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[vexant]

( no, josh isn't leadership material. or right hand man material. he's--a good lackey, when he likes someone well enough. knows how to follow orders, not how to give them. which is fine for julian. he already had a second in command, he doesn't need another one. )

Being nice never got anyone anything.

[goldtoxicity]

[ he's not wrong. he just looks at Julian for a moment, brows ticking down. ]

People being nice makes the world less hard to live in.

[vexant]

Yeah? How'd that work out for you?

( mr traumatized who gets taken advantage of a lot. )

[goldtoxicity]

[ he gestures to Julian's hands. ]

I got to do that for you.

[vexant]

Aside from with me.

( josh is his lackey now, of course he's nice to julian. that's part of the deal. his hands still remain--still, by his side. unmoving. )

[goldtoxicity]

It stopped me from going to the dark side, Julian. Being being nice - remembering that people can be good.

[vexant]

You can be good without being nice.

[goldtoxicity]

Yeah, well... Being nice goes a lot further than being good.

[vexant]

I guess if I'd been nice instead of good maybe my hands wouldn't've gotten blown off.

( he just woke up but fine, whatever. he'll roll back into bed. )

[goldtoxicity]

[ ... staring up at the ceiling for a second. ]

If the X-Men'd been better to me, I would've been there to put them back on.

[vexant]

If the X-Men were better to us, we wouldn't have lost most our class to someone blowing up a goddamn bus.

[goldtoxicity]

That's the point.

[ it's a bad idea to poke the bear. he knows that. ]

It's hard. Being alive, Julian, it's hard... being an asshole just makes it that much harder for everyone, and you.