16 || Video || Graduation

[notiaraincluded]

I'm pleased to announce that Franklin Mott has graduated.  It was a long time coming really.  He wasn't a bad guy at his core, he just got turned around a bit and it took a combination of people who cared about him for him to finally see that

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[ifightfor]

[...Jarvis Franklin is gone?

Rinzler does not know how to feel about this.]

Good.

[notiaraincluded]

Were you a friend of his?

[ifightfor]

Associate.

[Pause.]

Yes.

[notiaraincluded]

No, he's gone home.

[notiaraincluded]

Were you close to him?

[rayney_day]

Colour me highly sceptical...

[tadwizard]

I'm actually agreeing with you here.

[notiaraincluded]

It took what happened with Wanda, and the result of it for everything we'd been telling him to finally sink in enough to enact real change.

[veni_vidi_valui]

Ah yes, the one who was making all those terribly insipid statements about co-operation and friendship, like a good little pet...

How predictable.

[notiaraincluded]

Nothing about this was predictable and Franklin was a friend, not a pet.

Having friends may be a new idea for you, but you might be able to figure it out.

[veni_vidi_valui]

Better friendless than delusional.

[notiaraincluded]

So how does it feel to be both?

[darknessb4me]

How long's it been since he kidnapped a teenage girl...?

[majorum_pride]

Excuse me?

Private

[darknessb4me]

Wanda.

Or so she told me.

[Private]

[majorum_pride]

[That was where she was... He understands why that would be a thing that you wouldn't tell just everybody.

He quickly rubs his mouth, like he was thinking of a response but it doesn't come out. He doesn't understand. He can't understand.

The movement is robotic, but the shifts in expression are the subtle equivalent of the lid of a kettle boiling over. He can't understand. Why didn't he answer for it?]

I see. [That's all he can manage. It's probably for the best.]