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[All Luke sees is someone with red hair and dark clothes standing in the living room. Shocked, he drops the communicator onto the floor. Good thing it's resilient.]

A-Asch...?! [His voice is so wavery, so hopeful, with just an edge of panic. The replica-no, the clone turns his head to look at Luke. They're almost exactly alike, including duckbutt

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[antimafioso]

Are they ruined?

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[Luke doesn't respond to anything for a good twenty minutes. He sounds exasperated.]

... They're dirty, but they'll survive.

Something this crazy could only come from the City.

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Oh. I thought maybe they'd burned.

Only? Don't underestimate your world.

[notflynn]

Didn't know you had yourself a twin, Luke.

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[The video feed comes back on. There's a good view of ash-covered blankets. The clone Luke, who has stolen Luke's pajamas, sits on the couch and looks impatient.

Luke just looks guilty.]

That's... That's a replica of me. It shouldn't be possible.

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[notflynn]

It's the City- what do you expect.

[renegare]

It's an improvement.

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[a little while later, after telling his clone to sit down and shut up fjkl;af]

-- How is that an improvement?!

[Okay, seriously, he is... freaking out about being called 'original' and that there's ANOTHER HIM that isn't Asch, another him going through the same thing... and Hibari is trollin'. Of course.]

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Its laces looked tied.

[ WHICH MIGHT BE FALSE, but hey :( ]

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S-shut up!

[Suddenly, there's a CRASH from the vicinity of the laundry room.]

Oh, great.

[BRB GOING TO SMACK DEFECTIVE REPLICA OF A DEFECTIVE REPLICA UPSIDE THE HEAD. He leaves the communicator where it is.]