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

It's not really about being functional.

[He turns to face Bucky again]

...You seek an emotional answer.

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."

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

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

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

[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.

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

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

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

... ... ...

[Waits for it?]

...This is foolishness.

See? That wasn't so hard.

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

Still your thought, though.

What interest do you have in my thoughts? If you are seeking clues into my identity, let me assure you that even if I did know who I am, I would not reveal it to you or anyone.

So don't. Just seems like a waste to be someone you don't have to be, is all.

And yet I have to be someone. I may as well be someone formidable.

Who says you're not?

[~~look the memory I just took involved being defeated in hand-to-hand combat by an 11-year-old~~]

No one. After all, I can become countless such formidable men.

[~~Hey, someone didn't mention that.~~]

By yourself, I mean.

[~~and no one is ever going to~~]

Why are you so fixated on that point?

Why aren't you?

Don't you wanna know who you were even a little?

[Overplaying his part now:]

What man can truly say he knows himself?