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[theansweris]

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[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

[theansweris]

I've never met him in my Gotham. I know of him but little else.