Trust Me I'm a Professional

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On The Job

We spend a lot of time on our professional lives. Maybe you love it and you're great at it. Maybe you go full Wolf of Wall Street and make your work your whole identity. Maybe you fucking hate your job, boss, customers or clients and dream about the day it all burns to the ground. Maybe it just pays the bills.

Whatever your feelings about what you do for a living it puts you in front of people. People who might need you— professionally speaking— to do what you do.

Save that patient. Bust that ghost. Deliver that pizza. Let's meet your muses at work.

how to play:

Top level with a starter where your character is on the clock. Behind a desk. On a house call. Wherever their work gets done.

Comment as their customer, client, colleague, intern, boss etc. Maybe you've hired them for this job before, maybe they're your competition. Pick a working relationship and run with it.

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J'onn J'onzz 👽 DC

[yourfavorite]

Some options below, but feel free to request a starter from a particular secret identity or just name a profession for me to make up an identity for.

👽 Martian Manhunter

As a well-respected, globally known superhero, it's not unusual to see the Manhunter from Mars at any sort of catastrophe. When the Justice League is in town, you'll find him. In this case, you'll find him hurtling through a building at high speed, grinding to a halt inches away from colliding with an ally, or innocent bystander, or maybe even another enemy. It's a chaotic scene.

"Hmm. A miscalculation..." He says as he dusts himself off, getting ready to dive right back into the fight.

🕵️‍♂️ John Jones (Your choice if he's a police detective or a PI)

His most common human identity, the one has the most attachment to, is detective John Jones. He too, usually appears where there is trouble- but often after the fact, to piece it all together. The person in his office has one such problem that needs solving, and the large, gruff man flicks open an old-fashioned notebook to ask-

"Alright. Once more, from the top."

📰 Goldie Johnson

Being a journalist is somewhat like being a manhunter- at least, being a good journalist is. While it's charitable to call The World Register a rag, no one can fault star reporter Goldie Johnson's work. J'onn keeps a tipline open that many a time has brought some paranormal happening into the spotlight- just as often, it's someone lonely or confused. Almost all of them get checked.

"What do you have for me?" She says in lieu of greeting, meeting her latest 'informant', flashing a confident grin that says it all- she's unstoppable.

Dante | Devil May Cry 3

[red_oni]

[Meet him at the start or the middle of his shift!]

A - Calling the office

[Work hours start at 21:00 for the agency rumored to deal with all kinds of evil creatures of the night. The only employee ever on shift answers the phone the same way he always does:]

Devil May Cry. Got the password?

B - On the job

[Whatever monster he was hunting in the night was trying to make a getaway through the streets, chased down by a hail of gunfire. Razor-sharp claws tore through concrete as the creature bounded from car to car all while trying to avoid the rain shower of bullets putting holes in metal and glass.

The rich chuckle coming from its pursuer rung a little hollow.]

Ya' scared? If you keep running, I'm gonna get bored.

C - The Paperwork and Bills

[Writing an assortment of checks for property damage and signing invoices for repairs to his shop had been a pretty tragic way to end any shift but he sat at his desk and did it anyway.

He was hoping somebody would be coming in to take that job interview for a secretary position sometime in the next decade.]

Kim Wexler | Better Call Saul | OTA

[saintclaire]

Oops! You got arrested.

The officer fetches you from the holding cell to meet with your new lawyer –– one Kim Wexler, already waiting in the meeting room with a legal notepad out. You'd never tell it looking at cool expression and rigid posture, but there's never been a person happier to be entrenched in the legal system as Kim is when she's doing public defender work.

There's simply nowhere else she'd rather be in the world right now, no matter how dingy and coffee-stained the meeting room is.

She's right down to business, attention focused, gaze sharp.

"So. Tell me, in your own words, what happened."

Avan De Zinuar III 👨‍🏫 Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai

[heroictutor]

A JRPG-style hero who now mostly spends his time training other potential heroes, but you never really stop dungeon crawling.

🐉 Dungeon Crawling

"Oh, hello!" Avan joyfully strolls about the sinister, monster-filled dungeon with a grin and confidence more suitable for an extremely cheerful retail worker who can stack the shelves blindfolded. The person he's speaking to, on the other hand? In a cage which had dropped from the ceiling when they stepped on the wrong tile. Avan has no such issue, thanks entirely due to his funky x-ray specs. "Ah! I see where you've gone wrong... You've done this part backwards^*!"

*because it's a trap!

👨‍🏫 Tutoring

With Avan's wide variety of skills, there's just about no one he can't teach something. Apparently, the current lesson requires trekking into the mountains, and Avan downright skips up the steep incline.

"You okay back there?" He asks cheerfully without looking back, keeping a steady pace no matter how his student handles it.

James Bonde | Yuukoku no Moriarty

[bonde]

i. at the bar

[the gentleman arrives, hand in pocket, and takes a cross-legged at the bar. perhaps he's late for an appointment or stopping by for a break, but this is his drink for today, delivered with an easy smile:]

Scotch, please. Shaken, not stirred.


ii. undercover

[the hotel sure has a high ceiling and nice ambiance.

bonde serenely takes a sip of his coffee before turning the page of his newspaper. for all intents and purposes, he's here as another upper class guest, relaxing as other patrons trickle in for breakfast --- two tables away from his target of observation. concealed beneath the styled wisps of his brown wig is an earpiece that, for now, remains silent.

perhaps he'll have to wait a while longer until the subject makes a move or he receives an update from his associates. either way, he has the hotel's layout memorized, and there's more than one way for him to cut an apple should there be a deviation from the original plan.]


iii. wildcard

[feel free to suggest a different scenario! can go with the manga (up to the latest chapter) or the anime.]