Pity that will take rigged MMA/prizefighting/betting out of the mix of options to launder their criminal cash, sadly enough, but I respect that if you don’t want to write about violence it is your story even if it means parts of the criminal world will remain barred to the mc as a result, seems poor mc will have to find another outlet for their years of pent up frustrations then, particularly once the poor kid finds out that to get 100k laundered and clean for legit spending through, for example, online gambling it’s gonna cost him around 400k in dirty money and the underworld in the 21st century tends to follow the same neoliberal rules as the “legit” business world in that it is infinitely easier and much cheaper to launder your criminal proceeds if you’re already legitimately wealthy or rich.
The crew are not the problem, except for the part that the two I like most right now (Maz and Dilani) aren’t male, so no romance for my boy.
My mc wants revenge on the posh stuck up crowd who constantly humiliate him more than anything, still there are non-violent ways, even if they are rather less cathartic and require boatloads of money. Not that this example will likely be in the game and it will take years or decades to pull off. But if he ever makes enough money he could say buy that hotel where they treated him abominably with a shell company investment fund, proceed to leverage it with debt…let it go bankrupt, buy the now distressed assets with another (shell) company, restructure it and turn it into small condos, which would make all the staff including the bouncers and snooty managers redundant during bankruptcy where you can fire them for cheap due to cessation of the hotel business.
I omitted a few steps there, but you get the picture, best thing is that it is not illegal as leveraged buy-outs are how the real world elite have made loads of money these past few decades, all legal and above board. The same procedure is, in theory, applicable to AutoLuxe itself, but more difficult and requiring more steps due to it being an insurance firm and thus a financial institution which fall into a rather more complicated regulatory scheme.
It’s just an example though, sadly I do not think the mc can really get that rich here and even if they could they’d likely be in their sixties or something by the time they could pull something like that off.
Revenge doesn’t necessarily require violence but it is often the easier path, not to mention provides for a certain cathartic release in entertainment.
While my mc would have loved to beat up those bouncers in a (semi)legal or underground fight once he had gotten good enough at fighting that sort of underworld career/archetype is not a path the author here seems interested in writing.
But between the two extremes I have mentioned I am keen to see what kinds of opportunities to command respect and maybe finally get some revenge the mc will get to have here.
The writing at least is very good and the modern day UK flavour is distinctive enough to make me curious to see where it goes. But I’ll withhold going further into this subject until we see some more chapters and hopefully get a better idea of which direction(s) the mc will be allowed to go here.
I simply hope the author hasn’t done such a good job at creating this much pent up anger in the mc without giving us some good opportunities to do something with it later on.
Well my mc does want to give Maz a good scare prank, but that is a prank and, yes, it is also a bit of good-natured payback if it works.
The posh twats though, they really make my mc’s blood boil and he really does want some real revenge on them.
Some defensive skills also wouldn’t serve mc wrong in the underworld to be sure.
i think that’s a clue we are ramping up to something.
this is amazing!!! i’ve been sitting here staring for the past 5 minutes because i don’t know what to say!! you’ve captured the sweetness of four so wonderfully!! thank you so much, i love it!!! 