Random question. I don't know why this is bothering me. Is Unkown Planet grody? Like, would you get the ick if you went into the dressing rooms and showers?
I don't know why, but I get that impression. I always get itchy reading scenes that take place there. I know I am crazy. I just have to ask. 😅
It’s only grody to the eye - the bar does a lot of work to maintain health codes to high enough standards. This is so nobody bothers looking too closely at the illegal fighting gym upstairs where people beat the shit out of each other beneath each new moon. The main showers/lockers are meticulously cleaned and sanitized, and there’s definitely no pride in gym stank, but any musty smell kinda adds to the grit of the place, but doesn’t belie MRSA how you’d think.
Regardless, wear shower shoes in any unfamiliar hot wet environment (threat).
The dressing rooms, on the other hand, are possibly where you’d get some bacterial infection from looking at the walls too long. They’re both burden and reward—ask yourself this question: if you knew you were going to fight in a huge cagematch brawl, and you had use of a dressing room attached as reward for your participation, would you spend the two weeks between then and now cleaning up the space? Especially if one of the fighters is on an insane winning streak you’d be stupid to discount?
Idise definitely wasn’t planning on getting tenure in the brawl, and only ever came round when she was trying to look for someone in particular, so her room is mostly untouched and fuckin gross—though not as gross as the rooms for the “rotation” masks (Dizzykid, Sour Patch, etc.). After a fighter loses, they’re expected to have their shit cleared out by the time everyone goes home or it’s all thrown away (so sorry, Lance). Any place with high turnover like that isn’t going to exactly smell like springtime.
But Qimir is a meticulous guy. He knows all the health statistics of public showers in gyms, I mean his job is to know those things. And after his first win in the brawl, the silence in the room started to get to him, and the leaky shower head was very tell-tale heart levels of panic inducing, so when he kinda looked up hours later, he’d fixed the sink and shower and he’d bought a ton of cleaning supplies and made himself another home behind the black door. It’s why his dressing room is just as clean and organized as his apartment and his car (the office is a point of yikes for him).
All this is to say you don’t have to worry about the ick if you find yourself fucking in the shower of the Smiley dressing room at Unplan. ;)
