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[catchacold]

We're already in some magical land that makes our dreams come true - mostly the bad ones - so let's think about the impossible some more.

[Leonard may be calling it "impossible" mostly to heckle one specific Brit, given he's travelled through time himself, but maybe it will also flush out other time travellers. May be interesting.]

If you could travel to any point in history, where and when would you go, and why?

Also, if you could travel to any point in your own personal history, your lifetime... Same questions.

Would you try to change anything?

[He has experience with trying and the resulting failure too.]

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Re: text.

[directed]

Not the kind of Legend I was referring to, actually.

[catchacold]

Look, it's really hard to discuss terminology with you when you change the definition of words without giving me a heads up.

[directed]

I'm sure you can figure out what I mean.

[catchacold]

Apparently I ain't even legendary enough to be introduced to the new Legends added to the team, so I'll think of my fame as fleeting.

[directed]

[…Ah.]

As I've yet to experience their recruitment myself, I cannot speak as to the reason for such an omission with any certainty. Yet I suspect It's somehow rooted in the fact that Dr. Heyward is in fact a new addition to the team from his perspective. From what I was able to gather, he hasn't been on for very long.

Beyond that—your loss was keenly felt, Leonard, and not only by Mick. You know that our team doesn't speak of such things easily.

[catchacold]

I'm not exactly torn up over it.

[Torn up, blown up, whatever.]

I've made my impact before you ever recruited me, I ain't worried about Central City forgetting me any time soon, at least the wrong side of the tracks. I didn't join your mission so lots of people would know who I am.

[directed]

Oh, as Captain Cold, certainly. If you hadn't, I wouldn't have made the offer.

[But it does beg the question, doesn't it? And perhaps in the answer, Rip might be able to figure out what Leonard is after.]

So why did you decided to join? Or to stay, for that matter, after you all realized I'd deceived you?

[catchacold]

Captain Cold was a short gig. I've been running things on and off in Central long before I got the gun. Not that it wasn't fun.

Handful of reasons. Time travel seemed interesting. I wanted to see if I could change things. In my life. I also just wanted to do it. Who wouldn't want that opportunity?

Plus, I really wanted Savage dead.

[directed]

Short but memorable. [Life altering in so many ways. Somehow in procuring the gun and adopting a role as a archenemy to a superhero, something in Leonard Snart had changed. History had been quiet clear on this point--although Rip doesn't say as much.]

Who wouldn't? Jax for one; if you'll recall, Martin wound up having to drug the poor lad. [Which, you know. Didn't exactly stop Rip shooting off to 1975 with the young man in tow.]

To change things--you mean like you tried when you stole that emerald? [Not that it had worked out, but. Rip can understand the desire at the very least. Though it might not come through in text, his question isn't meant unkindly.]

[catchacold]

Yeah. I underestimated my father's stubborn idiocy. Which is surprising, cause you'd think it's the one thing I'd never ever forget.

You can't time travel without wondering what if. But I'm not that fond of it.
Part of why I break the mirror in my room all the time.

[directed]

You were hopeful that things could change. It's hardly your fault that there were larger forces at work—including your father's stubborn idiocy.

[But also perhaps the Time Masters—and if not them, Rip thinks, then time itself.

Destiny.]

It's better not to be—you can drive yourself mad considering all the ways any given event might have played out different. [Particularly with time travel thrown into the mix; it's something Rip knows better than most.] But beyond that, Leonard?

I think the person you are is who you were meant to be. Certainly you weren't given an easy path to walk, nor are you a saint by any means.

But in the end, you've become a better man for all of that. Or at the very least, less bad of one.