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exsilium2013-01-18 10:41 pm
deadbythename) wrote in exsilium2013-01-18 10:41 pm
reboot: Voice
[ The voice speaking doesn't exactly match the 15 year old kid who's usually talking. It's gruffer and more sardonic than the kid's ever was. ]
Guess it's my lucky day. Got dropped right back in here with all my memories intact.
[ Most of them anyway. He's fuzzy on a whole lot and trying to sort through all this new shit makes his head hurt, but he won't let on to it. He considers reaching out for a minute, maybe trying to address a few people from those memories who might still be there. He doesn't. ]
Since I'm here, might as well do something I've never done before. Where can a guy get a decent drink in this shithole?
Guess it's my lucky day. Got dropped right back in here with all my memories intact.
[ Most of them anyway. He's fuzzy on a whole lot and trying to sort through all this new shit makes his head hurt, but he won't let on to it. He considers reaching out for a minute, maybe trying to address a few people from those memories who might still be there. He doesn't. ]
Since I'm here, might as well do something I've never done before. Where can a guy get a decent drink in this shithole?
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[ SORRY JASON. ]
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Huh.
This is fucking weird.
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[ HELPFUL IS NOT IN HER RESUME UNLESS SHE REALLY WANTS TO BE. ]
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Actually, scratch that, most inter-galactic whatever is fucking nuts.
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[ A shrug, and a longer drink. ]
Get used to it after a while, mostly if you don't have a choice.
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Flag sounds like my kinda guy.
[ And he takes a drink himself. ]
That's what they said about the League of Assassins.
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[ Huh. ]
Thought you hated that kind of thing.
[ The killing bit, that is. She's not asking him to explain, and doesn't really expect him to. ]
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[ It's a vague gesture at lightening the mood, that fails instantly. He glares down at his glass. ]
...Things changed. [ He realizes how that sounds and snorts, laughing meanly. ] Ah, hell, no, they didn't. Things didn't fucking change even a little. That's probably why I lost it.
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So what?
[ Why should it matter what he was capable of doing as a kid and what he'd clearly done since then? So you murdered people - Gamora only felt bad about it when she's outmatched by goodness. Luckily for her, her purpose and redemption let her into the company of people just as fucked up as her. At least until they all died.
Which requires another drink. ]
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Not a lot of the heroes in my world have the same stance. Killing galactic monsters and shit is one thing, but the regular old monsters that walk around on Earth day to day? Nah, that's crossing a line for them.
And let's just say my "family" wasn't too thrilled about me turning over a new leaf.
[ Even if they were dealing with the fact that he'd also crawled out of his own grave in the process.
Yep, drinks all around. ]
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[ OH BOY THEY CAN BE 'I'VE DIED' BROS TOO. ]
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[ Loong drink. ]
...I came back. Can't say I was ever that big or good though.
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[ Matching his loooooooong drink with one of her own. ]
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How'd it happen?
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[ They're on relatively good terms. Or were, before he decided to destroy every universe he could get his hands on. Again. ]
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[ she'd just come back to life and then was erased out of existence shortly afterwards. fun times in the thanos family. ]
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Yeah, funny how that happens when you're dead.
[ There's something else he wants to ask, but he hesitates a little. ]
...How'd you come back?
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[ So they left their idyllic world where they were happy and in love and knew everything about each other and for what? Seven years and for what. That definitely deserves another drink. ]
Got wished back into existence another time. Drax killed everyone for a second or so to find Skrulls but we came back normally, and the fourth time doesn't count.
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Sounds like you're one of the heavy hitters in your world.
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[ 'Raw power' being the ability to level sizable chunks of planets in no time at all. Also having the power cosmic. ]
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Sometimes the training can make all the difference. There's guys on my world who've got nothing goin' for them except knowing how to fight and they keep up with some of the strongest beings in the universe.
[ Which makes him frown. Even if he can acknowledge the fact that what Bruce and Dick do are amazing ("I love to watch you work."), it still sits strangely. ]
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