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15 years ago

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He's fifteen wandering the streets of Ecruteak. Eyes dull and tired he'll do anything to make a quick buck, doesn't matter how or what, it's all about survival. It's all he knows. His current target? A rich business man who planned on expanding his business to Johto. He's tailed him for hours now waiting for the man to slip up, until finally he does. He makes the mistake of walking down an alley, a mistake that could be his last.[break][break]

The altercation ends in seconds, Reid pulls a gun as leverage. He's never killed, but he's prepared to do anything to survive, or at least that's what he says anyways. The boy's stance is sloppy and the weapon is held incorrectly, but still he feels like he's in control. That is, until his target laughs.[break][break]

In seconds the child's on the ground, he doesn't know exactly how he got there. His gun? on the other side of the alleyway his target sitting casually on his back.[break][break]

"Kid, don't pull a gun if you're not prepared to shoot." He lights a cigarette before continuing. "Overall you got a D, I saw you coming from a mile away. Woulda been an F, but I like your spunk, why don't you come with me." When Reid asks for a name his eyes look down on the long haired boy, "You can call me Boss."[break][break]

10 years ago

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The room is as cold as it always is various suits in the room glare at the boss each wanting to eventually usurp him. It wasn't an unusual situation. The old man, he'd learned, was an oddity among the rockets, even in his own organization he was known for his odd decisions and practices. Reid often wonders how a man like him came to lead a criminal empire in the first place. In the years since their altercation he's been taught reading, writing, arithmetic, battling and most importantly the ways of the business. He's come to respect the boss more than any other in his life. It was rough at first the training straight forward and harsh as the boss himself, but here he was now on the road to his success. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say he looked up to his leader. He was told not to dream, but Reid can't help, but hope it'll be him running these meetings one day carrying on the legacy of the boss.[break][break]

5 years ago

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He's watched comrades come and go as he's moved up in the organization. His skills are unquestionable, but still there's rumors amidst the other grunts. "It's because of his relationship with the boss that he's been promoted, everyone knows he has his favorites after all." The rumors and whispers haunt the man and so he decides to make his own way. He resigns from Rocket and goes on his own journey. He has the skills and the smarts to make it on his own in the world, this he knows. Perhaps in his absence the boss will claim the control he once had, everything he does and will do is for the man who saved him.[break][break]

1 year ago

[break]He receives note of the old man's passing by mail. It wasn't a shootout or a bad business deal, but cancer that took the old man out, how could something so ordinary take out a man so great? To this day he doesn't understand.

The service is a small one, his wife and kids, a few relatives and an admin or two. It's at the reception that he's passed a letter and two pokeballs, courtesy of an ex-admin. He's told these were old man's final gift to him. [break][break]

It's a brief letter, short and to the point, he can't help but think how typical it was of his deceased father.[break]

"Work your way from the ground up, just as I did."[break][break]

It's all the motivation the man needs, with the letter in hand he returns home starting at the bottom standing in the bosses footsteps.[break]

DAD TRIVIA

- will make dad jokes[break]
- probably a morning person[break]
- can't cook[break]
- will embarrass you in public[break]
- will text you outdated memes[break]
- will pay your bail[break]
- will be disappointed in you afterwards[break]
- will forgive your rebellious phase[break]
- expert at curving suitors of all genders[break]
- will call you cute in a dad way[break]
- wont allow you to date until you're 58[break]
- will tell you bedtime stories[break]
- will cry secretly when you graduate from school[break]