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[doeswhathewants]

[He's sitting on a cement retaining wall, legs dangling over the edge, a makeshift card table done out of milk crates and a box on the sidewalk below. The phone is propped up on something beside him, filming as Serrure flips through the deck of cards he was just conning people with.]

I don't know why people become so angry over losing. Spoiler alert- it is a trait you mortals share with gods and demons alike.

Or perhaps it is not the losing I do not understand, but the insistence upon returning to lose again after being so frustrated the first time.

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[spiderkid]

[ Miles is careful to pull his mask on before replying, ] People tend to get angry when they're cheated out of their money, bro.

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[doeswhathewants]

Cheated? My game is above board.

Besides, if one knows that cheating is the name of the game, why would one be upset when they are thus cheated?

[spiderkid]

Man, I'm from New York, I know these card games usually aren't 100% legit.

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[studmuffin]

Just don't do it to Derek. He's on his period.

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[doeswhathewants]

Stiles. Men do not have periods.

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[studmuffin]

Well, you should tell him that.

[friggmagnet]

Mike never looses anything. Doesn't mean Zeb doesn't keep trying, though.

[doeswhathewants]

Never? Mm. Challenging.

Ah, I'll not grow used to seeing your picture pop up as a woman. It's odd.

[friggmagnet]

Imagine it in your mirror every morning.

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[tangledintower]

[Rapunzel just watches Serrure with his cards, curious. She knows he's probably scamming people, but...well, he's not HURTING anybody.]

How exactly do you play, anyway?

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[doeswhathewants]

Want me to show you? There's always room in the act for a pretty girl.

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[tangledintower]

[Rapunzel just laughs and nods.]

Sure, why not!

[indecent_butterfly]

They return because they feel they have the trick figured out, or that they can not be fooled twice. To lose again hurts worse than the first.

[doeswhathewants]

And yet they keep playing, keep returning.

Humans are masochistic, I think.

[indecent_butterfly]

Masochistic. Stupid. Easily tricked. All the same thing really.

[deadmanbusiness]

Trying to over come the challenge and regain what was lost. Also to try and prove to yourself that you're not a sucker or an idiot. Unfortunately by going back and doing it again...

[doeswhathewants]

They prove they are exactly what they are.

Fancy a game?

[mortemscintilla]

I think Freud called it a mild form of, um, repetition compulsion. [ Human beings are sad little creatures of habit. ] I've always thought he was a hack. But maybe he had a point.

[doeswhathewants]

Is Freud the one obsessed with the idea of parental incest? I think I read something about him on the internet.

[infernoandhearth]

I'm not sure why they're under the impression they can win. Isn't the point of the game you're playing losing?

[doeswhathewants]

The point for me, at least. A game of chance. Or not.

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[asofwar]

I have something for you.

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[doeswhathewants]

...a punch on the arm does not count as something, I'll have you know.

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[helsmaiden]

This is why I will not play your games.

[doeswhathewants]

Aw, Leah, would I use an unfair advantage against you? [Yes.]