but not for everyone ik ik
ive been trying to figure that one out for a while
u been to the docks right

lots of chances
thats the whole thing here
its all about chances
which prob means i should take more of em
sometimes

[ekkoeffect]

the docks are always busy
good for finding work.
bartering feathers for fish is weird though.

you really think you need to take more chances?
i know they said we don't die here
but you're gonna test that.

(TXT) — UN: BOMBSHELL

[opheliac]

hey.
u want to build a bomb w/ me?
or just
make smth?

[ekkoeffect]

Not a bomb.
But something yeah.
Want your own customized hoverboard?
Or a filtration system.
For the weird shit in the ocean.

[opheliac]

why NEVER a bomb w/ u?
fine.
hoverboard is fine.
just need to make SMTH before i punch another mirror.

[ekkoeffect]

i get like that sometimes.
needing to build shit
or you might start breaking too much shit to fix.
building is better.
recently got a spot in crenshaw as a workshop
want to see it?

[opheliac]

maybe.
is this ur way of trying to get me to work for u?
or combine our workshops together to make ONE BIG business??? 🐵

[ekkoeffect]

mine isn't a business.
could be i guess.
the guy who gave me the keys don't want it.
no time on his hands to do anything with it.

(TXT) — UN: BOMBSHELL (days before the picnic)

[opheliac]

( she's trying to find the right words for this, and also trying to keep her cursing to a minimum. it was just last month jinx told ekko she wouldn't need him for anything -- that the talk was the only use of him. and yet here she is, staring down at the blinking vertical line, a blank text box, and his username in the "TO:" column.

how does he always manage to do this? he says one thing, she says it'll never happen, and then it happens. it's so abnormal at times that jinx has had suspicions that maybe ekko was born with arcane talent, and just kept it under wraps. or maybe he's been a mage all this time and never told anyone. it would make sense since mages almost wiped out a race back in the fuddy-duddy days in runeterra.)

( either way, she's groaning and she flops back on her sister's bed that's annoyingly too big. her pinks are still very fixated to ekko's username before rising an optimistic shoulder. )

I could ask someone else?

( she says out loud to the dead air. like jinx is pressuring herself to look for another option. but then she frowns further -- slumping down the shoulder drastically. )

... No, it has to be him.

( her brows knit together as she whines; now behaving like a freaking two year old as she thrashes around on top of the bed with kicked legs. this is the most annoying enemy...(friend...frienemy?) she has ever had in her life!! with an overdramatic sigh, the teen finally sucks it all up and starts to type: )

U. i need u a favor.
and
dont
u
DARE
say
a fucking word.

[ekkoeffect]

[The way the message is written makes him think that it's serious. There's a hint of amusement in the back of his head because he knew this would happen. Jinx may act like she doesn't care and she hates him, but it's obvious to him now she doesn't. It's just more of the bullshit she spews for a reaction. The posturing to make herself seem hardcore and terrible.

But he won't say "I told you so," because it won't help. It'll just cause a fight. And he's too curious about what she caved in for after only a month.]

is asking what the favor is saying a word?

[opheliac]

funny ha ha.
ok so.

my stupid omen set up a picnic get together w/o me knowing.

with chizuru.
and we each can bring a someone along so things wont get TOO intense.

ure the person im picking.

[ekkoeffect]

[Oh. Well shit. He had not been planning to get stuck in the middle of this. He had been staying out of what he knew was a fallout of their breakup besides trying to keep Jinx occupied when he could.

And yet she was coming to him instead of Vi? Or that other girl she's always talking to on the network?]

am i bringing food
i got fish and some potatoes.

1/2

[opheliac]

ooooo fish and the po-TATS.
yea yea bring those if u want! we got plenty of time to prepare. its on the 15th.
im making my speciality, ha ha!

2/3 actually

[opheliac]

( but... she should probably tell him why him and not everyone else. maybe he already figured it out but it'll be good to say it anyway. )

thnx.
i didnt want to ask anyone here in trench b/c well.
some still dont know everything w/ me yet. theres a lot of me im leaving out.
and vi.
vi would be predictable and maybe a lil biased?
besides she was in prison for 7yrs so theres a... gap.

and with us, weve been side by side since we were kids. even if that side by side is us being at each others throats. point is: ure the only one whose been... THERE from beginning to... now.

and ure not THAT biased of me either b/c well... u know why.

but somehow here we are talking and can be in the same space together w/o blowing each others brains out.

so.

just felt u'd be the perfect person to bring to this.

and plus. im also trying to work on us while working my crap w/ her too? two birds one stone??

3/3

[opheliac]

ANYWAY THAT FISH BETTER BE TOP NOTCH.
this picnic is going to be 10/10 quality only.