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[icantblieveitsnotdeadpool]

Who: Team Malakim
When: Day 3, Post-Game
Where: Dorms
What: Let's Talk About Dreams...

[As you return from the game, Chum is seated in the living room.]

So...how did it go?

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[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Easy, buddy. You're okay.

Look, whatever it was, you're all healed up now.

[phonyphanty]

[Shakes his head]

That doesn't matter.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Seemed liked kind of a big deal.

[phonyphanty]

The injury doesn't matter. I've already made the scar disappear.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

So how come you were so wound up about it?

[phonyphanty]

...No reason. Never mind.

[Turns to walk away.]

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

...you sure you're okay?

[phonyphanty]

[And just like that, the mask is back up and he's smirking again.]

Show me a man in our situation who would call himself "okay," and I shall show you a deluded liar.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Point.

Still, there's levels of okay, y'know.

[phonyphanty]

I remain functional. Should the moment come when I do not, you'll be the first to know.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

It's not really about being functional.

[phonyphanty]

[He turns to face Bucky again]

...You seek an emotional answer.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Like you said. Show me a man in our situation who'd call himself okay, and I'll show you a liar.

Even if we were talking straight physical, though, there's a whole lot you can put in between "okay" and "functional."

[phonyphanty]

Hmph. "I" was not the one who would have said that...

And physically, I can assure you, there is no problem.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Yeah? Who would've said it, if not you?

[phonyphanty]

[Points to himself.]

The "Twisted Samurai" would. He wields his depression as a weapon, and as I practiced to be him, I found myself saying a number of such things.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

So why bother quoting the guy? Just say what you'd say.

[phonyphanty]

I know what he would say. I cannot say the same for myself.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

It's just whatever's the first thing that pops into your head.

[phonyphanty]

... ... ...

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

[Waits for it?]

[phonyphanty]

...This is foolishness.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

See? That wasn't so hard.

[phonyphanty]

I said it using another man's face, voice, and mannerisms. That should hardly count.

[blankasfreshlyfallen]

Still your thought, though.