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You are two men buried beneath the guilt of decades, and trying, in your individual ways, to atone—no matter what it costs you. By this point, neither of you cares about saving your own life, and each cares far more for the safety of the other.
Few others are privy to the information that you use, daily, to save lives, and you must never let that information come to light.
To protect the women you cherished, you gave them up; they trusted you more than they should have, and you dared not let them get close to you again.
You hadn’t even met each other until “The Man in the Suit” decided to pair you up.
The corruption around you is hard to deal with; you’ve both felt, at times, like you’re treading water, unable to do anything to stem the tide. And, in many ways, you still don’t see eye to eye.
But you both want to do the right thing, and you’ve got the courage to do so even when it’s hard. And you’ve been instrumental in turning bad situations into good ones, saving lives and seeing justice done; you wouldn’t trade that feeling for the world.
You’ve always felt apart from the people around you. The way they feel has never made much sense to you; the things they care about have never mattered to you.
Your brains just don’t work the same.
In fact, it had been easier when you could just do what you had to do, when you didn’t have to care about other people. But then, unexpectedly, you found people to care about. Some of them enemies, at first, but eventually allies, and friends… and more.
Something beyond yourself, uniting you all in a common cause, as long as you can survive.