Plank Sinatra

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

@NarayanK

Sangue

HHHHHHNG.

@Lucius Cypher

Such a precious little thing.

Anybody who hurts her dies.

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

i'm glad that the lads of this game are coming around to what basl has known for a year

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"Whoa! What the fuck!?"

Unlike Luke, who had so few women in his life before this month that the sight of them from out of nowhere could still surprise him, Lauren was not taken aback specifically by Sangue's presence. Rather, what surprised her was the quiet girl's surprising acumen for the art of the con. How did Sangue know what the hell a finder's fee was, and the importance of getting a primo one?

She found herself looking at her beloved teammate with new eyes. Was she going to be a threat to the payoff?

And what the fuck was on her--

"Sangue, babe, are you bleeding?"

A second later, she remembered Sangue's venoms and felt slightly sheepish...though, to be fair, if anyone was going to stand there and casually let herself bleed from the mouth like a nerve toxin victim, it would probably be Sangue Naga.

"Never mind. C'mon, babe. C'mon, Luke." She stepped out of the lift and led the two down the hall, back to where the drums had been stored. There wasn't anything particularly special about them, as far as Lauren could tell - just blue containers that were heavy as a motherfucker to even try and lift from the top or bottom. So Lauren set two down and gently nudged each with a foot, pushing a barrel further towards the lift with each step. If each person brought two drums with them in the same fashion...and there were three people here...

Oh we are gonna be s w i m m i n g in lien!

She took it all back.

She loved this job.

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Wh....Who? O.o;

@harinezumikouken

black comedy

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i would rather let josef mengele give me a prostate check than spend another month in brewing storm

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Much had been said of Lauren Negasi's default facial expression since her arrival at Beacon. Energetic was putting it kindly - for her captain, who had been the first one to try testing her in the ring, it was positively carnivorous. Amy Desire would probably call it coquettish, accompanied with a wink. Sangue...who knew. But one thing that was universally said of Lauren Negasi was that she was goddamn unrelenting. Happy? Sad? Comatose? Too fucking bad - Lauren Negasi's Semblance ran off of hype, and on the surface, it seemed like she would never rest until the rest of the world was just as hype as she was.

Which is why the wide smile that blossomed on her face at Luke's no-strings agreement was so...heartrendingly...

Gentle.

Bereft of energy.

"That's the spirit."

She bowed her head slightly, touched her strong little chin to her clavicle and bit the end of her lip.

"Thanks, Luke."

Lauren Negasi was the younger of two kids. A little sister at heart.

I'm only pretending to be big...

"Bluuuuugh, enough standing around! Let's get rich, kid!"

But as long as everyone's bought it...

She lifted her head as the energy returned.

"If we work fast, we can gank a finder's fee!"

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"You're a fucking degenerate, Negasi. I'm utterly astonished that your incoherent ramblings haven't caused your head to explode in a cloud expanding Fermi gas."

@Crimmy

"I didn't hear a 'stop building the sex dungeon' anywhere in there! Now shoo! Shoo! You'll see it when it's ready, babe!"

@Krayzikk-kun and Tyler-senpai OTP

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"Look, Luke, if I could be out there giving that ugly fucker the business, sure I would. But facts are facts," Lauren said breezily, triggering the lift once they were both inside. They began the slow crawl back to the basement, and the quarter-dressed Huntress slouched with her arms crossed. One smooth mocha shoulder lifted in a shrug.

"I've been beating people up with axes, bats, and my bare damn hands since I was six years old. That's not a skill set that's very handy against a big fucking Manticore like that - especially when I came to Beacon with a weapon you could probably scrounge around and find somewhere in this very brewery. If I go out there with this shitty ax and the shit I wear to the gym, all I'm going to do is distract Ben, and probably Amy on top of that. A truck that needs hotwiring and some goods that need stashing? That's a skill set I can actually still use."

An imperceptible sign ran from Lauren's lips, and for a moment her grin shrank.

"To be honest with you, I am gonna have to do something about it, though. I fuckin' hate feeling useless like this..."

Then it was as though a cloud lifted from Lauren, and she straightened up and rolled her shoulders as though she were entering an octagon.

"Which is why we need that brewery paycheck in our hands fuckin' ASAP! Now c'mon, let's roll some drums!"

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"Whatcha mean, what's the big idea? Don't you remember our briefing?"

The laws of action movies dictated that it was totally cool for her to leave through the car door, so Lauren parked the back of the truck to the left of the cargo lift and hopped out nimbly. She rapped on the hood a few times with her fist impatiently, all ten million megawatts of light from her manic grin aimed at Luke Schwarz.

"We still have stuff to grab!"

rap rap rap

"Think of all those chemicals, kid! Four digits per drum, half a dozen drums per team..."

She waited for Luke to do the math.

Forrrrrrrrrr about five seconds. Then she had already turned her back on him and was sashaying towards the lift.

"Now get your ass outta the truck and let's make this mission worth a fuck! Or I'm gonna steal your share and use it to turn your dorm into Gratia's sex dungeon."

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Shut up Snow.

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You all should know what I mean.

Omit it or change it entirely.

Please.

@harinezumikouken

I don't want this to become a pissing contest, but references like that have been in Lauren's character for over a year. She's made cracker puns about all her teammates and even called Luke a Jap in that same post. Just because she doesn't sound like a Zatarain's commercial or dip into a well of racist food stereotypes doesn't mean that she isn't a black girl - a black girl that lived twelve years of her life as a drifter through different cities in Remnant. It's part of her character voice, not offensive.