peccatore: (just according to keikaku....)
Marco Evangelisti ([personal profile] peccatore) wrote2015-07-24 06:20 pm
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<marco> Hi, this is Marco! (Though you probably already knew that ;D)
<marco> How can I help you today?
certaininequities: (the mirror tells me lies)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-05-27 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Too many of them.

[the shame and remorse on his face are writ so large that they may as well be a billboard. he's not proud of this, or any of what's about to follow.]

I started having incidents where I would black out. Not often. One about a week after... then another a month or so after that ... my company was losing the contractor's confidence. Our competitor suffered sabotage and losses ... which I now realize I was the cause of. At the time, I had no clue. Quest Aerospace - that was the other company - reached out to the Oscorp board of directors and negotiated a sale. Of my company to theirs. They told me at the board meeting... and demanded my resignation. I was furious ... but I went home to lick my wounds.

[he shakes his head, glancing around the office, using whatever decor Marco has chosen as a distraction so he won't have to find any more memories floating up. enough have found him in nightmares since arriving in Ryslig: tattered helium balloons, the whine of hydraulics, a body being reduced to ash and bone in a chemical blast]

I blacked out a few days later and woke to find an article in the newspaper: my board had been killed by an unknown assailant wearing equipment stolen from our R&D. ... That was the first time I actually heard his voice. Spoke to him...

[he hesitates. he doesn't want to speak the name here, in case it's true names really do have power]

... the Goblin.
certaininequities: (spectre of the goblin)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-05-29 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Norman replies so quickly that he's almost cutting Marco off, one hand coming up in a dismissive gesture]

No, no, it's fine. I came here to talk to be honest with you, and talk about it. It wouldn't be fair of me to not answer your questions. The newspapers coined the name: "The Green Goblin", because of the color of the armor and the shape of the helmet. I think he liked it? ... But I'm not sure. It's either that or he just didn't care.

[he hasn't fully made the connection between the deep-buried memory that inspired the armor's design in the first place, not yet]
certaininequities: (keep slipping farther)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-05-30 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I did, thank God. Someone - a friend of my son's, actually, a brilliant young man - figured it out and created an anti-serum that reversed the formula's effects. I hadn't been cured for maybe more than five minutes, when I woke up in Haftesal. I'm ... still putting a lot of pieces together.

[he pauses, still trying to figure out how best to word why he wanted Marco to know this]

The Fog. She turns us into .... monsters. And I don't think that will have anything to do with Him, but ... at the same time, I'm hearing all these wild stories of things people are made to do, things they become without their permission ... and I can't help but think that it might not be over.

[his face crumples]

Oh, Marco, I want it to be over. But the people I'm becoming close to here - you all need to know. In case.
certaininequities: (oh please don't)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-06-04 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. ... Not just for that, but ... for listening. For not judging me for all of this ... I know it must have been difficult to hear, since, well.

[he tries for a self-deprecating smile, but doesn't quite get there. it's more of a grimace]

I don't know what you might've been expecting, but ... it probably wasn't all that. I hope I haven't ... put you off for the rest of the day.
certaininequities: (how do I say this?)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-06-09 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[thankfully, he isn't bothered by the sadness: he knows people's options once they've heard his story are going to invariably be pity, anger, or fear. he nods a little, the smile becoming just that little bit more genuine]

Now you understand why I was so afraid of how open my mind was to all of that ... I want people to learn about it when and how I decide, not ... because I can't help seeing so much of this place through that lens. Of ... of what he would think of it all. What he'd do.
certaininequities: (how do I say this?)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-06-15 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Panic always makes everything worse.

[he says it with a knowing glance, even if he's a little embarrassed to admit it. after telling someone about the Goblin, how could anything else be worse?]

D'you get that thing where - you start to get nervous, then you get annoyed that you're nervous, so you try to shut it down, but it just gets worse, and becomes this awful cycle?
certaininequities: (how do I say this?)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-06-20 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Marco's right, it IS entirely different. and yet Norman can follow the thread of it well enough, since it relates to how he tends to think when he's running on partial memory and trying to figure out what things the Goblin was responsible for, how he got from point A to point B. sometimes he'll think it was a lot worse than it actually was. and sometimes he underestimates his own subconscious capacity for cruelty.]

Those moments when you're not sure what's real - whether you can trust your own perception of things ... I've been there. It's terrifying.

[he thinks on this for a second, and then:]

If you ever need to, I dunno, double-check any dots. You can ask me. I won't make anything of it.
certaininequities: (how do I say this?)

[personal profile] certaininequities 2022-06-21 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You've been so patient and understanding ... it's the least I can do in return.

[he glances around the office, wondering if this conversation is veering toward something uncomfortable for Marco.]

I hope I'm not keeping you from anything.