[Wow, it's not funny, this is serious business. Victorian gothic horror-levels of serious.]
There's not.
[It falls out of his mouth automatically, a protesting blurt, and upon realizing what he's said, Victor shakes his head. This Victor's probably forgotten how to laugh, forget actually having reasons to do so.
Being warned there are other incarnations of him hadn't prepared him for the reality of actually meeting one of them.]
That is-- We're obviously not the same. An identical name is just the kind of trickery Wonderland is known for. An identical face, perhaps.
[But not identical people. A part of him resists even considering it.]
no subject
There's not.
[It falls out of his mouth automatically, a protesting blurt, and upon realizing what he's said, Victor shakes his head. This Victor's probably forgotten how to laugh, forget actually having reasons to do so.
Being warned there are other incarnations of him hadn't prepared him for the reality of actually meeting one of them.]
That is-- We're obviously not the same. An identical name is just the kind of trickery Wonderland is known for. An identical face, perhaps.
[But not identical people. A part of him resists even considering it.]