tucky | ♻ 016

You know, I been wondering. If a girl gets pregnant and kills the baby, how many of y'all consider that murder? It's a real... hot-button issue where I come from, I guess; it's a big deal. There's people who feel so strongly about it that they believe the ones who actually do it - the doctors and stuff, and the people who work for 'em - deserve to die too. And it happens. People will go in and kill somebody like that, and other people will celebrate.

But then there's other people who say it ain't bad at all, 'cause we got rights to our own bodies and nobody should try and take that away. That's sexual liberation, and it's the same thing that says girls should be able to have a lot of sex and not get called sluts and whores. I always liked that part, at least, 'cause I been called those things before and it makes you feel dirty and small. But I knew guys who had way more sex than I did, and they never got called shit. Ever notice that? It's weird, how that happens.

And then there's the whole issue with condoms - which I use now, mostly, when I remember, so I don't need another lecture about that; don't worry. If you're gonna have sex, you're supposed to use 'em, or you end up with that problem I already talked about. But condoms are a real pain - they ain’t sexy or romantic or anything like that. You got to stop and put 'em on, and then you can feel 'em, and… I don’t know, I just like it better without. And I bet I ain't the only one.

It's confusing to think about; all of this is. But it's all tied together.

[warden filter]

I'm sorry for flipping the bird on the warden filter last week. I was mad and I'm still a little mad, but I think I do trust y'all, and I would like my actions not to be held against me. Please. Thank you.

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Who could I warn? He dropped out of school and his parents moved. A lot of people had to. New Jersey isn't built for earthquakes.

You're from New Jersey?

I'm from Pennsylvania.

Gotham City. We like to pretend we're better than the rest of New Jersey, if only by virtue of being somehow worse.

I'm from Waynesboro. You probably don't know where that is, 'cause it ain't a big city or anything.

No... but I don't travel much either.

Me either. Before I came here, I had been to three states, and one of them didn't really count 'cause I was just there for prison.

Yeah, I'd never left Gotham. Now I've been to five separate universes.

Pretty cool, isn't it.

... I like you. Didn't know you much before, and didn't think you'd be anything like me, but you kinda are.

Thanks! [ She thinks? ] It's probably the hair. People tend to assume I'm a goody-two-shoes.

Yeah, that's what I thought. And you talk like you're... well, you know, you talk all nice and proper all the time. You ain't a redneck like me, but we still got some stuff in common. History.

[She can halfway join Tiffany's imagined posse.]

I make up for it in violent tendencies and a long history of really bad decisions.

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[... Okay, maybe she can all the way join.]

How old are you again? You said seventeen?

Dammit; too young for real girl talk.

[She says this despite the fact that they've been freely discussing abortions and teen pregnancy, and that Tiffany is lightyears more immature than any of the teenagers she's met here so far.]

Wow, okay. Never mind that I've given birth, died, took down Davy Jones with nothing but a taser, come back to life, helped someone else come back to life, rebuilt four different business and could totally break your arm without hardly trying. I'm definitely too young for girl talk.