[Normie can't help himself... he laughs.] Okay, okay! You win. I'll take it. See, I'm putting it in my mouth.
[And he does, biting off a corner of it so he can draw out having to answer that latter part.] Thanks, Peter, but honestly... this is nothing I'm not already used to. The Osborn legacy had been tainted back when I could barely talk, and even though my mom and Franklin tried to keep me from that, people have always been watching me, waiting for me to snap and be the next Goblin. I used to think that was a good thing. [He sighs and looks down at the brownie.] Or maybe I never did, but I just thought I should...
Anyway, the "Legacy of Evil" as Phil's uncle so eloquently put it years ago has followed me my entire life. Once I was able to conquer that legacy, I was determined to change it. I made the Goblin a force for good, and I was getting ready to do the same for the Osborn Corporation. Now I'm here, and I get to do it all over again... only I get to help take down my grandfather in the process.
[He sighs again. Everything about his grandfather is complicated.]
I hate him for everything he's done, but my brain still wants to remember him as the friendly man who took me to work with him and gave me toys. Like, I know now it was all an act, but I was 6.
[Normie freezes after he says that last part. Crap, he hadn't meant to say that out loud.]
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[And he does, biting off a corner of it so he can draw out having to answer that latter part.] Thanks, Peter, but honestly... this is nothing I'm not already used to. The Osborn legacy had been tainted back when I could barely talk, and even though my mom and Franklin tried to keep me from that, people have always been watching me, waiting for me to snap and be the next Goblin. I used to think that was a good thing. [He sighs and looks down at the brownie.] Or maybe I never did, but I just thought I should...
Anyway, the "Legacy of Evil" as Phil's uncle so eloquently put it years ago has followed me my entire life. Once I was able to conquer that legacy, I was determined to change it. I made the Goblin a force for good, and I was getting ready to do the same for the Osborn Corporation. Now I'm here, and I get to do it all over again... only I get to help take down my grandfather in the process.
[He sighs again. Everything about his grandfather is complicated.]
I hate him for everything he's done, but my brain still wants to remember him as the friendly man who took me to work with him and gave me toys. Like, I know now it was all an act, but I was 6.
[Normie freezes after he says that last part. Crap, he hadn't meant to say that out loud.]