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[thebigguy]

This would have been a lot easier on you if you had just started the application weeks ago like you planned. At least then the movie would be fresh in your mind.

[There's a pause, as if he's contemplating something.]

I'm also not as excited as you are about this whole steampunk idea. Stark's the one that's good with gadgets.

That doesn't mean I can't make any myself. I just don't want to. I guess it'll be fun to watch Tony suffer though.

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[kingofwishes]

Mm, not my favourite, apples, but at least you didn't say something ridiculous. Like durian.

[thebigguy]

I was considering grapes, with how many of me this mun person says there are lately.

[kingofwishes]

Mm, it is true that I've seen a few of your face around, but that can only be expected. There are worlds atop worlds and each of us has to come from somewhere. [And something of an odd thought, really. He'd yet to meet one of himself besides the one he saw in the mirror each day.]

[thebigguy]

Just... don't tell my other half the part about worlds atop worlds. It won't be pretty.

[kingofwishes]

[And that made one brow lift curiously.] And why is that? Pardon my curiosity but this I don't quite understand.

[thebigguy]

Let's just say I may end up on top of the world. Worlds, I guess.

[kingofwishes]

An odd way to put it. And full of paradox. After all, in worlds atop worlds, that means that he wouldn't exactly be alone.

[thebigguy]

Thankfully you haven't met the guy.

[kingofwishes]

And he hasn't met me. [He bowed - half-bowed, really - most politely.] Jareth, the Goblin King.

[thebigguy]

[He pauses, staring and wringing his hands for a second.]

Bruce Banner, a scientist.

[kingofwishes]

I see that I've set you slightly aback. [It was satisfying to do that, in a rather smug way.]

[thebigguy]

Yeah, well... I kind of know a few gods. It was only a matter of time before I met any Goblin Kings.

[kingofwishes]

There is only one Goblin King. I can at least assure you of that.

[thebigguy]

Doesn't that go against the whole "worlds atop worlds" theory?

[kingofwishes]

Not really. There are pantheons of gods in each world. The Norse, the Greek, the Roman, the Judeo-Christian, the Hindu, the Egyptian, and then there are all of the nature gods and spirits in the tribal African cultures, so many -- but there is only one Goblin King. In another world, certainly, there may be another Goblin King, but there is only ever one per world.

[He wasn't all frills and sparkles.]

[thebigguy]

Maybe you're just not looking hard enough.

[kingofwishes]

Why would I want to look harder? I see enough of myself in the mirror.