Right, yeah, I see where you're going with that, except for one tiny point. When the fuck do bad things not happen around you, man? You're a magnet for that shit!
[ kind of...going off on a tangent here, he has the best attention span ever ]
Have you even ever had a tattoo? I don't mean the ones that guy, what's his face, Kelly's...you know who I mean, that guy, not like the ones he gave us, but like an actual, proper tattoo? Doesn't seem your style, man.
I-I'll just stay invisible. They won't be able to find me if I'm invisible.
[ simon doens't sound particularly happy about that course of action. he's been given his power for a reason, after all. he shouldn't be using it to hide. ]
No, seriously, you can't. I know you, you'll need to go on some bullshit suicide mission to help some of the other poor sods stuck there with tattoos on their wrists.
See, now right there's your problem! This is why you're a magnet for trouble! You want to just let it go, leave them alone. It's survival of the fittest, you know like Einstein said. [ it was einstein, right? yeah. ] They've got to handle themselves, but you've always got to try and save them.
[ HEY that's not gonna distract him, he has a good point here.
...darwin, seriously? ]
Darwin, Einstein, it's all the same, they're those science type. [ waving his hand ] Wordy types, like the sound of their own voices. The point is, evolution. It's that thing were there's a fucking nuclear explosion and only the cockroaches survive. And you've got to let the others go, man! You're the cockroach.
So you'd rather get burned with all the rest of them?
[ look, that is not what he wants! god what a fucking idiot. what if simon gets hurt, or gets into some ballsed up trouble that he can't get out of because he's too fucking busy trying to save everyone else?! ]
Fucking hell, man, you're taking this whole hero idea way too seriously. All of this was a stupid fucking accident! No one in their right mind would make us into superheroes.
Oh, come on, man, that has to be the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever heard. Look at us, Barry! We're screw-ups! We've always been, we're nobody's heroes.
We got these powers when we were on community fucking service! What does that tell you?
By accident! And only when it helped us which, by the way, is exactly how it should be. Listen, Barry, we're the good guys, okay? We're just also the staying alive guys. Now obviously for me, that's not a problem. But I'm not the one with the swirly tattoo mark of death thing all over my wrist, know what I'm saying man?
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[ quietly affronted gosh nathan like you don't attract your fair share of trouble. ]
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What's so dangerous about this new place anyway?
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[ pause ]
It gave me a tattoo. On my wrist.
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[ kind of...going off on a tangent here, he has the best attention span ever ]
Have you even ever had a tattoo? I don't mean the ones that guy, what's his face, Kelly's...you know who I mean, that guy, not like the ones he gave us, but like an actual, proper tattoo? Doesn't seem your style, man.
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[ simon is just used to these tangents. it's nathan. ]
I didn't ask for it. I woke up with it when I got there. I'd never had one before.
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Well that's fucked up. What's it of?
[ a pause. ] Did it hurt?
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It might have. I don't know. I was asleep.
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I don't know, man, it seems dodgy. Probably some freaky Nazi-style marking thing, so they can identify you. It's not gonna mean anything good.
[ is that concern? maybe just the tiniest bit. ]
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[ simon doens't sound particularly happy about that course of action. he's been given his power for a reason, after all. he shouldn't be using it to hide. ]
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You can't stay invisible all the time.
No, seriously, you can't. I know you, you'll need to go on some bullshit suicide mission to help some of the other poor sods stuck there with tattoos on their wrists.
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If there's a way for me to help them then I should do something. It's only right.
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It's gonna get old, man.
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[ gently...derailing.. ]
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...darwin, seriously? ]
Darwin, Einstein, it's all the same, they're those science type. [ waving his hand ] Wordy types, like the sound of their own voices. The point is, evolution. It's that thing were there's a fucking nuclear explosion and only the cockroaches survive. And you've got to let the others go, man! You're the cockroach.
[ beat ]
You know what I'm talking about.
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[ nathan isn't making cock jokes. this must be serious. ]
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So you'd rather get burned with all the rest of them?
[ look, that is not what he wants! god what a fucking idiot. what if simon gets hurt, or gets into some ballsed up trouble that he can't get out of because he's too fucking busy trying to save everyone else?! ]
Fucking hell, man, you're taking this whole hero idea way too seriously. All of this was a stupid fucking accident! No one in their right mind would make us into superheroes.
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[ nathan stop judging him. 8C ]
We were given these powers for a reason. Maybe we're meant to be superheroes.
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Oh, come on, man, that has to be the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever heard. Look at us, Barry! We're screw-ups! We've always been, we're nobody's heroes.
We got these powers when we were on community fucking service! What does that tell you?
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[ well, kind of... ]
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[ not that simon knows for certain but... ]
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Well, forgive me for not seeing the blindingly obvious explanation for what it actually is, then. Run it by me again?
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