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[howlettbaz]

Full Name: Baz Howlett.

Nicknames: Baz.

Pronouns and Gender: He/Him, Cis Male.

Birth place: Seattle, Washington.

How long have they been in town?: His whole life.

Sexuality: Bisexual.

Housing: Swindelbrook St. Apartments.

Occupation: Mechanic.

Family: 1 younger sibling.

tws for death, violence, crime

QUICK OVERVIEW:

Ghoulish grown man that stemmed from being a tearaway teen, yup yup.

Fell into a bad crowd in high school and got involved in some dodgy ass business. Very much was and still is a big fan of quick cash. Would be the perfect mark for being recruited for an MLM if he didn't lack patience the way he does.

Not a violent guy by any means but he def got a little too big for his boots when money started  rolling in and pissed off the wrong people.

Joyriding since before he could even drive properly, was the fastest fucker when it came to stripping cars for parts which is why when he ended up going straight being a mechanic was about the only thing he could think to do that didn’t make him want to die of boredom. Though when he actually has to do his job, he does find himself veering pretty close.

Broke his mothers heart several times over with his life choices and his attitude and his dad always likes to remind him that thats what killed her (more aptly it was a stroke, but that doesn't mean those words still don't land).

Was the sole person with his best friend when he was killed over a drug dispute that went from an argument to a shooting and took off when he heard sirens. Never disclosed that to anyone and never got over it either.

Still wonders if he could have done something more that night to actually save him - kinda shut down for a long time over that, has done absolutely fuck all to process it really. Carrying that around still feels as real for him as helping carry the coffin at the funeral.

Very much uncomfortable with everything about himself and his life, most likely hasn't felt genuine joy in years.

Suffers from a terminal case of seeming out of place and disinterested.

If he cares then he cares but he’s just not the best at making that translate.

Got married on a whim during a two week stint of trying to live life to the max and is still trying to finalise that divorce.

PERSONALITY.

+ innovative, independent, methodical.

- disrespectful, selfish, untrustworthy.

FUN ADJACENT FACTS.

Swindelbrook St. Apartments anti even though he lives there, can’t stand the ruckus that’s always being caused by the 20 somethings that live there.

Drives a shitty car, especially for a mechanic, but he spends way too much time under the hood of everyone else’s to get caught up in that.

Thinks Grace and Frankie is the greatest show ever made. Jane Fonda stan for life.

Online menace!!!! Has a number of burner accounts on twitter so he can harass local politicians and dox Karens who've pissed him off at the garage.

Veers close to online identity theft at time if he really doesn't like someone because he'll make a burner with their name and image and start tweeting a stream of consciousness that usually gets him a fact check warning of a suspension.

Not materialistic but does wish he had a lawn so he could tell you to get off it.

CURRENT CONNECTIONS.

roommate of @murphyaltman

cousin of @zerolawrence

personal jigsaw the puppet on a tricycle to @thaddtilly

SPECIFIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.

his (soon-to-be) former ex-wife. this would need heavy plotting, but could be fun to play out the disintegration of the dynamic/dissolution of the marriage!

GENERIC WANTED CONNECTIONS.

connections wise he’s pretty much an open book right now, but some baseline ideas that can be springboarded off are:

friendly.

a best friend / ride or dies / close friends / childhood friends / pseudo-siblings / friends / drunk friends / new friends / former roommate / tbh anyone who can put up with him for longer than 5 mins.

romantic

flirtationship / friends with benefits / one time hook ups / tinder matches / unrequited crush (can be either way) / exes from high school / exes from his early twenties / exes on good terms.

antagonistic.

enemies / former (best) friends / exes on bad terms / frenemies / rivals / negative influence / people he's fought with online / people he's fought with in real life / people who simply fon't fuck with him.

[alexeixpetrov]

Hospital life could be a little bit to much at times. He could handle it all normally and was used to working on little or no sleep most days. He was well used too it by now and really lived off of no sleep. But today was hard another long shift that never seemed to end. With one crazy thing happening after another. He had times he thought he had be on one of the tv medical dramas with how wild it could be. It started off fine and normal but it kept going. Nothing really that crazy like lot of people hurt or anything. It was just a lot of people being foolish for the most part.

He sighed as he was at last on a well needed break that seemed to be hours late. He was over with all the crazy people today being foolish and needed to get away. So he went out and stopped at the coffee cart outside the hospital and grabbed a coffee and muffin and walked across the street to the park that was across from the hospital. Put there to help people be able to relax and enjoy nature. He quickly went to a open bench he sat down a moment drinking a lot of his coffee before he sat it down next to him and laid down. "lyudi idioty" he mumbled to himself in Russian. He still had good accent on him even more when he spoke Russian.

He just needed a break, a breather and be away from it all. He did still have his scrubs on but had his jacket on over them. Not to really cover him up, it was just cold out and he rushed.

@sewastarters

x/four

Where: park across from hospital

[howlettbaz]

"What?" Baz says with a tilt of his head, his coffee held in hand as he looked down at the man that was taking up the entirety of the park bench for some sort of mid-afternoon siesta. It had been his initial assumption that he was some sort of doctor due to the clothes he was wearing, but now he was wondering if he was some sort of incomprehensible drunk who had wandered out of a fancy dress party.

In Seattle, it could be either or.

"I said can you budge up so I can sit down. I'm not sitting over there with that lady who feeds the birds. I won't be at the mercy of her flock of minions again."

[gabriellaramos]

@howlettbaz

It was early in the morning when she finished her shift and headed to the only breakfast spot open. Had bars not called final hour a little while ago, she would have headed directly there. With little people around, she made her way to the counter seats and sat down to order her usual black coffee with pancake and whipped cream. A reward for getting through a long shift before she went home to crack open whatever bottle was chilling in her fridge. The bell rings and she arches her neck, mouth slowly opening when she sees who enters. It's been years, they can be civil, right? Refusing to be the childish one, she looks back at him and waves. "Early bird catches the worm."

And instantly, she hates herself.

[howlettbaz]

He should have went with a protein bar and called it a morning.

That was Baz's first childish thought as he clocked who was the first person in his eyeline as he entered the establishment. The reaction was nothing short of silly given both his age and the amount of time that had passed since they parted ways, yet his desire to do a one-eighty and make his way right back out was still there.

"Is that how you talk now? In over-used cliches?" He asks, mirroring her wave as he stepped further into the diner rather than out of it and seating himself at the counter beside her.

"I'm just trying to catch the bacon. What are you eating?"

[savi-booth]

"it's a bomb..." savi lied rolling her eyes at his suspicions. " look you'd be doing me a favor by taking it off my hands. I'd really just not rather throw things away. reduce, reuse. recycle."

[howlettbaz]

"I wish it was a bomb. You could gently toss it at the garage I work at." Anything for a day off, after all. With another questioning look, Baz shrugs and holds his hand out to her to wait.

"You sold me. Gimme." He planned to reduce, reuse and recycle it all the way into tangible cash when he sold it online.

[olivebeau]

Working with your ex-anything should be top billed as one of the worst decisions a person could ever make. Mikayla Tilly, however, sees opportunity: exes can be friends. Exes can be the light of your life even in a very dark, neon strip club in the middle of Seattle.

(And it's so much easier to keep tabs if you're both in the same building for eight hour shifts and one of you just happens to be the most illusive social media troll in the country.)

Instantly she perks at the sound of his voice, eyes wide with an eternal eagerness. "Who, Linda? She thinks she's being haunted by Abraham Lincoln. When I told her it was Ulysses Grant, she got shot happy. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing."

Then he asks that question, and her smile drops. "When am I gonna--? I could right now," she blurts without thinking, only for the context to catch up in her confident nod. "Like, super near future. My schedule is so wide open. We're talking about readings and stuff, right?"

[howlettbaz]

"Makes sense. No one would want to be haunted by Lincoln." Or any president, for that matter, but was to rain on Linda's parade? Baz would only do that if she was still there and within earshot. It was more fun that way.

While he wasn't one hundred percent on what the ins and outs of her psychic abilities were alleged to be, an interest in a demonstration meant a reason to carry a conversation with her that wasn't marred by his some times present bitterness at the way it had all went.

"Readings, yeah. That." He takes a step back from the bar, indicating to what was sometimes classed as the VIP area -- though that could be easily forgotten at times through lack of use.

"Over there?"

“are you going to be the one that pays my FCC fine and handle the onslaught of PTA mom’s that call my unprofessional and undeserving of my job.” melody replied with a smile that beamed from ear to ear.

“i want to remind you that this wasn’t my fault, it was the curbs.” she replied back rolling her eyes at his comment. “you should be thankful that I bring you good business.” it was comical at how bad her luck with cars was. she couldn’t make any promises that she wouldn’t need a tune-up in two weeks or another curb would pop up randomly. “what was the damage?:

[howlettbaz]

"Don't those Karen types do that anyway? What's another complaint piled on top if the price is entertaining." Entertaining him was the specific upside of it that he didn't feel the need to highlight, it spoke for itself.

"It's always the curbs with you. Every time I have to remind you that the curbs don't ever move, you do. How they taking you by surprise that many times?" He can't complain about the business she sent his way, not really. Though he did incessantly before he became begrudgingly fond of her.

"Didn't charge you this time. My boss was being a dickwad so decided he didn't deserve it." A pause followed before his next question indicated to the true reasoning behind his generous delivery service.

"They got anything worth stealing in here?"

[delilahcarreno-blog]

"You're bullshitting me."

@howlettbaz

[howlettbaz]

"Doesn't sound like something I'd do," Baz bullshitted, it was exactly the kind of thing that he would do. The only thing he loved more than lying was misleading, but in this case it was a rare instance of him being both direct and truthful.

"I'm being serious. When my divorce is finalised, I want to throw a party for it. You seem like the perfect person to help me with that, so I'm told."

[howlettbaz]

━━  🔧┊I'LL BE WAITING – CIAN DUCROT.

maybe if you don't crash the landing / you'll end up right back where i'm standing / and then you'll know / i'll wait for you every night / if you ever wanna fall in love / if you ever wanna bet on us / if you ever wanna be my one / i'll be waiting / if you ever want one more night / if you ever wanna make things right / if you ever wanna change your mind / i'll be waiting.

[savi-booth]

Savi worked on trying to empty her overfilled bag, making space for even more stuff that she knew she wouldn't be using again . "okay so this brand sent us this pr package but honestly, this is just overpriced shit. You can have it if you want."

[howlettbaz]

Baz spared a glance at the bag and then back at it's owner, filled with an instant and unmissable sense of suspicion at the notion of something for free with no strings.

"What is it?"

[cinemadeco-deactivated20241209]

[howlettbaz]

━━  🔧┊CROSSROADS – TRACY CHAPMAN.

some say the devil be a mystical thing / i say the devil he’s a walking man / he’s a fool he’s a liar, conjurer and a thief / he try to tell you what you want / try to tell you what you need / standing at the point / the road it cross you down / what is at your back / which way do you turn / who will come to find you first, your devils or your gods? / i’ll save my soul, save myself.

[melody-guerrero]

“you would think they would have my lines ready…” Melody grumbled under her breath as she continued to scribble out words that were clearly written by a freshmen science intern. She tried to not let it phase her, but the mistakes were obvious, at least to her they were. The small footsteps making their way towards her as she continue to go through them. “we’ve talked about this… you can’t put a curse word on the teleprompter.” she spoke with a small laugh before gazing up at the guest. @sewastarters​

[howlettbaz]

"Why not? More people would tune in if you threw a fuck in there." Baz tells her, still a little irked by the debacle that had been simply trying to get in the building. It had involved showing his ID twice and a call to upstairs to make sure he was even allowed to be there.

That would be the last time he tried to do a semi-nice deed.

"Parked it in the lot for you." He informs her, producing her car keys and dangling them from his finger in offer to her. It wasn't often -- never, in fact -- he didn't make someone drive to the garage to pick up their wheels but seeing as Melody was two vehicular fuck ups passed being his most frequent customer he didn't mind it.

Plus, if he wasn't there then he wasn't working, and he loved not working.

"Think you can go two weeks without trying to break something in it?"

[howlettbaz]

for: @mikaylatilly

where: the doghouse

Glitter, gyrating men and neon lighting wasn't exactly Baz's scene but the shifts he picked up at random to work the doors of different establishment did give him two benefits he couldn't pass up -- extra money and a chance to hang around the blonde bartender without it being weird.

( That and he's been told his mean mug was perfect for making people rethink arguing about being told not tonight. )

It was an even stranger place to be on the wrong end of 2 in the morning, when the mass excitement had worn down and there was no one to throw singles at.

"Some chick nearly swung out of my arm when I stopped her from falling out of here raving about Mystic Mikayla." It wasn't the first time either that he heard she had a skill that wasn't relegated to being necessary to tending bar, and his interest was piqued. Plus it gave him an excuse to be inside talking to her rather than at the door thinking up a reason to.

"When you gonna do me?"

[howlettbaz]

6, 22, 34

06: How do you want to die?

"I have no plans to ever die."

22: Do you want to have kids? How many?

"Don't threaten me."

34: Who/what was your last dream about?

"Total destruction of the guy who lives across the hall from me who microwaves tuna."

[livixdunne-blog]

70 horrible questions ... Fuck it

01: Do you have a good relationship with your parents? 02: Who did you last say “I love you” to? 03: Do you regret anything? 04: Are you insecure? 05: What is your relationship status? 06: How do you want to die? 07: What did you last eat? 08: Played any sports? 09: Do you bite your nails? 10: When was your last physical fight? 11: Do you like someone? 12: Have you ever stayed up 48 hours? 13: Do you hate anyone at the moment? 14: Do you miss someone? 15: Have any pets? 16: How exactly are you feeling at the moment? 17: Ever made out in the bathroom? 18: Are you scared of spiders? 19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? 20: Where was the last place you snogged someone? 21: What are your plans for this weekend? 22: Do you want to have kids? How many? 23: Do you have piercings? How many? 24: What is/are/were your best subject(s)? 25: Do you miss anyone from your past? 26: What are you craving right now? 27: Have you ever broken someone’s heart? 28: Have you ever been cheated on? 29: Have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? 30: What’s irritating you right now? 31: Does somebody love you? 32: What is your favourite color? 33: Do you have trust issues? 34: Who/what was your last dream about? 35: Who was the last person you cried in front of? 36: Do you give out second chances too easily? 37: Is it easier to forgive or forget? 38: Is this year the best year of your life? 39: How old were you when you had your first kiss? 40: Have you ever walked outside completely naked? 51: Favourite food? 52: Do you believe everything happens for a reason? 53: What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? 54: Is cheating ever okay? 55: Are you mean? 56: How many people have you fist fought? 57: Do you believe in true love? 58: Favourite weather? 59: Do you like the snow? 60: Do you wanna get married? 61: Is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby? 62: What makes you happy? 63: Would you change your name? 64: Would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed? 65: Your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? 66: Do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around? 67: Who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to? 68: Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? 69: Do you believe in soulmates? 70: Is there anyone you would die for?

[samiduwhan]

@finwithonen

[bladesrunner]

Ryan Gosling as Julian Thompson Only God Forgives (2013) dir. Nicolas Winding Refn