Homeless, but looking

[kingofthetoybox]

Heh... hehe... Well, well. Look at the loser crawling back.

So, you lied to me. You said we could begin a new game all over again. Leaving me to rot inside your vacant mind isn't my idea of a game, you know. Were you too scared? Scared of having everyone lose more than they bargained for?

[The old man releases a laugh, but coughs mix themselves itself into it. At his extreme age, he can't move his body all that much. He's bound to a large, mechanical bed outfitted with sharp, spider's legs.]

Idiot. Coward. Useless. Totally and utterly good-for-nothing. ... But see, I can be a nice guy too. Mr. Porky isn't all that bad.

Listen. I'll give you just one more chance. ... Find me a good place, alright? We'll let bygones be bygones if I get enough of a thrill in my new world. No hard feelings, okay?

... Go on, then. Off you go.

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[kingofthetoybox]

... What?

[... And that's right. It is starting to get on his nerves...]

[ceasetoexist]

I said I pity you.

Jeez. This is what I was like, and how much worse I'd get? I mean are you even happy like this, because I know I wasn't when I was trying this crap. We couldn't even get Ness to follow us, and that's all we wanted.

It'd be easy to call you stupid, or worthless, or an idiot. But that's what you want. For me to acknowledge you.

You aren't worth it.

[kingofthetoybox]

... You're just dodging the point here. Sure, I'm happy... as happy as a guy can be when he manages to destroy the whole world! And that's for every time I've felt bored...

But we're talking about you. The only one you're deluding is yourself.

... Hey. You want to know something? When I get bored, I find ways to pass the time... any way possible. And for the heck of it, I looked into getting rid of this immortality. I'd like to give you a hint, but there's no point when the answer's so obvious:

you can't get rid of it! You're stuck with it. You're stuck with living forever and ever, exactly as you're so afraid to. Are you letting that sink in...? I've spent the fraction of my life you've lived looking for it as a hobby and nothing. There's just no easy escape...!

[ceasetoexist]

You can trade in physical ailments and features at Mayfield.

You can trade in powers and items and anything that makes you you.

Are you getting what I'm saying, moron?

[kingofthetoybox]

[Cheating... well, sure, he liked cheating as much as he could, but perhaps being at the receiving end of it has finally hit a nerve for him.]

... And just how long do you think Mayfield will last? Once that town drones you and decides to send you back, you'll be starting from the beginning all over again. Nothing will have changed! All those friends you've made will be like something out of a dream you can barely remember...

Heh. Heheheh...!

Don't get smug with me. You aren't even close to nearly figuring this out.

[ceasetoexist]

Doesn't matter.

If the town hasn't droned me yet I'm getting the suspicion it never will. Could be wrong, could be right, I dunno. And I kind of expect we aren't sent "back" when we're droned anyway, or that there'd be a "back" to go to.

You're no closer to figuring anything out than I am. But I'm at least closer to it than you are.

[kingofthetoybox]

You're mistaking what you want would happen with what will happen...

[How are you such an optimist about this...?]

... You're really content with being there, aren't you? Heh... You make it sound like it gave you everything you've wanted...

[ceasetoexist]

Yeah, I'm sorry. I forgot just how much you knew! Please, educate me some more by yammering on in a circle about the same topics! "Hur hur, your friends will all leave you in the end!" One, your only experience with people was in Eagleland who we all pushed away and two, your only friend was Ness who YOU left, not the other way around! Sorry if I'm tired of believing you on what friendship is anymore.



Maybe it did.

[kingofthetoybox]

[Yes, but Porky's mind is too far gone to really accept let alone rationalize any of that. .... Perhaps if given time, he might, but undoing thousands of years of self-induced bitterness often takes quite a bit of time. He feels anger for the younger self that believes he gained something the older self was never able to reach. Just what was it that Porky failed to see that Pokey didn't?

None of this was comprehensible.]

Then stay there. Why should I care anyway...? You can make Mayfield the prison, paradise, and home you've wanted. And die. Die because you want it so badly. Die because it's so much easier for you. ... And I'll live. I'll keep living and watch the end of the world, every world...

[ceasetoexist]

Good for you. I bet it'll make you happy.

But oops. We both know it won't.

[kingofthetoybox]

No. I'll be happier than you might think. ... at least I won't be in the town when some punk stupidly opens up a package with the Ultimate Chimera inside.

Hey. When that happens? Think of me, okay? I can't wait to see you try to take that monster back to the post office.