#SO DALLAS PAYDAY HUH

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Round 1, Bracket 1, Side D, Eighth poll

Takumi Tonooka and Itaru Chigasaki [Tonoita], A3! Act Addict Actors vs Dallas and Bain [NaviMind], Payday: The heist and Payday two

Story of Tonoita:

I DIDN'T EVEN LIKE TONOOKA UNTIL LIKE EARLY 2022. THIS MAN HAS BEEN IN THE GAME SINCE 2018. OUR FIRST INTRODUCTION TO HIM IS HOW HE LITERALLY RUINED ITARU'S LAST YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL AND WAS THE REASON WHY ITARU CAN'T TRUST PEOPLE ANYMORE AFTER THAT AND CLOSES HIMSELF OFF.

AND YET. GOD.

Listen, I'm not an enemies to lovers liker. And exes to lovers is the kind of thing I like when I make them exes, not when they're canonically exes (they never canonically dated but like come on. they're basically exes). So why did I start shipping them?

I have these Twitter roleplay accounts for a3, a handful of them, and while roleplaying a different character in the series, I joined this little server of roleplay where we'd talk about stuff and plan out events and whatever, and one of them was roleplaying this fourth character (Citron!) mainly, but also had a Tonooka account, you might be able to see where I’m going with this.

We had this friend who had the Itaru roleplay account who really liked to roleplay this other Itaru ship (with a guy called Chikage), and sometimes he'd forget to do the replies to other ongoing roleplays. so my Citron/Tonooka friend dm'd me about it since they felt kind of left out whenever that happened, especially if there was an ongoing thread with Itaru and Citron, and I was like yeah I get it. I liked Chikaita a lot but it wasn't my go-to Itaru or Chikage ship, so I was like “uh huh nods”, and we got to talking about Itaru ships, and they mentioned Tonoita.

They really liked Tonoita, who is kinda unpopular in the general fandom because he caused Itaru a lot of trauma, and Itaru's like the number one or two most popular chara in the whole game, so a lot of people didn't like him. But my friend liked him a lot and told me so much about him, and literally he only appeared in one event story in the entire game at that point but I was listening so intently, and then I was like “mhm nods i understand”, and hey u can come to me about Tonoita whenever u want in case you feel judged or whatever.

BUT THAT WASN'T THE KICKER.

I was still kinda neutral about it but I didn't dislike it, but the aforementioned Itaru rp friend went inactive, so after a while, I was like “What if I make an Itaru account instead?” so I did! and then, fuck, I literally still have the roleplay bookmarked. My friend was on their Tonooka account goofing off about whatever shit and I posted this stupid reaction pic of the press x to doubt guy and then Tonooka fucking REPLIED. And then we had the usual exes banter. And then it became real??? LIKE THEY STARTED CRYING AND SHIT?? AND APOLOGIZED TO EACH OTHER?? AND COMMUNICATED WITH EACH OTHER??? AND THEN LIKE. AGREED TO AT LEAST BE CIVIL TO EACH OTHER AGAIN? WHICH TURNED INTO BEING FRIENDS AGAIN?? AND THEN THEY STARTED DATING AGAIN?????

AND THEN I JUST WENT SO INSANE ABOUT IT THAT THEY'VE NEVER LEFT MY HEAD SINCE, LIKE, THIS WAS IN EARLY 2022. SO IT'S BEEN A YEAR AND I'M STILL VISCERALLY INSANE OVER THEM BECAUSE OF THIS ONE THREAD THAT STARTS WITH A PIC OF A STUPID MEME. MY GOD, I HATE BEING OBSESSED WITH THEM BECAUSE LIKE I CAN COUNT ON ONE HAND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO LIKE THIS SHIP (I KNOW LIKE. 2 PEOPLE AND I HAVE LIKE 200 TWITTER MUTUALS.) THEY ARE SO MESSED UP. I CAN FIX THEM.

Story of NaviMind:

Once upon a time, one of my now-friends was posting stuff about them, I didn’t like it, but then I looked at the tags And she was tagging it as frEAKIN… DAIN… BALLAS… I DIED, YO. I couldn’t live with the fandom knowing the pairing as that so I conferred with my beta and we came up with NaviMind and MasterGuide.

Then I started interacting more with the fandom and started accidentally converting people to this pairing like it was a religion. KEEP IN MIND that I didn’t ship them yet??? Like actually I was talking about canonical things and the people I texted were like “It’s my OTP now” 😭😭😭😭. My record time from me meeting someone to converting that person was a few hours. Literally, I had a NaviMind aura, it was a passive effect.

Then afterward I actually started imagining super angsty things about them and I wrote about their friendship, and I thought it would be much sadder if they were in love but couldn’t be together because of Bain’s paranoia and Dallas’ refusal to admit his feelings. They’re already best friends in canon, I write it to where Dallas can’t live without his guy… yeah, I have the most fics about this duo. I’m still strong even though it’s been over a year.

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Payday slime rancher Au /I’m pretty sure in the past I said Dallas was a puddle slime because those are my favorites/

Rancher!Stars: oh a pool of water- *sits by it*

Slime!Dallas: *hide*

R!Stars: awww little Buddy, come here I ain’t gonna hurt you

S!Dallas: *swims*

R!Stars: huh, slime humans do exist? Can you stand up bud?

S!Dallas: *stands and is immediately taller then Stars*

R!Stars: 0\\0 oh

HELL YEAH PUDDLE SLIMES AND OOOHHHHJHJ I LOVE THAT SO MUCH OH MY GODSSSSSS

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Payday prompts/ideas that i must write down or else i will turn feral within the next 2 days

I'm going to look at this and regret it huh

(Anyone can write these if they want, just give me the link so I can read it and cry tears of joy)

There's 2 sections to this

Long Ideas/very detailed prompts

Freeflow/short ideas

Long Ideas/very detailed prompts

Kento being found earlier

Ok ok ok

Let's say that Jiro found Kento much earlier then Henry's Rock

I don't exactly know how since they wouldn't be able to recognize each other

But here are some ideas:

Word that a person had been going around and looking for a person named Kento reaches Kento

Kento was much older when Jiro was arrested, maybe around 14 so that they could recognize each others faces

They randomly meet each other one day and become friends, slowly finding out that they are related

The plot line would change with each idea, mostly if the story were to follow the third option

But here are the basic beats

Jiro finds his son after so many years and takes a break from the Payday gang to just spend time with him

Kento is still having conflicting emotions since it's been so long since he's last seen his father

(Possibility of the Dentist kinda being a toxic father figure to him, and another possibility of Kento having validation issues)

Cue Jiro and Kento bonding and working/processing through trauma from both parties

Jiro starts thinking about leaving the Payday gang since he's found his son

(The gang would support him in his decision btw)

But then Locke "backstabs them"

See, during this whole bonding time between Jiro and Kento, Kento has obviously still been reporting and doing work for the Dentist

Kento has been doing a pretty good job in covering everything up but the Dentist catches on that Kento is (at the very least) sneaking off

The Dentist basically makes Kento check in more and do more work with less hours off

And this is happening around the time that shit starts hitting the fan for the Payday gang (Post Locke but Pre Bain Kidnapping)

Kento starts ghosting Jiro to protect him from the Dentist

But Jiro just sees this as him slowly losing his son again

After a confrontation, Kento also shouts that Jiro hasn't exactly been there for him these past weeks

Jiro kinda freezes at this and just. kinda walks away

Kento starts breaking down a little because ohmygodijustpushedawaythelastpersoninmylifethatcaredohno

Jiro calls Bain for advice (or maybe someone else) and after some long and hard thinking, decides to just come clean to Kento

He sets up a meeting between the two, and even with their rocky relationship right now, Kento has attachment issues and quickly accepts

They met up and Jiro just comes clean about everything. Even offering to take him to the safe house

And the whole time, Kento is just panicking

This man could be sent to the ER with how much stress his body is going through

Kento, still going through the first stage of denial asks if Jiro could show him the safe house because is this actually real

Jiro agrees and after seeing how tight knit everyone is, he starts thinking about revealing himself as a Murky

Then the Dentist pulls him aside one day and says that he's going to let the raid on Bain's house

(Maybe Kento meets/talks to Bain that day in the safe house, adding another layer of angst to this cake)

Now there's many ways for this to end, both in good and bad ways

But honestly, I have too many endings for this so I'm setting all of those on the backburner if anyone wants them

Bain's house is broken into by the Payday gang lol

(Basically @what-yadoking-likes second prompt in that Dallas/Bain prompt post which I fixated on for a week. Though I changed the fact that its Dallas/Bain cause I like aroace Bain too much to let him go, you could totally see it as that)

The base idea is that the original payday gang robs Bain's house on accident

There's two ways for this to happen

Bain has been pretty dry with contracts and the gang has been going crazy (Fluff)

Someone (probably the Dentist) contracts them without Bain as the middle man. It probably happens during a time where Bain's leadership is being questioned or something (Angst)

I'm going to write both ways separately cause they're so vastly different

Fluff

It's been at least like a month of the contracting lands becoming dry

Normally the gang are able to just ride out these dry times but everyone has slowly been reaching the end of things that they can do the pass the time

So they just decide to do a simple stealth mission

Dallas tries to rationalize it as a way to practice stealth and do info recon without needing Bain to carry them

But even he knows this is a just a thinly veiled excuse to get out of the safehouse

Only really the main gang are facing this need to get out though, since the rest of the crew have been used to not getting contracts at all, so only Dallas, Chain, Hoxton, and Wolf go

They scout out this place thats a little far from the safehouse but its close enough

Its far away from any city so its a good place in case a shootout happens at they don't have Bain to do cleaning costs

And the house seems semi big enough so maybe the owner has some good cash?

After a week of planning, they drive off to the house they plan on robbing

They loot around the house, picking up loose pieces of cash and spending too much time eating the week old cake the owner baked

But there's no jewelry

No safes

Even less then your average middle class house

Like all the loot so far has been one PC and just random cash lying around

Not something you expect from a house that supposedly cost 4 million dollars

Hell half of the rooms don't even look touched

But then, Wolf notices a odd detail

There's a random bookshelf at the end of a hallway with nothing but that bookshelf

He would write it off as rich people are weird but he notices that not a single book is out of place and that the books feel... weirdly hollow?

After spending an embarrassing amount of time pulling books off, the bookshelf opens like a fucking spy movie

(Btw, I think Bain would totally have his little crime.net hidey hole modeled after a classic spy one from movies)

Revealing a door asking for a keycard, code, key, and password

But Hoxton doesn't fuck with that and before anyone protests, he brings out a full ass saw to slice open the door

This takes a while and Bain (being inside the crime.net cave) curses and grabs whatever gun he keeps on hand

Hoxton breaks down the door and is about to shout a victory cry when he see a random ass dude with long hair holding a (put some gun here, i have no idea what Bain would main in. Well I think sniper but I doubt he's bringing that to the door)

Before Bain can breathe a sigh of relief, Chain tells him to get the fuck on the ground

Bain looks at them straight in the eye and a moment of silence passes before he slices the tension with a simple "no"

Cue a symphony of "BAIN?" "BAIN IS THAT YOU???" "BAIN I FOUND YOUR MAN CAVE" "BAIN WHAT THE FUCK" "OH SHIT WE BROKE INTO BAIN'S HOUSE"

Angst

I live and breathe for angst so yes i made really made a angst version of the fluff version

Bain has been pretty dry with contracts, and this happens during anytime where Bain's leadership is put in question

The Dentist approaches Dallas, since Dallas is the only one in the team that goes a dentist regularly

He offers him a under the table job, with no Bain as the middle man

The Dentist wants Dallas to find this random guy's secret attic, kill him, and download everything on the guys computer onto a usb

Dallas takes a moment to think about it before accepting. After all, the gang and him are still the ones going out there and doing these heists, not Bain

Now the story could have all of the gang out there doing the heist, or just Dallas (for the sake of sticking to the prompt better, I've only done Dallas)

Its the same thing as fluff, but with more of a edge to it

A sense of unease if you will

Dallas finds the door, and brings out the saw that the Dentist specifically told him to bring

The door flies open to a semi-lit room, a computer with 6 monitors and a guy sitting in the middle of it all, holding a (gun here)

now

like the kento one, i have like 10 endings on the backburner for this thing

so if anyone wants to hear them; just ask me

Short Ideas/normal prompts lmao

ok now its time for badly thought out prompts and not just badly thought out fanfics

wolf meets his family again during a heist (bonus: they thought he went missing)

Clover and Hoxton's last heist before they split

You know how some of Locke's lines in hells island are along the lines of "don't fucking die bain i swear to god." Guess what. Bain dies right as they reach him on the rooftop. And Kento's the one to kill him (bonus: j i r o)

So I was listening to House of Memories the other day and for some reason it gives off Dallas/Bain vibes and just listen. Immortal Bain/Reincarnating Dallas but with a twist. At the end of Payday 2, the secret ending makes it Immortal Dallas/Reincarnating Bain

The three kings used to be close.

What is the chaos that is April Fools

Chain and Hoxton have a very heated argument about who can drink more which is cut short when Duke walks into the room, opens a cabinet and drinks a whole bottle of vodka without blinking. They team up to defeat Duke in a drinking battle

Jacket finds a cat and it's now his best friend

This is one of the more complex ones but it's basically; the whole Payday gang used to be a gang a long time ago. Bain was a actual hesiter and they did some low hanging crimes. After a accident that nearly kills one of them, they split up and basically told each other to stop doing crime and meeting each other because it was too dangerous. Ironically, they all continued to be illegal, just without each other nothing. They all make new aliases, and after 10 years Bain (under a new alias of course) askes all of them to form a gang again. Since they're all wearing masks and have voice changers; they don't know this. After 5 years of them all being a gang, they decide that during the 5 year anniversary, they would reveal their faces to each other (including Bain).

Houston straight up dies from the murkies during Henry's Rock. Dallas thinks that isn't very pog

This isn't very original/creative but the gangs reactions to Bain's last message in the Reservoir dogs heist. Alternately, the reactions to the electric chair room in Hells Island

Sokol runs into his hockey team during a heist in Russia who all try to nudge him to come back

Wolf is in custody!

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for the askthing dallas,chains, houston, hoxton and jacket

Oh, thank the Gods. I was soooooooooo booooooooooored. Been playing some YT playlists on loop to pass the time while dogsitting. Here we go.

Dallas- How long have you played Payday/Have you played the game?

I’ve been knockin’ around on Payday since… Steam says I bought PD:TH on January 19th, 2014. Huh. This is the first time that I thought to look this up. But, yeah. 5 years, 8 months, and 10 days ago, a dork named Jack bought PD:TH, and within a few months, “Chuck Fucking Hoxton” was born. Out of epicness.

Chains- Have you been in the military/Do you plan on going into the military?

No. I have family who have been/are currently in the military, but I’ll never join the Services. I wouldn’t do well, as my personality and way of thinking doesn’t mesh with their way of doing things at all. Plus, my father is an ex-Marine and a psychopath, which kind of sours my view of the Services on the whole.

Houston- Do you have siblings? If so, how many.

I was born and raised an only child, but I have siblings due to the legal system, yeah. Through my father, I have two step-brothers, a half-sister, and a half-brother. Through my dad, I have a step-brother and a step-sister. So, 6. And I’m on speaking terms with exactly none of them. Only three of them are an ‘eh, maybe’ on whether we’ll ever speak to each other again, but none of us care enough to actually, ya know, reach out to one another, so… *Shrugs.*

Hoxton- Have you ever been arrested?

Nope. Got popped by the drug dog at my high school once, though. I didn’t get in trouble or anything. Had empty baggies in my backpack that had Motrin in them at one point and I copped to it. I honestly just go out of my way to avoid the Fuzz. I don’t like cops or authority figures. Don’t like getting yelled at for random bullshit. I just do my own thing and stay out of trouble, so I don’t have to deal with any of that.

Jacket- How much do you mask your identity online?

I kinda do and I kinda don’t. ‘Cause I like to tell people stories about my life and share personal shit, which I’ve done quite a bit on here. It’s probably the Asperger’s, as my family and friends tell me and bemusedly put up with. It’s fun, and I like being able to make people laugh about the weird shit I’ve seen and done and have happen to me, even if it’s off-topic or at my own expense.

But I also don’t, ‘cause only two people on this site know my full, given name and where I live. They’re my best friends and I mail them shit, and one of them has flown out to visit me twice, which is fuckin’ rad. I don’t post pictures of myself anywhere–really, the most amount of photos of me is on my ma’s Facebook, ‘cause she likes to ‘out’ me when I go places. It’s her way of making fun of me for being a hermit, but also being proud of me for leaving the house.

I’m self-conscious about my body and how I look, and the relative anonymity of the internet helps with that. I don’t have to ‘just deal with’ or correct people about my gender or my name, ‘cause people on the web are generally like, ‘he says that he’s a guy and his name is Jack, so that’s who he is’. It’s nice and like a break from my day-to-day, ‘cause I’m constantly referred to by my given name and feminine pronouns whenever I leave the house, which is painful to have thrown in my face all the time.

Plus, I don’t want my family members or my ma’s students bugging me. They’re annoying enough to deal with in person, let alone online. No thanks. XD