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(Originally Posted Wednesday 7-27-22)<\/p>\n

My shorthand title for this one was called \u2018tennis bros\u2019 and I figured they would be two quick \u2018jobber\u2019 type characters that could be used for a throwaway scene of something simple like that.<\/p>\n

That was my initial idea\/thought. But after giving it a better look over once I started writing this CP, I changed my mind when I noticed two things.<\/p>\n

First was the actual tennis racket. They looked old fashion, not modern and the guys\/photo gave me a 70\u2019s vibe. Not sure why that\u2019s just the first thing that popped into my head, so we\u2019ll follow that rabbit trail (and ignore their watches\u2026)<\/p>\n

So now I was like, what if this was a flashback scene?<\/p>\n

And then I noticed the looks on the guy\u2019s faces. They looked annoyed at each other. Again, that\u2019s just my vibe for the pic, doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s true or not for this brainstorming\/thought process. Now the question is, what are they annoyed about?<\/p>\n

Some king of business thing.<\/p>\n

Dark haired guy said no to whatever the thing was, and the other guy was stunned.<\/p>\n

It was this moment when the guys realized they couldn\u2019t move forward together working as business partners.<\/p>\n

Their friendship ended that day.<\/p>\n

And it happened on the tennis court.<\/p>\n

Now fast forward to the present times and both men are older, (we could use the 80\u2019s if we need to but not the 90\u2019s for the flashback) the guys are maybe grandfathers but not like in their 80\u2019s or 90\u2019s. They both still run their companies.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re both millionaires and they\u2019re companies are important but major world ones. Say low mid-tier (that could be a separate idea to ponder too, ranking companies in The Merc Series Universe\u2026)<\/p>\n

And they\u2019re still rivals.<\/p>\n

Not sure what their \u2018beef\u2019 is with each other yet but what if they make a big deal of hiring mercenaries or bounty hunters and that\u2019s when others started to copy them because it gave them cover now. These guys went \u2018first\u2019 so to speak.<\/p>\n

This idea\/characters needs a lot more thought put into it but if definitely has a lot of impact\/potential.<\/p>\n

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