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OFFICIAL WARDEN ANNOUNCEMENT! Completely public.

Comrades, If you should encounter a situation in which my inmate: "Barron Sharpe" is aggressively removing his gloves at you, I would like to officially authorize punching him as an acceptable preventative measure against his trying to hold your hand.

Under no circumstances should you allow him to hold your hand.

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And, comrade.

I've already been destroyed as it is. How much worse could it get? At least this is on my own terms. Would you really deny me that?

I guess that. Alcohol seems limited. Drugs, obviously. Influence, though. That can be pretty steady.

[We could rule the barge, Arthas. Rule the barge!]

It was the flood. I couldn't control my actions. [Hey, partially true.]

My memory is fine. The file is exaggerating.

All you ever talk about being important to you is power and control, but if you wanted to do this, then you'd be completely at his mercy! He could do whatever he wanted to you and you'd just be letting him!

I would deny you that, Comrade.

[Pause.]

Besides, it's bad for him.

And sometimes, comrade, you get power and control by surrendering it. You should know me well enough to know that's true, comrade.

Besides, I'd have ways to make sure it went how I intended.

[His primary objective is to keep Barron from fucking with him. His mind has enough holes. If he can't hold onto the fact that what he remembers really happened...]

Influence is what we trade in here. I've known that for a long time. How do I have any idea you won't turn on me the instant you get what you want?

Surrendering to a collective, Comrade, not to another inmate! If that's all you wanted to do, then you could just start doing what Una wants!

Well... Comrade, It is important to me that you retain your consciousness. That you stay yourself. So even if you could do it safely, I would like you to stay yourself, if possible.

Except, comrade! I submit to one thing... one thing... and if it works?

I'm back to the true collective. I'm fixed.

I want to make something very clear before I say anything else. I am a professional and my relationship with Narvin aside, I don't rely on him for my decisions. I've already berated him for his negligence, insensitivity, and gross incompetence, I was the one that delivered him to Zero, and if I didn't know that he was under duress at the time, I probably would have left him for it.

That being said, I'm in an occupation where memory loss is a very real risk, so I've developed a system to both protect my personal information and to serve as reminders in case my head's ever been fucked with. It's not intrusive, but if you're gonna be dealing with someone that can affect your memory and a flood does something that gives him back his abilities, you're going to need a way to puzzle out that something is up.

Yes. My name is Gaheris Rhade. I'm afraid I'm not acquainted with you, either.

[After reading Prefect's explanation to Shego.}

And some people wonder why I dislike the human custom of the handshake.

[And Narvin quietly plans--not to physically punch Sharpe, since punching is primitive and not Time Lord style--but to plant a psychic bomb in Sharpe's mind if he ever touches Narvin. Because Narvin is fairly casual about messing about with other people's memories, but has serious issues when it's *his* memories being messed with.]

Prefect, can I offer you some advice?

Not necessarily on this situation, but... on inmates and powers.

Comrade, even if you weren't thinking straight, it proved what you think are circumstances where it's appropriate to use your power.

All right, Comrade. [Pause.] Then give me your notebooks.

[...]

You're in a relationship with Narvin?

[He didn't know that. He just knew that you'd gotten the memory changing dohickey. He's just NATURALLY SUSPICIOUS.]

[...Well this is awkward.]

Comrade, rest assured, if I was in a relationship with someone and they altered the memories of someone else? I probably wouldn't leave them for it. This is the Barge. Having low standards is probably a good way to operate here, in terms of what relationships you're in.

[And now that that's settled:]

All right, Comrade, what's your system? Can you show me?

Prefect. I'm pleased to meet you, Gaheris Rhade! Are you an inmate here? Or a Warden?

[Huh.]

[This raises an important question.]

Why don't you like handshakes?

What do Time Lords do instead?

Yes, Comrade, you can offer me some advice.

But Comrade how could he? How could he ever know what it was you wanted in your mind? How could he ever understand what it is that you've lost, Brother?

It's always up to you whether you take your inmate's power off you.

But what I've... discovered, and hopefully, not too late, is that if you start using someone's power like a reward, or punishment, if they were born with it, it's not the best idea.

Because you... you'll end up as reliant on their power as a method of control as much as they are on it in the first place. It's important to remember that, when we're done, they've got to go out there and live with their power.

I'm not saying this because I think I've done it right, but because I've had to consider my approach several times.

He couldn't.

But all I need to do is tell him to get rid of my memories of being here. That's all I need.

Yeah, well, usually he's not that much of a moron. You get enough floods and ports and people killing you, and it eventually fucks with your judgement. And he'd defend something he cared about with his life. Quite possibly the worst feeling in the world is watching someone you care about- [and he stops, because Prefect doesn't need to know this and Narvin doesn't care if people give a crap about him.

He still has to defend his pet Time Lord, though, and it's nice to finally be in a position where he can.]

First of all, do you have anyone that you absolutely trust? That you would tell anything to?

An inmate. [Something that he hates, because he does know he made a mistake somewhere. The future Tyr told him about is proof enough of that.] You've not docked your inmates abilities? And they had no limitations when he came in?

[Flat voice, but someone is jealous. He wants his boneblades back.]

Allowing touch invites potential threats to gain a foothold in one's mind.

Time Lords traditionally bow to each other when formally greeting strangers or acquaintances.

Yeah, you might be reading into that one a bit much. [Time for a change of argument!] Besides, you were the one who worked me. Or are we just pretending that didn't happen?

[Even longer pause.] My what?

[Barron's primary objective is screwing with people for fun and profit. :c]

See, that's the thing. If you have the power to give me influence, the moment you're gone is the moment I'm gone. I don't have a problem with being the wingman.

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