#especially when bosco’s tasked with the seductress role

[phrynewrites]

espionage au Bosco seeing dozens of honeypots like Jasmine through their career and always being slightly uppity in the back of their mind that it's a crude form of espionage that only works because they're taking advantage of slimy gross men and would never work on a smart in-control woman like themself, only to be so fully peeved how easily Jasmine gets to them.

Oh Bosco’s always been so pressed while seeing Jasmine work, convincing themself that they’re really competing against her, a person who doesn’t really have skill in espionage but rather works in charm alone—which is completely unstudied, unsustainable, and means everything she succeeds at is based on pure luck—which grinds their gears to no end, given how much work they put into every little detail and how effortless Jasmine looks all the time.

But in reality, it’s something they’re only pressed about because Jasmine is genuinely good at what she does. And at first they’re competing for the same end but for different agencies, whether it’s taking out a target, a heist mission, obtaining pertinent information, etc. like ones success means the other’s failure. But now that they’re working together, Bosco’s finding it harder to convince themself that this is the problem