video:

[charring]

[This is done on purpose. For once. For the most part, she'd rather not show her face but she has things to do and has decided that the damn City isn't going to keep her from sticking to her responsibilities.

So, the City is graced with a view of her t-shirt. From the sounds around her, she's at the Dragon and it is a very busy day.

Her shirt, black writing on a white background, says;]

I BURNED DOWN 200 PLUS ACRES OF POPULATED GOVERNMENT PROPERTY WHEN I WAS A KID AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT!

[Charlie does not look like she cares at all. She looks kinda bored, actually.]

All my shirts are like this, apparently. Any shirt I buy ends up looking like this. It's just for a day, right?

[A shrug.] I'll manage.

Comments

text;

[aperfectthird]

You're handling this very gracefully.

Audio

[rianofski]

Did you? How fascinating.

[He's not showing his shirt today. Not if he can help it.]

Audio

[charring]

Yes, I did.

text;

[charring]

I have a business to run. That really leaves me with no choice.

Re: Audio

[rianofski]

We have more similarities than I thought.

Audio

[charring]

[That's...somehow unsettling.]

How so?

Re: Audio

[rianofski]

I once owned a forest. The government moved to nationalize it, to make my private property public. They did so. I burned it to the ground.

text;

[aperfectthird]

I've one as well, and it's open, but I'm not being quite as graceful as you are. I admire your courage.

Re: Audio

[charring]

I don't think our reasons are quite the same.

Re: Audio

[rianofski]

Probably not. Why did you do it?

Re: Audio

[charring]

For a multitude of reasons. One of which is they took my parents from me.

Re: Audio

[rianofski]

That strikes me as an eminently valid reason. I can certainly respect that.

[video]

[designedtoparty]

How about you go topless?

[It's the perfect solution. Despite this, Nathan is still wearing his own 'I SHAT MYSELF IN MY COFFIN AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT' shirt.]

[video]

[charring]

Nathan. No. Besides, the shirt is stuck on.

[And then she reads his shirt.] Wow.

[video]

[designedtoparty]

[Nathan looks put out.]

Like you've never took a dump in your coffin.

Re: Audio

[charring]

...they had it coming, regretfully.

[video]

[charring]

I've never been in a coffin. Do I look dead to you?

Re: Audio

[rianofski]

Your family? Or the government?

Re: Audio

[charring]

That particular branch of the government.

Re: text;

[charring]

Part of it's faked. Just so you know.

Re: Audio

[rianofski]

I'd argue that almost every branch of government has it coming.

video

[threeolives]

[ The t-shirt is no surprise to Pepper, who's already seen the incident in question from Charlie's memories. She herself keeps the video strictly head-level, so you can't see any of the writing on the t-shirt poking out from underneath her blazer (mostly because mun hasn't decided what it says yet). ]

You will Charlie.

[ Then, quieter, ] They deserved it.

video

[charring]

It's occasionally easy to roll with the punches the City dishes out.

[Plus? Considering how often the City likes throwing her memories in people's faces? She's kind of used to it. Sort of. Pissed as hell, to be sure, but she has the Shop to run.]

[private]

If I said that sometimes I didn't think they deserved it, what would you say?

[video]

[designedtoparty]

Okay, fine. At least I didn't burn down 200 acres of government whatever.

Re: [video]

[charring]

I had my reasons.