no longer human

Her eyes narrowed slightly, gaze sharpening to razors at the sight of the familiar face intruding in on her personal time. Whom-Oh. Right. Dazai. The guy who was trying to off himself a while ago. Jinx never mentioned him to anyone figuring if he was diligent enough, he’d probably make his way to the news sooner or later. Guess, it was going to be later.

“Never heard of a nickname Dazai?” She took her spoon digging it into her butter pecan ice cream. Her expression fell away into doe-like eyes, and a harmless pout looking every bit of innocence as she could muster-which was quite a bit. “They’re pretty common you know.” Despite that, she wondered exactly who he had connections with to find out about ‘Jinx’ and filed it away mentally to investigate who the fuck was giving out information on her. This wasn’t a big deal, but she liked knowing who and where rats thrived. // @dazailily​

He didn’t think she looked particularly thrilled to see him, but then again he hadn’t expected her to be. If anything the sharp look she had given him had been exactly what he had imagined her response to be the instant he slid into the booth. 

Change. 

She was never quite sure how to feel about that word. It was never always good, never always bad. She, herself, tended to thrive in change. Monotony was one of her biggest enemies, getting bored too quickly at the simplest of things. But even then, she couldn’t deny how deeply ingrained she was in her behaviors. Her impulses, her emotions, her morals or lack of them. Those never changed even when the world around her did.

Jinx thought they never would, even if it might be nice if they did.

“Is that so,” Her eyes narrowed, lips curling sardonically. Her tone dropped to amused, whimsical, practically purring. Jinx believed that was a bunch of bullshit, but she’d let him believe what he wanted to believe. Ignorance is bliss as they say. 

Pausing in her steps, she took a long lick of her scoop, contemplating the options available to her. She could just lie-that would be easy enough. She could even give out her name it’s not as if that would do much harm either. Jinx doubted she’d be seeing him so soon and if she did, he wasn’t trying hard enough. “You can call me Lucky,” She gave a half hearted shrug, raising a brow. // @dazailily​

He had to hold himself back from laughing, his lips turning upwards into a smile. There were a lot of ways people spoke to Dazai, some yelled at him, some ignored him, and others just seemed baffled by him. That much he was used to, but she was talking down to him. It appeared as though she thought him naive. That was one thing he couldn’t say he had ever been called before and while she might not have said the word, the way she spoke was enough. “Why couldn’t they?”

Dazai thought that nothing truly mattered anyways, this was no exception.

He noticed she was lying and while he hadn’t really expected her to tell the truth, that didn’t mean he was already annoyed with the work it would take to find out who she really was. Yet, it only made him more intrigued, usually people tended to lie about who they were only when they had something to hide. He intended to find what that was.

Dazai paused in front of the Melodic Cudgel, his eyes glancing around out of habit, he had made more enemies than he could count and if he were going to run into any of them, it probably would have been here. Yet, he wore a confident smile, he had a feeling things were going to end satisfactory for him, he just had to play his cards right. Lucky for him, that wasn’t exactly something he had ever struggled with before. Waltzing into the club he was met with the loud music and sound of the few people who had perhaps drank a little too much, he couldn’t say that he missed the place. He scanned the venue for the owner, a man he had met for work in the past. 

“You only need The One.” Her shoulders lifted in a shrug, tossing the sentence out without a care. It’s not as if she was wrong. You only really needed to find that one method to get the ball rolling. If this guy hadn’t found it yet, then he needed to try harder. “Keep trying, dude, you’ll get it eventually.”

“I’m innocent of heart,” Jinx batted her eyelashes feigning innocence. Innocent was the farthest thing she could be, but damn could she fake it. She got enough idiots around here believing she was just some delinquent kid in the streets-which was probably the most tame they could assume of her. Her lips curled dangerously, a certain glint in her eyes, “Trust me, once you’ve dealt with a devil, breathing or not, you certainly aren’t alive anymore.” 

People who have had that hand dealt to them discard whatever chance at ‘life’ they ever had-whether they know it or not. You’re Marked and that’s it. “Peace out, Stranger.” She held out a peace sign, walking around him fully intending to leave him in the dust, “Hope you get your scoop.” // @dazailily​

“You really think so?!” Dazai replied excitedly, a large smile breaking out on his face. To a certain extent, he was playing a part, he always did. His grin, though it appeared to be, wasn't entirely genuine and it certainly wasn’t because of her words despite how he acted. Rather from her personality as a whole.

“Ah so am I.” He kept his playful tone, even if the last thing he was, was innocent. It was hard to remember a day where he was at this point. But he played along despite that, noticing the look in her eyes. He blinked at her curiously, “A devil only has as much power as you give it, once you take that power away, it’s nothing.” He smiled once more, “Besides, anyone can change if they choose.”

axel: hm

axel: 3?

dazai: i could have ordered at least 20 back when i worked a job like yours

dazai: maybe you just aren't as good at your job as i was (´･з･)

“You should experiment more then.” She answered simply, raising a brow. The villainness continued eating her ice cream unperturbed by his behavior. He’d need to do a lot more than whine to gain any sympathy from her. If he could gain any sympathy from her. Jinx wasn’t the type to really hold it out for anyone. Everyone got what was coming to them. You reap what you sow.

“Nope,” Jinx popped her p’s, “Living is what you make it. You have it tough? You make it untough. You at the bottom? You climb.” Suffering was subjective. She suffered. She suffered Hell. Homelessness. Streets. Hive Academy. Brother Blood. Slade. Jinx took it all, because she knew she’d reach the top one day. She had to. Even if it meant burning the rest of the world to. “You only suffer if you let it get to you. Deals with devils have nothing to do with the living.” // @dazailily​

He couldn’t help but let out an airy laugh at her words, he was curious as to what she would think of all of his other attempts. Dazai’s head cocked to the side slightly and he tapped his chin as if in deep thought over her recommendation. “Hmm and I thought I had tried nearly everything so far. No method has ever succeeded.” He found the girl amusing, she hadn’t yet reminded him of anyone he had ever met before.

axel: 2 crab rangoon?

dazai: ಠ_ಠ i know how much people like you make

axel: i bought you crab rangoon

dazai: but i had to put up with your insults (╥_╥)

dazai: you're so mean to me (╥_╥)(╥_╥)(╥_╥)

axel: :)

axel: sure :)

dazai: hm

axel: trash boy

dazai: but where would you be without me??

axel: you're a menace

axel: is this just what i need to do when i need something from you?

axel: ridiculous

dazai: but a menace that you need~

dazai: hmmmm no

dazai: now that know i can get stuff from you

axel: i despise you

axel: also your crab rangoons should have arrived by now

axel: do i need to call the place?

dazai: i don't know, do you???

dazai: I'm just kidding

dazai: they made it and they taste amazing

axel: if you ever call me that again i will remove the last knuckle from three of your fingers

axel: also, i'm not sorry

dazai: i'd like to see you try~~

dazai: plenty have before

axel: you are the type of person that deserves to be publicly thrown into a dumpster.

dazai: why are you so mean to me axelpoo

dazai: all i do is give to you