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"I'm here to tell you, Ed, as a friend, that violence and anger are not the answer."
Ed fidgeted where he stood, unsettled by the abnormal sight in front of him. He'd let a doppelgänger into his home, some disturbing specter of his only friend that had filed down teeth and talons.
"I'm a changed man," not-Oswald continued. "Better. And you can change too."
He smiled stupidly, all soft and rounded, only emphasized by the swaths of tar and feathers hanging off his cheap clothes. This wasn’t the ruthless, vile man he'd rescued from near-death, this was a facsimile, a fake.
A shell they'd stuffed the real Penguin into.
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Ed doesn't turn Oswald away when he shows up at his door and instead decides to put his newest plot on hold to restore his friend back to the man he knew. By any means necessary.