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Evan McCartney | 4 of Clubs ([personal profile] bluntforces) wrote in [community profile] houseofcards_rp2013-02-07 01:32 pm

[ota] doesn't matter how you throw me

It's hard being a young person.

At this point, Evan isn't exactly a young person. Not an old person, but finally safely removed from the this way and that way of being a teenaged and recently-teenaged young person. Lots of things are settling into place. Since getting back to Montréal, even, he's even getting his head properly around what his life might look like when he moves back home.

But the Deck is (par for the course these days) not doing well. There's no telling what travel back and forth is going to be like, not really. There's no telling what his mother will say has popped up in the backyard. There's no telling how Elani's going to sound on the phone when he calls.

There's no telling when a giant bouquet of orange lilies and jonquil and white clover is going to show up in the middle of your Intermediate Managerial Accounting and remind you that it's almost Valentine's Day on top of the fact your home is falling to pieces while you're not there and you can't tell anyone about it.

So Evan McCartney? Is playing phone roulette. Not looking at names and numbers so much as hitting at random to make sure that the general population hasn't completely vanished into thin air.
falsepretences: (a little more serious)

Just for that she's appearing once I figure out phone tagging a little more.

[personal profile] falsepretences 2013-02-09 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Very diplomatically said. Jordan's somewhat impressed, for a given value of impressed. And he's also giving the vocal equivalent of a shrug.

"Well, things are still going to shit," he says. "And no one has any idea why yet. But other than those two delightful details things are going well enough. Theoretically."

It's certainly not the hedging Evan probably gets from anyone named McCartney.
falsepretences: (a little more serious)

Re: Yes excellent \o/

[personal profile] falsepretences 2013-02-14 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't think there's any talk about that yet. The problems don't seem to repeat, at least." Except for the earthquakes. Which had broken a mirror this morning in the Spade entrance hall. Nothing like that to make superstitious Spades come out if the woodwork.

"I doubt you really have to rush home unless you have a burning urge to, really."
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[personal profile] falsepretences 2013-02-14 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
"I have noticed that over the years, as it happens." It's one of Evan's most Evan qualities when it comes down to it. It's not bad, of course, just...a bit strange. Jordan's not exactly a good judge of strange, though.

And he just shrugs.

"It's not much of a problem."
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[personal profile] falsepretences 2013-02-15 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not entirely unproblematic." Especially when, it seemed, Clive wasn't willing to lean on his own Ace and Jordan found himself being a bit of a stand in. In a way, that was one of the things he'd fled from in the Hearts.

" just not exactly a trip to the nonexistent beach lately."
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[personal profile] falsepretences 2013-02-16 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I don't remember," Jordan says with dry humor. "But I seem to remember more sandcastle s and beach volleyball types of things a few years back." He pauses.

"Of course, that's when we were Twos. Maybe that's the problem."
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[personal profile] falsepretences 2013-02-16 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's entirely possible. You'll have to take pictures and let the rest of us know how that goes. " though Ethan would point out that he brings it on himself. Some of them were bred to be kings workaholics.

"Sorry, I should let you go. You probably have things to do." People to call. Something like that.
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[personal profile] falsepretences 2013-02-18 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not a problem. " Jordan leans back in his chair. "Don't do anything crazy. I can't have Riley wailing on my shoulder."