mollymauk catchall

[outsidebones]

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[headmt]

Not me-- And I'm not counting those at all, by the way, considering that the school was not me - her. She'd been to three.

[outsidebones]

Ah. I thought for a moment we'd had a breakthrough.

Yes.

[headmt]

We both understand I'll never relent on that one, right?

[ but anyway ... ]

Just. Sad is all. Make it through two of them, get taken out in the third.

[outsidebones]

It is sad. But a lot of people are going to die before this is over. Don't make it your job to be sad about them.

[headmt]

[ He gets her point, actually, but gives her a bit of a morose smile anyway. ]

But when I'm so good at it ... besides. If it happened to me, I'd want the same.

[outsidebones]

You have an entire school of people to be sad over you. Don't worry.

[headmt]

[ His easy expression actually drops a bit at this dig, and his face twists up, clearly nearing the end of some rope. ]

So, what, I'm supposed to just embody every other version of myself wandering around out there? Everything someone in this body has done is somehow mine again, without even meaning to?

[outsidebones]

Goodness.

[she really wasn't trying to get him upset but she doesn't seem that bothered by it.]

Of course not, who cares. But really, if you insist on attempting to utterly ignore those bodies and insisting on not even a bit of curiosity, it doesn't give the impression that they don't matter. It implies you find their actions so consequential that to hear them spoken of challenges your own personhood.

[headmt]

[ He's less snappish now, more sulking a bit. Nursing the wound. ]

Whole deal for me is sort of built on sand in the first place. So maybe it does, a bit.

[outsidebones]

It shouldn't. Do you know how many disparate entities I've had inside this body.

[don't,]

It doesn't matter unless you let it.

[headmt]

Who knows how many disparate entities have been inside this body ...

[ sorry, he can't help. ]

I'm letting it. A little. For a while. I'll probably get over it soon, okay?

[outsidebones]

[wrinkling her nose.]

Well. Try. It annoys me to think what would have happened if he'd come here instead of you.

[headmt]

[ Snorting a bit. ]

Which one? The educated one or the off-his-rocker-forgot-his-own-name Bastard?

[outsidebones]

Whichever one, it doesn't matter.

[headmt]

One is clearly better than the other.

[outsidebones]

Yes, the second one would be a bit more comfortingly familiar.

[she chews her lip like she's deciding what to say.]

Either one, however, would try to pretend I don't exist out of obstinate refusal to recognize you, and that would be annoying, and a mistake for him.

[headmt]

Alright, alright. Well it is me here, so you don't have to worry about that.