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Referencing this meme from Moon Knight 😛

Harley had been convinced to join forces with Safe Haven after a lot of discussion: with Elodie, with Poppy, and with Doey, just to name the main characters in play. Even after the latter had tentatively allowed the Doctor entry to their home—which took a lot of convincing on Elodie and Poppy's part—the other experiments tended to either keep their distance, outright run away from him, or would simple sit or stand and glare at him.

He doesn't say anything about it. He knows why they're behaving this way, and he doesn't begrudge them for it.

Still, despite understanding, it's gotten a bit annoying at best...and somewhat lonely at worst.

That's why, when he hears someone approaching from behind, Harley doesn't initially bother to look back. He assumes they're just passing by at a bit closer range than most. When they get too close, however, he finally lifts his hooded head and turns the TV affixed atop his neck around so its screen, displaying that singular tired eye, faces Elodie.

Its pupil flicks downward, towards the offered bracelet. Purple and black, with white squares bearing the letters, 'H' and 'S' to stand for his name.

It blinks, then lifts its gaze back up to Elodie's face.

"...that's for me?"

"Well, yeah. I made one for everyone. Includes you, Harley." Not 'Doctor'. Harley. She wouldn't have liked to humanize him before, but... he is human, and to suggest otherwise would be reductive. "Humans" and "monsters" are one in the same, both capable of becoming or being seen as the other. All of them are one in the same.

She rubs the back of her neck sheepishly, her free hand still carefully holding her work. "...Um... I mean—to me, it's like... something to connect all of us? You're one of us now, even if not everyone is super friendly... they still appreciate your help. I, uh—I know I do."

She can't forget, nor really forgive—how can she, when she's surrounded by the awful things he's done to her and her family, when she's faced with it in the mirror? But... she couldn't just turn him away; not when he could be a very powerful ally.