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[likethetragedy]

[Funny thing about Elektra: when she's not being unnecessarily paranoid, she's reckless. After throwing caution to the wind and sampling this, she's happy for the first time in years. There's a soft smile on her lips as she addresses the camera. She's holding what people might recognize as the note accompanying the chocolate sent out.]

"Where love might bring about sorrow, it also welcomes joy." [She flips the card over in her hand and sets it down offscreen.] It's a nice sentiment. True too.

[A beat.] What do people around here do to make themselves happy anyways? [They can't all be emotionless robots like her.]

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[sufferably]

Shame, that. ( though he can empathize. )

Might be that you're overthinking it.

[likethetragedy]

[Elektra laughs. She spends 90% of her life stuck in her head.] That's probably exactly it. I guess I was hoping someone had an easy answer for me.

[Which is uncharacteristically lazy of her. Perhaps she just wanted an excuse to talk to people.]

[sufferably]

Easiest thing I can think of is eating a banana.

( that makes sense, he promises. )

[likethetragedy]

How does that help?

[sufferably]

They contain tyrosine. Which your body needs to make dopamine.

So, basically, scientific happiness.

[likethetragedy]

[Wow that is an easy solution. Color Elektra vaguely impressed.] I'll take that under advisement. Are you a doctor?

[sufferably]

( he smiles ruefully, inclines his head. )

I've been known to operate under that assumption, yeah.

[likethetragedy]

Lucky me. I don't usually get free medical advice. [There's no chance in hell the pills she carried around with her back home were prescribed by one.]

[sufferably]

If anyone's charging you just for advice, they're probably a hack.

( he has a cushy salary and can afford to say shit like that. )

[likethetragedy]

Noted. Is this your way of recommending yourself as a replacement?

[sufferably]

To be honest, I prefer it when people don't need me.

But if you do, I wouldn't say no.