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Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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So what is it that's got you now? Just living for spite?

I'm going to assume your slang is straight from the 1930s as well?

Are you asking why I'm still alive and oh so spry for a nonagenarian? [Dramatic sigh.] It's not going to be a very satisfying answer but. One part irradiation, one part interdimensional-switcheroo, I guess.

Some of it. Probably. That bit I just made up.

Edited 2020-10-04 04:26 (UTC)

You're a time traveler? Or a mutant?

Glad to know it. You're testing the outer limits of the already-tenuous grasp I've got on the English language. [Or -- judging by the number of words he's used to say that -- does he?]

N—no... I guess, mutant might be— no, not in the hereditary sense. Just another military accident or something.

Sorry? I don't talk to a lot of strangers.

You mean they experimented on you? Trying to crack the code of immortality?

Mostly keep the company of normals? [Wrench looks him up and down pointedly, but there's the faintest hint of a smile etched into one corner of his lips. He's definitely trying to incite.]

Got it in one. Or was that two? Three? Whatever.

Normal is relative.

Did it work? And don't say, "Well I haven't died yet."

Sure. Let's go with your vantage point, then. Am I more or less like the company that you usually keep?

Uhmm OK. How about... I'm still alive, aren't I?

Let's see— are you cyberneticly enhanced in anyway? Capable of pyrokinesis, teleportation or mind control? An amorphous blob in human form? If no, then probably less.

Sorry about all the million dollar words.

Sure, but that's not exactly a tell. Life expectancy's a lot longer these days than when you were a spring chicken. I'm more interested in whether you've lived through things that ought to kill you, rather than how long you've gone on.

I'm just a human.

Oh, I see. Well. That's kind of a grey area. I've walked away from a pretty messy plane crash and survived ingestion by a particularly voracious donkey, but I'm not sure the same couldn't necessarily be said for anyone. Long story short— I'm pretty sure I can die. Someone just won't let me.

Definitely less common in my life than they used to be.

Edited 2020-10-04 05:24 (UTC)

So the bandages aren't another bad fashion statement? You're not trying for irony as some kind of mummified ancient fighter pilot?

Well, maybe I'm more interesting by virtue of being less common.

Like I said radiation dampening. That and. A guy could develop a complex going through life with a face that makes people lose their lunch.

That's always the hope, right?

I'd have to take your word for it. Being such a handsome specimen myself, I just couldn't imagine.

Something like that. I'm sure you'd be unsurprised to know that I don't keep much company at all, but the little I do is very human.

Fair enough. There was a time I couldn't have either.

We don't always get to pick the people near us.

[Wrench hesitates a long moment. Text leaves too much to speculation. It doesn't carry enough of the sense of intent for him to know if the man is joking, or takes him as serious. But "fair enough" makes him think the latter.]

I'm just bullshitting, [he admits, rather than let the stranger believe he thinks so highly of himself.]

Almost never, in my experience.

[Half century of looking at his on face in the mirror doesn't leave Larry with a lot of wiggle room when it comes to humor at the expense of someone else's appearance. Even if Wrench was expecting more jesting in good faith, that's a stone best left unturned.]

[He shrugs.] Why? You look all right to me.

Unless, you pick no one.
That's seems mostly achievable on one's own.

Edited 2020-10-04 06:36 (UTC)

High praise.

I'm sure you look great yourself, for a man in his nineties who's survived a plane crash and inexplicable digestion by a donkey?

That was the goal for retirement. [It doesn't seem worth the mention that he hasn't chosen it himself. He'd never actually ask to be left entirely on his own, to his own devices.] Self-sufficiency's a tough road to hoe.

Why do I get the feeling you'd be more comfortable if I'd called you ugly?

Don't put any money on that.

Retirement from... ceiling painting? I didn't realize that was such a networking job.

Be more comfortable if you called me a big dumb motherfucker, really. But I'm not all that used to anyone calling me much of anything.

Glad you said so. My disposable income's a little lacking at the moment. How about this: I bet you're the best-looking 90-something year old alive today who's survived a plane crash and being eaten by a donkey.

Well, you meet a lot of people. But if you do the job right, you only meet them the one time.

Seeing as how I only know if one of those things is true, that would feel like making a lot of assumptions. Maybe you could tell me your name and I'll just stick with that.

I might just have that much going for me. Just don't put me up against any of the dead ones.

And just hope they don't change their mind about the color I guess.

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