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Jul 12, 2011 00:55

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[Private] timesbureaucrat July 12 2011, 08:37:36 UTC
You'll--? [Horrified expression. Then he closes his hanging-open-with-shock jaw with a snap and puts on stiff expression.]

I wouldn't dream of altering a synapse in Arthas' perfect head.

What do you have in mind for a training technique to start with?

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[Private] championoftime July 12 2011, 09:05:13 UTC
One psychically compels him with a weak gesture to sit or stand. The other instructs him on ignoring the impulse. Simple enough to start with.

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[Private] timesbureaucrat July 12 2011, 09:26:45 UTC
Simple enough...if Arthas doesn't brain the person psychically compelling him in a fit of anger.

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[Private] championoftime July 12 2011, 09:34:01 UTC
That's the risk you signed on for, I would presume.

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[Private] timesbureaucrat July 12 2011, 09:38:08 UTC
[Dammit, Doctor, curtailing his gripe with logic! And it was going to be a good gripe, too. He sighs.]

I can't believe I'm doing this for Arthas of all people. [Nevermind that he's doing it in the hopes of getting lucky enough to pick a few juicy secrets out of Arthas' brain.]

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[Private] championoftime July 12 2011, 09:43:11 UTC
[He'll make you do a striptease, Narvin. And then he'll tell Braxiatel about it. Because brothers who love their brothers give them nightmare fuel.]

I know precisely who I'm doing it for. There once was a good man there. You saw it, if only for a day.

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[Private] timesbureaucrat July 12 2011, 09:56:46 UTC
You're an incurable optimist if you think you can make him that person again.

[And an evil evil little man for considering traumatizing Arthas Narvin Arthas and Narvin both with such a thing.]

It's an incarnation of him that's long gone, I think. [The Time Lord metaphor is particularly apt in this case, Narvin thinks. Arthas the Death Knight might as well be a different regeneration from Arthas the Paladin.]

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[Private] championoftime July 12 2011, 10:01:17 UTC
And what if I could bring him back to life? What if I knew a way to repair him at least for a while?

Frostmourne made him wrong. He simply doesn't know how to make himself right again. There's something in my mind that might take on a life of it's own one day, as well. I'd rather prefer that someone were there to take my hand and pull me free, than believe I'm not worth the effort.

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[Private] timesbureaucrat July 12 2011, 10:14:22 UTC
I can hardly believe that your mind has... [But then he remembers the Valeyard. And also a faint memories of something a bit frightening in the Doctor's mind before he was booted violently out of it.]

Well, I suppose we all have a few shadows we'd rather weren't there. [Sometimes still he wonders how much Pandora's genetic legacy influences his actions.]

All right. I'll accept that it might not be an entirely hopeless cause. And don't worry, Doctor, I'm sure that if your shadows should start to bite...your brother will save you. If he's not busy examining Martian sculpture, that is. [He's certainly not going to admit out loud that he'd help. But the sentiment's there.]

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[Private] championoftime July 12 2011, 10:24:08 UTC
He does have quite... oh what's the term? A "man-crush" on those Martians, hasn't he?

....Why do I suddenly feel a little dirty?

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