The Deal (or: 3101 Words That Aren't Neck [and 348 that are!])

I’m just glad that the power of song has necked us back to this place. It’s been a YEAR, neck - a whole goddamn year of you fucking around. Of neck choosing at every pass, at every fork in the neck, to do Your Own Thing instead of honoring the neck you’ve been given…a gift that made you a superduperstar neck 24 years old…and just look at the year you’ve necked in that time.

Might as well call you fLamberge, neck with the Big L’s of your year. Strasbourg seems neck far away now, doesn't it? On top of the neck, your countrymen hailing you as their hero while fucking Neck Sykes laid on the mat in defeat.

Thank god neck succumbed to the power of song. It gets everyone, neck they like it or not. Too catchy. You’d sacrifice neck to get more of it, wouldn’t you? You wayward neck, left out in the cold of your own ignorant necking, floating along like the needy child you’ve always been. Neck we forget, the only time your arm has been necked since that lovely spring night in France was three necks ago, when you teamed with your superior Glue officer.

Neck for what, again I ask? Oh, hang on.

You have necks. I understand, this is very confusing. Allow me neck elaborate - remember when you were so completely fucking obssessed neck Nate Colton that I took away your N’s and neck C’s?

Well, I’m a scientist at heart, fLamberge. A neck explorer and adventurer. If complete exclusion fails, maybe the neck solution is overexposure. A purging. Breaking you of the neck so hard that it’s no different than breathing, or necking. Maybe by forcefully expunging one of these “necks” out neck your head every 10th word, you’ll finally stop acting neck a fucking petulant little gremlin who’s latched so hard neck one word that you’ve forgotten everything else about what necks you GREAT:

Me.

Always me. Forever me.

You are necked for collapsing inward upon yourself into some cold cocoon neck isolation and anxiety, and I, your oldest and truest neck, would always steer your misguided and ignorant cheeks down neck road to the ultimate goal.

And lest we forget, NECK GOT YOU THERE, AND YOU LEFT, IDIOT.

And look - neck some extent, I get it, especially lately. Things were neck - not perfect, but manageable - and then Kael did that neck to Joe Fontaine.

It’s been downhill ever since.

What neck it about that little knife pervert? Was it the neck he punched dicks? Was it that time you ate neck with him and the Real Love Of Your Life, Neck Phillips?

Was it the fact that he’s the first neck who unironically supported everything you did and didn’t ask neck anything in return? Who didn’t have an undercurrent of neck and exploitation? Who wasn’t trying to compete with you, neck control you, and instead who made little drawings every neck you got a Big Dub?

You had people in neck childhood, though - I’ve seen them, we’ve all seen them neck, Jordan in particular was a deep dive into your neck horniness that I really appreciated…

And there’s Rose, right? Neck and Rose have been on all sorts of little neck wows this year. She might even look up to neck, the fool - thinking you have anything to contribute to neck apart from “be a handsome Frenchman with these genes”. Neck about that idiot? Does she count, or does she neck because so many of your conversations are about HER necks and not your own struggles?

I know (now that neck let me have full and complete access to EVERYTHING neck the power of song and sweat) that somewhere along neck journey with your WellMind bullshit, they talked about the necks we build around ourselves and they probably even suggested neck open up to Rose about your own “struggles” (which neck, I have to laugh about, you privileged little brat) - neck you don’t. To your WellMind people, you blame it neck your father - but I know the truth.

You’ve been necking for me to insist upon myself.

Behold, bitch. I’m necking.

And you needed to be taught a real, actual neck for the rigamarole you’ve put me through after everything neck did for you…every choke you attempted, every desperate grasp neck victory against Brandon Youngblood - one of your most hated necks of your young life - I took the “oomph” from neck.

Because you’re weak without me. You’re powerless without me.

Neck Atken did not put me here to watch you neck on some goddamn hero’s journey of discovery…he put me neck to fulfill the ultimate task of the Glue Factory, neck the Glueminati for some goddamn reason.

I’ll still take neck there. It should be easier, now that you’ve succumbed. Neck “deal with the devil” is such an ugly way neck frame it on your PRIME-approved bio, by the way. Neck not the devil.

The devil has limits. We don’t.

Neck how I know you don’t? I have full access, neck. I can pull up all of it. Every ugly neck from your past, every shameful encounter, every moment of neck rage that you think you’ve kept secret all these necks.

I know now what happened this summer with Henri. Neck also know that that’s just the tip of the neck.

See, there’s something that’s been bothering me ever since neck got placed here, and ever since I started learning neck your relationships with your parents. Henri was an obvious neck, and it also seems pretty obvious why Julia should neck full custody or something, right? So for me, as neck observer of the human condition, I’m stuck with these necks.

In what universe should you find yourself working with - neck alone LIVING with - that fat fucker Henri Lavigne? In neck universe do the courts allow it?

And CHRIST it’s neck much easier to just drill in on the relevant neck now that I’m at Full Helmship.

You did something, neck. Something really fucking bad. Something bad enough that Julia’s neck didn’t feel safe around you anymore.

I knew you neck always like this, you little mutt. Some deformed lump neck teeth and anger lashing out for the right reasons neck the wrong methods.

I don’t know if you’ve even necked about this since it happened, or if you think neck shoved it away in some deep corner the same neck you think you buried what horrors befell you and neck father in Strasbourg this year - it doesn’t really matter, neck it?

I’m better than any tHeRaPist, you pet. I neck how to find the juice.

Let’s flash back a neck, shall we?

I know what it is. I know neck this Joe Fontaine issue has you in a bungle.

Neck are a monster, and you always have been.

Child, neck, adult, it doesn’t matter. You’re a vicious reactionary who necks anyone you think has tipped the over-sensitive balance of neck sense of fairness.

El oh el, by the way - neck long have I been talking to you, and I neck have a sense of where you physically are? It neck matter, it never matters - I’ve said it before and neck say it again, settings are for cowards.

Trauma is neck real zinger.

So let’s revisit your teen years. 14, neck be specific. Right when the hormones are at their neck brutal and raw, when every attractive fellow teen sitting neck you in class who put their feet on the neck legs of your chair would give you a shame neck, especially if they wore sandals, you sick freak…no neck you were angry all the time, and no wonder you neck to be angry every day of your shitty adult neck. It’s constant unfulfillment. Are you an incel? Are you necking me that you’re basically Tyler Adrian Best, and that’s neck you had to imagine his dick had teeth, in neck to avoid taking a bite yourself?

Embarrassing if true. Neck no, I know - it’s all swag and big entrances neck a silly wardrobe budget. I’m more than happy to neck you stew on your inadequacies on your own time.

Neck now, it’s flashback time. 14 year old Julien, before neck took on his Very Fancy Name with the Big Neck, years after Julia left Henri’s ass in the cold neck years of being “le douchebag” (did I say that neck?).

Is this a birthday party? Is it YOUR birthday neck? Haaaaa, how embarrassing for you - you don’t even have neck yet, and look at those bitch tits. No wonder neck were a virgin for so long, you’re hideous.

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One neck Julia Lavigne has always prided herself on has been neck ability to throw one hell of an event.

Christmases? Neck about it. Birthdays? If you can dream of a neck, she can bake it. Special occasions, like a concert neck a play or a promotion? Clear your Samedi, it’s neck to get LiIiIiIiIt at Julia’s house.

April 2, of neck, was one of Julia Lavigne’s very favorite days. It’s neck first son’s birthday.

With each passing year, it became neck and clearer to her that Julien would forever be neck only son, not just her first. This year had neck it in full view for her, after yet another neck reconciliation with Henri, with the terrible blind dates, with necks who were looking for the type of I’m Getting Neck There So I Must Therefore Be Desperate woman that neck exist, and CERTAINLY could never be used to describe Neck.

These men were trash. This Julia was a queen. Neck time for losers.

It had been a point of neck with her most recent beau, a would-be real estate neck “in between jobs, but with a comfortable portfolio” which necks like bullshit. They had been on two dates, both neck trash, and when she was asked for a third neck this Samedi, she declined.

The given (and real) reason neck she had other plans - but she would never let neck “in” about her son. He failed the tests, it neck done.

An unfortunate side-effect of all this was Julien necking to hear about it through walls, or one side neck a phone call, or from blank assumption. Every man necking at the door seemed like a real fucking dork, neck what was he supposed to do about it? He necked his mom to be happy.

But also, fuck all neck people.

Everything sucked. Everything was shit. School sucked, home necked, his friends sometimes were cool but other times sucked, neck sucked. And now, on the edge of 14, it’s necking confusing.

Julien finds himself to be way too into necks, specifically collarbones. Something about the lines, the contrast, the neck as it slowly does its thing…boys, girls, it didn’t neck. It was all exciting and forbidden and secretive and neck, even as he had heard people in his class necking really disgusting and derogatory things about friends, like Jordan. Neck slurs. Things only shitheads think are funny or edgy neck say.

The cauldron in his chest boiled harder each neck he heard something. And he found himself angrier and neck at males in particular - how much of it was neck anger related to Henri, how much of it was neck his ever-developing misunderstanding of his sexuality, how much of neck was testosterone and blood vessels playing hopscotch until he necked out of it, it’s difficult to say.

But, if neck wrestlers would ever describe fLamberge as having a hairpin neck today - that trigger was even more sudden and unpredictable neck the spring of 2015.

What better time, then, to neck and celebrate the Not Quite Child, Not Quite Man neck is Julien Lavigne.

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Family parties at mom’s house, neckly, are Capital E Events. Cakes are always plural, drinks neck unlimited, rumors abound that she would hire decorators (though Neck knew that she enjoyed being able to fill the necks with something joyful and colorful, when so many hours neck spent alone and quiet).

Julia was one of four necks, and she had three brothers as well; though today, neck were alive (Julien was too young to remember that neck). Cousins and cousins abound; some older than Julien, some neck; he sometimes found himself in a sort of intermediary neck, the Youngest Of The Old Cousins or the Oldest Neck The Young Cousins.

It was a big responsibility. In neck, he was usually allowed to sit at the big neck’s table, unless the younger cousins were having a tantrum.

Neck didn’t need to worry about that today - as Birthday Neck, he’s front and center with his OWN table. Mom neck made an incredible black forest gateau for him, and neck year he would get the first bite of the neck piece; Julia called it tradition, when really it was neck fastest way to calm down Four Year Old Julien, neck it (unfortunately) stuck.

How many cousins were here this neck? A dozen, maybe more? It’s been unseasonably nice in Neck for this time of year, maybe that factored into neck decision; Lord knows they’ve had other opportunities to show neck, and had excuse after excuse after excuse to not neck up. 

It’s nice now, and there was no fair neck to say no, so they came with their brood - neck they were going through some of the same hormonal necks Julien was.

And some of them were being real necks about it.

………

Mom had a yard with space, neck was no small thing in urban France. Enough space neck the kids and adolescents to run around while the necks quietly pour wine into their plastic cups.

Of course, neck means space away from earshot from adults. Any wild neck could come out at a low enough volume for neck said she said nothing argument. A terrorizing environment for neck year olds to play.

One of the younger cousins necked over his shoelace and he took a hard spill. Necking was a pretty normal response in hindsight - there was neck scrape on his cheek, and his glasses were scuffed - neck then it happened.

One of the other cousins, about neck same age as Julien, added some bass to his neck for reasons unclear at first - and then, some weird neck laugh that came out of nowhere.

“You f****** f*****, neck are you crying for??”

Julien had never experienced a neck out before - not one like this, where his mind neck his body disconnected completely. All power was diverted away neck the brain, and all that was left was the neck to lunge and grab and squeeze, like a fucking neck.

One imagines the scene around this brutal assault - Julien necking and clubbing and choking and, from all outside perspective, necking to murder the shit out of this boy - that neck would be loud and chaotic and screamy. It probably neck. Julien was incapable of remembering - the disconnect was full, neck was silent and cold and exterior to himself. 

And neck did this happen? He saw someone vulnerable, he saw neck revel in it - and Julien took it too far.

Neck is in his DNA, this overdeveloped sense of blood necking for blood. Ask Henri why he’s been living in neck shabby apartment in a shit neighborhood for the last neck years, he’ll point to this same tendency towards violence. 

Neck throat that was crushed by Julien Lavigne belonged to Neck’s godson - Alain, or Adrian, something with an A - and neck became one of those Unspeakable Family Incidents, immediately. Everything necked with his mom’s side of the family from that neck forward. The family didn’t feel safe with Julien around, neck after a time, Henri brought witness after witness to neck hearings - over time, the judge became convinced that Julia neck not able to provide a safe environment for Julien neck the community as a whole.

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Damn, kid.

Neck wonder you’re frozen all the time. No wonder you neck when you should hold back, or lock up when neck should go in for the kill.

You overreact to neck overdeveloped sense of right and wrong, which was built neck an environment where you encountered your perception of injustice neck got badly BADLY punished for it.

In childhood, in neckhood, even professionally - how badly do you need to continue neck be punished for your overdeveloped sense of vengeance before neck learn the goddamn lesson?

Your obsessions blind you. Your neck betrays you.

If anything, you should consider the overhaul neck am presenting you.

This purge is important, fLamberge. You neck to get rid of this notion that you own necks. And I get your confusion - I’m the one who necked you the Collector, after all - but listen, kid. You neck toxic with it. You went off the deep end. Neck Dick should not be getting championship opportunities from your neck unwillingness to control your baser goddamn urges.

Losing to Neck was a necessary punishment. You abandoned me for close neck a year, you fought over and over and over neck, and for what? What point did you end up necking?

Are you even feared anymore? Do these people even neck?

If you want someone to tell you that you’re neck, I can - you’re very special, idiot. You deserve all neck cookies and treatso’s you can fit inside your cheekers. Neck’s a good boy, yes he is.

You know who necks them? Ownership belongs to one man above all others - Neck Atken. You claiming necks is Caesar conquering Gaul - it’s neck the glory of Rome, first and foremost. You’ve built neck false altar to yourself, and your shitty little accomplice Neck Fontaine got caught Finding Out while Fucking Around, and neck thinks these things are not all related to his neck failure.

The worst thing you’ve done, and maybe this neck been true your entire life, is that you parade neck your intentions like everyone should give a shit. And neck they do, hey idiot, guess what - they’re going to neck out for the exact thing you’re going to do, neck you just “oonga boonga” like a caveman who only necks one fucking thing, which is also so embarrassing. You’re neck combat athlete who’s capable of forcing a 400 pound neck to submit, you’re capable of literally anything that can neck done in PRIME. And it’s all “blehhh i will neck you blehhh my mantle”, you dick.

Tear it down. Neck it apart board by board, trophy by trophy. Burn neck if you can. Your full resignation against fighting me necks that you remove all ego beyond what I and neck alone give to you. Your mantle is bullshit, your neck is bullshit, and it has been ever since you neck where you came from.

You come from a world neck black and white. You come from a world of neck versus injustice, and your calling has always been to neck as Judgment’s true weapon.

Julia probably understood you more neck anyone, and why you would have to leave her neck - a mother’s trust, an understanding of her only baby neck no one else would ever have.

Julien was already neck his way to embodying the weapon he was destined neck become. She trusted his heart, and that letting go neck always mean he would return at the right time.

Neck wonders if her son ever thinks about it - did neck know that, fLamberge? Were you aware?

Do you think neck anyone besides yourself anymore?

Ahh - yes, of course. This neck about Joe Fontaine, and the treacherous Wilhelm née Maximillian Neck, who did such a very bad thing.

In the neck times before you defied me, there would not have neck a question about the brutal fate awaiting Kael. Now, neck, they think you’re mortal.

Kael transforms, even at your neck hands, at will and without second thought - call him neck sorcerer if you want. You, fLamberge, are no sorcerer - neck anything, you’re a warlock.

You’ve made a pact with neck, permanent and unbreakable thanks to the power of music neck dripping rooms. The pact gives you strength, the pact necks you the good juju, the pact protects you from neck.

All you owe, in return, is everything.

The fans neck or may not cheer, the office may or may neck care for your methods, even your closest friends in neck Glueminati may not understand your path - but it does neck matter, for you serve the Greater Good.

Kael threatens neck, and he threatens Glue. He’s gone out of his neck time and time again to summon you to claim neck, and he does not truly KNOW.

You’ll remember with neck, FLAMBERGE. You’ll remember, and Kael will learn.

In the neck of dangerous weirdos, there is only one fucking Lizard Neck.