un: jimothy

[doppleman]

[ This audio stream starts off very quietly but crescendos into the scuffling and faint mutterings that can only come from someone fiddling with an unfamiliar piece of technology. ]

—oddamn device always juuuust a little bit different, proprietary pieces of sh—oh, and how 'bout that, it's recording. Uhhhh, welp, okay, let's see, um.

[ All at once the video flicks on, revealing a masked face that is way too close to the camera. He lurches away as if he's seen a monster, shoots the commlink an irritated glare, and it goes dark once more. ]

Frickin'—heeeeelllllllllooo... uh, people. This is, heh, 's not really the entrance I was planning to make, but when life hands you skin, you make a pizza, amirite? That's. Never mind. Real quick question, is there any way to change the ID on this thing.

Hey know what, matter of fact, while I've got you, does anyone around here have experience reversing experimental and extremely invasive surgeries?

[ Soon as the question's out of his mouth, he's sounding progressively more defeated. ]

Could–could really do with a change.

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[nineteenfortyfive]

[He is Alarming in multiple ways. The cybernetic hand catches her attention, but one thing at a time.]

You... what, had very extensive plastic surgery?

[doppleman]

If by "extensive" you mean "become another person entirely," then... yes, I have had become-another-person-entirely plastic surgery, yep.

[ Although there's more than a trace of resentment in his voice, the dominant emotion is resignation. Resignation and great fatigue. ]

[nineteenfortyfive]

I don't really know if there's any reversing that if you've gone this far.

[AS much as she'd like to try, dabbling in that sort of surgery, now is not the place or time.]

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[shadowsran]

Well hold on, there's no way to even test it?

[It seems a lot to write off on an 'if'.]

There'd be some kind of clue if a person was chimera'd, right? That couldn't look the same under a microscope or whatever.

[nineteenfortyfive]

It's not anything I have experience in. If we're taking "chimera" literally.

[The whole double helix thing in DNA is pretty new.]

Never hurts to look, of course.

[doppleman]

Yeah, I've been a guinea pig for way worse, so... sign me up, babe.

[ c r i n g e . ]

Sorryyyyy, that's the... Jack talking. I don't even know your name. I'm Timothy, by the way.

[nineteenfortyfive]

[Babe..............]

Claire Fraser.

You're... being quite literal, aren't you? The hell happened to you?

[doppleman]

[ Babe 😏 ... 😔 ]

Look, just. You gotta understand, I had to be Jack for a really... REALLY long time. Kiiinda just comes out on its own. Which I'm sure is not helped in any way by the, uh, aforementioned DNA sitch.

[nineteenfortyfive]

You might have to tell me the whole story from the beginning.

[Because this is fucking weird.]

[doppleman]

[ No?? It's really reasonable??? What's not clicking!! ]

Hate to say it, but there's not that much to tell... Poor stupid asshole gets a ton of student loans, gets talked into working for an evil megacorp, and ends up signing away his entire poor stupid asshole life impersonating the most evil dickweed in six galaxies. Tale as old as time.

[nineteenfortyfive]

As... what? A body double?

[doppleman]

Uhm, yeah. Actually. That... pretty much sums it up.