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[wizzardly]

[there is a wizard peering suspiciously at the Network today, somewhat stooped with his arms folded across his chest.]

Right. ...I don't really think I ought to have to say this - it's been awhile now and it's just as bloody ridiculous now as it was then - but since apparently some people are going 'round and getting creative with sticks and rocks and things, I may as well have it on the record: I didn't have anything to do with the animals or the prisoners or anything else people might be angry about. That was all my poor bastard of a copy. People who know me should already know I'm actually more on the side of keeping dangerous animals and people in cages than letting them out.

Anyway, that's all. Just thought I ought to make things clear.

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[slightlyoffchilt]

So all that, what with you and Baelish...

[He doesn't know shit about this, he's just being an asshole.]

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[wizzardly]

- Oh gods, what did he do to Baelish? [assholeness accomplished.] Is he going to kill me for it?

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[slightlyoffchilt]

[A light shrug.]

I cannot say. Perhaps you ought to apologize to him before any more rumors take flight.

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[wizzardly]

Oh yes, that's good, that's going to to go over fabulously. "Sorry for whatever the person who looks like me did to you, I don't know what that was, but I'm really so very sorry about it."

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[slightlyoffchilt]

Hmm. I see your concern -- lacks sincerity. Maybe send a note along with flowers?

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[am_i_a_monster]

I don't think the vandals care about actual guilt or innocence. They've decided we're all the same, no matter what.

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[wizzardly]

[Rincewind sighs.]

That is rather how mobs like to think. People like to keep things simple.

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[am_i_a_monster]

Yup. And now that we have these labels, I doubt we'll get rid of them.

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[wizzardly]

Suppose we ought to add them to name tags, to make it even easier for people to remember?

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[am_i_a_monster]

Ah, but then people might wonder if we have actual names. If we're individuals instead of one big group to be blamed. It would blow their minds.

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[craftpunk]

"It wasn't me, it was my evil clone?"

I'm going to have to save that one for next time.

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[wizzardly]

He wasn't evil, to be fair. Only young, and an idiot.

- And I'll cut off any jokes you might have springing to mind on whether that was a trait he cloned from me.

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[craftpunk]

Well, they are clones. They can't be that different.

Naive, maybe.

I'm still going to take the evil clone idea. It's a good one.

[wizzardly]

Naivete is idiocy. Or its sibling, at the very least.

Well, better save it for the right moment then, I don't know that it's something you can use more than once.

[craftpunk]

True, true. It's close enough to count.

But I don't know if you know me, I'm a villain anyway. I can use it as many times as I need to, and endear the masses to my story.

It'll be some Power Rangers level bait and switching.

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[itistolaugh]

[Harley watches the video, then watches it again. She gets a glass of wine and turns it over in her memory. She has a second and third glass of wine.]

You weren't at the swear in, were you. In July?

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[wizzardly]

The swear-in? I haven't been to one of those in months.

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[itistolaugh]

Oh. Okay. Guess I made out with a clone! Fine. That's fffine.

[She is the biggest idiot in the world and wine is her only friend now.]

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[wizzardly]

[without a drink in his hand, Rincewind has only air to choke on. Yet choke he does.]

- Made out with? With my clone?

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[itistolaugh]

Oh my gosh, you don't have to make it sound so impossible! He was very charming. [Which honestly should have been an immediate giveaway. God, Harls, you stupid, stupid girl.] I was charmed. And you know what, it's not like it's never happened before!

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[catchacold]

Aw.

[The disappointment. Almost palpable.]

I thought we were finally moving forward.

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[wizzardly]

As a species? Because I'd mention there's ample evidence against that.

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[catchacold]

As someone who has travelled through time to the future... Really can't argue that.

But I meant you an me.

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[wizzardly]

...Why?

[there's that suspicious tone.]

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[catchacold]

You know.

[There's a vague hand movement that means exactly everything. Or nothing.]

We bonded.