Punks on Hive Backstory | Alistair Richmond | The Bartender Tales

My punks are quite the clan

I'm very happy with my personal collection of Hive Punks. I already noticed that it was quite hard to decide who to part with and who not. While looking at them, and thinking about backstories, this got even harder as my imagination took me to the craziest stories about the punks in my collection.
A few days ago, I already shared a sneak peek of these stories in this post when I told you about Helen Wilkinson, the music therapist. In her story you also got introduced to two other punks, one of them is called Alistair Richmond, the bartender. Also known as Punk 2374.

Let's get to know Alistair, shall we?

I have to admit that like many others, I kept reading: Allistar instead of Alistair. I know how it feels when people keep reading and writing your name wrong, so I'm truly sorry, Mr Richmond for being so lazy to actually read your name correctly. I shall try to do it right from now on.

While not the youngest of my punks, Alistair is in his 40's, he can still keep up quite well with the youngsters! He still wears his crazy-colored hat as he did in his younger years, and he stands out in the crowd because of it. What people see first when they meet Alistair are his eyes though. You'd think wearing a crazy hat like that would be enough to get noticed by the ladies (lol), but this guy is so filled with love that whenever he sees something that warms up his heart, his eyes get shades in the form of hearts. Have you ever seen anything like this before in your life? I sure haven't!

He does well with the ladies

Probably needless to say that the ladies love this bloke a lot! Add to that the fact that he's a bartender, so usually in a good mood during work hours, surrounded by tons of good-looking ladies, he usually throws around happy vibes. When a girl comes to the bar, and smiles at him directly, he starts to blush because he knows his heart shades will soon be visible again. And when that happens, these ladies just won't leave the bar anytime soon. It's not that they are all interested in him romantically, don't get me wrong. It's just that they can't understand what just happened, and want to solve the mystery of his heart-shaded eyes. Can you blame them?

Drunk ladies

Alistair usually enjoys the attention, and it's good for business anyway to have a bartender that's a babe magnet at the same time. Because ladies like to share these stories about him with their friends, it happens quite often that they book a hen party in the bar where he works. This is where it can get a bit tricky because these ladies get drunk and then start to get touchy with him or try to get him blushing by throwing themselves at him. He doesn't like to be in that position but he's that kinda guy that finds it hard to say no in general. Everyone he's working with is still waiting for him to be fed up with some of these plain-out rude people. But until this happens, he will continue being the kindest and probably most mysterious bartender in town.

Maybe one day, we will find out how he got these heart-shaded eyes in the first place?

He's still single

The good news for the ladies is that Alistair is still single and available. Due to the pandemic, it was hard to date for a while, but he started to check out dating apps recently. Although he came across a lot of the customers he sees at work, he also bumped on Helen Wilkinson. She's the punk with pink hair and 3D glasses. Both of them a quirky and although he never told Helen, he has a crush on her from the first moment they met. They are good friends already. Maybe, just maybe this will turn into a Punk Romance...

Thank you word

Thanks to @themarkymark for creating the Hive Punks, and asking us to write these backstories. It has been a while since I took the time to sit down and write stories. I missed it, but I wasn't inspired until this request came. Thanks for making me feel inspired again!