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[ when the sound comes on, joker seems to be in the middle of a conversation, tense and clearly uncomfortable, and both voices are a little muffled. one of them is quickly rising, though, frustrated, wheedling. ]

"--Joker, don't--"

--yer 'ands offa' me!

[ rustling, the sounds of a brief scuffle, and a startled hiss. ]

"--orry, I don't-- I'm

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voice.

[cursestained]

...Eastender. [Oh god, the memories.]

Quite a production, that.

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.. Y' know, I used ter take for granted that me accent was tellin', but now I'm surprised when someone knows it.

[ a small shrug, grinning unapologetically. ] Best ter cover m'self, roight? A bloke's got a roight ter d'fend 'imself, an' better people know it weren' outright murder.

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[cursestained]

[Naoya switches the feed to video in his response--thus, Joker can now see him, pale as a sheet with those brilliant red eyes and a somewhat unsettling smirk.]

I don't think there are enough here actually familiar with London. Or Europe at all. Such is the nature of pulling people from different realities.

[He chuckles faintly.] One would hope it wouldn't go so far you'd need to prove that.

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[ he blinks, then the smile returns just as brightly. being from the circus, and before that the street, it takes more than unusual colouring to give him pause. ]

One'd 'ope, sure, but 'ope don' get you far where I'm from. Not wivout some solid common sense, any'ow.

video.

[cursestained]

Hope doesn't get you far anywhere, but understanding people does. No one's gonna start a fight they can't win something from.

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[ he chuckles, and unlike laughter elsewhere in the post, this one has a rusty quality. ]

En't true, Mate. Some people jus' fight 'cause they wanna' fight. Or 'cause they like 'urtin' ovver people.

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[cursestained]

That counts as getting something, doesn't it?

And people like that are, fortunately, rare. It requires something of a failure of human survival instinct.

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I dunno' that they fink of it that way, or that anyone else should fink of it that way, eiver. [ a small shrug, head rolling back on his shoulders. ] Any'ow, it don' matter what 'e wanted, 'e's gone.