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[xp_alias]

[1] I was going to say happy birthday but then I remembered I don't celebrate nepo babies
[2] What'd you get, a porsche?
[3] No wonder you're friends with Warren.

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[xp_legion]

[1] Um, sorry?

[xp_alias]

[1] For what? The generational wealth or pretending to be a humble therapist when your family owns this fucking estate?

[xp_legion]

[1] oh
[2] right
[3] Yes, the professor is my father. I didn't know until my 20s. He didn't raise me. It's not public knowledge. His estate won't go to me anyway.

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[4] Why do YOU know that?

[xp_alias]

[1] It's in the public domain? Where anyone can see it?
[2] Suuuuure, he just left you here with a double-sized room to take care of the inmates and you're getting nothing.

[xp_legion]

[1] I'll get something, just not everything. A lot of people here will, actually. I'm not special in that respect.
[2] And I'm pretty sure it's not.
[3] Who told you it was my birthday?

[xp_alias]

[1] Nobody told me. Like I said, it's in the public domain.
[2] You don't even need to get paid. A fraction of a shit ton of money is still a shit ton of money.

[xp_legion]

[1] I didn't say I wasn't privileged. My mother and the professor always made sure I'd have something to fall back on if/when I hit stretches where I can't work, like the last few months. I draw a stipend because the professor thinks work deserves to be compensated.
[2] I notice you're not answering the question.

[xp_alias]

[1] Knew it. Trust fund baby.
[2] I answered it.

[xp_legion]

[1] Once again, I never said I wasn't.
[2] And no, you didn't.

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[3] ...did you run a background check on me

[xp_alias]

[1] Who, me? The private investigator?
[2] I will admit you don't act like a rich kid, but that's almost worse. What are you hiding?

[xp_legion]

[1] I told you, I didn't find out we were related until I was an adult. And it wasn't a great conversation.
[2] Also: are you kidding?
[3] I'm trying to function as a practicing counselor while being a mutant, a reserve X-Man, and carrying a diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder.
[4] What AREN'T I hiding.

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