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[vrdantwind]

"Hey, this is Claude! Pretty sure I'm doing this correctly. You can leave me a message here, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. Talk to you soon~."

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[fingersandteeth]

[It's fine. He's planted his seed and is willing to see how it grows from here.]

There might be. I'm not sure who would be, though. He's burnt a lot of bridges over the years. About the only people from his world that are here are people who I wouldn't feel comfortable asking this of.

And, well, I don't know how well people who knew the older him would work. A lot of our mutual friends are either gone now or, well, I got them in the break-up. I don't know. He seemed to get along with Scorpia in his post--maybe I could coach her through it, even though she didn't really know him before.

[vrdantwind]

Huh. Well, if there's no better people for the job than relative strangers, I guess we're not completely unqualified.

That said, I haven't spoken to the guy at all. I don't know if any of my friends have, either. That said...I'd definitely be the best candidate for that kind of project out of all of us. I'm just not sure I want to commit to trying to rehabilitate a stranger's presemt to reform his future...all the more so because I feel like I'd need to become friends with the guy for that. And making friends with someone on the basis of wanting to change them is getting into sketchy territory. I can be manipulative at times, but that sort of thing is on another level, you know?

[fingersandteeth]

No, I do get it.

And it's fine. If any of your crowd becomes friends with Baby Jack on your own, feel free to try to reform him, but don't become friends with him just for his reformation. He'll either learn better here with or without friends--or, well, he won't.

[vrdantwind]

That's fair enough. And hey, honestly, I might be the best choice for intentional reformation, but all my friends are good people by nature. Much better people than I am, that's for sure. If Baby Jack makes friends with any of them, he'll have good influences on his side whether or not that was intentional.

We'll see how things go, anyway. I guess unless his older self shows up again significantly improved, we're not really going to know whether or not we've affected any changes in him anyhow.

[fingersandteeth]

It looks like your friend with the rats, Dimitri, sent him some booze at some point, so there's that. Maybe it'll turn into friendship--who knows?

And I do understand all about having friends who are naturally better people than you.

[vrdantwind]

For all his rat-throwing tendencies, Dimitri's a great guy. And now that he's recovering from a pretty bad spell, he's definitely not the worst influence Baby Jack could have. Hopefully they get along.

Do you? You don't seem like too bad of a guy yourself...I mean, outside of running a potentially sketchy establishment like a fight club. But that didn't even start out as yours, it sounds like.

[fingersandteeth]

Well, I was always a partner in it. But Tyler was the one who ran things on site.

[vrdantwind]

Well, even so. Even if it's a little legally questionable, I don't know if that makes you a sketchy person.

So, do you just have really virtuous friends, or are you a lot shadier than you appear?

[fingersandteeth]

If it were the second, do you think I'd admit it?

But no, I just have some friends who are really good people.

[vrdantwind]

I mean, you might, to a fellow unsavory individual.

So aside from Thace - who's probably included in your good person count - what other friends do you have? Anyone I might already know?

[fingersandteeth]

I might.

Well, there's Scorpia. She's such a sweetheart. And my other employee, Chloe, is a real good kid too. And I'm friends with Armin and Shiro. They're both good people. Carly's also got a good heart. And so does little Kiri, the bird girl. And back home there was my sister, Charley, and Polly who rescued me once and Polly's girlfriend Petra.

[vrdantwind]

Any number of people, huh? And I don't think I've met a single one of them.

[Well, Claude's met Carly. But he doesn't know he met Carly.]

Funny, I know a Petra back home. I'm positive they're unrelated, but it's a small world...or small collection of wildly disparate worlds.

[fingersandteeth]

Is your Petra a Canadian immigrant studying law and practicing the sword? Because that's my Petra.

[vrdantwind]

More of a foreign princess held political hostage by a hostile neighboring country. She does use swords sometimes, though!

But yeah, pretty sure they're different people.

[fingersandteeth]

Yeah, my Petra's no princess. I'm fairly sure they aren't.