CHARLIE

[foreverphantom]

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[productionhell]

Do you, ah, usually solve problems that way?

[foreverphantom]

I used to.

It didn't work so well the last time, though.

[productionhell]

What happened?

[foreverphantom]

Got put in extreme solitary for a few years. Then I broke out and nearly destroyed all of reality and got forced into being this. [ gestures down at himself ]

[productionhell]

So your current body is a punishment of sorts for trying to destroy reality?

[ that's rough, buddy ]

[foreverphantom]

No, me almost glitching out of existence completely was my...punishment, of sorts. This was a mercy. To keep me from disappearing.

[ he bites it out like a curse ]

[productionhell]

So someone put you into this body to keep you from disappearing?

Would you have rather disappeared...?

[foreverphantom]

[ vehemently: ] No. Never.

[productionhell]

[ that's a relief to know!! ]

Is it this body in particular that bothers you?

[foreverphantom]

It's looking like a child. It's being weak. It's that everything I ever was and ever did has amounted to...nothing.

[ my empire of dirt etc ]

[productionhell]

Yes, I can see how that would be very frustrating...

[ she thought he was genuinely a kid but she's not going to say that ]

What were your goals before?

[ hopefully not just `destroying everything` ]

[foreverphantom]

Ensuring my own continued existence. Ruining my own past selves' lives. Quashing any attempts to stop me.

[productionhell]

Your past selves' lives...?

[foreverphantom]

Yes. If my life had to be ruined, then so should theirs.

...was my thought process.

[productionhell]

What happened?

[ concerned look ]

[foreverphantom]

Our timelines diverged. In mine, everything went wrong. In theirs, they get to live happily ever after.

It's...it wasn't fair.

[productionhell]

Oh.... I see.

[ awkward ]

I can see why you'd be angry. It sounds like you had a very painful life.

[foreverphantom]

Don't--!!

Don't pretend like you understand.

[productionhell]

Sorry.

... Of course I don't understand what you've been through. But... I can understand how that suffering would make you angry.

[foreverphantom]

It wasn't...it's...

[ he wants to say it wasn't that. the old spiel he used to believe. but that's clearly and thoroughly been proven not to be the case, and not even his pride can hide that. ]

...yeah.

[productionhell]

Especially if that's all you've ever known, for so long.

I'm very sorry, Brimstone.

[foreverphantom]

I don't want pity.

[productionhell]

Pity and sympathy aren't the same thing, you know.

[foreverphantom]

Yes, they are.

[productionhell]

Why do you say that?