[thrilling action posting]blazinglizardApril 21 2011, 21:05:22 UTC
[So he does! The weight room is nice and deserted, save of course for Maximilian Justice Powers. Clearly this is the ideal place for what is doubtless going to be an awkward conversation.]
::Max is curling what you can only assume is a Sonny Moe worth of dumbbells when you come in::
Hey, Char.
::Max pauses while thoughts cross his face. His weights remain still and impressively immobile::
Lotta stuff. Hard to know where to start. I guess let's start with you maybe. Work my way out from there. Durin' crazy week you said your name was Kerosene.
::WHAT ABOUT LOOSE CARS AND FAST WOMEN?::tank_rockarmsApril 22 2011, 03:19:47 UTC
I'm bringin' it up 'cause if that's somethin' maybe you were tryin' to keep a secret, if it really is you and not just somethin' made up, then, well. It's out there. You talked with me about it. I don't know who else you woulda said that sorta stuff to, but you didn't seem to know me all that well when you were a little charmander guy but you told me all about it.
[CAR-WOMEN AND LOOSE FASTNESS?]blazinglizardApril 22 2011, 03:35:10 UTC
[He could very easily just lie right now. Max would think that Kerosene was just a highly improbable what-if, just like Blastoise-Sasha and teenage lesbian Biomech. Max did kind of just spill every secret he had to the entire school, and that does not inspire a lot of confidence in his ability to keep things hidden.]
::FASTING WOMEN AND CARING LOOSENESS?::tank_rockarmsApril 22 2011, 03:41:22 UTC
Yeah. I remember the time you were a charmander when people turned into little kids. You pretty much acted the same back then, too. It felt like younger you.
[WOMANLY LOOSENING AND FASTENING CARS]blazinglizardApril 22 2011, 03:47:38 UTC
That stuff about Aiden and the daycare... that was all real, too. Only thing that's different is this me gave up on waitin'.
[This conversation is actually happening. He is spilling The Big Secret. There is like an 83% chance that 20 people are going to know his name within the year. HOW IS THIS LIFE.]
Aiden's the one who gave me my name. Green gave me a new one when he caught me.
CAROLING WOMEN AND LOOSELY FASTIDIOUSNESS tank_rockarmsApril 22 2011, 03:58:44 UTC
Huh. All right. So your first trainer just left you at a pokemon kindergarten place, then Green took you in.
Well that makes sense. Why you'd be known by the name that Green gave you instead of the first guy who left you. I mean, until you found out how to turn into a human, you wouldn't even have had a way for Green to know you had an old trainer or name, would you?
::Max does a few more reps while he thinks. He's the sort of guy who thinks best while he does.::
I'll keep callin' you Char; I ain't gonna start to call you Kerosene or nothin'.
...BLACKJACK AND HOOKERSblazinglizardApril 22 2011, 04:07:02 UTC
Fine by me. Wouldn't let you call me Kerosene if you wanted to, anyhow.
[That's... a surprisingly refreshing response, actually. No pressing inquiries about Aiden and his being left behind, and no demanding he justify keeping his name so secret.]
You mind... not tellin' people about all that stuff, though?
WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR WITTY BANTERtank_rockarmsApril 22 2011, 04:59:46 UTC
Yeah, I ain't gonna go blabbin' about it. It'd be weird callin' you Kerosene or Ker all the time. Not like I want you callin' me Maximilian or Justice anyway, right.
::Max has gone back to blasting his arms, bro.::
So. Let's move on. More stuff. To talk about.
You probably know. But I figure. I'd tell you anyway. Vinnie's. Workin' for me. I know. You hate him. But I gave him. A job. He owes me. A few thousand bucks. Because of. Crazy week. He trashed. My tank. So he's. Workin' it off.
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We should probably talk about stuff, but maybe you don't wanna have it in my journal. I ain't good at makin' this stuff private.
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How 'bout if I come to weight trainin' a little early, and we do it then?
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Hey. So what's this all about?
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Hey, Char.
::Max pauses while thoughts cross his face. His weights remain still and impressively immobile::
Lotta stuff. Hard to know where to start. I guess let's start with you maybe. Work my way out from there. Durin' crazy week you said your name was Kerosene.
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Oh. He said the magic word. TREAD WITH CAUTION.]
...So what if I did?
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Why are you bringin' this up, Max?
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...It really is me, Max. That's my name.
[GODDAMNIT.]
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So, why'd you change your name?
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[This conversation is actually happening. He is spilling The Big Secret. There is like an 83% chance that 20 people are going to know his name within the year. HOW IS THIS LIFE.]
Aiden's the one who gave me my name. Green gave me a new one when he caught me.
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Well that makes sense. Why you'd be known by the name that Green gave you instead of the first guy who left you. I mean, until you found out how to turn into a human, you wouldn't even have had a way for Green to know you had an old trainer or name, would you?
::Max does a few more reps while he thinks. He's the sort of guy who thinks best while he does.::
I'll keep callin' you Char; I ain't gonna start to call you Kerosene or nothin'.
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[That's... a surprisingly refreshing response, actually. No pressing inquiries about Aiden and his being left behind, and no demanding he justify keeping his name so secret.]
You mind... not tellin' people about all that stuff, though?
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::Max has gone back to blasting his arms, bro.::
So. Let's move on. More stuff. To talk about.
You probably know. But I figure. I'd tell you anyway. Vinnie's. Workin' for me. I know. You hate him. But I gave him. A job. He owes me. A few thousand bucks. Because of. Crazy week. He trashed. My tank. So he's. Workin' it off.
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