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[When the feed switches on, he's fixing his phone's position. His face isn't visible, but it is possible to see the outline of the wraps on his wrists, and the tattoos stretching up across his forearms.
Then he moves back to a stool set up in the room, perfectly lit and angled so that he's just barely obscured enough to show his silhouette without much detail in his appearance. He's not wearing his favorite hoodie for once, just a black band t-shirt with his silver necklace pulled out to be visible over the shirt. His gold necklace is still hidden under it.
The figure is in the middle of Eichi Tenshouin's bedroom, in the Tenshouin estate. Behind him, though the room is rather dark aside from a light he set up to light him from behind, the audience will be able to see a room that is mostly barren aside from a few posters of Wataru Hibiki, a bed and a desk covered in neatly-organized music sheets. It's a place that's really only recognizable if someone knew the original owner, and otherwise looks like a set rather than somewhere that someone lived.
For those who have yet to meet him, the figure in the video is Jamie Dodger. He's missing his right eye, there are deep scars across his face, and there are gauze wraps over his wrists that hide half of his forearms. For a man of only 25, he looks like he's walked through hell, but for once he isn't trying to boost up his street cred by threatening the network as a whole.
Instead he simply pulls out a guitar from behind the stool, and begins playing. The song he sings is slow and melancholy, a tribute for the man that he has spent nearly three weeks now mourning and is trying so hard to get over. Eichi had never gotten to hear him play... so he guesses it's sort of wishful thinking that playing publically would make him feel better about that, even if Eichi is no longer here to know it.
Though most people won't know the struggle that brought this song around, at least the music is good. Dodger is a skilled musician, and his voice is deep and gruff without sacrificing much range. More than anything, there's a lot of emotion in his singing. And when the song is over, he is silent for several seconds before getting up and wordlessly shutting off the feed.]
Then he moves back to a stool set up in the room, perfectly lit and angled so that he's just barely obscured enough to show his silhouette without much detail in his appearance. He's not wearing his favorite hoodie for once, just a black band t-shirt with his silver necklace pulled out to be visible over the shirt. His gold necklace is still hidden under it.
The figure is in the middle of Eichi Tenshouin's bedroom, in the Tenshouin estate. Behind him, though the room is rather dark aside from a light he set up to light him from behind, the audience will be able to see a room that is mostly barren aside from a few posters of Wataru Hibiki, a bed and a desk covered in neatly-organized music sheets. It's a place that's really only recognizable if someone knew the original owner, and otherwise looks like a set rather than somewhere that someone lived.
For those who have yet to meet him, the figure in the video is Jamie Dodger. He's missing his right eye, there are deep scars across his face, and there are gauze wraps over his wrists that hide half of his forearms. For a man of only 25, he looks like he's walked through hell, but for once he isn't trying to boost up his street cred by threatening the network as a whole.
Instead he simply pulls out a guitar from behind the stool, and begins playing. The song he sings is slow and melancholy, a tribute for the man that he has spent nearly three weeks now mourning and is trying so hard to get over. Eichi had never gotten to hear him play... so he guesses it's sort of wishful thinking that playing publically would make him feel better about that, even if Eichi is no longer here to know it.
Though most people won't know the struggle that brought this song around, at least the music is good. Dodger is a skilled musician, and his voice is deep and gruff without sacrificing much range. More than anything, there's a lot of emotion in his singing. And when the song is over, he is silent for several seconds before getting up and wordlessly shutting off the feed.]
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[There's a small, awkward pause.]
What've you been up to since we talked last?
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[She drops into past-tense where people are concerned a lot easier than most. You can thank the apocalypse for that. It's also sort of a warning to Dodger in general, because man. If he was causing significant enough trouble here somebody would've strung him up by now, but it doesn't mean he isn't fucking weird as shit.]
I've been fine. Not that it's any of your business. Pro-tip? Don't care so much about what a sixteen [is she sixteen now? she has no clue.] year old girl is up to and you'll be off to a way better go of things.
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[Ignoring that... she didn't know how he looked when he first contacted her? Look, he's trying. He really can't help being a creep.]
You know, you're only nine years younger than me, it's not that weird. I was just being friendly.
[Is he being defensive? Yes, he absolutely is.]
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It's not about how you look.
[She definitely mumbles 'jackass' under her breath there.]
Okay. Let me spell it out for you. Adult dude trying to be friendly with a teenage girl? Definitely fucking creepy.
[There's a difference in her mind. It's obvious that 'nice' isn't this dude's default, so changing his attitude so drastically pretty much only means he wants something, in her mind.]
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Look, you can believe whatever you want, but I've got better sources for friendliness than creeping on a little girl that wants to think she's an adult until it's convenient not to be. I put in my effort to make friends, and it's bit me in the ass enough that I'm sick of trying. So if you don't have anything nice to say, you can fuck right off.
[If it wasn't obvious... he's really been searching for an excuse to snap at someone. But more than that, he's being a lot more open on his post than he ever wanted to, and it hurts to see he's not going to get any sympathy by the people left in the quarantine.]
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