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taller than i thought you'd be.

[cwords]

I come across as short, do I?

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thought hughie might have a thing for it.

and your reputation preceeded you. so i was surprised you were comfortable with the arrangement.

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You ain't the first to say as much

( he's been here before, apparently. some version of him, somehow. beyond that, supes around these parts seem to think he has it out for them. wherever might they get such a notion, that Billy Butcher has a thing against superpowered freaks and weirdos... )

Knowing what you know, you still took me in

Why?

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1. you couldn't kill me if you wanted to
2. if i fucked up and died i'd just come back angrier
3. your friend is aggressively reasonable


but i haven't got buyer's remorse, if that's what you're worried about.

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Think that's the sweetest thing you ever said to me, boss

( the last part, that is. he's still eyeing #1 like it's a challenge... but no, he doesn't want to kill cable. the only person he wants gone is the creator. )

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don't get comfortable with it.

figured you'd come around to telling me you had a problem with me.

also figured it was unlikely our views on superheroes would be entirely misaligned.

cw: canon-typical horror, ww2 allusions

[cwords]

( not where he'd been planning for this conversation to go, but: )

Supes are shit where I come from
Not all of them, but most

So long as no one here's pillaging villages, saluting Nazis, or kidnapping folks for their secret sex dungeons, we're square

[sodark]

seems like a reasonable distaste.

but there's concern from some. probably the ones that lived through less reasonable prejudice.

wouldn't know for sure, from the future. most of them are dead.

[cwords]

Can't imagine how
They got the powers, why don't they just fry the fuckers with their laser eyes?

( you know, vought style. )

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the same reason, presumably, that you haven't been neutralised.

most of them are reasonable people, most of them know fear breeds hate.

[Anyway..]

why are you asking me how i feel about you anyway?
worried?

[cwords]

( most........ )

Some kid says if you pop your worst trait up onto the network, all your sex clone problems will go away
You heard anything about that?

[sodark]

never heard of it.

why don't you try telling everyone you're british and see what happens?

[cwords]

There are worse things than being British, mate
Could be Australian

Worse, I could be French

[sodark]

why not try all of them and see which one works?

but if you're asking what my assessment is, i was provided with the notion that you were merciless.

i'm not sure it's necessarily true, but it can be hard to trust someone who would do anything to make the means meet the ends.

speaking from experience, of course.

[And Butcher wrestled more than 3 words out of him so maybe he's onto something.]

[cwords]

( merciless, untrustworthy. without letting himself dwell on the particulars, he chooses to take them both as a point of pride and, naturally, shame. more important is how he's gotten such a reputation in a place he's never stepped foot in before. he hasn't even killed anyone yet. who's out there dragging his name through the mud— hughie.

still, he knows who he is, what he does. it stopped being about who he wants to be a long time ago. )

And you?
What's your worst trait?

Aside from being a cunt who uses up all the butter at breakfast

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it's my butter. i could eat it by the fistful and you couldn't tell me a goddamn thing.

and i think we're similar, for better or worse. but i'm not requesting an analysis.

[cwords]

I am
Computer, analyze SUBJECT: 'Cable'

( how not to talk to your robot dom— )

[sodark]

[ha ha.]

any luck?

[cwords]

Depends
How merciless are you?

[sodark]

do you want me to show you or are you hoping to receive my intimate secrets via text?

[cwords]

Save the sexts for when we can't just go a round in the living room
Real Romeo and Juliet shite, separated by circumstances
Then I'll want to see your lack of mercy via video

[sodark]

could just send you dick pic after dick pic until you can't take it anymore.

[Cable threatens, but the ". . ." indicates that he's not done. He doesn't expect Butcher's life story either, but he loses little by being transparent and potentially gains trust. Which is valuable to him.]

there was a kid.
russell.
i knew him as an adult. firefist. was hunting him down. but he figured it out. found my wife, daughter, murdered them.

so i went back in time to kill him.
change the future. so it never happened. didn't care that he was a kid. didn't care that he had no idea what he did.

[Normal stuff.]

nearly finished the job. couple of times.
but someone got in the way.

[cwords]

( butcher is in the unique position of knowing what it’s like to see someone kill the person you love. it’s not identical, but it sounds like the children in both of their cases are innocent, at least at the moment of their confrontations.

ryan didn’t mean to kill becca, and this child version of russell is oblivious to his future crimes. )

You wouldn’t have done it

You think you will
But you won’t

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only because the bullet hit the wrong person.
doesn't matter anymore.
not here, anyway.

are you ready to call me daddy now?