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chaotic-goodsir · 22 days

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So, I guess this is kind of a headcanon for John and Xander as well as Wilbur, but you know when Paul says in TGWDLM that he's never heard of PIEP, and John replies:

'No, and you never will. Not a peep.' ?

That was Wilbur's joke originally. When John was training as a PIEP agent, Wilbur told him he needed to be less intense around frightened civilians, and that making a stupid pun - which Wilbur had a tendency to do anyway - was a good way to put people at ease.

He only meant to use that specific joke as an example, but John took the advice to heart and it became his go-to introduction when explaining PIEP to anyone outside the organisation (even more so after 2005).

That is, until Xander invented the 'we're a small team - just me and a few of my peeps' version from Black Friday, which John immediately added to his repertoire.

#thanks for the ask!#i actually sort of headcanon that john's whole persona in TGWDLM is partly a result of mimicking Wilbur #out of admiration but also because Wil was far more confident with civilian interactions than John at first #anyway hope you like the headcanon!#hatchetverse #wilbur cross #john macnamara #xander lee

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