[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?

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[here_take_this]

[Have a little sister AU Sherry watching him.]

[whatseparates]

Oh. Hi.

[here_take_this]

[Waves hi but stays back, this one smells wrong... It's still moving, but smells like an Angel.... Why?]

[rianofski]

Fortunately for you, I am trapped elsewhere. Though if you're extremely unlucky -- and you've never had good luck, have you? -- you might meet another version.

[whatseparates]

I don't think I've had enough time to figure out what kind of luck I have.

[whatseparates]

It's okay.

[here_take_this]

You're not one of the bad men? [She won't scream for Mr. Bubbles yet though she knows one's nearby if needed.]

[whatseparates]

No. _{I don't think so.}

[rianofski]

No? And here I thought your entire life was a string of misfortune.

[whatseparates]

Caused by other people. That's not luck.

[rianofski]

A bad series of events, then. Maybe things will improve wherever you're going next. At least you know Atlas isn't there.

[whatseparates]

Yeah.

_{I just don't understand why he...}

[rianofski]

He used you to get to me. Can you really expect any different from someone like that? At least you've always known where you stand with me.

[whatseparates]

No I haven't. You didn't even tell me until the end, and then you had me--

[Kill you. But he can't say it.]

[rianofski]

I wanted you to figure it out for yourself. Was that so wrong?

[He doesn't really care if it's "wrong".]

[whatseparates]

...

Yes.

[rianofski]

Worse than what Atlas did?

[whatseparates]

I don't know if you can even compare them.

[rianofski]

Perhaps not. But you're a man now, aren't you? Not a slave any longer?

[whatseparates]

Well, I--

I don't know. You--it didn't really change anything. I don't know how to get rid of it. I just know it's there, that's all.

[He flushes with humiliation as he says it--he's not exactly pleased with still being classed as a "slave".]

[rianofski]

What's the last thing you remember? Don't worry about 'spoiling' me, I'm entirely aware of my own fate, thanks to the other occupants of my 'mun's' oftentimes ridiculous head. Though you and I are from very different times.

introducing literally the worst family dynamic ever

[whatseparates]

_{I don't really want to say.}

[I'd just finished caving your head in seems like an awkward direction to take your first real conversation with your long-lost father.]

Re: This father/son thing never goes well for them

[rianofski]

[A pause.]

Oh. That.

[He hasn't experienced it, but it sounds vaguely distasteful, from all he's heard.]

[here_take_this]

[She moves a little closer to get a better look at him]

I feel like you're taking it places I don't usually see though, it's neat

[whatseparates]

[He looks away, distressed.]

I wanted to do it, until I did.