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[competing]

Who: jyn (insurgent), lance (competing), & rhys (rhygret)
What: just some friends, treating themselves
When: idk... time is a construct
Where: red light district but like. not like that.
Warning(s): two dumb boys being dumb boys ig


And then she was like "Excuse me, he's with me." and I was like ohsnaaaap—

[ it's the middle of the day in the middle of the week, meaning it's been pretty slow at the local spa resort but luckily (?) for the workers here, lance has taken it upon himself to make enough noise to make up a full house. currently, he's excitedly (and dramatically, complete with voices and all) regaling the story of how he and jyn first met, while he, jyn, and rhys sit face-down along massage beds, getting all the kinks and tension worked out of their backs by some very polite, but also very buff men in bowties and speedos. (it's only weird if you make it weird, okay.) ]

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[rhygret]

[ Definitely, totally nothing at all weird about getting a massage from a bunch of buff men in speedos and bowties. This is basically the very definition of how a spa day should be, and Rhys for one is soaking it up. Yeah maybe he was a little weirded out at first but Juan here? Juan has magic hands and he's effectively turned Rhys into a pile of happy putty beneath them. ]

Sounds like you two had a bit of an adventure. I'm almost jealous--I had to get beaten up by psychic spiders to get Jyn to warm up to me.

[ Okay that's not exactly why that happened but shush. ]

[insurgent]

[ upon arrival, a jagged look assured her masseuse that he best keep to code and engage in the minimal amount of touching possible. she doesn't find the outfits charming or anything really, but she did shoot raised brows to Rhys at the sight of them, as if to say you can't be serious. never in her life has she indulged in something like this.

it's not... horrible... but it remains far beyond her comfort zone. ]

[ wryly — ] Feeling a bit lukewarm, presently.

[ after being strong-armed into coming here. well, she doesn't do anything that she doesn't want to do, but she wouldn't have bothered if Rhys hadn't insisted. after a beat, she continues. ]

Lance did fine, too.

[ he didn't employ top notch improv or anything, but he didn't cock it up, either. and he's talking her up like she did something impressive, so. ]

[competing]

[ as far as lance and his own masseuse goes — Blarkt doesn't quite roll off the tongue as nicely as Juan does, but he manages — his own reservations had been quickly melted away as soon as blarkt's self-heating hands worked their way over his tense neck muscles, and now he's as putty as rhys is. it's fine, it's fine, this is business.

anyway, it's only because he's lying face-down right now that neither jyn nor rhys can see how he puffs up in pride at jyn's generous comment. ]

Yeah, it got pretty dicey there for a sec! But Jyn and I — we worked it through. It was pretty awesome, you should've been there.

[rhygret]

[ Its okay, Rhys can hear it in Lance's voice and that's plenty telling enough. He reminds Rhys a little of himself at that age, only with way more energy. And way more talkative. ]

Haha, maybe... I mean. I'm not sure what I was doing at the time but. I'm sure it was important. Probably.

[ I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW HOW LANCE AND JYN'S FIRST MEETING WENT OR WHEN IT TOOK PLACE sob ]

[insurgent]

[ she doesn't contradict Lance overselling the encounter, at least, if only because he was genuine in a way few people are — and it's funny that Rhys missed it all.

she chips in, light and teasing. ]

It was a busy night. [ adventures, etc. ] No red light adventures to regale us with, Rhys?

[ nevermind that her run-in with Lance was only about halfway through her rather eventful night. she doesn't imagine Rhys to be as...uncertain as Lance in the area, given his sketchier background, but she assumes he isn't the smoothest operator, regardless. or perhaps that he found trouble of his own. ]

[competing]

[ lance shifts briefly in his spot, head perking up to glance at the back of rhys'. ]

Oh yeah, have you been yet?

[ he didn't really mind talking about how he'd gotten in way over his head, after all; any other occasion, and he might've been too embarrassed to talk about it, but considering it had led to him meeting jyn in such a cool way, how could he not talk about it? ]

It's, uh. It's pretty wild.

[rhygret]

Guy, guys...please. A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell.

[ Which is to say that I DON'T THINK HE'S HAD ANY ADVENTURES YET by this point but if he has it's prrrrobably just dinner with Mercy and Anders that one time. SO THIS IS RHYS just trying to play it cool like a loser. ]

[insurgent]

[ jyn snorts, entirely unladylike, but otherwise stays in place. if she's going to laze about, anyway, she might as well not move because of idle banter. ]

Sure. [ who does he have to kiss, anyway... ] Do you have a job yet, Lance?

[ a better topic than her own red light misadventures. ]

[competing]

[ it's a good thing jyn decides to shift the topic of conversation onto something that would suitably distract him from wanting THE DEETS — himself.

he puffs up... or as much as he can when he's laying face-down, anyway. ]

Yeah! I'm part of the Royal Guard. [ he says it with such a flair that it may as well have been followed up with a i'm sure you've heard of us. ] You know... no big deal or anything, we're just going around protecting everyone.

[ IT'S SUCH A BIG DEAL, PLS PAT HIS BUTT. ]

What about you guys?

touches lance's butt

[rhygret]

[ As if Lance could handle those deets mr. blushes at prostitutes.

But man...you know, Rhys thought so before but Lance really does remind him of himself when he was younger. All that swagger, that budding self-importance that's yet to turn into the smugness of a total asshole.

Ah, to be young. ]

Definitely not something so impressive.

[ And yes he's teasing, but he's also trying to be nice and compliment Lance as well since it seems like a lot of responsibility for a kid. Because 19 is totally a kid now that he's 27.

Rhys lifts his head and turns to look over with a wry smirk. ]

I work in the marketplace with a couple of the merchants. Trading, selling, shipping...getting a feel for what makes money on this rock. The usual.

[insurgent]

[ lance joining the guard makes sense, given the information he gave her on his home world. she thinks nothing of his age. her fight started when she was only a girl. she lifts her head, propping herself up on her elbows. ]

Rhys was the head of some business, for a little while.

[ a tiny fact she recalls, so rhys can talk himself up, too, even if he's near the bottom of the ladder presently. sometimes she's nice :') ]

But the royal guard is something else. Very noble, Lance. [ not necessarily a good thing, but she assumes lance will take it as a compliment, which is fine. he found his way into her soft spot. ]

[ casually — ] I'm just a courier. [ downplaying, in contrast to the boys. she carries unsavoury items, so mentioning her employer or bragging about her true job description seems counterintuitive to success in her, ah, chosen field. ]

[competing]

Whoa, really?

[ he picks his head up too, glancing from rhys to jyn. (though, when he sees her lean up on her elbows, his face goes red, and he plunks his face back down again just in case he accidentally.. sees things he shouldn't. ah.) ]

That's way cool, you guys. [ and it isn't even in that haughty but obviously not as cool as my job kind of way. ] I used to do part-time in retail back home! And I had a paper route when I was younger, too. [ so like. obviously he can Relate. ]

[rhygret]

[ Oh Lance....you pure soul. Never change ]

Yep, it was pretty cool. Aaand then...ssstuff [ since he can't talk about universes ending around their Chippendales here ] happened and that all tanked. Hopefully I'll be able to turn something around here though. Retail sucks.

All those customers complaining and yelling when they don't get what they want... Eugh. Total nightmare.

[insurgent]

[ she's too cool to care™ about things like mild nudity. ]

Better to work on a more exclusive basis, I imagine.

[ for exclusive clientale aka black market types ha... ha... she smiles privately. ]

— Unless you're the heroic type, of course.

[ meaning lance, who is very clearly Morally the Best Person on this spa day. can't be picky about who you protect on the guard and all. ]

[competing]

[ they can't see it, but lance beams at the comment, which he 100% takes as a compliment. who wouldn't want to be a hero, after all? being a hero is the best. ]

Well, hey. I'm sure you both are kicking butt no matter what! Lemme know if you ever need some extra muscle when you're working... I'll totally have your backs.

[rhygret]

Oh yeah? I've got a ton of boxes my boss wants to move to a new warehouse tomorrow, could use a hand with that.

[ It is most definitely not at all the muscle Lance is talking about but you know what Rhys is going to try okay, he doesn't want to lift them all by himself. It's worth a shot ]