[ Vlad is over here drinking too, but whiskey--he's got a whole bottle next to him, and he's downing shots. He himself is radiating disappointment and affront...ed......ness....
He's shed the suit jacket he was originally wearing, leaving just the I L*VE HELL t-shirt. ]
Perhaps not with you, but rest assured...I've spent plenty of time at the bar when I was alive. [ when people kept voting for him even though he did NOTHING WRONG. ]
It seems that this bitter pill never does go down any easier, does it?
But it's not as though anyone else ever cared me either. That oaf Jack used my near-death as little more than a stepping stone to win Maddie over and whisk her away. That was all I ever was to him, or anyone else for that matter--because nobody deigned to so much as ask after me while I spent years at death's door.
This was my one chance to undo all of that, take fate by the reins and get what I deserved for once.
[ He scoffs and stares into his empty shot glass. He refuses to say it, to acknowledge it and make it real, but there's a sadness there, at the fact that it's past tense. It was his chance--but now he's dead, he's lost, and all of this was for naught. ]
In that scenario...yes. The wish would have made it easier, given me back decades of my life that were destroyed...but if I were to return to my life as it was before I came here, I would keep working towards my goals as always.
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He's shed the suit jacket he was originally wearing, leaving just the I L*VE HELL t-shirt. ]
Well, this is a familiar scene, isn't it.
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[Someone is bitter. They take a sip of their beer.]
We do so much for them, and then we just have...that.
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It seems that this bitter pill never does go down any easier, does it?
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[bitter. so, so bitter]
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[ here's that bitterness right back atcha, my dude! He pours himself another shot and downs it in one gulp in an almost violent motion. ]
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[A rankling of annoyance beneath the surface, though what its directed at, its hard to say.]
I'm tired of it.
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It's what motivated me to agree to enter this mess to begin with.
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[your incel love...]
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But it's not as though anyone else ever cared me either. That oaf Jack used my near-death as little more than a stepping stone to win Maddie over and whisk her away. That was all I ever was to him, or anyone else for that matter--because nobody deigned to so much as ask after me while I spent years at death's door.
This was my one chance to undo all of that, take fate by the reins and get what I deserved for once.
[ He scoffs and stares into his empty shot glass. He refuses to say it, to acknowledge it and make it real, but there's a sadness there, at the fact that it's past tense. It was his chance--but now he's dead, he's lost, and all of this was for naught. ]
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I see. [Okay, maybe Vlad can have a teeny tiny speck of sympathy, as a treat.] If we get out of this place...what are you going to do?
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It depends on what sort of circumstances we arrive to, doesn't it?
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Do you just move on with your life?
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And your goals, being?