On the mun's readthrough of the Clone Saga

[unobtainableredemption]

Hey, do us both a favor and leave my past where it is. There's nothing I want to relive there.

I don't care what Aracely thinks, thinking of Reilly doesn't make me want to be a better man, it just reminds me of what a monster I was...

am.

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[unobtainableredemption]

[Grits his teeth at the mention of Norman Osborn, but it fades when he realizes he means Normie. How far into the future was this exactly?] Client? What, are you his lawyer? [He can only guess Normie went into the family business... the thought of which brings him joy. After all, watching the Obsorn family implode (or even better, explode) was one of his favorite pasttimes.

But only for a minute, when he realizes he was taking joy in a small child (well... a grown man, but still Kaine could only picture Normie as a toddler) suffering. Not only that, suffering for the same reasons he did--because Norman Osborn wanted revenge on Peter Parker. It seems no matter how many steps he was taking in the right direction, it was never going to be enough.

Kaine slides his hand into his back pocket and runs his thumb over one of the lenses of his mask that he stuffed back there. Aracely was right, she was always right. The name, the costume, her hoodie... they all had become reminders of his brothers, to be a better man. And right now he needs that reminder.] It's harder than it looks. Then again it always did seem to come naturally for him, I shouldn't be surprised it would come naturally to his kid too. [He wouldn't dream of it... But it's totally obvious.]

[bedeviledspider]

Like I said, I owe a lot to Murdock, and someone had to continue his work. All of it. Not just the stuff he did in the shadows. Besides, if I can keep just one innocent person away from jail, then...

[ Reilly shakes his head. Now's not the time to talk about his mother. Even though part of him is dying to ask Kaine about Elizabeth, desperate to see if maybe this clone could tell him a little more about the woman he never knew. Now's the time to... well, do his job. In a manner of speaking. So he puts on his best Lawyer Voice and says to the other Parker: ]

Forget that. The important thing is that Osborn's a good man. Or— he's trying to be. Don't get me wrong, I'm not his biggest fan-- [ Especially when he remembers how Normie, oh, skewered him. ] But Spider-Girl trusts him. He's had her back for a long time. Tried to make Oscorp into something useful for a change. Even fought with old Norman, the way I hear it... and well, I can't help but be a little forgiving towards anyone who's willing to hurt that creep.

[unobtainableredemption]

What, did Murdock jump in front of a train to save you or something?

[It was the only thing that made sense to him, the way he continued to bring Daredevil up again and again. It wasn't like the Parker's were especially close to Murdock, though he knew Peter considered him a friend. Thankfully, Reilly kept talking and helped derail Kaine from that particular line of thought.]

Really? You're trying to sell me on the kid? I'm glad you have such a low opinion of me that you think I'm going to go preemptively attack a grade schooler. I don't know about the version of me you're used to, but I don't do that. Never did. [Not children, anyway... Everyone else was pretty fair game as the height of his insanity, though... it all made sense at the time.

He pulls the mask out his back pocket and holds it out for Reilly to see.] Besides, I've been trying something new.