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[craftpunk]

[ Guess who's back who's back again? ]

Heh. So I'm back again. Thankfully, I don't think you call can get rid of me quite so easily.

[ For those new to the party, Woden's helmet is in full view of the screen, his camera the only reflection. He's sure to take up the whole thing, so his specific location can't be defined from the helmet's reflection. His tone is musical and amused, like he's just experienced something funny. ]

You know what the amusing thing is? I'd already been punished for my earlier transgressions. I'd been killed and beheaded for the things I had done. Beyond that? I've been quiet. I've lived my life, I didn't even interact with the people who felt so... betrayed by my actions. I kept my nose clean -- [ A beat, and a tip of his helmet. ] -- relatively.

Do you know what being good? What being quiet and diminuitive got me? It got me murdered in my own home. [ He leans back, now, and he's most certainly not at home. He, in fact, looks to be in the middle of nowhere, a dark room, other than the bright whites of screens that illuminate from behind the camera. They are all static in his helmet. ] Let me reiterate, for no reason. I did nothing, and because of my reputation, or my odiousness, someone thought it would be fun to murder me.

I would like you all to think on that, the next time someone speaks ill of another person's reputation here. We are... the sum of our actions, yes, but for some, those actions are immediately forgiveable. For others, it doesn't matter how many times we are killed, or punished. It's never enough, to try to change our lives, and make up for it. It's ironic, how easily manipulated you all are, isn't it? How you all don't even question the people you trust?

I digress. I suspect I'm only complaining into the void, regardless.

[ A pause, and he lifted a finger, as if he had another point, his helmet tipped. ]

I suppose I should wish all the other fellow fathers out there, a happy father's day, shouldn't I?

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[vanto]

What happened?

[craftpunk]

Oh, you didn't hear?

[ Woden placed a hand to his chest. ]

I was murdered!

[nightmarist]

[craftpunk]

Is that all you have to contribute?

[bridalrose]

How very upsetting.

[craftpunk]

Quite so. Particularly when you have heard a great deal of pontificating from those among us who believe they hold the moral high ground.

[ambasciatore]

Do you think if you die enough you might learn a lesson or something?

[craftpunk]

Mm, yes, because I'm the only one who must self-examine, yes? Everyone else is free of sin?

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[dragony]

That is the problem with revenge, but don't forget: the most egregious crimes are rarely given only *one* life sentence. Only one death penalty.

Perhaps if you'd been sentenced properly, we'd know how many lives or deaths you truly owe before the punishment fits your "transgressions."

[craftpunk]

Oh, perhaps, but that never seemed to go anywhere, now did it?

Legal action was threatened, of course, but I can hardly be at fault if nobody tries me.

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[youresovein]

Quite frankly, I sympathize completely. It's so difficult to take control of one's own image when it's been dragged viciously through the mud by your haters.

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[craftpunk]

Precisely, thank you!

[ Lestat, you are now his favorite person. ]

Why should we suffer because others simply seem to state we're terrible? This could be a new life for us, we could be trying to forge into something new, and yet...

Again and again, we're told that isn't good enough.

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[bookkeeper]

You were beheaded? Imagine that.

[ Where's Andy when he needs her. ]

[craftpunk]

Correct.

It's shameful, really, how brutal it is. Can you imagine, beheading someone?

[ Well... ]

[Voice]

[photophobic]

Was it a dagger?

[Voice]

[craftpunk]

[ KYLO YOU BITCH. ]

No. It was not.

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[knaval]

[okay he DOES ACTUALLY HAVE THOUGHTS ON THIS but first he has to fulfill woden's curse of attracting those imports that think they're clever:] Sorry, who were you again?

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[craftpunk]

[ RUDE!!! ]

If you don't know by now, I'm not going to bother.

[lesterzeppelin]

[ wow, someone who complains more than Apollo ever did... ]

You know, most people usually learn something from dying.

[craftpunk]

I would have, if there were something more to learn than: Don't get murdered.

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[numberthree]

[ Confusing circumstances notwithstanding, Allison watches and rewatches the video as the -- man? robot? body with a screen head? -- being on the screen talks about the issue that knitted itself deep under her skin since an earlier conversation: death, and how much it means, how much it can be abused if you know the person you are killing will come back.

Even if most of the respondents are outright aggressive, the topic under it needles at her. ]

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[girlybruiser]

[ Father's Day.

She stares long and hard at those words. ]

You are a father?

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[craftpunk]

Heh.

Yyyyyyyyyep.

[ Even with his vocoder, the sound of his drawn-out statement, it sounds so... smug. ]

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[prophesiedone]

You have children? (What is said, the bitterness behind it, resonates with how he has felt for months. But Anakin is trying to rise above all of it. No matter what others think of him, he can be better and that matters.)

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[craftpunk]

Child. I have one.

[ Thankfully, the vocoder hides any inflection in the statement. ]

Is that so surprising?