#flambae meta

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too bad flambae lost that tooth bc now he can't smoke for 5 days (and he's about to have a very VERY stressful 5 days) or he'll risk getting dry socket and getting a way worse and more painfui infection. ): he's gonna need some goddamn weed or nicotine or SOMETHING. for his anxiety. ):

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Flambae is probably right hand dominant (throws a punch with it 3x, opens doors with it, beckons Robert to hurry up in the meeting room with it, slaps a takeout box with it, pats Robert's head with it, holds a microphone with it, eats with it, shakes hands with it, adjusts/touches his comms earpiece with it). he seems to primarily use his left hand when he's alternating hands for a task naturally, or he's feeling self-conscious, hostile, or defensive (taking off his glasses after opening a door, opening the fridge to reach inside, squeezing Robert's shoulder after patting his head—then when Robert asks, "Remind me, who took your tooth/burned off your eyebrows?" Flambae points with his left hand when he says, "i got in a fight with an actual real actual hero, and i assure you he's regretting his decision to tangle with me", and he points at the team with his left hand after the Mecha Man reveal as he says "Fuck all you fucking fucks")

which means if you're writing him having sex and he's fingering his partner, there is probably NOT a third finger!! ✌️ just these two. and a thumb. we can get creative with it, folks!

alternatively u can always very briefly mention he's using his left hand, if you want to ensure an attentive reader doesn't need to reorient their mental image when he suddenly has three.

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i knowww flambae and prism go to west coast swing improv dance lessons together. stunting on EVERYONE in class and no one is even mad because they look so fucking good together. the way they're making intense eye contact everyone thinks they're deeply in love (and they are but u wouldn't get it).

i know if they ever get to attend SDN official functions they DO NOT compromise on going together. i love flambert but if robert asked flambae to go with him to the function as his date i can EASILY see flambae saying fuck no, obviously he's going with prism?? they've already got matching outfits and everything. anyone who went with them would just look bad in comparison, let's be real, he and prism are showing MERCY to everyone else by going with each other.

and they are going to fuck it UP on the dance floor.

matching each other's freak literally every fucking day. i love them so much.

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i rly want to make a dispatch meta post about the religiosity of redemption and the prison system's roots in religious reform (the way "penitentiary" comes from the word "penitent") and how that system eventually became the dysfunctional, (even more) racist, profit-mongering, punitive, bullshit system we have today (exacerbated by Cold War-era policies that came about during the conflict into which Flambae was BORN)

but god. that would be so fucking harddd. and longgg. you guys get it right. i dont need to explain any further do i. also would people actually want to read that whole thing.

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fucked up that flambae couldn't smoke the first few days after losing his tooth (ur not supposed to smoke after losing a tooth!!!) like i KNOW his ass needed a cigarette sooo fucking bad after the mecha man at crypto night debacle and getting a new bossy dispatcher ): bro was so stressed... no wonder he started that fire in the park... 😔

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we dont get an explanation for how flambae fixes his face between episodes 5 and 6, but im choosing to believe he realized he'd just been showing up to work with mecha dick this whole time, flaunting his battle scars without an ounce of shame, and flambae couldn't bring himself to show his face to him like that again, so he either got that dental work scheduled (presuming he's already done all the prerequisite work to have the filling prepared) or he had prism help him with some fake eyebrows while his grow back in 💀

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If you send Flambae out to do the mission in episode 8 where Vanderstenk's girlfriend is asking for coffee in the middle of the Red Ring attack, he says "I hope she likes her coffee scalding." With emphasis on the "scalding". He's either going to be delivering boiling hot coffee, or he's straight up going to throw it in her face (while also probably making it boiling hot). Funnily enough this can still result in the mission being successful.

I'M WHEEZINGGGGG FLAMBAE!!!! He's sooo fucking funny when he's being a petty bitch, oh my god. he's gonna do a reenactment of the inciting incident behind Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants and get away clean, that BITCH LMAO

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have we considered the possibility that Flambae and Mecha Man are ex boyfriends? i don't think it's actually likely but i love their bitterly divorced energy and I'm a sucker for a good "Getting Back Together" romance