OOC: Was unable to RP for previous week, so catching up to that at least.
The flight from Aji No Moto to Auruna was a long one for the heroes and heroines of Bitten Heroes WGP2 Team, and with the very next week's race set to play out in the hilly jungles of Akresna Circuit, Ilya and his crew largely stayed quiet for the course of the flight.
For Ilya, this had also meant that he was able to catch up on his missed readings of NSSCRA romance novels, as he read through an illegally-circulated one that involved the 'supposed adventures' of Kai Qiang and Duke of Guilin. Of course, whether the details were true or not, or whether he found the books on the stashes of extraneous documents back in the storage compartment of his jet plane didn't matter. All that mattered was that Ilya was having a good time with it all.
Life on the fast lane, that's me, he thought, as he got to the part where there were intimate mentions about 'leg-gings'. There was no doubt that the race in Aji No Moto, where he was able to turn around the narrative and secure consistently decent results, got him to think more about it all. And that's something he needed. While Ilya Tsunopin didn't always keep up with news, mostly due to how flooded his social media feeds have been at times with his commitments, and his manager, Dr. Balthazar Grey, being really good at filtering the needs for Ilya's sake, he knew that his awful mid-stretch certainly didn't give the best of images for him.
Well fuck them, right? Ilya chuckled, as he turned around the page and continued to read with much intrigue. But before that, he took a look around at his fellow crew members. They were all sleeping, from the team leader Amy Graad to Athan his teammate, and Ilya was relieved they didn't hold much interest with some of Ilya's personal interests.
It was already a bit of challenge for Ilya, a 18-year old brute, to persuade Amy and others to let him drive while topless with only a shorts on, and the 69Xer knew better than to speak openly (or even discretely) about his own adventures. Whether sudden or planned out, on any nightlife scene he would travel into, they almost always had some sort of...'outcomes'. Some of the scenes would finish with thousands spent on a floor, many would end with Ilya Vadimovich waking up on someone else's bed at 6am in the morning, and almost all of them add to the tales of sordid madness he would show when not out thinking about racing.....all of which adds to the camera flashes and second-hand news that would spread every day and night.
Of course, Ilya knew better than to give too much darn about that as well. He was still a child in that he just wanted to race, and that he was going to give it all whenever possible. And that's why they can't get rid of me, chuckled Ilya Vadimovich. They needed a spark and I'm giving it to them. This was probably true - Ilya knew that he was adding something valuable to the team that was still building itself for a long-lasting legacy in the WGP2 circuit, and on a retooling year like this, where Athan didn't hold great long-term expectations for the Bitten Heroes and Ilya was a kid fresh out of high school, he was serving his role perfectly.
Now, what really mattered to everybody, on this joint adventure of Bitten Heroes WGP2 team, was that there's a bit more hope of both drivers, whose consistencies have not been stellar at all, to do well. It's not to say that this has never happened, but for most part it's been 1) Athan playing well but Ilya playing awful, 2) Ilya playing much better but Athan having unexpected struggles of his, or 3) don't even - both of them sucked. And while it was unfortunate that Bitten Heroes were only able to secure a single point, the solitary point coming from Ilya having the fastest lap on the sprint at 1:34.494, there's no doubt that a bit more evened-out set of results for the team could speak for consistent success in future-time.
