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[Kate actually knows she shouldn't do this. She knows she shouldn't, but she goes ahead and does it anyway.]

A year ago, I made a post on here. I talked about a different world, and I talked about a different registration act. In my world, good people who refused to register were assaulted, brought down, and meant to be delivered to a dangerous and terrible prison until they submitted. My friends and I were among the first to refuse to register, and we were lucky enough to be rescued. I never registered, and it turned out that everything associated with the act was ... bad.

For that reason, among others, I've refused to register here. We don't belong in this world, and our hands are being forced on the matter. The government has used us without divulging information openly, and they've even put us into psychological games. Just last April, everyone was asked to play a game. Did you feel like a rat in a cage? And last June, people were asked to play a war game without being told of the very real consequences: that with every shot, we'd feel what it was like to have a real bullet tearing into us. And at the end of the game, you either won or you experienced true death before you woke up.

[Her voice here intensifies in its anger.]

And now ... now, a year later, we're in another game. We're in the reality of that paintball game. See, it was imPort versus imPort, and here we are again. We're having our hands forced because even if we've been helping one another, and helping the citizens of the world, we should be brought in. None of the vigilantes I know kill. We all help, doing what we can, and it's the government who defines our behavior, and who decides that we should adhere to their laws. And why? Is there any reason that we should? We didn't consent to these tattoos. We've been going along with what they've wanted for ages.

So, this is what I'm asking the government to do. You have the list of vigilantes. Why don't you bring us in yourself? Why use other imPorts? You can capture us, right?

Because honestly, that's what I'd like to know. Obviously, you want something for this, so everyone, let's guess! Because it looks like they want a Civil War among us. I guess they really didn't think it through, even with cautionary tales already ready in their midst.

[When she cuts the feed, it switches to text, providing a link to her previous words on the matter. Cautionary tales are even sourced!]

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Ah, sorry. [Awkwardly.]

I don't really have an explanation to top that. [To make herself sound better. That hadn't been her goal.]

Get me drunk enough and I'll tell you in more detail. [ said in a joking, no-hard-feelings sort of tone ]

So long as it doesn't take you three times as much to get drunk. I never paid attention before. [Also said lightly.]

Just booze me up with the heavy drinks and I'll be fine. I can get drunk, but it's so much easier and so much faster if it's absinthe or gin.

Gin it is! Better for mixed drinks, anyway, and cheaper to buy and consume in a place that isn't a bar.

I can't believe you're seriously going to do this, [ but he's mad happy about it anyway because BOOZE. ]

If it turns out you just made this a dramatically awkward moment for booze and not actual sadness, I'll throw a shoe at your head.

It'll be fair.

It's literally a tale of love and war. How's that for classically sad?

Dorian Gray's story hour.

I'd be a fool to pass that up.

[A beat.]

Accidental prevailing insensitivities aside.

[ shrugs! ]

I like telling stories. I like it even better when I've got an actual audience. [ and not talking to his portrait...which is a thing that he does... ]

Somehow, I never knew that. [They really did suck at dating, huh?]

[ #bestcouple ]

At the risk of sounding cliche, what you don't know about me could fill a book.

I'll make sure not to tell the next Oscar Wilde.

Or should I tell him? I never really knew what to make of that, either.

Oscar and I were friends back home, if your Oscar or someone like that showed up, I'd probably be close with him as well.

Oh, yeah, reason states. At least, with my world. You'd definitely be good buds with the Oscar Wilde from my world.

I wonder if there's some world out there with an Oscar Wilde who I'd absolutely hate. You think it wouldn't be true, and yet if there's infinite worlds, blah blah blah.

It's possible. Maybe there's an Oscar Wilde who's rather uptight without a gift for language. I'd believe it. He could be a historian or something.

[ and Dorian just makes a face. A historian. Ergh. ]

Like I told my good friend Billy Kaplan, if there can be an evil iteration of me without a single sense of righteousness and shouting about what's right and wrong, there can certainly be a boring, brown-suited Oscar Wilde.

Wait, is there an evil iteration of you without a single sense of righteousness? Or is this purely hypothetical?

I didn't actually talk to her. Them.

But I assumed.

The multiverse can go fuck itself sometimes. [ said with a scrunched up 'ew' face. because it is the right thing to say right now and he is being supportive (but also kinda wants to see what mirrorverse Kate Bishop is like because Dorian isn't known for making the best decisions) ]

I actually agree with that one. [Though, yes, she assumes Dorian would like to meet evil her. Kate figures most people would be curious about it.]

And once again, our conversations end up delving into the weirdest possible topics, [ said with an idle shrug. but hey, between guinea pigs and the multiverse, they're never starved for conversation. ]

Edited 2015-06-05 23:27 (UTC)

Surprisingly, I talk about the multiverse almost every single day. It helps to have experience in the matter.

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