Newt doesn't plan on telling the guy there'd apparently been a different version of him running around Darrow for a bit, that's never a conversation he wants to have with anyone. He hates the idea of telling someone that almost as much as he hates the very possibility that someone might one day tell him they recognize him from some shitty movie or TV show. There's just something about realizing he could be fictional that makes him feel invalidated, like his whole life is a lie, even though he's lived it.
Anyway, it doesn't make much sense, so Newt's happy enough to actively not let it dwell on his mind.
"Y'know, I met a guy once who looked pretty much exactly like you," Newt tells him instead. That's a little more fun and yet, still somewhat harmless. "Darrow's weird like that, in case you hadn't notice the whole doppelganger thing yet. You'll get used to the place, though. It kinda grows on you. Mostly because you have no choice but to let it."
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Newt doesn't plan on telling the guy there'd apparently been a different version of him running around Darrow for a bit, that's never a conversation he wants to have with anyone. He hates the idea of telling someone that almost as much as he hates the very possibility that someone might one day tell him they recognize him from some shitty movie or TV show. There's just something about realizing he could be fictional that makes him feel invalidated, like his whole life is a lie, even though he's lived it.
Anyway, it doesn't make much sense, so Newt's happy enough to actively not let it dwell on his mind.
"Y'know, I met a guy once who looked pretty much exactly like you," Newt tells him instead. That's a little more fun and yet, still somewhat harmless. "Darrow's weird like that, in case you hadn't notice the whole doppelganger thing yet. You'll get used to the place, though. It kinda grows on you. Mostly because you have no choice but to let it."