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placeholder content up here until rocket gets his shit together

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[unlawful]

he did

( he doesn't want to say what he left him, though. )

not really important what it was
i just wanted to tell you ig

[protocol]

[ wash can guess that ephemera might have left him his rig, just because the other obvious choice for it -- wasn't here anymore, either. it'd either be felix, or perhaps ephemera's partner. but the omission of detail is clearly intentional, here, and wash won't pry at it. ]

I appreciate it.

[ . . . what does he do, here? ]

He seemed to be doing alright for himself, here.

[unlawful]

he hit the jackpot
stable relationship, stable job, friends who cared abt him

( and felix. )

idk if he would've ever been okay w this bullshit but he was learning to live w it

[protocol]

He figured out a good thing for himself, yeah, from what I saw.

Seemed like you were a decent part of that.

[unlawful]

i beat the everliving shit out of him multiple times wash

( don't ever suggest some wack ass shit like that again, even if it's true!!!!!!!!!!!! felix isn't high enough to let that one slide so easily. )

he nearly bled out once
i wasn't part of shit beyond making his life more fucking complicated

[protocol]

You are very good at making shit more complicated for people around you, yes.

But he didn't have to leave you anything.

[unlawful]

i ain't saying he didn't give a fuck abt me
ephemera was soft

but it wasn't like what you're thinking

[protocol]

What was I thinking?

[unlawful]

we weren't friends

[protocol]

Whatever you want to call it. He clearly gave a shit. So do you.

[unlawful]

maybe
i don't fuck w most ppl the way i fucked w him

( which is about as close as he'll ever come to admitting he cared about him to wash. )

[protocol]

[ more of an admission than he was expecting, honestly. ]

Did you know any of his friends here?

[unlawful]

crais
and his man drake

you talk to him at all since that shit w my rig?

[protocol]

Not so much, except for that whole thing with the contract.

[unlawful]

( wait what )

what whole thing w the contract? are we still talking abt ephemera?

[protocol]

Crais.

Emphemera I barely spoke to in general. Could probably count the total number of words we exchanged on your fingers.

[unlawful]

fair enough

( ephemera grew a lot in his year-and-some-months in duplicity, but felix is relatively certain that he hadn't yet grown past his hatred of wash or the freelancers. might not have ever happened, to be honest. that kind of simmering hatred runs deep, in a direct tap to the bloodstream. )

idt i've ever seen anyone hate something as much as ephemera hated the freelancers
you guys rly fucked him up

[protocol]

Meanwhile it wasn't particularly personal for any of us.

Which only makes it worse from his point of view, I'm sure.

[unlawful]

you slaughtered the only family he had

( not judging, personally. just stating a fact. felix's loyalty lay purely with ephemera, not his dead fireteam. )

anyway
doesn't matter now
you wanna get drunk?

[protocol]

We killed a lot of people.

[ everyone means something to someone. ]

I don't drink, Felix.

Where?

[unlawful]

it was war

( nature of the business. )

home
we could get high if you want

[protocol]

[ nature of the business. should part of him be worried about agreeing so solidly with someone like felix on something like that? maybe. but. it is what it is. ]

Maybe.

You want me to get you anything?

[unlawful]

pick your favorite poison
or are you too good for that shit too?

[protocol]

Don't worry, I'm already unhealthily indulging.

I'll get you something nice.

[unlawful]

yeah you have a particular taste, don't you?

( felix knows all about his indulgences because he is one of them. )