[ unfortunate that i play a character that wouldn't judge the hell out of that and would instead enable it

but alas,

Elysium only looks faintly amused, smiling the same clandestine smile Sampo might come to recognise from their first encounter. An on the nose codename as it were, but one he'd chosen himself, a silly, little thing no one had ever picked at save for its theatrical quality, at least, to his face. ]

Everyone has those moments, no? Even the best of us. Me, you. What matters is what we decide to do afterwards. [ A beat. ] I'd like to think Elysium is what we make of it. Something we only find in ourselves, hm?

[ Anything could be argued as transient if you looked at it through the lens of intending to do so, anyhow. Say, their bus ride. Their exchanges. There's the unspoken irony in how they've established their tenuous connection based on picking up their minute cues. ]

Learning plenty about each other we are! But enough about all that. Are you acquainted with the man of the day or are you simply here to use this as an excuse to see lil ol' me?

[ we're going back to clown town or so help me ]