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This isn't the bathroom, this isn't the bathroom at all.
"Excuse me I will be totally up for learning new magic stuff as is apparently required if someone will first direct me to a bathroom," Lexi says loudly to this bar full of people that is not even slightly a bathroom.
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lexicality
incanted
"Are all these other me's on board with the 'slut' thing?" Bella asks, airquoting his word choice.
manofmyword
"Yep! The ones dating Jokers, anyway. Golden and her husband are extrrrremely monogamous."
incanted
"What about the ones with Sherlocks? Is Pattern just - single?"
manofmyword
"Pattern's single, Sherlocks aren't Joker levels of slutty but they're not mono either - seems like they're all clones or twins of some guy called Tony and there's something going on there."
incanted
"If I go get Lexi will you tell her the thing you're not sure about telling me?"
lexicality
A minute later, Lexi appears.
"So, I'm supposed to figure out if Bella should know some thing?"
"So, I'm supposed to figure out if Bella should know some thing?"
manofmyword
"That's the idea," says the Joker. "Siddown. It's a long story and it's not very nice."
lexicality
Lexi sits. "She must take you pretty seriously as, like, somebody who gets her, if she didn't just outright demand to be told."
manofmyword
"Guess so," he says. "She takes me seriously as somebody who gets Brilliance, anyway."
He regards Lexi thoughtfully.
"Thing is," he says, "Brill's in love with her. And all the Bells whose Jokers are in love with them, they're doing fine together, and they got that way - without knowing what I'm about to tell you."
He regards Lexi thoughtfully.
"Thing is," he says, "Brill's in love with her. And all the Bells whose Jokers are in love with them, they're doing fine together, and they got that way - without knowing what I'm about to tell you."
lexicality
"My Bella thinks she might be wired funny about that. 'Cause of me. She didn't, like, go into a lot of detail, but she likes him and she knows he loves her and she's holding off because she isn't sure about the sleeping with other people thing and she thinks maybe the others can deal 'cause they're only children and, psychology stuff."
manofmyword
"Huh," says the Joker. "Now there's a point. But this is somethin' else."
He leans back in his comfy armchair and drums his fingers thoughtfully on his knee.
"When Jokers are in love, see," he says, "we're not always nice about it. Mostly we are - we like it better that way. We'd rather love somebody and have them love us back, if they can, or just be good friends. If they can. But if we can't have either of those, then we'd rather they hate our guts than not care at all."
He leans back in his comfy armchair and drums his fingers thoughtfully on his knee.
"When Jokers are in love, see," he says, "we're not always nice about it. Mostly we are - we like it better that way. We'd rather love somebody and have them love us back, if they can, or just be good friends. If they can. But if we can't have either of those, then we'd rather they hate our guts than not care at all."
lexicality
"Is he gonna try to destroy the planet again just to get Bella to be all intense about him?" Lexi asks, bewildered.
manofmyword
"Probably not," he says. "I don't think she's going to get all indifferent to him - none of the others did to theirs. But if I told her all that, she might get scared of what would happen if she stopped caring about him one way or the other, and that might fuck things up between 'em pretty well."
lexicality
"She likes him, he's teaching her magic, he helped her save the world," Lexi says. "What would get messed up if she was scared? Do the other Bells know about this stuff? Are they scared?"
manofmyword
"They'd all settled down some, whatever which way, before they found out," he says. "I don't think yours and Brill are all used to each other yet."
lexicality
"So if she got indifferent somehow if he wouldn't try to destroy the world again what would he do?"
lexicality
"Well, if you tell Bella that Brilliance might start doing that kinda thing she won't be indifferent for sure," Lexi offers.
manofmyword
"That's what I'm worried about," he says. "I'd like for them to get along without him blowing anything up to get her attention, or her being afraid he might."
lexicality
"I bet you Bella would say the most important thing is for him not to blow things up and whether they get along is secondary."
manofmyword
"Bet you she would," he says. "And I bet you I know what Brill'd say to that."
He spreads his hands, showing an illusionary Brilliance standing next to an illusionary Bella. Tiny Brill looks unhappy, then conflicted, then deploys his magic circle and vanishes.
He spreads his hands, showing an illusionary Brilliance standing next to an illusionary Bella. Tiny Brill looks unhappy, then conflicted, then deploys his magic circle and vanishes.