Deuce’s mother says she would often dress Deuce up in costume for White Rabbit Fes as a child, giving examples from before he entered elementary school and saying that he wouldn’t want to wear normal clothes.
She says that she would bring him to the festival every year “until all of a sudden he decided he was too big to come with me,” but when Deuce says “It’s perfectly normal to age out of hanging out with your mom,” she agrees, saying, “I was the same way when I was a teenager.”
Riddle asks if Deuce did any activities such as gymnastics when he was a child and Deuce says that, while he tried a lot of things, nothing really resonated and he had more fun “tearing around on a tricycle,” explaining, “My mom said I didn’t have to force myself to do anything, so I didn’t really get into any activities in a big way…”
Deuce says that pre-NRC he found being at home to be “kind of a drag.” Silver asks why, if that’s where his mother was, and Deuce responds, “Yeah, that’s kind of why… We didn’t see eye to eye in those days.”
Epel is scandalized by how Deuce doesn’t seem to know anything about his own hometown, and—embarrassed by his inability to answer any questions about where he’s from—Deuce tries to fill in the gaps in his knowledge by reading aloud to the White Rabbit Fes group from a guide book when they arrive.
Later we learn why it is that Deuce does not know anything about where he is from: he would skip so much school prior to NRC that he didn’t do things like go on field trips to the Hall of Records.
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