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[dumbfound]

[ There's a kid sitting on screen with a opaque plastic cup with a slightly less opaque bendy straw sipping something dark out of that cup. He's staring blankly at a spot right below the camera for several seconds before-- ]

Wait... people have evil clones now?

[ Yes... no, yes. He's dead serious with that question. ]

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[ghoulking]

[ JUNSEO................ ]

Yes, that seems to be right. Do you know if you have one?

[dumbfound]

[ He almost drops his cup at the question as the realization suddenly dawns on him that he could have one. ]

I don't know?

[ghoulking]

Aha- well, clones are causing a lot of problems, so I'm sure everyone will know it's not you.

[dumbfound]

[ His mouth is hanging open now, and he just looks so blown away by this revelation. ]

I could really have an evil clone?

[crimeboy]

[You know, Akira shouldn't be surprised after he first met the guy, but.]

Uh yeah.

There were like, zombies and evil robots and stuff too. You're alright though, I am guessing.

[HE MUST BE.]

[dumbfound]

What? That sounds so cool...

[ How did he miss this? An excellent question. ]

Huh? Me? Yeah, I guess so.

[crimeboy]

I mean, people were probably hurt, so I'm not sure how cool it was, but it was definitely something out of some kind of comic book.

[He can't blame him for thinking it was cool in that respect.]

Have you been, like... sleeping the whole time?

[itssacrifice]

Kid...

You must not get out much.

[That is the only explanation Apollo can come up with for how someone is only now realizing this.]

[dumbfound]

I go outside to go to work?

[ He really doesn't pay much attention to anything. ]

[itssacrifice]

Let me get this straight...

You go out into public and manage to miss the fact that the evil clone disaster is all anyone is talking about? Gossip on the streets, over the network, in the newspapers?

None of that rings a bell?

[vidiocracy]

So unfair. I want an evil clone. I bet he'd be socool.

[Mike is the evil clone.]

[...not, like, literally.]

[...but, you know.]

[dumbfound]

Yeah! No... Probably not that cool?

[ Stops to consider this. ]

Are evil clones cool?

[vidiocracy]

Mine would be.

[ret2go]

Eh, it happens. I had to fight an evil manifestation of my own magic once.

[dumbfound]

Wait... what?

[ Trying to figure this out. ]

[ret2go]

I... had to fight an evil manifestation of my own magic once? I don't know how to say it more clearly than that.

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[songwrite]

[This is a rhetorical question, right? Surely.]

It's crazy, yeah. I was thinking this was comic books, but that's more cheesy sci-fi, right?

[His best friend made him watch a lot of old movies while they were growing up.]

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[dumbfound]

[ Sadly, it is not. ]

Sometimes it's more like an action movie though. Only with more super powers? ... Or just the right amount of super powers?

[songwrite]

Superhero movies are totally action movies!

[Like, all the ones he can think of anyway.]

I guess it doesn't really matter. Do you have a clone? I don't think I do. At least, I haven't seen mine or anything.

... Do we have to fight ourselves if we find them, do you think?

[am_i_a_monster]

It's like I told you. It's not always obvious who the threats are. Be careful even when you see someone who likes like a person you know.

[dumbfound]

But I know lots of people!

[am_i_a_monster]

And lots of them could have clones.

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[thirdprogenitor]

[ Krul's just going to be sitting there with her chin propped in her palm. Oh, this child. ]

Is there? I hadn't noticed.

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[dumbfound]

You didn't either?

[ He's taking that at face value, and actually looks relieved to not be the only one. ]

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[thirdprogenitor]

[ Oh boy. ]

Of course I knew. I simply didn't get involved in it.