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[acuerdo]

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[the video flickers to life in the middle of robbie's living room. his smiling, clean shaven face greets one and all with a very important message.]

Citizens of Cadelle. I mustache you a question...

[in the background an audible groan can be heard, followed by the mutterings of his very unimpressed girlfriend. clearly she's not as big a fan of his terrible jokes as he is.]

It's the first of November. I'd like to invite all of you to grow a mustache with me. And maybe raise some funds for men's health. Doesn't matter if it's a fu manchu or a handlebar, come join me.

Let's see who can a: grow the most epic 'stache and b: raise the most funds and awareness.

Ladies? I'm enlisting you to be the judges of this unofficial competition.

So what do you all say? You in?

Comments

[quinientos]

Sounds like your life just got interesting, that's all. Nothing wrong with this.

[ True, Vasquez didn't exactly go the route of flying people or earthquake things, but it's not like the battle for Rose Creek had been normal for him when he'd gotten used to hiding out and trying not to let anything kill him. ]

So now you work on your car and race and maybe sometimes fly. Is this so bad?

[acuerdo]

Interesting is one way to describe it.

[robbie would be more inclined to say that he was livin' la vida loca, but maybe vasquez has a point. which makes him wonder... when did vasquez become the glass half full of the pair exactly?]

Not really, just not what I pictured doing with my life, I guess.
I thought I'd just spend the rest of it making sure my little brother got a better life and more chances than me.

You don't have anyone you left back home do you?

[quinientos]

I never had anybody.

[ Even with the new friends in Rose Creek, it's still true. He'd willfully chosen to be on his own and then the bounty on his head had made that decision for him, but given how scared he was of responsibility, it's fine. ]

I mean, I had sisters and parents, but I haven't seen them in a decade, almost.

[acuerdo]

That's a long time to not see your familia, man.

[of course, up until everything happened with shield, he'd not seen his uncle in years. finding time to pay a visit to his uncle in prison while working full time to support his brother wasn't easy, and convenient excuses were much easier to come by. no matter how much he'd believed in his uncle's innocence for the longest time.]

But maybe you're better at being alone than I am.

[quinientos]

Had to leave home to work, then things took a turn for the worst.

[ He shrugs, because it's not like he can bring rangers and bounty officers back to his family and the last thing they need is to see him being hunted down. Better to stay away from them and avoid it. ]

No one's good at being alone the way I had to be. It's just what I had to do.