(  dialogue  prompts  taken from episodes 1 - 4  of max's  the  penguin  (2024),  created  by  lauren  lefranc.  feel  free  to  edit  and  change  as  you  seem  fit.. )

❛ i see you've made yourself at home. ❜

❛ so this new deal you got going... maybe i can help. ❜

❛ you know what i like most about you? you are who you are. you couldn't change if you tried. ❜

❛ you got a girl? good looking guy like you... ❜

❛ can you imagine? to be remembered like that? revered? ❜

❛ you really think people’d make a float of your dumb face and march it down the street, chanting your goddamn name? ❜

❛ you messed with the wrong fucking guy on the wrong fucking night. ❜

❛ you’re gonna do everything i say. or else i’ll murder you and, uh... anyone you care about. ❜

❛ what do you think of this? it’s a little air freshener. aqua paradise. you smell it? ❜

❛ we used to go there every day in the summer. you know, we’d mix the flavors for a suicide. you ever mix the flavors? ❜

❛ i ain’t trying to get in your business, but... i need an alibi. ❜

❛ i asked for extra pickles, and they give me two? so what, a normal amount of pickles is one? makes no goddamn sense. ❜

❛ there’s a nice sunrise behind you. you should take a look. ❜

❛ i could help you with whatever it is. whatever you need, whatever it is, all right? ❜

❛ well, maybe it’d be useful, keeping you around. for now. ❜

❛ but if you step out of line just once, i swear to god, i’ll gut you like a fucking fish. do you understand? ❜

❛ all right, listen, if i don’t come out... nah, i’ll be fine. you’ll be fine. it’s gonna be fine. ❜

❛ you know, maybe you don’t like me. that’s fine. i’m an acquired taste. ❜

❛ i’ve been rehabilitated. ❜

❛ you’ve really moved up in the world, haven’t you? ❜

❛ are you nervous? i’d hate for you to feel nervous with me. ❜

❛ you know, people underestimate you, but not me. i’ve always known you were capable of more. ❜

❛ this city is meant to be yours, sweetheart. what are you gonna do to get it? ❜

❛ the world wasn’t built for guys like us. that’s why we gotta take whatever we decide is ours. ❜

❛ but i gotta know. no bullshit. can i count on you to pull through? ❜

❛ i know who you are. i know what you are. i don’t work with people whose loyalty is for sale. ❜

❛ i’m gonna run this goddamn city. and i want you in on it. ❜

❛ i'm not safe. i'm home. ❜

❛ very, very convenient that, all of a sudden, you’re on my side. ❜

❛ you are scrambling for whatever dignity you have left and you’re hoping i will save you. ❜

❛ rough night, detective? ❜

❛ i refuse to let these old fucking men push me aside again, like i’m nothing. so, i’m going to take from them now. ❜

❛ you in? ❜

❛ let's dance. ❜

❛ you act like wanting more is a bad thing, but, i mean, don’t you want a better life than this? ❜

❛ are we, uh, kinda... partners now? ❜

❛ i mean, you fucked up. huge. but you learned, right? ❜

❛ whaddaya think the new clothes are for? you’re my guy. can’t have you lookin’ like a schmuck. ❜

❛ and from now on, you want something, you ask for it. ❜

❛ how’s anyone supposed know your worth unless you tell ’em, huh? ❜

❛ man of the hour, i was just thinking about you... ❜

❛ you do anything stupid, i’ll sense it. ❜

❛ that’s why you’re here. you seem to know everybody’s business. so, now’s your time to shine. ❜

❛ you’ve got a good thing going here. i’m really happy for you. ❜

❛ i know you’re not right in the head. i mean, that’s pretty damn clear. but i’m not scared of you. ❜

❛ you think i’d come here empty-handed? come on, we both know that if i ever truly left you hanging, there'd be a bullet between my eyes. ❜

❛ i got a real opportunity for you here, but it’s kinda hard to focus with a gun pointed at my face. ❜

❛ you got fight in you. you gotta let it out. ❜

❛ you’re fun at a card game, or over drinks, i’ll give you that. but people don’t keep you around because they think you’re smart. and they sure as shit don’t trust you. ❜

❛ i wouldn’t ask you to do this if i didn’t know you could handle it. i believe in you, kid. ❜

❛ i can't tell who wants this move. me or you. ❜

❛ i want this for you. ❜

❛ what you did to me. was it worth it? did you get everything that you wanted? ❜

❛ you wanna go, what are you waiting for? fuckin’ go. ❜

❛ you coulda left whenever you wanted. but you chose to stay. how about you ask yourself why. ❜

❛ i fucked you over. that what you wanna hear? ❜

❛ i’m fuckin’ sorry for everything that’s happened to you. ❜

❛ you meant something to me. still do. ❜

❛ i don’t know where to go from here. i don’t know how to trust you. ❜

❛ you need a cigarette, take the edge off? ❜

❛ a lobotomy couldn’t take the edge off. ❜

❛ when the time comes, i want you to take my place. i want you to run this family... if that’s something that would interest you. ❜

❛ they know you're mine. they'll do as i say. ❜

❛ why would you do this now? picking away at old wounds... you know how it upsets me. ❜

❛ you still haven’t told me what you want for your birthday. ❜

❛ i don’t need your advice. i don’t care what you think. no one does. you are my driver. that is all you are. so stop talking and drive. ❜

❛ listen, i get that you’re angry, you know. but i was just doing my job, looking out for you. ❜

❛ i’m not gonna make it in a place like that. i’m gonna die in there. ❜

❛ it’s okay to be scared. i was scared at first, too, but it’s not so bad here. you get used to the noises. ❜

❛ a woman beat the shit out of me while everyone stood around and watched. so, yeah, i had an incident. ❜

❛ i don’t know how to convince you i’m sane when you’ve already made up your mind about me. ❜

❛ i told you i’m fucking innocent. ❜

❛ i’m gonna get you something to eat. if you wanna get cleaned up, there’s a towel and a change of clothes in the guest bath upstairs. ❜

❛ i trusted him... when everything in my body told me not to. i should have killed him when i had the chance. ❜

❛ you abandoned me. ❜

❛ i left because i had to. because i could. i know you didn’t have that choice, but I’m here now. ❜

❛ you don’t have to pretend with me. ❜

❛ i haven’t forgotten, you know? the way you looked at me. so curious. ❜

❛ what did it feel like? to get to watch a person unravel? and now, you’re numbing yourself as punishment. ❜

❛ they think i'm broken. i'm not broken. ❜

❛ i'm not the one who's sick. and neither are you. the world is. ❜

❛ for the first time, i have hope. ❜

ooc;; Just me rambling about two of my fav background characters lol all of this is nonsensical n totally just me p going over board w my ideas for a kids show like normal lol

Numbuh 23 and Numbuh 20,000 are twins. ( it’s called heteropaternal superfecundation: The biological phenomenon of giving birth to twins with two different biological fathers is called. )

Numbuh 20,000 and Numbuh 23 were in and out of foster care. Chester was one of their ‘foster parents’, but of course he was really running a business using the kids as free labor. Until one day they KND raid his place and rescues all the kids- That’s where the twins learn about the organization and decide to join it. At first Numbuh 23 was just in it for the free food and shelter, n the idea that her brother was safe. But she grew to love her job and see how much the KND really did for kids all over the world.

Numbuh 23 always has candy in her hair because of her job in the KND. She’s also always got a lollipop in her mouth.

Numbuh 20,000 suffers from panic attacks. His twin is the only one who can calm him down.

Numbuh 23 often worries about her brother because of how reckless he is and how willing / ready to throw his life away for the KND. She loves how loyal he is, but she’s so scared that she’ll lose him because of it. ( It’s happened before and she knows it would stop. )

She loses her leg in a battle. So she replaces it with a candy cane one, it’s as strong as a jawbreaker.

She’s constantly drawing up new ideas for weapons, often she’s get so lost in her head that she forgets to eat and sleep.

They both join the TND on their 13th birthday.

She goes on candy hunts with Sticky Beard. Numbuh 20,000 doesn’t like it. She’s even teamed with Abby a few times. She loves finding new candy to make weapons with / also just just stuff her face with.

Christina is the bio daughter of Karl and Kim Latchkey. But she was given up, unlike Doughy. ( Which they find out later maybe in their teen / early adulthood tht her and Doughy r siblings. )

It was Ms. Censordoll who ended up taking Christina and giving her to be raised by nuns. It wasn't long before Art and Poppit adopt her, bc Art is sterile. ( Which adds to his strong dislike of Block / Poppit's hardcore neglect of Block. Since she didn't care tht he left the family. )

She was forced to dye her hair brown to match her new family and to cover her freckles with make-up. ( Which her parents always tell her is a sin / egotism. )

ooc;; Just me rambling about two of my fav background characters lol all of this is nonsensical n totally just me p going over board w my ideas for a kids show like normal lol

Numbuh 23 and Numbuh 20,000 are twins. ( it’s called heteropaternal superfecundation: The biological phenomenon of giving birth to twins with two different biological fathers is called. )

Numbuh 20,000 and Numbuh 23 were in and out of foster care. Chester was one of their ‘foster parents’, but of course he was really running a business using the kids as free labor. Until one day they KND raid his place and rescues all the kids- That’s where the twins learn about the organization and decide to join it. At first Numbuh 23 was just in it for the free food and shelter, n the idea that her brother was safe. But she grew to love her job and see how much the KND really did for kids all over the world.

Numbuh 23 always has candy in her hair because of her job in the KND. She’s also always got a lollipop in her mouth.

Numbuh 20,000 suffers from panic attacks. His twin is the only one who can calm him down.

Numbuh 23 often worries about her brother because of how reckless he is and how willing / ready to throw his life away for the KND. She loves how loyal he is, but she’s so scared that she’ll lose him because of it. ( It’s happened before and she knows it would stop. )

She loses her leg in a battle. So she replaces it with a candy cane one, it’s as strong as a jawbreaker.

She’s constantly drawing up new ideas for weapons, often she’s get so lost in her head that she forgets to eat and sleep.

They both join the TND on their 13th birthday.

She goes on candy hunts with Sticky Beard. Numbuh 20,000 doesn’t like it. She’s even teamed with Abby a few times. She loves finding new candy to make weapons with / also just just stuff her face with.