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[maddest]

True. But I think it also couldn't hurt to let him know that if he wanted to talk, there was a listening ear out there who wouldn't use it against him. Or try to break his nose or ribs, or any of those other unenlightened things no one would ever dream of doing, in a nice, morally upstanding city like this.

[al_truism]

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I'm willing to give him a chance if he continues this track record.

[Al knows all too well that he could break it at any point, but- this is a big step in... well, some direction.]

[maddest]

Just don't do it unless he's really actively deserving it right at that moment. Yes?

[al_truism]

We haven't gotten in a fistfight in...

Well- a while.

[maddest]

I'm not saying he won't! Not in the least. I just think it should be directed reinforcement.

[al_truism]

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I think he likes me. Is that strange?

[maddest]

He's always liked you.

[Confused about why this is a mystery.]

[al_truism]

Oh, he's hated me plenty of times.

[maddest]

Lucifer contains multitudes. He does most contradictory things utterly simultaneously, without batting an eyelash.

[al_truism]

I guess that's true. He's very good at getting people to crave his approval, too.

[Sometimes Al just loathes being young and impressionable.]

[maddest]

I think you're the first good person he's met who's ever been nice to him. Isn't that a strange thought? I'm not out bathing in the blood of lambs, but I'm certainly morally compromised.

[al_truism]

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Really?

[maddest]

Maybe. From what I've seen, yes.

But tell me what has Alois in knots?

[al_truism]

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How well did you know about what happened to him?

[maddest]

Almost nothing.

[al_truism]

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They were street children. From what Luca says they're orphans, and apparently Luca looks very different from the others, enough that nobody would take them in. Apparently Jim did a lot of questionable things to make sure they stayed alive.

At some point, Luca made a contract with a demon -- he was a child, he didn't know better -- and the demon killed him. Luca regrets it now, and he knows the consequences of what happened.

Jim... after Luca's death, at some point- he underwent a radical personality change out of grief, and what Urahara and I suspect was an incredible amount of abuse. My guess is that it was whoever started calling him "Alois Trancy." He insists that "Jim" is dead.

... Urahara says that it's very likely that the abuse was sexual, too.

[maddest]

You know, I've actually dealt with a pair of children in a very similar situation.

[Sitting up, paying close attention now.]

It isn't easy.

[al_truism]

... on the bright side he's developing some measure of trust for me, and he's starting to realize that I'm not going to hurt him.

You have? Who?

[maddest]

Gilbert and Vincent. They've both been here before? I met Gilbert when he was just a little younger than Jim, I think.

[al_truism]

You've told me about Gilbert but not Vincent.

[maddest]

Vincent was the younger brother.

In my world, being born with red eyes is a sign of great misfortune. People know it, a child with red eyes will be cast out, kept away, and sometimes killed or thrown into the Abyss. Vincent had one red eye, which was enough.

[al_truism]

... you've told me about the eyes before-

And Gilbert?

[maddest]

Protected Vincent with all of his might, despite abandonment, being sold to the circus, thrown rocks, misery, starvation, the like.

Gilbert grew up all right, actually. Well. He developed complete amnesia, lost the first ten years or so, but he never really became objectionable. Just a little wobbly.

[al_truism]

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I regret not meeting him.

[maddest]

Interesting note, Vincent used to act out against animals. He took the eyes out of the cat who later got my eye.