#agent 009

“Hey, Dom? I, ah, I have a quick question. Tiny. Teeny. Not a big deal.” 

He was standing at the door, clutching his hand to his chest. It was wrapped in a thick, white cloth, but there was crimson seeping out from it.

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Giovanni has a strange tendency to attract small angry knife dottirs to his general vicinity– no, I won’t write a whole headcanon based on that. Well, kinda. It’s this: Leaf and Domino fill very similar, close-in-proximity niches in Team Rocket. 

Leaf shows-up on the scene as a random kid Giovanni picked-up and decided to train after seeing her potential. She’s a smart, tough kid, unpolished, and just getting her teeth into pokemon training. Leaf is an effective but rough fighter, at the very least she won’t give-up. In the course of two years she’s groomed into an effective and deadly agent, one of the best trainers in the organization, and a shrewd information dealer.  She gets her own partner in M but remains closely attached to and working for Giovanni doing important, sensitive, and personal work at varying interval. From what I understand, Domino is in a similar position, working for, and around Giovanni, and having a close relationship to him.

It wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume they’d encounter each other quite a bit, or even be assigned to the same missions. Leaf at her full height stands is no slouch at 5′6″ and is big-boned, she’s a rough hand-to-hand fighter, using knives or just her fists this plus her ability as a trainer would naturally compliment Domino’s style. It would be to Domino’s and Leaf’s benefit, as well as Giovanni’s specific interest, that the two get along and can work together effectively. I can see Domino and Leaf having an unpersonal, but close, working relationship, discussing logistics and missions over a cigarette in a quiet moment or making fun of whatever poor smuck they’re going to con. They’re not intimate friends but they get along and are a good team in a fight. 

Particular thoughts in no order:

Leaf and Domino hanging around the office while Giovanni entertains a potential rival. Rival trys to pull some shit and turns out the two semi-distracted teenage looking girls were paying attention, and now you have a knife in your hand. Whoops.

Leaf is straight-forward and honest for a pick-pocket and criminal, she hates playing games. Domino’s going to have to pick up a lot of slack in the ‘tricking people and gaining their trust’ department. 

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“Oh, barf. Hold on. I gotta pop an anti-nausea pill if we’re gonna do this. Alright. I don’t like you and you don’t like me, but you’re…a better agent than me. If you rub those words in my face I’ll slap you so fucking hard your precious princess pigtails will never get their curl back, but it’s true. The grunts listen to you. Even though you don’t appreciate them and don’t have a fucking care to spare for anyone but your teacher’s pet, Jared.”

Cyan held his hands up and shook his head, face flush.

“N-no, no, it’s okay! Y-you don’t have to be sorry, I get it!” he sighs and rubs the back of his head, slouched and a little miserable looking. He knew it wouldn’t work, she’s all kinds of perfect and he’s-

Well, not much. Clarissa was right. He thinks too much, he’s all in his own head, he doesn’t have any prospects.