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[theansweris]

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[shadowstrikes]

oh don't get me wrong *i've* got opinions on golden showers but they're not as loud & bratty as rommy's

bless his little cottons! sounds like he's got so many fleshy, delicate parts to tickle. love it!

[theansweris]

It would be difficult to be louder and brattier simultaneously.

I generally can't be bothered poking at him, but Oswald enjoys this strange game they play where they're nice to each other's faces while planning terrible things and hating each other.

[shadowstrikes]

sounds exhausting when you can just be a dick right to his face. but your bird's like some kind of diplomatic type right? all that back-handed kind of stuff and multilayered insult stuff? it's not really my speed. besides only noble-types blow up as quickly & stupidly as roman does with a nicely-placed comment about one of his insecurities. kinda cathartic. plus he doesn't like my dom so it works out

[theansweris]

He likes the socio-political games.

If I'm going to take my time, I'd rather do it with lethal traps than false smiles.

[shadowstrikes]

yeah but lethal traps definitely suggest a definitive end. generally i don't go that far for petty idiots. or i need to get paid real well

[theansweris]

If I hate someone, why would I not get rid of them?

[shadowstrikes]

don't think i ever said i hated him myself but if that's where you're at then i'm not going to knock it

[theansweris]

Oh, no, Roman I mostly just ignore. He's not actually worth the effort.

I meant in general.

[shadowstrikes]

so in general how many people have you hated enough to get rid of?

[theansweris]

That's... got a complicated answer.

Lets call it three, but with caveats.

[shadowstrikes]

you're going to tell me something like how you *technically* got rid of 2.5 people but you're rounding up or something?

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[theansweris]

The first one, Ed didn't go there intending to kill him. Just to make him stop hurting Miss Kringle. Dougherty punched him in the stomach and was pulling him up to continue beating him when Ed pulled a switchblade and stabbed him.

The third, I got rid of, but not by killing him, purely because I didn't want to make a martyr of him, he's already the golden child of the gcpd. It was a bad call. I should have killed him.

[shadowstrikes]

[There's a slight pause here, not rapid, off-the-cuff reply coming through like it has been so far.]

You skipped the second.

[theansweris]

Pinkney. He was a bully and I didn't like him, so I used him to frame Gordon for murder. I made people think Pinkney was the one who reported Gordon to Internal Affairs for murdering Theo Galavan.

There were a few other deaths in there, but they weren't because I hated them or wanted to get rid of them. I mean, one was a complete accident anyway.

[shadowstrikes]

are all your gotham types this complicated?

but i have to say, as someone who had a stint of killing professionally, you have to be really lucky or unlucky to kill someone completely by accident. just sayin'

[theansweris]

Maybe? I don't know. Gotham isn't an easy city.

Ed accidentally smothered his then girlfriend. She was trying to hit him a lot and saying she was going to send him to prison and they'd do awful things to him that he deserved.

[shadowstrikes]

i don't know if gotham is complicated but it sure sounds like you are

you keep saying ed & you like you're two different people. what's up with that?

[theansweris]

There's two of us. Ed and myself.

Vrenille said we reminded him of some Sylvari.

[shadowstrikes]

two of you huh

can't say i've heard of more than one sylvari in a single body before

[theansweris]

... really?

Vrenille said, well, implied, and now that I'm mulling this over...

Well, even if they don't, I do. There's always been two of us.

[shadowstrikes]

suspect he was talking about the dream that connects a lot of them together. it's a kind of metaphysical mental connection between them before they wake. they stay connected to some lesser or greater degree when they wake but i think you're talking about something a little different. some of them say its too loud to stand so they do things to quiet or turn off the connection to the dream

but i know the kinda thing you're talking about in the abstract. sort of. what i'm thinking is probably still different too, something that's learned rather than has always been there

[theansweris]

Yes, the dream.

We're not like that. There's just two of us.

[shadowstrikes]

two guys one body. sounds like the kind of shit revenants talk about. still different though, i bet

makes you unique

[theansweris]

No. There's other people who have two people. Like Harvey Dent, in most people's Gotham.

[shadowstrikes]

there sure are a buncha you gotham types running around but never heard of the guy so i'll have to take your word for that one