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fishbones

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CHARACTER NAME

Jinx

CIVILIAN NAME

Powpow McBoom

TEAM

Revelation

HOUSING NUMBER

018

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Comments

[newphew]

No, I mean, why wouldn't you want to be formal with your parent?

[ spoken as someone who never had parents ]

[powderkegs]

[ jinx blinks. ]

Pointy, have you never have your own folks?

[newphew]

[ looks away ]

.... No. I--

[ ... ]

I didn't.

[powderkegs]

[ hm. she figured early on, but confirmation is good. she ruffles his hair. ]

Nothing weird about it. Lots of Zaun folk don't have 'em. Ekko — [ mylo. clagger. but those words were. harder to get out. stuck in the maw.

she pivots instead. ] — Vi and me, as well. We lost ours pretty young. It happens.

[newphew]

[ he's had his hair ruffled a few times now, so he doesn't flinch, just looks at her ]

I'm sorry.

[ part of him wants to tell her the truth, that he was made, not born, but he can't bring himself to ]

Sounds like life in Zaun was pretty rough.

[powderkegs]

Rough doesn't cover it! Ohh, the stories I could tell you. It'd make you grow a couple of inches taller, Pointy!

So don't sweat the small stuff. In this place, everyone's a leeetle off.

[newphew]

I'd listen to any of your stories. You know that, right?

[ a small moment of sincerity from him, though he still makes a face at the word "pointy" ]

But yeah. I get it. Thanks, Jinx.

[powderkegs]

[ jinx merely makes a little sound at the back of her throat, but the gleam in her eyes, an eerie red, signifies that she heard him loud and clear. ]

Don't sweat the small stuff. It's what you have that counts.