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[theansweris]

No. I'm saying that for Ed Nygma, there's a narrow scope. For the person I was before, for the child before Ed Nygma, things are probably vastly different.

[shadowstrikes]

sure. conditions are what makes a souffle not a pancake

gotta admit even people who i know have alternates of themselves running around i tend to only know one version of each & don't try and compared notes or anything. it seems like a pretty pointless exercise in practice but find thought experiment for to sake of following a piece of string

[theansweris]

Like myself with Harley. I only know one, the other is a stranger. And with Victor, well, I find the one that has attached himself to Roman Sionis to be a repellent creature, a cruel mockery of the man who arrived in this city with me.

[shadowstrikes]

huh. this sionis guy sure gets around don't he. sorry to hear he's buddies with a weird twist on one of your pals though. that'd probably be unfortunate for anyone

[theansweris]

Those two thoroughly deserve each other. I wish they'd put themselves out of our misery.

[shadowstrikes]

aww but then roman wouldn't be around to poke fun at!

[theansweris]

Call him out on his age. He really hates that one.

[shadowstrikes]

oh that's a good one! i found out he's got some feelings about his daddy issues and golden showers so that was a fun evening

[theansweris]

In fairness, I have opinions on golden showers.

Ask him how he got his club. Hint: He asked CR Eator for it rather than actually put it together himself or get the money for buying it.

[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.