Duplicity Inbox

[alwayskayaking]

Duplicity Inbox

You've reached Tim Stoker. I'm out at the moment. Leave me a message and I'll return your call soon.

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[wolfehawke]

I'll pick him up and deposit him at home if it comes to that.

[ Maybe not, but the sentiment is there. He's inherited his mother's ability to henpeck and by golly he'll use it! ]

No, not easily. I wouldn't even say you're moving past it easily, but you are moving, and so will they.

[ He's not sure there's an alternative, honestly. ]

It's just something you've got to give people time for.
It's like having some other version of you having been in the city before you came; there are going to be issues someone has or assumptions they make based on the you they knew before and it's something you have to deal with even if you know you don't deserve it.

CW: Mention of noncon

[alwayskayaking]

Maybe, but I don't know many people who had someone here in this city before them that made money by torturing and raping people live on the internet for all to see. I don't think they're usually that wildly different from each other from what few people I know that's happened to.

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[wolfehawke]

[ It's not hard to see what's bothering Tim. The same thing that was terrible about the shadows. The clones are you, so then doesn't that make you capable of the same cruelty? Doesn't that mean you're destined to turn into that?

It doesn't, but the thought process is easy to follow, especially after his similar conversation with Isabela.

He privates the conversation just in case, mostly to spare Tim's feelings from being aired in case anyone is prodding around. ]

Tim.
Do you believe you would ever do such a thing?

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[alwayskayaking]

I don't think I would. Not to that extreme. [Kill something threatening him? He thinks he could. Tying them down in order to sexually assault and torture them for fun? No.

Then again. He doesn't think he's capable of sacrificing his life either, but you never really know what you're capable of until that moment arrives.]

[wolfehawke]

Then that's what you need to know about yourself.
The difference between us and whatever these clones are is what we are willing to do.
Not what we're capable of doing.
The clones are capable of not being horrible blights on society too, but that doesn't mean they're willing.

[ He... really should check what his is about, shouldn't he. ]

[alwayskayaking]

I would hope I'm not actually capable of what that clone did.

[wolfehawke]

That's not what I mean.

[ Maker's balls, Tim is so effortlessly talented at missing the point entirely. ]

I mean is you're only as good or as ill as your actions.
If you never take poor actions, then you're not a poor person.

[alwayskayaking]

Yeah, maybe.

[He very nearly asks: So, as an example, calling the cops when someone is beating the crap out of me? That makes me bad, right?

Then he thinks better of it. He was tired and not really in a good headspace. So instead after several long moments of: Showstopper is typing... Hawke will get this simple message.]

Thanks.

[wolfehawke]

[ There's a surprise. Maybe there's hope after all. He doesn't really have words to reply, so he leaves a little picture instead. Hopefully it expresses more than he can otherwise. ]

👍

[alwayskayaking]

[It does not, but it still gets marked as read.]