{I am up against the wall

[forasecond]

Who: Five + Various
When: Month of September
Where: Around town
What: Various threads through the month.
Warnings: Depression/anxiety/PTSD mentions or descriptions; assassination/mass murder/themes of war; flippant references to child abuse/neglect/violence; mentioned and played out use of alcohol (which looks like underage use, all considered); will clearly mark if-when anything comes up.

I have killed a man and all I know

Is I am on the run and go

Comments

[bigbaddy]

"Yeah, I did too."

Bigby.. Please, my man, this isn't just something you can tell a person who is clearly disappointed about the outcome of their plan.

But Bigby is, if nothing else, extremely practical in this sense. And since he doesn't exactly mince words, this is just how things apparently come out of his mouth, even if nothing about it sounds malicious in tone. It's not like he's here to rub it in, after all.

Hence why the man continues with something more productive a moment later, adding: "Getting people to work together is practically impossible. Especially when they don't even know each other. You can probably expect to run into more distrust than any real cooperation here."

Even if it would be far less annoying if people worked together. Bigby will give the other that, honestly.

"Not to mention people probably thought you're just a kid."

.. granted, the other could be a kid. He looks like a kid. But Bigby doesn't think he sounds like a kid, and considering the sheer variety of Fables he's dealt with back home, he's fairly certain he can tell the difference at this point. He could be wrong, sure-- but he feels pretty confident about this one, even in his body language as he speaks.

[forasecond]

Five appreciates blunt honesty, so it's weirdly the best route he could have taken in response at all. Too many years of secrets, half-truths, and outright lies from every brand of person he may have ever held an ounce of respect for at one time or another.

He scoffs at that comment, "No shit," he rolls his eyes, but it doesn't escape him that there's not exactly calling him a kid with the way his statement is phrased. It's just slightly different from other ways he's been treated thus far that it's hard not to make note of it.

"And what do you think?" with all the air of someone who truly does not care what anyone else in the room thinks, but wants to know anyway.

[bigbaddy]

"Probably not." It's not a definite you're not, but that's just because Bigby is taking into account the fact that this could just be some mundy kid with an overinflated sense of ego.

But it doesn't seem like it.

Though that leaves the question of what Five is, if he isn't just some mundy kid. He can't be a Fable, surely Bigby would've known of him already then.. but what does that leave?

"You don't seem like one to me. Or are you saying I'm wrong about that?"

[forasecond]

"I'm fifty-eight," he says with something of a long-suffering sort of tone. "A time travel miscalculation projected my consciousness into a suspended quantum state version of myself that exists across all instances of time." Which is, likely, as good as Greek to someone without a very specific skill set, but it's the truth, even if it sounds insane.

[bigbaddy]

"Sure."

.. probably a little bit too simple of an answer in comparison to what Five himself said, huh. But it doesn't even sound like Bigby doesn't believe it, and that he's being dismissive because of it. It sounds weirdly accepting.

Not that it means Bigby actually understands what Five was trying to explain to him there, but.. you know, it's not like he's ever been good with magic, or whatever time travel falls under in this case. He's always found it easier to just accept these things as they come.

"Sounds like a pain," he adds, like it's a better summary than just 'sure.' Still works, though. If he's still trying to figure out anything in his mind right now, it's whether that would still make the other a mundy or not.. Probably not, huh. Or a very special kind of mundy. "Have you tried telling anyone else in town that yet?"

Bigby is mostly asking because he feels like they probably wouldn't believe Five. And he's trying to see if he's right about that. Get a feel of what the mundies in town are willing to accept.