#kimyne

               Turns out, those children aren’t children any longer. They’ve got their own careers under the family name, but seem to be as far removed from Kerry’s legacy as possible. Given the context, it’s no surprise she never made the connection before. 

               The size of Kim’s villa rivals her father’s, but with an eye for architecture that doesn’t just say ‘I have money but don’t know how to burn it.’ A couple years back just the sight of so much wealth belonging to one person would have made her stomach turn with resentment. Now? She finds a way to swallow the bile choking her soft palette before she gets to the gate. V can respect having a tolerance for the limelight. Even if this is the result of celebrity, the compounding lack of privacy would drive her slowly insane. All these high walls and spiring buildings and they still can’t keep out of the public eye. 

               She presses a knuckle to the button on the intercom, waiting for the responding buzz. An accented voice answers on the other line-- a house keeper maybe?   ❝ Hi, uh, I’m here to see Kim Eurodyne? I’m a...business associate of your father’s. ❞   There’s no response.   ❝ Um...I just wanted to tell you Samurai is reuniting for a one-night-only show. I don’t know if he told you or...Yeah. Sorry to bother you. ❞

                                    it was a fair enough equivalent to the way kerry was leading his life. self destructive tendencies repeated over and over again, hoping one day something will finally just stick.   but,  be it his fans,  his marketing crew,  or his children -- there’s always something that forces him to stay afloat.  

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OH BOY THAT’S A LOT.

• despite  all  the  cooling  systems  both  present  throughout  his  body  and  his  jacket,  royce  tends  to  run  at  dangerously  high  temperatures,  close  to  high  fever  level.  he  is  not  physically  bothered  by  this,  but  he  has  to  keep  extra  cautious  when  jacked  into  a  mech  or  even  networks  ( though  the  latest  is  extremely  rare ).  of  course,  he  does  not  really  act  cautious,  so  far  he  has  yet  to  experience  any  serious  overheating  issues  beside  discomfort  and  slight  burning  around  the  ports  he  uses  to  jack  in.

• many  maelstromers  are  deeply  involved  in  occult  business  and  beliefs,  not  so  much  for  the  case  of  royce.  he  is  a  bit  more  inclined  into  actually  listening  to  that  business than  most,  but  isn’t  an  avid  consumer  of  all  things  occult  related.  he  does  know  how  much  other  maelstromers  are  into  it  so  he  still  tends  to  lean  into  it  as  well,  as  he  understands  believes  like  these  can  really  make  people  really  involved  into  the  gang, until  it’s  too  late  to  survive.

• his  interest  in  the  very  strong  music  culture  that  maelstrom  nurtures  is  genuine  though,  with  him  having  a  deep  appreciation  of  the  typical  genres  favored  by  the  totentanz.  lots  of  metal,  punk  and  harder  rock,  the  club  does  specialize  in  neo-death,  but  as  long  as  a  band  is  heavy  enough  and,  most  importantly,  anti-corpo  and  no  sellouts,  then  they  might  end  up  being  welcome  at  the  club.

• never  can  it  top  tinnitus  in  royce’s  mind  though,  despite  the  band  being  much  much  modern  than  a  lot  of  other  stuff  royce  grew  up  with,  they  are  his  absolute  favorite.  lots  of  it  as  to  do  with  how  they  play  through  maelstromers  implants  and  how  they’re  music  is  best  experienced  on  a  cocktail  of  hallucinogenics.

•  he’s  been  cyberpsychotic  for  a  good  few  years  now,  and  has  since  slowed  down his  convertion,  though  it  is  still  very  much  of  a  goal  for  him.  he’s  always  been  unstable  and  the  cyberpsychosis  really  isn’t  helping,  but  his  case  isn’t  nearly  as  bad  as  some  others.  he  can’t  be  trusted,  is  incredibly  quick  to  reach  dangerous  levels  of  aggression,  but  in  the  end  he  manages  to  maintain  some  sort  of  functionality

• avid  consummer  of  drugs,  to  a  point  where  many  do  not  seem  to  be  affecting  him,  or  he’s  simply  too  much  of  a  machine  to  fully  feel  the  effects.  favorite  drugs  may  vary  but  he’s  a  personal  fan  of  black  lace,  obviously,  and  lesade  occasionally  because  he  do  be  that  freak.

• in  verses  where  he  remains  at  the  head  of  maelstrom  instead  of  brick,  not  short  after  the  militech  incident,  patricia  ends  up  with  a  bullet  in  the  back  of  the  head,  just  like  she  had  suggested to  brick  concerning  royce.

• the  detachment  he  feels  towards  “meat-faces”  is  amplified  tenfold  would  he  ever  encounter  any  sort  of  animal,  to  the  point  he  would  not  recognize  the  thing  as  an  organic  being.  

• despite  everything  else  he  might  get  on,  he  cannot  get  drunk  anymore,  simply  lacking  the  natural  organs  needed  to  experience  that,  the  cybernetic  replacements  too  efficient  at  filtering  alcohol  out  of  his  system  to  have  him  feel  anything.  he  does  not  really  miss  it  in  all  honesty,  he  has  plenty  of  other  options.

• sleeping  with  the  red  eye  implant  is  EXTREMELY  difficult  to  get  used  to  at  first,  as  there  are  simply  no  more  eyelids  to  stop  all  that  visual  information  for  coming ?  at  best,  perception  can  dim  to  a  more  limited  vision,  while  the  optics  themselves  can  be  set  to  reactivate  at  normal  perception  upon  certain  events  ( movements,  sounds,  etc ).  this  does  mean  that  yes,  a  sleeping  maelstromer  kinda  still  looks  like  they’re  still staring  at  you  with  their  lifeless  eyes.

• his  least  favorite  gang  is  the  animals.  while  maelstrom  tends  to  have  more  frequent  disputes  with  the  tyger  claws,  the  animals  use  cyberware  the  complete  opposite  way  of  how  maelstrom  does  and  in  his  ( thirteen )  eyes,  this  is  just  an  absolute  waste  of  chrome.

• on  the  opposite  end  of  the  spectrum,  scavengers  can  sometimes  reach  out  to  maelstrom  and  make  deals  while  remaining  on  relatively  good  terms.  lots  and  lots  of  cyberware  ripped  out  of  scavs  victims  end  up  being  purchased  by  maelstrom.

               its a sentiment that he’s sure kim has heard him say time and time again when he was too drunk to remember his own name, let alone who she was.  but hearing it come from her mouth made his chest ache, his own guilt bubbling in his throat as an apology burns at the tip of his tongue.   

              “ --- i’m gonna get you some water. ”  that comes out instead,  pushing himself off the counter to grab the cleanest glass he could find,  filling it before returning back to kim, cup in hand.    

❛  you  shouldn’t  care  what  the  public  thinks.  they  can’t  even  think  for  themselves.  ❜