poly_chromatic | Video (Fourth Wall Weekend)

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Video (Fourth Wall Weekend)

So, um...

[He never knows what to expect when there're all these people around here. Should he get up his hopes and think that he'll know someone? Or should he just treat it like any other curse? It's perplexing. He scratches his head.]

For all of you that, y'know, just randomly arrived here, welcome. You'll only be here for the weekend, so don't get too concerned about it. Consider it, uh, a vacation, or somethin'. You can ask me questions, if you want, but I gotta say, a whole lot of this place don't make much sense.

[A long pause of indecision, and then finally...]

'n if I know you... I mean, if I know you from home, if there's any chance you're out there... just lemme know, okay?

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I know I was about two hours away from someone trynna kill me, at the very least. 'n I know that a whole hell of a lot of people who've showed up from my future're seemingly shocked to see me alive, so yeah, I'm pretty damn sure about it.

I'm sorry.

...It must be the face.

[He laughs quietly.]

Yeah, somethin' like that. Truth is, though, I've been livin' on borrowed time ever since I was in the war, so it ain't a surprise. Still wish you didn't have to deal with that shit, though. The bein' dead shit, I mean.

I didn't get anything I didn't deserve.

[You'd think that five years' worth of penance in another dimension would help make the afterlife less torturous, but nope.]

But you have the City, for as long as it lasts.

Neither did I. I mean, neither will I, once I go back home.

[A nod.]

Yeah. 'n I'm trynna enjoy it.

Do you think that anyone with our face has ever lived a long, moral life?

Good. And are you?

Well, we're the only ones I've met with that face, 'n as near as I can tell, neither of us're doin' a great job at long or moral. Although I think you probably got the edge on moral.

Yeah, more or less. Don't always enjoy these weekends, but hey, I am glad to see you, at least.

Give yourself time to develop a crippling guilt complex. It'll make you a better person.

[This is as close as Justin gets to joking. Existing has put him in a... well, less miserable mood.]

Thanks. Very few people are glad to see me. ...It's good to see you, too. It almost convinces me that I'm still here, in a way.

Aw, shit, if all it takes is a cripplin' guilt complex, I must be a great person.

Well, your face is still here, anyway. 'n people still think about you all the time, so you kinda are here.

Give it time.

I don't know how many people remember me, but thank you.

C'mon, don't be so humble. Of course people remember you.

I'm realistic, not humble.

Kinda sounds like you're insultin' yourself, if you think people'd forget about you that quickly.

That's what happens here. Most of the people I met when I first came to the City wouldn't be recognized if they showed up. It happens everywhere. Sometimes we don't even need to be gone to be forgotten.