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[NIKO. @PancatMessiah]

@Bucky_Barmes @Boltsicle [From the darkness down the hall, something emerges, peering at the pair. Familiar, yet... wrong, somehow.]

[They stare through mismatched, lifeless eyes, gaze cold and calculating. Waiting, body rigid and expression perfectly hollow.]

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@MrXRemyELebeau Oh- you're right!

[Niko fumbles to their feet, nodding like they've been given a grand quest, and not been told to go home.]

I'll see you later mister Gambit! Thanks for the talk!

[The little bundle of energy waves, before taking off swinging, a bit unpracticed these days.]

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@MrXRemyELebeau [Niko manages a smile back, wide and bright.]

That would be amazing, thank you mister Gambit!

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@MrXRemyELebeau [Niko stares. That was so cool.]

Woah... that was so cool.

[Grief.]

Oh- yeah, yeah! I'll keep that in mind. We're like... friends now. That's awesome.

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@MrXRemyELebeau Mhm, and a great deal of power now, too...

[Subtle. Niko doesn't know, but we do :).]

Oh, and friends. Lots of friends who can help me. Nice people, it's... nice. You're nice too.

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@MrXRemyELebeau [Niko hesitates for a moment, before sitting with Gambit, sighing.]

...I've been scared and hurt, and I don't want anyone else to feel that way, so... I fight so they don't have to. I can help, so... I do. If I can help just one person feel better, then I will.

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@MrXRemyELebeau [The shuffling helps, in that it's cool, and something to look at.]

...Uh... I sorta, y'know... took their guy? And maybe kinda beat a bunch of them up... permanently?

But- but they are really bad so... it's okay.

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@MrXRemyELebeau Oh, uh. That's okay, then, and...

It's a long story, but... it's okay now. Uhm...

[Niko fidgets with their sleeves.]

They leave me alone now, I... think. I hope.

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@MrXRemyELebeau That... makes sense, yeah. I'm...... sorry? That happened to you???

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@MrXRemyELebeau [Niko nods once, gently. They have no idea what that means.]

That sounds... bad. Are you um... okay after that...? I sorta know the feeling, there's, um, wires? In my head. For the eye.

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@MrXRemyELebeau [Niko blinks slow, before turning their head, letting their hat and hair conceal that eye.]

...It's um... it's prosthetic, I got um...

.....shot...? In the face. Once...

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@MrXRemyELebeau You seem pretty smart to me. We can both be smart!

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@MrXRemyELebeau I DO be like Sherlock!! You're so right and also smart mister Gambit!!

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@MrXRemyELebeau My detective skills know no bounds!!! Simply the cleverest.

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@MrXRemyELebeau ........I think you just answered your own question, mister... Saying your own name all the time.

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@MrXRemyELebeau Um... it's nice to meet you, then. I can't say I know any thieves guild, um... my friends are kind of like that though, but um... it's more like a gang. Of birds. I don't even know if they still do that...

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@MrXRemyELebeau ..It's okay, I just get that a lot and I don't know why.

I'm Niko, it's nice to meet you, mister... um, Gambit, I'm gonna assume..?

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@MrXRemyELebeau I um... I'm not an animal...?

Or- I mean I am, but... everyone is? In that way.

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...It's really quiet right now... I don't know what to do with myself.

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@P0werandcha0s I um.

I dunno, actually. I just figure they left my world, but... I dunno where to.

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[@P0werandcha0s]

[Niko couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. They can't place it, but it was enough to sneak away from their floor of the tower and to where the gateways are, attached to the now quiet workshop.]

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