[It was more than just plastic surgery, it was surgery and gene mods and eight-hour sessions of feeling like he was being stabbed in the face with a rusty screwdriver. It was studying Jack's actions, the way he walked, the inflections of his voice, and then doing it while pointing a gun at somebody's face and pulling the trigger.]
[But he was an actor. A victim of his own poor decisions and Hyperion's opportunism, maybe, but not of brainwashing.]
It was... they hadn't done that to me. The whole Clockwork Orange thing, I mean.
[Not yet, anyway. But Tim was also nothing more than property to Jack, so if the boss decided that Tim's acting just wasn't cutting it anymore, that it needed to be stepped up, well. You could do whatever you wanted to your own property.]
That room that I was in? With the, with all that stuff? It's not real, or it wasn't when I was on Helios, anyway.
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Date: 2019-05-07 01:30 am (UTC)[But he was an actor. A victim of his own poor decisions and Hyperion's opportunism, maybe, but not of brainwashing.]
It was... they hadn't done that to me. The whole Clockwork Orange thing, I mean.
[Not yet, anyway. But Tim was also nothing more than property to Jack, so if the boss decided that Tim's acting just wasn't cutting it anymore, that it needed to be stepped up, well. You could do whatever you wanted to your own property.]
That room that I was in? With the, with all that stuff? It's not real, or it wasn't when I was on Helios, anyway.