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[The feed turns on, the signal coming from Robert Lutece's console - and there he is, standing in front of the camera...in what appear to be Rosalind's clothes. They're a bit too small, and his waist is cinched in...he's got a corset on. Deadpan, he addresses the camera.]

Good evening. I am Robert Lutece.

I would just like to say...I am a complete buffoon. If I weren't so busy secretly wearing my sister's clothes while she isn't home, I might actually take a moment to listen to her. She's had a hard time of things during all this, and I haven't been nearly sensitive enough. I'm a complete idiot. Here I am, telling her to be more social...just so I can lark about at home.

I am...ashamed.

[Something is...not quite right here.]

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Rosalind, what are you doing in there?

[And then another Robert--The Real Robert-- walks on the feed behind her.]

What is this? What did you say?

Edited 2013-09-30 04:47 (UTC)

[Rapunzel looks awfully confused.]

You're...Rosalind's brother?

[The first Robert looks to the second, eyes narrowing.]

I told them the truth, Rosalind, as you wanted me to.

What's this now - did you just call ME Rosalind?

[Oh, good. This is reaching people.]

I am, yes.

Um...is there a reason you're wearing her clothes?

[Do not walk this road with him, Rosa, it will not end well.]

I did. Do you think this is funny, what you're doing?

[Here's a face that likely isn't that familiar, except for those piercing blue eyes.]

My goodness, the maturity rolling off this is absolutely staggering, I might swoon.

[Oh? Are you angry?]

Why should I think this is funny? You're the one who put me up to this.

Edited 2013-09-30 05:03 (UTC)

I simply do sometimes.

The skirt is comfortable.

Breezy.

[Rosalind isn't breaking character one way or the other.]

Rosalind tells me I have maturity issues as well.

Perhaps I should listen.

Edited 2013-09-30 05:06 (UTC)

[[or should she be replying to people during their arguing?]]

[Yes, he is, and (hulk joke). You better quit while you're ahead. He knows your secrets. Intimately.]

I didn't put you up to anything, Rosalind, now stop pretending to be me.

Edited 2013-09-30 05:10 (UTC)

Perhaps it'd be better if you both were actually listening to the other? It's not every day I meet someone less sociable than I am.

[Sei suspects this is in no way actually Robert, between the insistence his sister is right and the differences in speech pattern, but he'll play along.]

I guess I wouldn't know, since I'm an only child, but it really does seem like siblings are the cruelest to each other. Perhaps I should count my blessings.

[You wouldn't dare.]

Why are you being so difficult, Rosalind? You're always so difficult.

[This is about to go bad places.]

Perhaps you should count your blessings, yes.

It would be difficult for you to understand, being an only child.

[He will if you don't stop.]

I'm so difficult. [If he's Rosalind, then guess what, he's mimicking her body language too.] Yes, well, you're certainly not the first to tell me that. Who was...?

[A warning glare.]

Considering my parents, it is a blessing for those theoretical siblings as well.

I understand human cruelty just fine. It's the justification I'm a little fuzzy on.

[mimicking Rosa's body language because she's sooooooo insistent that he's Rosalind]

If we're being factual, all three of us are only children, aren't we?

...I think you're going to have to back that up and explain that one.

[The warning glare back is nothing short of chilling.

She does NOT stand like that.]

I can't recall, dear Sister. I do recall you saying something about it, around that time when I was startled by a bird and screamed like a little girl.

Even humans themselves could never understand.

...Is that so.

[And in a moment, everything about Sei's tone and body language shift. That's thin ice, Rosalind Lutece, and now you're being watched by a caged shark. Even his eyes have slit pupils, now don't they. But then it's gone, and he breathes out, and it was simply a hallucination of a man's short temper.]

And what would you know of cruelty, anyway? You in your pretty suits and constant companionship? I find it hard to believe you've drunk deep in the malice of humanity.

[Your fanny padding totally makes it look like you stand this way. What is that even for? Who does it serve?]

Your memory always was awful, wasn't it? Well, I always heard whispers whenever our aunts were over about how unladylike I was.

"Why does she want to study sciences instead of learn her scales? It's not proper behavior for a girl her age!"

[Because he's nice, he's going to baby-step towards this.]

Well, scientifically, we are not actually twins. It's all very strange and murky science, even when you have all the equations in front of you. It makes sense but it doesn't.

So, even Robert [Rosalind B|] and I had lonely upbringings, and neither of us would know the true cruelty a sibling has with another.

[Maybe that would have scared some. Likely, even. But Rosalind simply stares the camera down, all ice and fury and pain.]

I know a great deal more than you think I do.

And my sister knows even more than I.

And yet you turn on each other.

[There is a note of--disappointment in Sei's voice.]

You would have a solace so few are ever allowed, and this is how you treat it? I expected better...perhaps that was foolish of me, as well.

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