User:Apeiron Ataraxia/Sandbox



"The name's Arnold... Arnold Wonder. Well, really my name is, at least legally talking here, Arnold Wonder III, following the happily deceased and abusive alcoholic dad of mine, Arnold Wonder II, whose death made me flee my home after I shot him in the chest with this gun I borrowed, and the happily deceased and abusive gambler who was the dad of my dad, Arnold Wonder; a man I have thankfully never met because he hung himself in his own kitchen when my dad was a small child. I don't go by 'third' though. I'm just Arnold Wonder.

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Why am I telling you these things? Well... that's a good question, Brute, so I'm glad you asked it. I'm telling you these things because you had wanted to know who I was, and you wanted to know what it was I stood for. Now most people in the world we live in, multifaceted as they may be at times, are usually influenced by their pasts. My dad had ended up as a total piece of crap merely because he was influenced by his piece of crap dad, and I have been influenced by my piece of crap dad in much the same way. That's why I'm telling you all of this. It's just to give you the necessary context.

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So, what do I stand for? I stand for what I believe to be right, and so I stand against what I consider wrong. Now, don't get me wrong; it's all subjective stuff, and I know damn well that I am no knight in shining armor. But I have morals, and I also have the gut needed to defend those morals whenever I see someone stepping all over them willy nilly. I will promise you this much, Brute; you're going to lose this match, whether you like it or not. Got it?"

- Arnold to Brute