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𝑨𝑹𝑰𝑵 𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑬𝑹 ╱ he/him ╱ 3rd year advanced encryption

[arincalz]

☢ don’t mind me, just a 𝑷𝑰𝑵𝑵𝑬𝑫 𝑷𝑶𝑺𝑻  ☢

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hana-young​:

      Hana had always preferred being outdoors, having spent a lot of her time as a kid hiking through woods with her mom or doing day trips to the beach. Now, even if it is late February and she’s bundled up in a t-shirt, hoodie, and her jean jacket, she’s sat outside with one of her medical training textbooks open on her lap, eyes scanning through the pages rapidly, absorbing information as she goes.

      “Did you know it would take the same amount of effort to bite through your own finger as it does to eat a carrot?” She rattles off at the first person who walks by her, glancing up after the fact. “It only appears much harder because our pain receptors won’t let us mutilate ourselves.” Real fuckin’ cheerful, Han, she chides herself, then holds out the box she’s snacking from. “Want a ‘Pocky’? I’ve got both matcha and chocolate.” // @gallagherstart​​​

      “I heard once that it’s possible to kill someone with a straw.” He half remembers hearing it. From a twelve year old kid when he was still in elementary school. And it’s only tangentially related to the fact she offered up, but he wanted to share regardless. “I don’t remember specifics or anything, but yeah.” He shrugged, taking her offer as an invitation to sit down as he plucked a chocolate coated stick from the box. “What kind of carrot, though? A whole big one, a baby carrot, carrot stick..?”

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tigsousa

“ then, unknow me, ” he grumbles, though he’s not exactly speeding up his pace or doing anything to try and lose arin. always saying one thing and doing the other when it comes to this little git. “ gonna pick up on my way home. ” 

“ probably have to hit my head pretty hard to do that. ” it’s meant as off-handed banter, but he probably shouldn’t be giving tigs ideas like that. arin nods as if he has any idea in this world what exactly he means by that. “okay, gotcha. i have fifteen bucks and a bunch of those pennies that you press pictures into.”

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natemercer​

“the only thing funny about you is your face.” and nate has the audacity to call arin immature literally ever. “the world definitely doesn’t. basically all of history is white people swooping in and taking shit other people found first, dumbass.”

“very original joke, i’m sure it took you ages to come up with that one.” arin made a big show out of rolling his eyes. as if that wasn’t a joke he makes all the time. “i mean, that sounds like finders keepers to me.” a pause, as he realizes how bad that makes his entire arguement look. “but in a bad way, you know.”

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jemfisch

– “VERY SOPHISTICATED,” JEM HAS TO LAUGH, wondering if arin wants him to quantify that for him or not. “ though not too sophisticated if you were to change them from the security office. ” wouldn’t be an easy hack, but breaking in would probably be harder. maybe he shouldn’t be giving arin ideas…

arin hums disapprovingly. like jem’s the one keeping him from having any kind of fun. “don’t think i want to get in a fist fight with a security guard just to maybe have a chance to screw around.” he’s pretty sure some of them could literally snap him in half — not the way he wants to go if he can help it. “it was so much easier to fuck with public school computers. they all ran windows xp and had like, no security.”

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      “how sophisticated do you think the ip tracking at this place is?” probably more than he could wrap his head around. but he’s bored. and being bored breeds the real stupid ideas. “i just think it might be fun to change the desktop wallpapers in the security office.”   ╱   @jemfisch​

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tigsousa​

“ it’s the weekend. we’re off campus. i don’t fuckin’ know you, you don’t exist. ” it doesn’t matter that technically they met each other before way before gallagher but his point still stands. sorry, arin. he just wants to see his grandma. “ shut up, ” he groans and starts walking. “ you got some cash on ya? ”

“that doesn’t mean i don’t know you.” he so helpfully points out as he falls into step at tigs’ side. though he does stay an arms length away. to reduce the risk of getting tripped in front of a passing rental bike. “depends. how much you want and what d’ya want it for?”

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jjamppong

                she glanced back at the lake upon hearing his explanation , not realizing before that it had frozen over .   ❝ hypothetically , do you think could skate and or run on it or is that a bad idea ? ❞   she had no idea how to even measure the thickness of ice , especially not by sight alone but she felt as though arin would know .  why else would he come out to check , right ?   ❝ depends , ❞   she began , pursing her lips ,   ❝ are you gonna rat on whoever did that ? ❞

              ❝ skate ? yes. run ? it’s ice. ❞ but yes, it could hold body weight, which is the real question. it doesn’t really fully dawn on him why she might be asking, though, and he stays put. hands in his coat pockets nonchalantly waiting for more of an explanation.  ❝ i’m offended that you think i would be a rat. they’d at least have to torture me first.  ❞ and he doesn’t think they’d be able to get away with torturing students. even if it is a spy school.  ❝ what’re you doing?  ❞

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natemercer

“let me rephrase, any empty chair near me is not available to you.” nate’s full of shit, and arin knows it, and nate knows arin knows it. “are you five?”

“and yet, here i am. funny.” he hums, sitting down and flashing nate one of his irritating grins. “hey, five year olds get it. you try and tell me the world doesn’t run off finders keepers rules.”

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natemercer​

closed for @arincalz​

“seat’s taken,” nate says when arin tries to join him at his completely empty table. “sorry.”

“yeah, well, you forfeit seat rights when you get up..” and with that, arin’s plate is unceremoniously plops his plate down on the table. it’ll take more than that to get rid of him. “finders keepers, loser’s weepers.”

[arincalz]

i’m not about to change the title i gave this months ago now so: are yall happy, i did a responsible human thing pt 3 / @gallaghertasks​

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oflex​:

@gallagherstart​

with a sign taped to the front and back of him, lex made his way out of his dorm to walk through campus. each side of him read:  FREE VALENTINES ( spread the love, tips welcome. )

arin had to squint in order to read the sign, even though he was only a few yards away by the front doors when lex made his way down the stairs. “what's with all the..?” he called to catch his attention, twirling his finger around as if that would give any indication what he meant.  “you the candy gram guy or something?” is that something people actually do or was that just his elementry school?

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tigsousa

tigs can recognise that voice anywhere, and it’s a good thing arin isn’t nearby else he would’ve shoved arin onto the road. he does stop to turn around, which is more than what can be said for most people. “ the fuck do you want? ” he grumbles.

“am i not allowed to just say hi?” because that’s definitely what he was doing. arin takes not immediately being told to get lost as an invitation and jogs to catch up, his usual mischevious grin becoming more apparent as he got closer. “how’s it going so far?”

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ezrxxx​

he couldn’t stop himself from laughing. “what were you doing? did you have like… your hood up or something?” he wondered. he figured part of the job had to do with not looking suspicious enough either, which clearly arin had failed at. “i don’t know… i haven’t thought about that before– maybe they don’t know. why would they? it would probably distract them from their actual jobs? i don’t know.

his brow knit together, annoyed that he hadn’t realized himself earlier why he might’ve looked suspicious. “maybe. shut up, i was trying to make sure i wasn’t recognized.” between the hood, constantly looking at his phone, and being a guy following a girl? yeah, he looked plenty suspicious. and if he’d spent thirty seconds thinking about it he would have realized that. “i guess it might. still feel like it would make sense for them to know at least some of the time, though. like a quick ‘hey, we’re doing some government training, these people are fine’ or something.”

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lovxkato​

“Hunter of course, as if anyone would be able to hunt me down.” If the roles had been reversed, Ai would’ve been on her A-game to really show off and avoid whoever was following her. “Ah, must be nice to be a hacker, you get to take the easy out,” she teased him. “So, who’s your prey, I have to know.” Five bucks Ai wouldn’t know the person’s name. 

“I feel for the poor bastard who has you on their tail.” Whoever it is, they have their work cut out for them. Arin doesn’t envy them — or anyone being tailed, actually — one bit. “Yeah, easy that I know where she is. I still have to stay undetected for half a day,” he rolled his eyes. “Raina Virani. I’ve seen her around, but I don’t know her very well.” He’s not sure if that makes him feel better about haking her phone yet or not. “Who you got?”

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      “i’m not the only one who thinks it’s stupid that instead of giving us a real break before the semester starts that they gave us work, right? i mean yeah, it’s a change of scenery and i thought it was too easy anyway, but it’s still like six hours of my life i could have spent doing something else.”   ╱   @oofsebastian​

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      “i think i got tailed by a cop for a little while i was tailing raina. guess i looked sus. shady dude watching following a girl around? you’d think someone would’a warned them that we’d be here doing this. or are cops not special enough to know about spy shit?”     ╱   @ezrxxx​