& open gen post iii.

[aeneia]

OPEN POST ( III. )
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4 young corvo, look i brought pictures this time.

[poleaxe]

Serkonos is a pit, and all pits are familiar by what they lack. The slums of Serkonos aren't that different than the slums of Dunwall. The accents are different, the jokes are worse, and the alcohol is stronger. The important difference is that no one here knows that her father killed somebody in a fight in a back alley, or if they do, no one cares. That was back in Dunwall, after he moved them all on a boat in the middle of the night. It might as well be on a different planet.

There's one other difference, of course. Joan's pale skin and red hair stick out like a sore thumb, but she's used to that. Sure, there were more redheads in Dunwall, but she has a face like a horse and a bad attitude. She's used to fights. She sticks out twice as much here, sure, but that can work to her advantage.

She has to rebuild her reputation as someone not to be fucked with. It's about getting into fights and winning them, and making sure nobody lays a hand on Lucas because they know she'll break their fingers.

So she gets into fights. This time, it's with a bunch of idiots about her age. They called her a whore, and that doesn't really matter. It doesn't hurt her feelings. But she can't let it slide, because they need to know she doesn't pull punches. She fights, she wins, and they tell their friends, and their friends tell their friends. That's how it happened in Dunwall. Here, she'll do it on purpose.

It's all going fine until someone pulls out a knife.

Joan does not have a knife.

"Shit," she says, because they all know she's fucked. Time to bluff. "You really that afraid you gotta pull a knife on me?" Her voice echoes off the old stone walls of the alleyway they're crammed into.

It's the kid with the knife-- Stefano, she thinks his dumb friends (Alessandro and... the tall one) called him-- who charges her, of course he is. It couldn't be one of the ones without the knife.

She dodges, but she can only dodge for so long.