catch-all; claude

[clockpunk]

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[midway]

[ He laughs. ]

That's fair. Did you have much... violent conflict back at home?

[clockpunk]

[ this is a difficult question to answer. ]

Not... really? At least where I'm from. [ a pause. ] I dealt with a lot of sabotage an' some real weird shit, though, some of which got dangerous.

[midway]

Sabotage...? Of what?

[ head tilt ]

[clockpunk]

It's, uh, hard to explain.

[ crosses his arms, thinking. ]

It really ranges from like, corporate deception to some cosmic possession bullshit. But it got pretty nasty a few times.

[midway]

[ HUH ]

... Are you fighting to save the world?

[clockpunk]

I was, and it sucked. Last of that was months ago, though. I'm just a normal highschooler.

[midway]

Ah, so it's been successfully saved?

[clockpunk]

Yup, far as I know. I'll be pretty pissed if it hasn't.

[midway]

[ laughs ]

So you saved the world and now what? Back to normal? That must be an adjustment.

[clockpunk]

The world havin' to be saved was the adjustment in the first place.

[ and it sucked!!! so bad!!!!! ]

What about you? Sounds like it, since you asked...?

[midway]

[ feel free to drop this!!

And... yeah. ]

Oh, no. I'm not up to anything so noble. I'm fighting a war, but I wouldn't say the entire world's at stake.

[clockpunk]

[ points at eyes points at you

there's a flash of concern over his expression. ]

So that's what you meant by violent conflict. You're a soldier...?

[midway]

Something like that.

[ Looking up. ]

I don't know how it is when you're fighting for the world, but... sometimes it's hard to know what's wrong and what's right amidst the chaos of war.