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[arrogantalloy]

[ When the feed comes on, Tony is sitting at a chair. He obviously has the camera resting on a table in front of him. He looks lost in thought and is looking off to the top right of the camera in the middle distance, it looks like he's been thinking very hard. After a few moments he licks his lips slowly.]

So, it looks like that I'm not as prepared for everything as I think.

I've made mistakes here. But that's not really new, I've always been a bit of a mess so really that's a statement that shouldn't really surprise anyone, I've never really been perfect, my track record alone really shows that, and even all my character defaults...

[He runs his hand over his lower jaw. while he takes a breath, realising he was going off track.]

I haven't been taking this place seriously. And it nearly cost someone their life, because I wasn't fast enough. So what I'm trying to say here is that. Well, I have to try harder, this.

[He fidgets with his hands]

This isn't a holiday, or a resort, so tell me... What's the best way to take on the gym leaders around here?

[Tony's been trying to post this for days, there have been a few moments where he's started recording only to turn it off again. So he's feeling kind of proud he was able to be more him than his persona to the public for once.]

Comments

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Hey, hit the other guy counts as a strategy.

[He gives a long blink]

Yeah, see even you didn't know until it happened to someone you knew. Either way. I've known him for a while, of course I'm going to be more than a little... It's very possible for people to die where I come from, especially what he and I do when we're there. So it was a bit of a shock.

[video]

[solas_ion]

Hey, preaching to the choir here. I think that's the right saying, anyway. I've been dead so many times I'm thinking I oughta get a medal for it or something.

[Shrug.]

Well, now you know. Someone had to tell ya, right?

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, that's the right phrase. And weirdly I know what the whole dying thing is like myself... Sort of, if you want medical technicalities in the way.

Well, yeah. True. And now I do know, it's how things go. Uh, thanks? Pretty sure that's what I should be saying right now.

[video]

[solas_ion]

Man, try getting cut up with a sword or stabbed in the heart. It's a whole lot of bullshit, let me tell you. Not really a fun afternoon.

[Lancer sighed, more annoyed about the idea than all that torn up about it.]

Hey, don't worry about it. I've been here a hell of a long time, I'm startin' to feel like it's my job to make sure this kinda stuff gets around.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Stabbed in the heart, huh? Well, now there's always something. Can't ever imagine that ever being fun.

[He absently drums his fingers over his shirt covered reactor.]

...How long have you been here?

[video]

[solas_ion]

Not really the kinda thing most people survive, not even me. Sucks, but I'm over it.

[At the question, Lancer seemed to be double-checking dates in his head for a moment.]

I ain't really sure exactly--I think I got here a couple weeks before my birthday, so early January...I'm pretty sure it's been three years or just short of it.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

[He grins a little]

Interesting kind of thing to get over, if you ask me.

Three... Years.

[That doesn't make Tony feel a little uneasy, nope, not at all.]

[video]

[solas_ion]

I try not to hold too much of a grudge if I can help it. Life ain't all that fun if you're always bent out of shape over who killed you and how.

[The reaction got a look of what might have been concern out of him--while Lancer didn't exactly have anything to go back to, it wasn't hard to forget not everyone was so lucky as to be dead.]

[Strange as that might have sounded.]

You okay? I ain't sure my case is all that common, if it helps you sleep at night.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah, I'm fine. I just have... Stuff back in my world, expensive and some irreplaceable stuff.

You know, dust gets on it and too much dust is just hell for the cleaning lady.

[video]

[solas_ion]

I'm pretty sure it's been determined time doesn't really pass back home while we're here, too.

...Don't ask me how that works, I don't know.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Believe me. My place gets dust on it when when I'm there.

... Actually, it's more likely to happen, though, not always dust.

[However Lancer saying that does calm the uneasy feeling he had.]

You've become quite a wikipedia while being here, haven't you, there.

[video]

[solas_ion]

I ain't as dumb as I look.

[He doesn't have a clue what a Wikipedia is, but luckily the idea got across.]

People seem to make that mistake a lot. I'm a pretty smart guy, and a few years is plenty of time to pick up some things.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

You know, it could be the hair.

And really, I'd be worried if you didn't pick something up after three years.

[video]

[solas_ion]

I get that a lot too. I'm not changing it.

[hmph.]

I guess some people just expect me to be dumb or crazy. Or the kinda guy that solves his problems by punching them.

...not that I'm denying being the last two, but I'm not stupid.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Not always a bad way to be seen. That way you always get the jump on people when you prove them wrong. Kind of helpful, really.

[video]

[solas_ion]

I'm not the kinda guy that's usually looking for the element of surprise, myself. People just never take me for a smart guy, and they're usually confused if I prove them wrong. It's pretty funny, if you ask me.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Huh, so you've got one of those simple and happy outlook things going for you then?

[video]

[solas_ion]

Nothin' wrong with that. The real world can be a miserable place, and when you have the kinda life I did, you either shrug and roll with it or go fucking insane and become some kinda serial killer.

[lancer...]

Just how it is. I don't think simple and happy's all that bad, myself.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

[Tony just stares when he mentions serial killer as being an option. He runs his hands through his hair and decides not to worry about the statement so much.]

Well, you're not wrong there. Sometimes I even wonder what simple is like.

[video]

[solas_ion]

[the guy used to turn into a lovecraftian murder machine, he kind of doesn't think much of mass murder brought up as a casual joke...]

Sorry, you're askin' the wrong guy. Even after all this time here, I couldn't begin to understand what normal people think 'simple' is.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Well, at least we share something there, then.

[video]

[solas_ion]

Oh, yeah. You got my attention. What makes you different from anybody else?

[Surprisingly, he didn't sound sarcastic. Lancer's tone was genuinely interested, considering he knew there was a hell of a range between 'normal human' and someone around his own level.]

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

Back in my world I was a billionaire genius, who used to make weapons, but now I'm in clean energy while being a part of a team of super heroes in my spare time.

[video]

[solas_ion]

That's an interesting one. Super heroes, huh? Sounds like a hell of a good time.

[video]

[arrogantalloy]

I has it's moments, I guess. The after fight meal is usually pretty goos.