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[featherbeaned]

Who: Idols! Monsters! Monstrous idols ...?
Where: Anywhere, everywhere
When: 298. early morning

[What are you up to?]

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[backstory]

That is my line! What the heckie! I will be taking this back. [ HOLDS THE HEAD CLOSE TO THEIR PLANT ]

[neigh_sayer]

Fake! Imposter! Sus! Is this a threat??

[backstory]

How do you know that you're not the one who is the impostor?

[neigh_sayer]

[pikachu face]

Shit ya got me there.

[backstory]

It is important to consider all the possibilities. [ Carrying the head off with him to find somewhere to sit down. His own head as C appears again. ] The world is a constantly changing place.

[neigh_sayer]

Dearest minion impersonating me, do we need to talk. Are you have an existential crisis? That does tend to happen when people imitate me, but. . .

[backstory]

I want to figure out your trick.

[neigh_sayer]

What trick?

[backstory]

You are always smiling and in a cheerful mood.

[neigh_sayer]

Nee-heehee! Is that it? Then all you have to do is smile, silly!

[backstory]

That does not just work! That is just smiling for the sake of smiling.

[neigh_sayer]

You're not wrong, but have you tried it?

[backstory]

[ Attempts... a smile ]

[neigh_sayer]

[head rolls in his lap]

Wider! More manic!

[backstory]

W-Wha...? [ TRIES...AGAIN...?? ]

[neigh_sayer]

Clooooser, less crazy eyes. Apparently that's a tell of mine.

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[backstory]

You are talking about yourself, shouldn't that alarm you?

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[backstory]

But I suppose that part of you is amusing.

[neigh_sayer]

Neeheehee! You did it! Doesn't that feel better?

And the more you know yourself, the easier it is to lie.

[backstory]

[. . . Flicks him on the forehead. ]

[neigh_sayer]

Oooow! What'd I do??

[backstory]

That means you are just training yourself to lie, doesn't it? . . . Maybe that is not a terrible method, though. Right now, that is what I am doing, isn't it? [ SINCE KIDNAPPING C ] Or maybe you are trying to suggest that if you fake it enough it becomes a truth? [ . . . ] Either way, I am going to harness your chaotic energy right now.

[neigh_sayer]

Maybe so, maybe no! Does the reasoning matter that much?

You should try though, it's totally a bummer seeing myself look so sad!

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[backstory]

I am trying...

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[backstory]

Lets go see if we can fool someone like this. You have to help.