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[Gold has a bad habit of not looking at the camera when he's speaking to his device - but this time it seems less like he's working on something more important, and more as though he's examining something, a slightly pensive air to his expression.]
As irritating as it is to admit it, this coming jump will be my twenty-fifth. [He looks up, then, setting whatever item it is aside and giving the camera his full attention.] Patience is a virtue, as they say, but I've lost count of the faces that have come and gone. I won't pretend for any sentiment to the fact - what concerns me is the loss of information that each might have held, whether about this ship or some clue on why they were brought here at all.
[He still believes there's a pattern. There's always a pattern.]
My world was one within several, each with borders that could be... hopped, if you had the means. [And the will.] What was always interesting was the ideas that would seep through the cracks. The lives that would become stories and songs.
[With hugely edited pieces, facts missing, other exaggerated. But he knows his history, and he knows how it's remembered.]
My name is Rumplestiltskin. I'm curious to know how many of you have heard it.
As irritating as it is to admit it, this coming jump will be my twenty-fifth. [He looks up, then, setting whatever item it is aside and giving the camera his full attention.] Patience is a virtue, as they say, but I've lost count of the faces that have come and gone. I won't pretend for any sentiment to the fact - what concerns me is the loss of information that each might have held, whether about this ship or some clue on why they were brought here at all.
[He still believes there's a pattern. There's always a pattern.]
My world was one within several, each with borders that could be... hopped, if you had the means. [And the will.] What was always interesting was the ideas that would seep through the cracks. The lives that would become stories and songs.
[With hugely edited pieces, facts missing, other exaggerated. But he knows his history, and he knows how it's remembered.]
My name is Rumplestiltskin. I'm curious to know how many of you have heard it.
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[He doesn't sound as angry as might be expected, considering the content of the story. He knew what he was opening himself up for in asking.]
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They were hand-me-down books and I'd have read the back of a cereal box if it got the twins to settle. They liked it enough to ask for it.
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A handful, were they?
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( which had made the rest of the afternoon really awkward, actually. )
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[And he always likes subtlety.]
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I am afraid the name is unfamiliar to me.
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I would have been surprised if everyone on board had heard it. Where is it you come from?
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Tell me of your world though, if you would?
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You're just a story where I come from. Least, that's what I was lead to believe. Although... the older I get, the more suspicious I am that's a huge load of bullshit.
[ Now he sees smoke and mirrors everywhere. ]
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[ He pauses. ]
But I've definitely found myself bein' fictional before. The place where I'm from doesn't exist in every universe.
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Another bedtime story for children?
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Dunno if it's limited to children or bedtime, though.
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[Though it'd be hard to say if that's because he wouldn't care to, or because he only recently settled into the idea of having a grandson at all.]
Have you met anyone here that holds the same knowledge of your world?
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[ Sam had also mentioned another Robin from Gotham, but Blake hasn't gotten a chance to follow up on that just yet. ]
How 'bout you?
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What did you do that we're supposed to know who you are?
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I spin straw into gold and trick women out of their first born children. [A beat.] Or so the story goes.
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[She laughs, clearly not taking this seriously.]
How'd you earn a story like that?
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I bet the kidnapping part is true.
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[ Look, Robin is fourteen. That is totally a legitimate question, for him. ]
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What would I even do with spun gold here?
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[ Of course, there's also cultural conditioning to value it, but still. Then Robin grins. ]
I think I'd survive that. Do you need somebody to request it of you, so you can spin it?
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They're more my brother's domain, but yes, I've heard that name. It's one of the tales that crops up in a lot of cultures.
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[ Wait. ]
Remember from reading or remember from doing?
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What are you playing at?
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And here I thought I'd made my reasoning quite clear.
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[ #Notbuyingit. ]
Trouble is that I'm not in the habit of believing it.
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[ yoU ARE JUST SKETCHY, DUDE. ]
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But I know that my life and its events will become little more than an anecdote in history. Remembrance, and immortality in literature and song is mostly for men. The few women who managed to be honoured in such ways are truly exceptional.
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There's some safety in that, dearie. My tale isn't precisely accurate.
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