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[wecanavenge]

[The video clicks on, and Erik is sitting at his desk, looking calm, but angry. He might start shouting, he might have a reasonable debate. It's hard to tell. He folds his hands on the desk top, and leans toward the camera.]

My name is Erik Lensherr. [Reasonable debate it seems, but there's a challenge in his face, his eyes, his voice as he goes on:] I am a mutant. I am a Jew. [He pauses for a fraction of an instant, like he's daring anyone to say anything. The instant passes, and his jaw tightens.]

I will not be remaining in your prison. You will release me, or we'll have a problem, you and I. Is that clear?

[He reaches off to the side, out of frame, and when his hands come back into view, he's lowering his helmet onto his head. (Still silver, he didn't have time to make it fabulous.)] And Charles? I hope you don't plan to spend your time here blending in. [Guilty spite. Sorry bro. :c]

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[Video]

[impure_tale]

I'm afraid I haven't the faintest idea what a Reich is or the location of 'Auschwitz', so you will have to pardon my ignorance. As I told you, time is complicated here. I can only assume you were born after me or that we never walked the same earth at all -- bizarre as such notions would be anywhere else.

[a sobering glance]

And generally, I don't accept such institutions. However, I also consider institutions to be the product of the living, not the dead or what lies in between. And truly, if you continue to doubt that, all I ask is that you visit the main deck. Look at the sky. Look over the rail.

[Video]

[wecanavenge]

[That's still a little too hard for him to accept, at least right now. Too many Holocaust deniers back home, it's all he can equate this to, and it makes him too angry.]

I have looked, and we have nothing more to discuss if that's all you can offer.

[Video]

[impure_tale]

Death and near-death are both difficult things for one to wrestle -- unless you knowingly chose that end. No one is expecting you to accept everything now, but you are not alone here. I would like to hear your story sometime if you'd be willing to sit down to a class of wine and tell it. You give me the distinct impression that not many people have listened. I'm both a Warden here and a former Inmate, myself, and I assure you that beyond your status as an Inmate and what that implies for all persons who arrive just as you have, I am completely ignorant of your situation and the world from which you come.

[He nods toward him]

Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade. Most call me the Marquis. You said your name was Erik Lensherr. Am I remembering that correctly?

[Video]

[wecanavenge]

You are, and you must forgive me; I meant to give the impression that I'm not interested in telling my 'story.'

[Video]

[impure_tale]

Then my advice would be for you to make yourself less intriguing.

[Video]

[wecanavenge]

Stay away from me. [He's had his fill of men finding him interesting.]