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[offtheroad]

Look, my "backstory" is my backstory, and no, I don't really feel like getting into it. It's nothing you'd be interested in, and it's over with. 

So do me a favor and don't start with all of this [ he makes a big, sweeping gesture with his arms ] crap. I've got enough to worry about without adding...what did you call it? "Roleplay". [ an eyebrow raise ]

Hate to break it to you kid, but I think you missed the D&D craze by a few decades.

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[offtheroad]

Great. More people with obsessions.

[untilmylipsbled]

I'm sorry? [She's not quite following.] I don't want to pry, but you sound like this is a frequent problem...

[offtheroad]

It's been a long week.

[ let's get off that particular line of thought ]

Sounds like you have your own set of problems in the trivia area.

[untilmylipsbled]

Sorry to hear that.

[Oh, deflection, wonderful.]

What? Well, yeah, that's a fair assessment. Sort of comes with the 'reduced-to-a-plot-device' territory.

[offtheroad]

[ this is sounding like fairy tale shit again ]

Yeah? What kind of plot device?

[untilmylipsbled]

Oh, first I was basically...what's the term they use here... cock-blocking a pair of true lovers, and then I was kidnapped so that one of them could be framed for murder. Doesn't really allow for much backstory, I'm afraid.

[She gives a little shrug, however. She's learneding to live with it.]

[offtheroad]

Sounds like you've had a hell of a week too.

[ true lovers. yeah. that's definitely not new york ]

The kids don't know how to let it go, but honestly, I think we're better off for not having it out in the open. I've seen some of the crap this show does to people.

[untilmylipsbled]

Much longer than that, actually.

[She nods thoughtfully.] Perhaps. They do like to pull at the heartstrings quite a bit, don't they. But it's just as hard having an existence that's been cast into oblivion as it is to have one that's now in the limelight. But people...especially people like us, I think we have a right to some privacy.

[offtheroad]

[ that catches his attention ]

People like us?

[untilmylipsbled]

[Shit, she wasn't thinking clearly when she said that. What to do?]
Uh...I mean... people like us who've been...put in other people's heads.

...Especially those of us from Storybrooke. [She looks off to the side, wondering just how much she's let slip about their little town.]

[offtheroad]

[ he groans, closing his eyes and rubbing his temples ]

Seems like the whole damn town's getting imported around here.

[untilmylipsbled]

Yes, well....lots of excitement going on. Suppose it stirs up ideas in the muns' heads.

Wait, are you from Storybrooke? I don't remember seeing you around before- [Before the Curse broke? Yeah, way to not sound crazy, Kathryn.] ...Before recently.

[offtheroad]

[ a meaningful stare ]

I'm just visiting, actually.

[untilmylipsbled]

Visiting?

I-I'm sorry, but no one really visits Storybrooke... Well, I suppose Emma did but she's a bit of a special case..

[offtheroad]

Emma's the one who brought me.

[ he clears his throat ]

Guess you could say I'm something of a special case myself.

[untilmylipsbled]

...Don't tell me you're her brother.