[Jack, now properly reset to his canon point for his app to wishingscales]

[whatseparates]

...Well.

It's got to be better than Rapture, right? Anything would be better than this. And I don't think I'm likely to see Atlas or...or Ryan there. It'll be fine.

Right?

_...Right?

Comments

Re: WOO HOO!

[rianofski]

There's a part of you that wants to know what it would be like to really have a father, isn't there?

[whatseparates]

What do you care?

[rianofski]

I find it vaguely interesting.

[whatseparates]

...No. I don't want to know. I don't care.

[rianofski]

You don't want to know because it causes you conflict. You don't want to know because it makes you feel things you don't want to.

[whatseparates]

What would you know about feeling?

[rianofski]

Very little. It's why I'm curious.

[whatseparates]

Why would I tell you? You'll just call me a parasite or something.

[rianofski]

What if I promise to cast no aspersions on you, and leave opinions about your parasitic nature to myself?

[whatseparates]

It's hard to believe you're that interested.

[rianofski]

Try me. What have you got to lose, really?

[whatseparates]

My pride.

[rianofski]

I wouldn't worry about that too much.

[whatseparates]

[Glare. See, this is why he's leery of talking to you, Ryan.]

[rianofski]

[Folds his arms.]

Obviously, there's no reason you have to tell me. But won't it weigh on your mind until you do?

[whatseparates]

You're already making fun of me, and I haven't even said anything yet.

[rianofski]

Don't be so sensitive.

suddenly verbal jack what

[whatseparates]

I'm not being sensitive! One minute I'm on an airplane reading a note from what I think is my parent, and the next I've killed dozens of innocent people and now I'm down here. And then I just keep killing. And the one person I thought I could count on, it turns out he's using me like a puppet.

And my parents? My whole life isn't real. I didn't even have a life!

I'm a freak. I'm your freak.

I think I have a right to be upset.

Re: Wow Jack you tell him!

[rianofski]

You could have a life. A life beyond everything you've done.

[whatseparates]

I never said I couldn't. I plan to.

I'm just saying, you don't have to call me sensitive like my whole life didn't just fall apart.

[rianofski]

You're not the only one whose whole life has fallen apart, you know.

[Hinting at something about himself? Nope. Of course not.]

Calling you sensitive was, I admit, a bit flippant.

[That's as close as he'll ever get to saying he's wrong.]

[whatseparates]

No. It's all over this city. There's nothing left.

[rianofski]

Nothing left? Really...

[He hasn't seen it like that, after all. He's only heard things.]

[whatseparates]

It's ruined. You can see where it used to be...well, beautiful, but it's all torn apart now. And the people...

[rianofski]

[This is the closest you'll ever see to him looking sad.]

I see. I had guessed, given what I knew about my unfortunate end, that things hadn't worked out.