Probably not. He’s probably being all pragmatic about it, thinking about how he doesn’t want to lose a resource or how Sampo is his responsibility or something. Boring.
The others take their leave, off to attend to their own affairs. That leaves him and Gepard in a hotel room, all by their lonesome. Were Gepard a more interesting and less morally upright man, this might be an entertaining way to spend an evening, but the good captain is not either of those two things.
“Miss Supreme Guardian could try to find someone else, but she’ll have a hard time finding someone like me.”
And that’s the thing— they came to him because of his very particular skill set. If they could use just any conman off the street, they’d have done so.
“Look, if this is how you want to do things, I’m not going to argue! You’re running the show,” he says, hands raised in a placating gesture. “But why don’t you let me fix your disguise a little? I have my kit with me, I’m sure I can do something!”
Gepard’s distinctive, but there are ways to mitigate that. To dull down all those handsome features into something that no one would look twice at. A shame, in a sense, to hide all that natural beauty, but a necessary thing. The things one does for the sake of pragmatism!
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Date: 2023-08-07 04:18 am (UTC)Probably not. He’s probably being all pragmatic about it, thinking about how he doesn’t want to lose a resource or how Sampo is his responsibility or something. Boring.
The others take their leave, off to attend to their own affairs. That leaves him and Gepard in a hotel room, all by their lonesome. Were Gepard a more interesting and less morally upright man, this might be an entertaining way to spend an evening, but the good captain is not either of those two things.
“Miss Supreme Guardian could try to find someone else, but she’ll have a hard time finding someone like me.”
And that’s the thing— they came to him because of his very particular skill set. If they could use just any conman off the street, they’d have done so.
“Look, if this is how you want to do things, I’m not going to argue! You’re running the show,” he says, hands raised in a placating gesture. “But why don’t you let me fix your disguise a little? I have my kit with me, I’m sure I can do something!”
Gepard’s distinctive, but there are ways to mitigate that. To dull down all those handsome features into something that no one would look twice at. A shame, in a sense, to hide all that natural beauty, but a necessary thing. The things one does for the sake of pragmatism!
“Won’t take ten minutes.”