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Joel ([personal profile] aintyourdad) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-09-01 07:29 pm

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Who| Joel and YOU?!?!
What| Joel has found the TLOU store and isn't pleased. Alternately, Joel has found a copy of his biography and is REALLY displeased.
Where| The TLOU store; the bookstore.
When| Week 2 yo
Warnings/Notes| Cussin', possibly violence, references to body horror and torture/murder etc.

[ Option A; the TLOU store ]

He stumbles upon it early the second week. They've been scouring every shop and store - anything might have useful items, after all, and even if they don't, potential hiding spots are good to have as well. So it's a shock when he makes his way into the next shop on his list and finds -

Toy plastic gas masks. A neon colored flamethrower. Artfully tattered backpacks, bandanas, plaid shirts. Dawn of the Wolf posters.

The scowl on his face deepens as he wanders further into the shop, not liking any of this one bit but wanting to be thorough, too. And then, there they are. Ugly as sin, and even knowing they're fake, made of rubber, enough to get his heart racing a little faster - clicker masks.

[Option B; Story time ]

Later in the week, he's making the rounds and ducks into a bookstore for a breather, not expecting to find anything of interest. That is, until he picks up a book at random and sees his own goddamn name on it. It's like watching a train wreck, really - he starts flipping pages, unable to look away. The story itself doesn't bother him. Even the exaggerations, the blatant inaccuracies, the clearly biased point of view - he couldn't give two shits.

But the fact of its existence is just one more reminder that the Capitol seems to know everything about them. Things they shouldn't have any knowledge of, they know about. Enough to twist it all around to suit whatever their purpose happens to be.

There isn't much that frightens Joel, but this is kinda scary.
arrogantalloy: (A: 014 Okay you're going to bring that u)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-11 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Now that's not true. They're into any truth that's marketable." He looks around as if he'd see his book but he doesn't. "Apart from making me look like a super villain, mine's pretty much exactly what happened."

He pauses with a thoughtful look.

"I tell it better though."
arrogantalloy: (A: 079 Thinking)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-17 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Unless they have reason to accuse you of villainy." Ton replies easily as he lifts his wrist to display his naughty bad boy bracelet. He regards it himself as he shows it off. "Good thing I know girls are really into the bad boy thing." He smirks.

Tony for the most part didn't really care about the bracelet, short of his eternal frustration of having no way to break into it anyway. But he did think that at least showing he had it meant he wasn't all that interested in leaving everyone elses blood in his wake.

He could care less if the guy trusted him or not, but having him less tense around Tony would sure be helpful.
arrogantalloy: (A: 064 Interesting)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-17 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
Tony doesn't particularly see it as an honour either, the real honour would have been just completely getting away scot free with it. To him it's more of the reason why they decided to make him look like a notorious supervillain.

"No one expects their prize trained fighting dog to bite them." He shrugs and then picks up a small book to play around with it in their hands. "Then they bite and the dilemma becomes 'If it bites once it can bite again, but it wins fights so should I put it down?' " Tony pauses for a moment. "Wait, nobody thinks that, they just beat the dog and make it more violent. Really it's a universal theme."
arrogantalloy: (A: 130 Yeah doubtful)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-27 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Tony knows his friends can be used against him. Especially Bruce as the man is the only one he's openly and constantly friendly to, and has already been treated terribly simply for letting Tony talk him into breaking out Topher.

But when they're being forced to murder people that don't deserve it, that whole need to keep restrained for their safety get's a little shaky. That and he's applying logic to the situation, that means he's not directly having a go at the capitol specifically, right?

"I think us being entertainment is the rhyme and reason." He shrugs. "Really, on a scale of Big Brother to America's got talent, I'd say being here is Jersey Shore. Painful, poorly dressed, and surprisingly orange."
arrogantalloy: (A: 130 Yeah doubtful)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-30 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
"A few times. But not recently. But at least I know reality TV shows are either not a thing in your world or you aren't a man who enjoys living life through a TV screen."

He stuffs his hands into his hoodie's pockets and shrugs.

"I know I'm not, but then popular culture is kind of hard to escape in my world."
arrogantalloy: (A: 021 You for real)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-30 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Well. That's." Tony lets a thoughtful frown cross his face "A good way to avoid dealing with infomercials"

He shifts his weight then tilts his head.

"Energy crisis? Fall out?... World dominating apes?"

While zombie's are in the back of his mind -They're locked in a mall after all-, Tony really doesn't even want to entertain the notion, mostly because science tells him they shouldn't work.
arrogantalloy: (A: 090 Getting something)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-30 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, if it's interrupting television services, that must have been one hell of a flu."

He watches him for a moment.

"How long have you had to be here for? Because you can't be this wary and on edge just from not wanting to get rabies."
arrogantalloy: (A: 015 Oh yeah okay)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-30 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Wait, the world ended because of athlete's foot and mushrooms?" He pauses. "Hell of a way to go."

Third, so he hadn't been here all that much longer than Tony. Which admittedly does now make him a touch more curious about how this fungal disease managed to ruin his world.
arrogantalloy: (A: 013 no)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-30 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Wait. I know that one. It kills insects. Slowly."

His eyebrows furrow at the thought. It was part of a technology proposal for a testing phase to increase its viability during bone marrow work. But it was rejected for clearly not being ready for animal testing, let alone human tests.

"Well, you do have a point there at least. Doe make running things a little hard when people can't stop dying."

As sarcastic as it sounds, Tony's actually being quiet agreeable to the fact.
arrogantalloy: (A: 056 Listen here)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-09-30 08:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Suddenly, being trapped in a mall. Isn't such a bad thing."

He turns his nose up as he says this, because really he wouldn't actually like to be in either situation.
arrogantalloy: (A: 064 Interesting)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-10-01 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
Tony completely misses his thought train, unsurprisingly as he's in no way a mind reader, though he does know that there was at least something on his mind at that moment.

"Well, you have a point there. So. Alone here, or have you got a dog for companionship there, I-am-Legend?"

Sure he hasn't seen the movie, but still there's a certain kind of loneliness the man encompasses that makes the movie posters image kind of appropriate right now.
arrogantalloy: (A: 057 You're full of it)

[personal profile] arrogantalloy 2014-10-03 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Wow, I'm touched at how. Insidious you think I am. Crazy thing, you just had to say 'Yes' or 'why would I have a dog here?' Considering you haven't tried to kill me on sight or get any information on me, ever think that some other people might be thinking like that too?"

Because really, in his whole time here, Tony hasn't so much as bruised another person let alone kill them. He had so many better things to do with his time than add to the blood already on his hands from negligence.