[CLOSED] there were days when I hurt you so bad

[pancakeboy]

[[OOC: this thread is closed to gorobo.]]

Magpie is having a very normal day. To wit, he's standing in the lee of the train carriage in Station Square, staring down at his phone. His face is pinched and white; he looks, for some reason, both far too young and excessively old.

Hopefully nobody will happen past in the next thirty to sixty seconds.

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[gorobo]

"One can only wonder how much rationality is left after..." he makes a sharp, terse gesture, "... everything. I'd like to think I'm plenty rational where it counts, but who even knows anymore." He barks out a laugh. It's harsh and angry. "Not me."

"It feels like a taunt, doesn't it?" he grits out. He's not pale like Magpie, but if he were human, he might've been. Or perhaps he'd be red, with anger and frustration. Either way, his face is pulled into a tight, angry frown. "It's not bad enough that you have to see mirrors of yourself, no. Let's make it worse."

[pancakeboy]

"Careful. It could be worse, you know." His lip curls at the corner. "You could wake up and find yourself a child. Whatever that means for you."

Yes, that happened to him. Falcon will already know, from Raven's board.

[gorobo]

"So I've heard. I've been assured that 'we would not do such a thing to you, considering your past'." He rolls his eyes. "Such benevolent overlords we have here."

The sarcasm is palpable. As is the anger. He doesn't pity Magpie for it, but it does piss him off.

He fucking hates it here.

[pancakeboy]

That actually wrings a bit of a laugh from him. He leans back against the green wall of the carriage. The smile doesn't last. "You mean, because of...?"

Because Falcon was controlled; because he was stripped of free will. Magpie was controlled, at least to a certain degree, and that hasn't stopped Igor.

[gorobo]

"Presumably," he bites out, crossing his arms and looking away.

Does he even need to elaborate? They both know what he's talking about.

Fucking Igor.

[pancakeboy]

Yeah. Nothing, Magpie's certain, can convince him of Igor's benevolence. The whole thing is a joke. So there was some complicated shit with his own timeline and his younger self, and so he probably isn't going to try and murder Ren and get killed and all of that crap. That doesn't justify what's been done to them all.

Again, he thinks of Raven, and hisses to himself, frustrated. "Where were you going, anyway? Mementos?"

Either that or the Palace, which he knows well enough is around Mementos, somehow.

[gorobo]

Falcon glances at Magpie, then shrugs.

"I wasn't sure. Seeing that- I needed to do something, and Mementos happens to be familiar," he concedes, "but I've made up my mind. I need to break something."

He turns to face Magpie fully. The emotion on his face is a complicated one. Angry, and hurt, and frustrated.

"What about you? You can come if you want," he says, looking away again, "or not. I'm not your boss."