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percy jackson
riff
riff is a son of zeus. he was claimed at twelve. his mom was abusive and he hates her. he ran away at twelve and found the camp with the help of his friend tony. tony is a son of apollo and works in the infirmary. riff is one of the head counselors of the zeus cabin. he's a pretty good guy, but he always seems to be in trouble for one thing or another.
connor
connor is a son of hades that was claimed at age fourteen. he's spent the past three years living at camp half blood and training for—honestly, he doesn't know what he's training for. but he's training for something. life isn't bad by any means. sure, he's got nightmares and sure, he's got adhd on top of all his other issues, but it could be worse. he could be dead. or a monster. (sometimes he thinks he's both, despite knowing that he's not). but yeah. life is good. as good as it can be when you're a half-blood, anyway.
dodge
dodge is a son of nemesis that was claimed at sixteen. his older sister, dayna, was killed by a cyclops while she was trying to get them both to camp, and dodge has been trying to find and kill it ever since. he spends his days at camp training to kill the cyclops. he keeps mostly to himself, but he’s a good friend to have around if things go sideways.
six of crows/grishaverse
riff
riff has a small gang called the jets that he typically runs with. he's nowhere near as infamous as kaz, but he has a reputation for being wily and not getting caught. he also has a reputation for being an asshole, but whether or not that's true is yet to be determined. he runs with the dregs on occasion but he mostly sticks to the jets.
dodge
dodge is a street magician in ketterdam. he goes to the local university and is trying to find the merchant that is responsible for his sister's death. he runs with the dregs occasionally but typically tends to work for whoever pays him the best. dodge is a shadow summoner that’s aware of his abilities. he’s very proficient with them, and he doesn’t try to hide his abilities from those he works with.
connor
connor was taken to the little palace at age five. he’s made aware of his abilities and what they entail, and he sets to training and learning about the history of ravka. he’s a heartrender that sometimes has issues getting his temper under control, but he’s good in a fight and he’s well known for his knowledge of ravkan history and literature from all over the world. he’s not the friendliest of people—being from kerch tends to lead to prejudices—but connor has a reputation for being scary when he’s angry, so it works out. when he’s seventeen, he’s sent on a mission to kerch. he’s tasked with finding information on the merchant council, to see if any of them are selling jurda parem to the fjerdans. he works undercover at the bandycat. he hates it, but it’s a good place to be in order to hear any secrets.
art
art is a tidemaker indentured to patrick zweig. he was sent to kerch by the little palace to see if any of the merchant council was selling grisha secrets to ravka’s enemies. unfortunately, his ship was captured by kerch slavers on the way there and art was sold to the house of snow. he spends two years there. he’s absolutely miserable and he wants nothing more than to return to ravka. when his indenture is bought by patrick zweig, art knows that’s no longer possible. patrick is one of art’s least favorite clients. he’s a rich merchant that spends his money on whatever he wants and he doesn’t like sharing. art’s indenture with the house of snow is ended, but his indenture with patrick starts the next day. patrick’s wife, tashi, is just as bad as her husband. art can’t escape, because patrick has eyes everywhere and tashi seems to know what he’s planning before art himself even knows. he wants, desperately, to escape, but he doesn’t know where he’ll go if he gets out of ketterdam. he can’t return to ravka as a failure, but he can’t stay in kerch, either.
star wars
riff
riff is a smuggler with a small network of people working for him. he's force sensitive and he's managed to figure out the general logistics of how the force works through trial and error. riff's gang, the jets, are the only ones that know riff is force sensitive. they call themselves the jets because they're fast and quick and pretty good at evading the law. they all have a tattoo somewhere of either a j or the silhouette of riff's ship. the sharks are a group that's sort of a smuggling group. they're more well off than riff and the jets, but not by much. they just want the jets to stop terrorizing the galaxy with their escapades. they get into fights a lot and the local authorities consider both groups an equal nuisance.
dodge
dodge is force sensitive and mostly does odd jobs around the outer rim. he has a small ship that he'll occasionally smuggle with but he mostly keeps to himself. he's trying to find and kill the bounty hunter that killed his older sister, dayna. while he tends to stick to small jobs in the outer rim, he will venture into the more expensive cities if he's paid well for it.
art
in the early days of the republic, there was a jedi known as art donaldson. he was a brilliant jedi knight, and those that knew him said he was one of the best jedi they had ever seen. when order sixty six was executed, art donaldson disappeared. the jedi that survived the purge assumed that he’d gone into hiding as they had. and then, a year after the execution of order sixty six, there were whispers of a new sith lord attacking camps in the outer rim. darth kyros, they call him. there aren’t typically survivors of his attacks, so the information on him is limited. all that’s known about him is that he’s dangerous and not someone to be crossed. somehow, a former jedi manages to survive an attack. darth kyros is art donaldson, he says. it sounds impossible. but another former jedi comes forward and says the same thing. after at least five have agreed, there can be no more denying it. art donaldson must be returned to the light side of the force. it takes a long time, but he is eventually returned to the light. art doesn’t talk about his time as darth kyros. if pressed for information, he says that the sith captured and brainwashed him until he broke. he becomes a member of the rebellion and is a valuable asset when it comes time to target the death star.
connor
connor is a jedi padawan. he’s an extremely volatile jedi padawan. he doesn’t have control of his emotions yet and he lashes out in anger a lot more than his master would like. the other masters are worried. the other padawans fear his anger and mock his lack of control. he’s too susceptible to the dark side, the masters say. he must get his emotions under control. connor doesn’t know if he can do that, but he’s not really willing to try. eventually, he is banished from the jedi order. he makes a living in the outer rim as best he can. when the rebellion starts, he keeps his head down. he doesn’t want to get dragged back into the order. they didn’t want him, after all.
marvel
art
art is a shield agent that gets kidnapped from his apartment one night. he is taken by hydra agents and administered with a dose of howard stark’s super soldier serum. they want to turn him into the next winter soldier, they tell him. they want to restart the wolf spider program, they tell him. they succeed at doing both. shield gives up the investigation after three years. art, at this point, has undergone severe brainwashing and memory wiping to ensure that he doesn’t run. being a shield agent, he was already skilled in combat and reconnaissance, but hydra ensured that he became a skilled assassin in the three years that shield was looking for him. he is extremely good at what he does and he hasn’t gotten caught once. ten years later, a shield agent is murdered in her apartment. the investigation leads to an underground bunker in new rochelle, new york. in the bunker are hydra agents, a cryostasis chamber, and art donaldson. art is rescued and taken into shield’s custody, where he begins to attempt to undo all of the trauma that hydra put him through.
dodge
dodge is a shield agent that’s searching for the mercenary that killed his sister. he joined the agency at eighteen and he’s been working his way up the ranks ever since. he’s seen as an incredible asset to the agency and is typically the first one on the scene whenever there’s trouble. the younger agents say that he’s fearless, but dodge knows better. it’s easy to be fearless when you have nothing to lose.
the hunger games
riff
district twelve. victor. volunteered. here
art
district four. victor. reaped. here
connor
district twelve. died in the arena. reaped. connor is the son of the mayor in district twelve. he's not very well liked by anyone and he tends to wander around the district until nightfall. there are rumors he's addicted to morphling, but no one knows for sure. he's reaped at seventeen and dies in the arena, poisoned with nightlock by a tribute from district seven.
dodge
district ten. victor. volunteered. dodge's sister dayna was reaped and killed in the arena when dodge was sixteen. he wanted to volunteer the next year, but his mother stopped him before he could. he volunteers at eighteen instead, before they can even call the name of the male tribute. he won by cornering the final tribute and dropping a rock on his head. he returns to district ten to mentor, but he never stops plotting to kill snow. the second he hears about the rebellion, he joins.
jack twist
district ten. reaped. victor. jack is reaped at eighteen. he quickly becomes a capitol favorite, thanks to his natural charm and good looks. he racks up thousands of sponsors and donations. he narrowly avoids death at the hands of a tribute from district two and manages to win the games by using the tribute's weapon against him. he returns to district ten and mentors tribute after tribute until the capitol calls him back. they want him to work in the academy, they tell him. they want him to train the future generation of presidents and capitol elite. he doesn't know why. but he knows he can't refuse, so he moves and spends the rest of his life working for the capitol. but when the rebellion comes around, jack is one of the first to join the ranks.
jack kelly
district twelve. reaped. supposedly died in the arena, survived. jack kelly is reaped from district twelve. he’s well liked by the capitol and the fact that he makes it to the final four tributes does absolutely nothing to quell the capitol’s love for him. unfortunately, he’s killed by a tribute from district two and the capitol forgets about him relatively quickly, as they’re wont to do. at least, that’s what the story is. in truth, jack kelly had been incredibly outspoken against the games. he’d nearly succeeded in starting a rebellion. the capitol couldn’t have that. they staged his death and when he regained consciousness, he was told that he’d be working for the gamemakers. he hates it, but he doesn’t see any way out of it. so he works for the gamemakers and hopes for a day that a rebellion will come.
some dodge mason headcanons that no one asked for + a bonus riff one
dodge was the one to suggest they move back to carp. he knew that if he wanted to play panic, he needed to re-enroll in high school as a senior in carp, so he convinced his mom to move them back to carp so that he could re-enroll. he claimed it was because he wanted a fresh start, and they moved back to carp a year before the events of panic take place.
the watch that dodge has was an eleventh birthday present from his dad. it’s one of the only gifts that dodge ever got from his dad. he wears it upside down because that’s how his dad used to wear it. he hasn’t taken it off since he got it.
he hooked up with a fair amount of people in the year following his dad’s death and dayna’s accident to cope with his grief and his guilt.
he thinks he could’ve fallen for nat if she hadn’t used dayna for his personal challenge, but the crush that he’d developed on her immediately died off when he learned that she’d used dayna. (he’s not even sure if he did have a crush on her or if he was just physically attracted to her, but he doesn’t care to figure it out since there’s no point in it anymore.)
dodge wasn’t really mentally present for his hookup with nat. the grief of talking about his dad blindsided him to nat’s intentions and it was easier to just go through the motions than try to be present. he made sure nat enjoyed herself but other than that, he wasn’t really putting much effort into being there.
dodge uses some of his panic money to buy a used pickup truck and the rest of it goes towards treatment for dayna.
he doesn’t really know what to do once panic ends. he’d spent three years formulating his plan for revenge and he’s left unsure once it doesn’t get enacted, but he tries his best to move on.
dodge listens pretty exclusively to country music. he knows other artists, but his favorite genre is country and that’s what he’ll be listening to 99.9% of the time.
he’s an incredibly good line dancer. his favorites dances are ones with fast footwork.
he’s extremely good with animals, and horses are his strong suit. he’s never met a horse he couldn’t get to cooperate.
he’s beaten countless rodeo records before and he’ll continue to do it so long as he keeps performing. his strongest events are saddle bronc, and mounted shooting, but he also does roping and barrel racing from time to time.
he isn’t the type to call a girl “hot.” he thinks it’s rude.
dodge has known anne since he was a kid, and she is the only person that can call dodge “andy.” dayna doesn’t even have the privilege, but dayna calls him dodge most of the time and andrew when he’s in trouble, so it works out.
dodge is a little pretentious when it comes to panic. he doesn’t like it when people play just to play, or when people treat it like a joke. he has a reason for playing, and he tends to only respect other players that are playing for a reason, not just because they could or because it would make a cool story one day or they were bored.
and bonus riff headcanon
riff will talk to kids if it’s 100% clear that he will have no part in raising them. once he becomes part of their life, he gets scared he’ll mess them up and he retreats and becomes distant. he likes older kids (twelve and up) better than younger kids because he never really knows what to do around younger kids. however, he’s more than likely to tell a kid to scram rather than talk to them, no matter how old they are.
— dodge mason’s rp plotting cheat sheet
Mun name: Jasmine
OOC Contact: discord is my preferred method of communication, but we can always chat in ims if you don’t have discord
Who the heck is my muse anyway:
dodge mason. the new kid. mysterious backstory, motivations unknown. moved (back) to carp a year ago. re-enrolled in high school to be able to play panic. no one really knows anything about him and he’d like to keep it that way.
dodge is a quiet kid. he keeps to himself and doesn’t have a lot of friends. he doesn’t really want a lot of friends, anyway, so that works out. he doesn’t smile much and he laughs even less. he’s driven and very calculated. he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty to get what he wants. he’s incredibly protective of those he cares about and if you hurt them, don’t expect him to forgive you. once he puts his mind to something, he’s not going to change it. he’s extremely secretive and a very good liar. he doesn’t give out information easily, if at all. he doesn’t like getting close to people. trust doesn’t come easy to dodge, but he’s working on that. sort of. not really.
Points of interest:
physical features
dodge is a pretty fit guy. he works out when he’s stressed or angry, which is most of the time, so he’s got a fair bit of muscle. he also does rodeo, so that helps as well. he’s typically dressed in all black or gray. he wears skinny jeans and a t-shirt with either cowboy boots or work boots. sometimes he’ll wear a sweatshirt over his t-shirt. when he competes, he wears his rodeo clothes, which consist of a blue or white button down, good jeans, his cowboy hat, and a nice pair of cowboy boots. he doesn’t have any tattoos or piercings. his hands are a little rough from working on the farm.
What they’ve been up to recently:
plotting revenge
luke hall put dodge’s older sister in a wheelchair on halloween three years ago. (at least, that’s what cortez said.) dodge has been hellbent on getting revenge ever since he learned about it. he’s been planning his revenge for a year now and he knows exactly what he needs to do in order to get it.
playing panic
panic is the reason why dodge convinced his mom to move them back to carp. he knew he needed to play in order to get his revenge, so he made it happen. he reenrolled at school and paid ray a dollar a day so that he could be eligible to play panic in the summer. and when the summer rolled around, dodge played panic.
working at dot’s diner & anne’s farm
in order to make some money on the side, dodge found a job working at dot’s diner. his mom works there too, but dodge works more than she does. he doesn’t mind it. the customers are good and it makes good money. he also helps anne out when she needs to break in a horse or needs some work done on the farm.
doing rodeo
dodge is incredible at rodeo. he’s broken state records multiple times and he loves doing it. he’s strongest with saddle bronc and mounted shooting, but he also does roping and barrel racing.
Where to find them:
dot’s diner
dodge works at dot’s during the school year and summer. he likes it there and he’s typically always willing to help a customer out. this is probably the easiest place to find dodge.
anne’s farm
he’s not at anne’s very often, but he’ll go up to see her sometimes and he goes up whenever she asks him for help with something.
the rodeo
if dodge isn’t at dot’s or anne’s, he’s at the rodeo. he goes to compete a lot, but sometimes he’ll just go to watch. most of the time, though, he’s there to compete. the rodeo is probably the second easiest place to find dodge, but considering not a lot of people know he does rodeo, it’ll probably be a surprise if your muse were to see him there.
Current plans:
working & making money
dodge works at dot’s to make money. he wants to have enough saved to help dayna with her treatments, and he needs a new car. he tends to spend most of his time at dot’s, because he needs a lot of money. he doesn’t mind it. dot is a good boss and the customers are nice to talk to. he doesn’t take any money from anne no matter how much she tries to get him to.
competing in rodeo events
rodeo also makes dodge a good chunk of money. he’s good at it, and he likes it, so he tends to sign up for whatever events he can. he favors saddle bronc and mounted shooting, but if he’s really desperate for cash, he’ll also sign up for roping and barrel racing.
trying to figure out who he is/what his life is like when he doesn’t have a revenge plan
dodge spent a year of his life crafting the perfect revenge plan, only for it to come crashing down at the last second. cortez was a liar. luke didn’t hit dayna. and if luke didn’t hit dayna, dodge had no reason to get revenge on ray hall. he doesn’t know what to do about that, and so he’s trying to figure out who he is and what his life entails now that he’s not plotting revenge. it’s a confusing process, but dodge is trying to work through it.
Desired interactions:
rodeo friends
we don’t see a lot of dodge doing rodeo in the show, so i would love some interactions where he’s got friends in the circuit. old friends, new friends, friends who know him from before he moved away. any sort of friend from rodeo would be great.
customers at dot’s diner
dodge isn’t a people person, but he’s a good waiter. if your muse comes in, chances are they’ll talk with dodge. he’s going to have to take their order, at the very least. maybe there can be a friendship that blooms.
kids from school
dodge didn’t really talk to the other kids in school, but i’m sure some of them must’ve noticed him. they could approach him at the diner or just on the street to say hi.
other panic players
panic isn’t a game of alliances, but that doesn’t mean the players don’t talk to each other. players ball is a prime time for just chatting and getting to know your fellow players. dodge is probably not going to open up to your muse, but he’ll be friendly.
kids from beecher
dodge lived in beecher for three years. there’s no way he didn’t make friends. maybe your muse did a project with him in school. maybe they bonded over the crappy lunch food. there’s a whole world of possibilities here and i’m happy to explore them with you.
Offered interactions:
waiter at dot’s diner
like i said above, dodge is mostly at dot’s for the whole summer. he sees pretty much everyone in carp at least once. your muse is more than welcome to come into the diner and have a coffee or a bite to eat. dodge will be happy to serve them.
rodeo things
give me your muse going to the rodeo and being absolutely shocked about dodge competing. or give me your muse knowing him from rodeo and being absolutely shocked when they hear he’s playing panic. or just give me your muse not knowing who dodge is but they know he’s good at rodeo, so that’s got to count for something, right? chances are dodge is up to talk about whatever event he competed in.
horse trainer
he doesn’t do it much, but he does occasionally train or break in horses for anne. maybe your muse could see him and ask if he could break in their horse? he’s good at it, and he doesn’t mind it, so he’d probably say yes. he won’t take any payment for it, though.
fellow panic player
dodge doesn’t really talk to his fellow players. he doesn’t want to. he knows what he needs to do and how. there’s no point in forming alliances when he can do what he needs to on his own. he isn’t rude, though. if your muse were to talk to him, he’d be polite and continue the conversation.
fellow student
dodge didn’t really interact with his fellow students. he was too busy trying to get through the school year. but again, he’s not rude. he won’t ignore your muse if they talk to him.
beecher residents
it’s highly likely that if your muse knows dodge from beecher, they’re probably going to know him if they go to carp. they might have some questions, but they’re definitely going to know who he is. dodge isn’t going to like that very much, but it’s fine. he’ll still talk to them.
Current open post/s:
i don’t have any opens. i prefer to plot things out.
Anything else?:
thank you for reading this!
some more dodge headcanons that no one asked for + another bonus riff one
dodge’s dad used to call him andy whenever he was drunk or whenever dodge would beat his time. because of that, dodge doesn’t like anyone (except anne) calling him andy.
dodge doesn’t have any photos in his room aside from photos of him and his immediate family, and even those are scarce.
the masons moved to beecher on november twenty first. dayna’s accident was on halloween, dodge’s dad died on november fifth, and the funeral was on the nineteenth. three years later, they moved back to carp at the beginning of august so that dodge could reenroll in school.
dodge has a horse named sundance & a cat named bonnie. sundance was an eleventh birthday gift from dayna and anne and he found bonnie in the dumpster behind dot’s diner. sundance is one of the boarders that anne is talking about when she mentions having boarded horses to heather.
dodge’s parents cheating on each other gave him a very cynical perspective on love. he’s extremely reluctant to open up to people because of it. if his parents couldn’t stop themselves from cheating, then who’s to say that dodge’s partner won’t stop themselves from cheating?
he doesn’t believe that just because his dad’s trophies were with them, his heart was with them. if his heart was with them, he wouldn’t have cheated.
the watch his dad gave him was the last present dodge got from him before his parents split up.
dodge’s mom didn’t start cheating on his dad until after his dad started cheating on his mom. dodge thinks she was just waiting to get back at him for it.
dodge didn’t bother unpacking his things when the masons moved back to carp. most of his things are still in boxes on the shelf in his closet. he doesn’t know if or when he’ll get around to unpacking.
dodge went by andrew (never andy) when the masons were in beecher. he wanted a fresh start, and that was the only thing he could think of. he still did rodeo, though. he couldn’t bring himself to give that up.
and bonus riff headcanon
riff didn’t have clean clothes a lot because his mom would forget to take them to the laundromat so he would sometimes be wearing dirty clothes for days or weeks.
pirates of the caribbean
riff
riff is a jack sparrow-esque captain. everyone knows him and pretty much everyone that knows him hates him. he's known for being a big flirt and an even bigger nuisance. he tends to escape insane situations by nothing but pure luck, but those that know him know he’s smarter and a more skilled fighter than he lets on. he travels the seas searching for treasure and money and the occasional damsel to save.
dodge
dodge’s sister was hanged for piracy when he was sixteen years old. he’s now nineteen and has spent the last three years hunting down any member of the east india trading company that he can find. he’s determined to find and kill everyone that was responsible for dayna’s death, from the man that signed her arrest warrant to the executioner that pulled the lever on the gallows, and he won’t stop until they’re all dead.
art
art is an officer in the east india trading company. he reports to patrick zweig. art doesn’t like the trading company. he doesn’t want to be an officer, but patrick is using his relationship with art to get what he wants from art. art eventually runs away with his daughter, lily. he knows they have to keep moving, because not only is patrick looking for him, art’s wife, tashi, is hellbent on getting her daughter back. he flees to tortuga in the hopes that he can stow away on a ship and put as much distance between himself, patrick and tashi as possible.
his dark materials
dodge
dayna was killed by the magisterium for trying to stop their experiments and dodge has been plotting revenge for years. he works as an ambassador and a soldier for the magisterium, but he’s only doing it so he can get close to and kill the ones that killed dayna. he’s secretly aiding lyra and her friends in any way that he can, and when he gets the chance, he’s going to defect and join the rebellion.
art, patrick & tashi
tashi works for the magisterium, and she’s very much a woman like marisa coulter. art is her husband and he also works for the magisterium alongside tashi. patrick doesn’t work for the magisterium officially, but he sneaks information to tashi in exchange for time with art. tashi is one of the scientists working to separate children from their dæmons and art is her assistant. art hates it, but he doesn’t know how to stop the experiments. he would join the rebellion if he could, but he’s never had a chance to and he doesn’t know what would happen if he took the chance when it came.
riff
riff isn’t involved with the magisterium at all. he hates them and wants absolutely nothing to do with them. he keeps to himself and travels when he can. he’s sort of like lee scorseby without the balloon. he just travels when he can and settles wherever he can. he’s known as a troublemaker and he’s gotten into his fair share of scrapes (he likes to make trouble for the magisterium whenever he can) but he hasn’t gotten caught yet.
dc/gotham
dodge
dodge’s sister, dayna, was killed in a hit and run accident on halloween when dodge was fifteen. he’s spent his whole life trying to find the person that killed her. he currently works for the gcpd as a forensic scientist, but he also goes out into the city at night to fight some of the less intimidating rogues. he doesn’t have a costume or a codename, but he’s made a name for himself anyway. the gcpd see him as an annoyance but not a major threat.
art
art comes from one of the many wealthy families in gotham. he was married to socialite tashi duncan, and he has full custody of their daughter, lily. when he divorced tashi, he took over the foundation he and tashi had started. he renamed it the donaldson foundation and started to work on getting rid of the corrupt associates they had. the donaldson foundation, under art’s guidance, becomes an organization to help the underprivileged youth of gotham. he takes in children when he can, and he’s working on setting up orphanages and foster homes throughout the city. the scandal that he was a part of will never truly go away, but he’s hoping that gotham will look past it and focus on the work that he’s doing, rather than the awful things he’s been through.
Dodge doesn’t really know what to make of Credence. He likes him. He’s a good worker, and a hard worker. He seems to be the type of person that needs everyone to like him, although Dodge has tried to tell him that he doesn’t need to be that type of person a few times. He doesn’t know if it’s sunk in yet. He hadn’t been expecting him to be here, though. Maybe Anne had given him the day off and told him to go watch Dodge. Why she might’ve told Credence this, Dodge has no idea. He’s good at rodeo, but he doesn’t think he’s good enough to watch. He’s pretty sure that Anne would disagree, though.
He waves back as he walks over. “Why are you here?” He doesn’t think about how accusatory it sounds until it’s out of his mouth and then he winces a little. “Sorry.” He’s trying to be less suspicious of people following the end of Panic, but it’s hard when he’s spent the whole summer on edge. “It’s just—you don’t need to be here.” He’s never had an audience before. Even when he broke the state record, he didn’t have an audience. He doesn’t mind. It helps him focus better if there’s no one watching him.
BOY UNDERSTANDS THE NEED TO change shape and to begin again. He has done it before and will do so again. Now is no different when he takes up residence in another town that shall not hold him for long ( he has grown tired of moving, and longs for a place to put down roots and sink into the waiting earth. ) after all this time, he can still work ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ HE CAN STILL BE GOOD FOR SOMETHING ! Dark eyes flicker across the open space of the rodeo as he rests his arms on the fence. It's not much for some, but to him, it is a fleeting joy not brutally stripped from his aching hands. That, and there is a particularly brave niffler trying to somehow undo and steal a freshly polished stirrup buckle from one of the saddles.
Credence almost has the creature safe and secure in his pocket when he appears in his line of vision. The niffler gets away from his hands, settling for a weak attempt at taking the button of his jeans with it as it slides down to the ground, IT'S SOMEHOW ALL WORTH IT. The wave Credence offers Dodge is weak, practised meticulously under the cover of safety of the barn loft ; it still feels all wrong.
@notefinal
Dodge blinks, a little caught off guard by the question. He hasn’t really eaten at the diner. He works there, but most of the time he brings a lunch from home, or he just doesn’t eat until he gets home. “I, uh. The cheeseburger’s pretty good. Or the onion rings.” He gives her a slight smile and goes back to wiping down the counter. He doesn’t know why she asked him that. Obviously it’s because he works here and knows what’s good and what’s not, but Dodge has never been good at not being suspicious. He’s trying to work on that, though.
› GENERAL STARTER CALL , accepting , @notefinal .
" do you have a favorite? " ... and it's asked so casually , if dodge and kristen aren't nearly strangers [ he said his name a few minutes ago. SHE NEVER SAID HER NAME ] . she's just looking over the menu , aviators still on her face. a question asked like he's a friend and she doesn't know how to make up her mind at the moment.