Hello ^^
Could I request a Grian / pied raven board? Preferably with browns and cream colours if possible?
Grian and Pied Raven with themes of red sweaters and minecraft landscape!
I tried my best with this!
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Halstead, PI
“What are you planning on doing, exactly?”
“Whatever comes to me. I won’t know what the jobs are until they find me.”
“You want to be a... Private eye?”
“Private investigator. But yes.”
Four years in Afghanistan ended in a medical discharge, and then Jay was back home, struggling to get his feet under him. There were nightmares and too many drinks to swim though, a funeral to help plan and then attend, and then the argument that ended in him being less than welcome at his childhood home. Getting his PI license was just supposed to be a stopgap, something to supplement a living until he found something more steady, but it wasn’t enough.
It didn’t cover a rent payment, or a car, it barely even paid for groceries once a week. It wasn’t enough to keep him alive, let alone off the streets, and it was only by some miracle that he wasn’t completely screwed over when things started to crumble.
He had a set of shoulders to lean on in the form of Gregory Gerwitz IV - aka Mouse. They’d relied on each other enough overseas, clung to life together after an incident that took out the rest of their unit, managed to keep in touch once they were settled into their old lives in Chicago again. Only, where Jay had had an argument with his father that led to fending for himself, Mouse had a lot of cushion to catch him if he fell. He had a family name, and a huge trust fund, and a penthouse with an extra bedroom that he was willing to let Jay use for a few months.
“You’re a lifesaver, man. Seriously, thank you.”
“You don’t have to thank me. Just don’t track dirt in, okay? The rent comes out of my father’s pocket, but cleaning comes out of mine.”
“What if I clean up after myself?”
“I’d make a few calls to let the media know. You’ve never cleaned up anything in your life.”
Borrowing a bedroom was only the beginning. Among other things, Jay had access to free food, a shiny car, and his best friend’s computer knowledge. He lost count of how many cases were solved due to Mouse and his laptop, how many bullet holes had ended up in the Ferrari, how many times he’d been scolded for leaving crime scene photos spread out over the living room floor...
But that had become his life, as odd as it seemed. He bounced from case to case, used his meager earnings to pay for dinner once a month or fixing the paint job on the car he’d been told to stop borrowing for his work. He spent weekends on the couch watching movies and making a show of vacuuming the crumbs out of the cushions. He spent birthdays and special events in a suit and tie, pretending he could do undercover work at Gerwitz family hosted fundraiser events.
It was his life, with his best friend there for every second of it, and he wouldn’t change a thing.
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"The Pied Piper of Hamelin", by Robert Browning.
"And, Pleas, your honours, said he, I'm able,
By means of a secret charm, to draw
All creatures living beneath the sun,
That creep, or swim, or fly, or run,
After me so as you never saw!
And I chiefly use my charm
On creatures that do people harm,
The mole, and toad, and newt, and viper;
And people call me the Pied Piper.",
from The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
"When, lo, as they reached the mountain's side,
A wondrous portal opened wide,
A if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;
And the Piper advanced and the children follow'd,
And when all were in to the very last,
The door in the mountain side shut fast.",
from The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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Fairytale Moodboards // The Pied Piper of Hamelin
I'm able, by means of a secret charm, to draw all creatures living beneath the sun, that creep, or swim, or fly, or run, after me so as you never saw!
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