#boab rambles for 4 hours

[cracknoir]

I want to know more about how Jimmy befriended Kayleigh, Frankie, and Jack.

ax me a question.

so just up top, i don't actually know what a meta is but im picking up the vibes that basically i just ramble about something which as we all know is RIGHT up my street so here we fucking go

I have to say, this is subject to change, but listen, you're not always best friends with someone straight away. That's not to say you're enemies just cos you don't know each other, but i guess my point is jimmy met jack and frankie and knew them before he considered them ride or die. Frankie took his little brother to america after Jack got out of a juvenile detention center, see jack bottled someone at a football game -- it was essentially an accident, as much as something like that can be.

I think Jack thought this would be a fresh start, but when he got to america, he hated it.

Frankie was in a bit of a different situation, see, Frankie was in fuck it mode. he'd just lost everything, and was lying to jack telling him he was on the run from mobsters when really his alcoholism had torn his marriage apart.

Frankie got in with Elizabeth, Elizabeth sold a metric fuck tonne of drugs out of her apartment block, she had her own heavies, and while she wasn't exactly a "gang" she was associated with a few. She was very much the connection between street-level and the more organized stuff going on in the city, Frankie had worked for Arthur Thomson (or maybe an analogue for him, feels weird to throw in one random real gangster but this is a meta - i don't know if i would ever write about this stuff outside of something like this), so he knew generally how to schmooz his way up the ladder relatively quickly, and had previous connections in america due to his time there in idk, the 80s or something, i'm not saying he'd been to america but maybe the other way around - this is where it all gets a bit hazy, this is the sort of nuts and bolts of the situations.

POINT IS when jimmy entered the situation he was only like maybe sixteen, jack was seventeen and the roles were very much reversed at the start - i'm sort of getting ahead of myself but jack very much thought he was looking out for jimmy, despite jimmy doing some crazy stuff. I know he doesn't seem it, but jack can fucking scrap, he's not really a weapons man -- sure, he WILL shoot, but the way jimmy and jack worked together was very much mafia style, that's to say close-range doing someone in in their car kind of deal.

SO jack was down, missed his old life, and frankie had been saying he should get out more. Jack sold drugs too, so would sometimes come with frankie to Elizabeths. So, Jimmy, Jack and Frankie had all sort of met, in that kind of "oh, this is my friend who happens to be in my house while you're here" "hi hows it goin" way. i know, i know, you're probably thinking jesus boab, you've written a thesis just to say "they just been knowin each other", but listen, my point with this is like, some people might have mad stories of how they met their best friend, but i bet a vast majority are kinda like this.

They grew closer after a party, only minorly, Jimmy would buy weed off of jack, stop at his house, the two would talk -- and this is important, because jimmy didn't talk to many people back then. Frankie liked to pretend he'd adopted Jimmy, and honestly with Jimmy's unhealthy obsession with father-figures you'd think it would be a match made in heaven, but even when he was a kid Jimmy would sort of push back against this -- assert his dominance, sort of put frankie in his place every so often if he was being a dick, especially when it came to women. Listen, i can't rightly say Jimmy's an ally to women in any way shape or form, but frankie's worse.

The night everything went down, and Jimmy killed Elizabeth, he hid out at jacks, the two did coke and talked the whole night, wide-eyed in jacks kitchen, smoking an unhealthy amount of cigarettes and weed going over and over and over and over what happened the night before. Jimmy put a hole in jacks wall, and instead of going nuts, jack shook jimmy's hand.

So kayleigh came in later, and i'm not gonna lie, is underdeveloped in the whole backstory regard. i have a really good grasp on her character, and i'm not gonna lie, i find her kind of boring to rp because of how little conflict she herself has going on. this is getting really fucking long and i'm only just touching on kayleigh. wild. anyways my point is she knows what she's about, she's sort of the mother of the group, the heart, and as much as i'm saying i find her boring to rp she actually gets quite a lot of play in the first draft of the novel i wrote, im not saying she's at all like marty mcfly but like what i mean is some characters are static, some don't have arcs, at the point i pick up in the story on the mAd TiMeLiNe she knows exactly what she's about. So this is just all explanation for some really boring backstory which is just "she decided to move to america bc apparently her brothers were doing well and moms dead so whatever", she came over, and while during the sort of mafia years she was definitely apart of the CREW that did JOBS, that was never what she wanted to do. idk especially with the scottish characters they're not like movie characters they're more people i know. i know girls who, and it may just be because of the utter ineptitude of us blokes, are basically mothers. now these girls can party as hard as the boys, they can scrap, but there's this added layer of i will look after you if you need to spew. im literally just talking about empathy but as a boy i can tell u that shit is rare, you gotta coax empathy out of us. while jack is jimmy's best friend, he's not too bright, kayleigh however doesn't steer jimmy wrong. she tends his bar, she's happy. she was always a good friend to zoe too. everyone was, and that went a long way with jimmy. she was one of the only ones who repeatedly tried to get zoe clean, but she was never a pushover either. Jack, Frankie, they would give her money sometimes because they didn't understand the way kayleigh did.

if u cba reading all this basically: jimmy jack and frankie started hanging after they all partied together and then kayleigh joined in for the banter