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My name's Maximilian Justice Powers, and I'm comin' clean. Don't think anybody here even knows my full name.

My dad died when I was 12 in a border skirmish with Blue Moon. My mom washed laundry for a living to support me and her. I was a crummy kid after my dad died, and I never did what my mom told me to do. I got into the wrong sorta people at school. I'm sorry I did that now, and I don't think I ever told her after I grew up. Army straightened me out when I was 16.

When I was 15 I used anabolic steroids for about a year, maybe a year and a half. I was a big, angry kid, they made me bigger and angrier. When I got into the army I had to get clean. Been clean ever since. But I always tell people I'm all natural. I am. But I wasn't always.

Killed three men when I was 17. I learned to stop countin' after that. But I'm probably directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of army men. I'll tell you it was for a good cause, that it was done in the defense of the people of Macroland and Omegaland. But I ain't gonna lie and tell you I ain't killed before. 'Cause I have.

My best friend Grit and I were in love with the same woman, Nell. She's now my boss. And she's married to my best friend. When she asked me if I was okay with her marryin' my best friend I lied and told her I was. I wasn't. When Grit asked me to be his best man I said I was happy for him. I wasn't. I sat there and I cried as I hugged him and told him I was happy for him when I wasn't. I think he knew, though. We both pretended it we both didn't know, though. Sometimes its hard to go back home and see them together.

One time for a week I was Green's Blastoise and another time for a week I was Bulba. If at some time you ever thought one of them was actin' weird for a week, it was probably 'cause we'd switched bodies. I guess that happens a lot here. But I didn't tell nobody when it happened to me.

If I ever told you somethin' that wasn't true, I'm sorry. If you want to ask me somethin' about me, now's your chance.

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We need to talk. You know why.
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::Max is curling what you can only assume is a Sonny Moe worth of dumbbells when you come in::

Hey, Char.

::Max pauses while thoughts cross his face. His weights remain still and impressively immobile::

Lotta stuff. Hard to know where to start. I guess let's start with you maybe. Work my way out from there. Durin' crazy week you said your name was Kerosene.

Uh, alright.

Uh. Alright, I guess. Still, it ain't that impressive. It's just me.

Thanks.

No, he didn't ask me to tell my life story. He just made me realize that I had stuff that I kept secret from people for no reason other than makin' my life easier. And no, I don't regret joinin' the army. Don't know who I'd be without it. Made me who I am today.

[Max you grow more inhuman and terrifying with every passsing--

Oh. He said the magic word. TREAD WITH CAUTION.]

...So what if I did?

Maybe it'd be better if you talked with me in person. I'm the guy who told Bulba about. Stuff.

[Keeping it hidden was easier wasn't it, huh. Kind of easier. Maybe to just avoid people's sympathy.]

I see...Yeah, I get how it can be hard to let it all out. But it was real brave to do it...

[Second part's true to life; so much.]

Well I'm glad ya feel that way about it. Seems like you did a lotta good with yourself.

You also said that your trainer's name was Aiden and you spent a lotta time waitin' around in a daycare for pokemon guys waitin' for him.

Ain't brave to do what everybody should do. It's just bein' the way you should be.

And thanks. I like to think that I did.

No problem.

[HONK HONK HONK.

Are we there yet.]

[Ain't brave to do what everybody should do. It's just bein' the way you should be.]

...You're right, Max.

[But. He's not sure he's ready to do that yet. For everyone to see.]

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::BREAKING NOISE

You are there::

Alright, let's get in and get somethin' to eat.

::The man at the counter remembers Max. He begins silently weeping to himself as he rings them up for not nearly enough money to cover whatever it is that Max is eating::

::Max goes and gets like five plates worth of food to begin with and drinks to accompany. Huh. Doesn't this seem. Familiar.::

I can imagine.

[That is exceptionally hardcore and I approve greatly.]

[Yeah this is. A pretty familiar scenario. Bulba pays too much for his small portion. He cranes his neck around the establishment, seeing if perhaps he recognizes any of the people that had been their a year ago. Oh boy.

Bulba has acquired two small salads of leafy and fruity varieties. He also has a glass of apple juice. He was actually sorta hungry today.]

[Oh god oh god OH NOOOO MAX REMEMBERS EVERYTHING.]

Why are you bringin' this up, Max?

I'm bringin' it up 'cause if that's somethin' maybe you were tryin' to keep a secret, if it really is you and not just somethin' made up, then, well. It's out there. You talked with me about it. I don't know who else you woulda said that sorta stuff to, but you didn't seem to know me all that well when you were a little charmander guy but you told me all about it.

You should drink some milk, it's good for you. I don't know how you get enough calcium in your diet.

::A million bites::

::A million dead animals::

So, uh. What. Happened.

...

I see. And I suppose Vinnie is the one who let it slip to you?

Well. Yeah.

I know you told Vinnie not to tell him but I just couldn't not tell him. Not after watchin' him get worse and worse for a week.

So. If you wanna chew me out you can chew me out for it.

A lot of juices have calcium too.

[THOUGH MAYBE HE SHOULD. TRY IT.]

I'll try it though.

[Yeah hold that thought. Alright he's back with a glass of milk and is greeted to the sight of a million dead animals. AKA no more animals. Because they are dead.

He will thoughtfully chew on a piece of cantaloupe before answering. The trick here is to be completely nonchalant about this.]

Uh. I kind of pulled a petal out. [Pause.] ... That's not really accurate. I sort of more ripped part of one off more than pulled it out all the way.

[He could very easily just lie right now. Max would think that Kerosene was just a highly improbable what-if, just like Blastoise-Sasha and teenage lesbian Biomech. Max did kind of just spill every secret he had to the entire school, and that does not inspire a lot of confidence in his ability to keep things hidden.]

...It really is me, Max. That's my name.

[GODDAMNIT.]

And you want me to chew you out in person?

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