008; Regret

[not_oflegend]

It's March 23rd again...It's strange.

So, Mayfield. If you don't mind answering, what were your families back home like? Did you live with both your parents? One parent? No parents? Any siblings? I guess I'm just curious. Don't worry about answering if you don't feel comfortable.

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[clockwrkangel]

[Becca picks up the phone, wants to answer, starts to answer, winds up letting out a choked sob and setting it down again.]

[not_oflegend]

[Well that wasn't what she was going for...]

[clockwrkangel]

[About a half hour later, Becca calls back, trying again; though she tries quite hard to keep herself level this time.]

My...dad died when I was little. I live with my mom, and my baby brother.

[She perks up a bit when she starts talking about him, though.]

I take care of him...he's really growing up to be a great young man! He's going to be a stock broker when he grows up, and live till he's thirty three before he dies of heart disease. He'll have millions of dollars by then, even though we're dirt poor now. Some of that he's going to get from winning the lottery, but most of it he's going to get by his own hard work. I'm really proud of him!

[not_oflegend]

...I'm sorry about your father.

But...that all sounds really specific.

[numanstan]

I lived in the forest with Bryan Ferry when I was a kid.

[He sounds completely, utterly serious about it.]

[not_oflegend]

[Before Wonderland that might have seemed odd, but not so much anymore.]

Who's Bryan Ferry? A friend?

[numanstan]

Nah, he's a lounge singer. He's well good, I've heard!

[not_oflegend]

A lounge singer. In the forest.

[heartstar_blues]

I didn't have much of a family. I had friends though, and I'm going to go find them again as soon as I tear this place down.

☠☠☠☠ had a mother too back when I was a kid though I walked away from that and never looked back.

[not_oflegend]

You left your mother?

[heartstar_blues]

No, she kicked me out one night and I just never looked back.

I wonder if the team even bothered to search for me...

[It was easy for The Captain to hit a low note and keep going.]

[not_oflegend]

...team?

[hourai_branch]

Well there's Eirin and Inaba and Inaba and Inaba and Inaba... [She repeats Inaba for a bit]

[not_oflegend]

Ah....Inaba?

[hourai_branch]

The rabbits.

[not_oflegend]

Are you...you're not really related to them right?

[wristsniper]

I didn't live with my family anymore, as I am a grown woman, but I have three sisters, a brother, and of course my two parents. They all still live in the manor, for the most part, though I had them sent away for a while.

I'm the oldest of the Armstrong children.

[not_oflegend]

Sent away? What do you mean?

[wristsniper]

I fought my little brother for our inheritance and won, so I banished the entire family from the house.

[not_oflegend]

...why would you do that!?