It's time for another FAMILY MEETING!!

[carpevinum]

[There's a sign posted on 3-C on the 27th the future is now indicating that it's that time of month! That's right, it's time for the family meeting!

Lucifer is in charge this time and he is holding a whip, so please behave yourselves or you might get a warning crack near your head. Or don't behave yourselves. He's not your dad. He will, however, try his hardest to keep you all on track.

As Lucifer is also one of the Team Moms Dads, he's also made everybody lunch as he is wont to do. The rather fancy-looking food is set up on a couple of desks at the front of the classroom to peruse at your leisure. There are cookies and muffins as well, but please try to eat a real lunch instead of subsisting off of sweets entirely.

On the whiteboard, Lucifer has written the following topics & talking points that he'd like to discuss with everybody, and has requested that you all raise your hands so that this can be done in an orderly fashion... Good luck, Luci.

• Who is missing? Who is confirmed deceased?
• The gladiatorial battle — is it possible that those who died previously may come back to inflict further harm? Any guesses?
• What the Hell was going on last weekend?
• The void in the auditorium is infinite
• Results of last month's investigations that we agreed on doing
• The imps plaguing the school have been removed (thank you to Clamor for his assistance)
• Have we discovered anything new?

Last but not least, the final bullet is one hundred percent something that Lucifer clearly wants to do, and it reads simply:

• Instating a chore chart

So that's... fun.]

Let's try to keep this more orderly than the last one, shall we?

[And yes, the cardboard baby jail is set up in the back of the classroom! Naughty children go to cardboard baby jail. Naughtier children get a whip cracked at them. Have fun, everyone!]



[[OOC: The usual rules of the family meeting posts apply, which means threadjacking/general mingling is allowed and encouraged! Please remember to only share information your character discovered ICly to avoid metagaming. Also no Lucifer will not actually cause physical harm to anyone's characters with the whip unless player permission is granted, I'm not as psychotic as he is, don't worry about it.]]

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[commences]

I've learned...

( he's decided, he's been taught things that only apply to him. he's learned that murder has brought their hopes together, that this second one, despite being a stepping stone wasn't at the right time. everyone's too beat up, back home, in his youth, when his classmates were not at their very best — he decided to blow up the school to prevent their test. he wonders if he had done something the same as that, could he have prevented something? sadly, it all happened too soon, and then rokkun was just as too soon that it sends a shiver down his spine. )

It's fine, Nanami-san. You shouldn't hold onto things you can't have, besides... Why would you want something broken.

( he's aware of that, and despite being a hopeful eccentric... there's nothing about his hope that she doesn't have which is x2. it's easy to feel that he's moving, trying to slip out her grasp...

will she left him? probably not, so become leech! )

[moderating]

... It's tiring you know. Every time you talk I feel like things between us get pushed further away.

[ Nanami states after mulling over what he says. She's not letting go but her hold loosens slightly.

You know when.

Someone wants to die, and is tired.

But you know, that wanting to die is not the right way to think or live for that matter.

And you know that, it's not wrong because its understandable. When the school presently is no different from the circumstances of class 77-B's predicament. This was just another scenario warping the reality of how life should be. Presenting each and every one of them with other worldly and twisted incidents. That would bring the worse or best out of a person. Where colors most darkly come to light, and the things that people speak about Humanity become questionable for all of them.

You know when, you really love someone a lot and in the face of all their grief and hurt. Knowing they are doing wrong against others, and themselves because there is currently no aptitude to direct them from doing otherwise. She is just one girl, with a lot of love. Hope, and will for the future.

Things can get better.

It almost sounds ignorant to anyone listening or hearing it, but the reality is thats how life is mean't to be. Things can get better if you believe. How do you believe when you want to die? How do you believe when the school makes it apparent, you here for it's bewilderment. Thoughts divulge and go another way -

You know the Ultimate Animator?

Well intentions in a world of greed, and then in your innocence of want to do better for everyone. You inevitably end up enabling voices that should not be heard so readily. In the way that she is - enabling Komaeda. It's almost toxic in itself the more she thinks about it. Selfishness want to believe that things can be different here. That things can be different in the future. She tried hard to explain to others how Komaeda is and in doing so, she may have set him up for failure. As well as ruined others trust in herself, or the trust instilled in one another. It takes only one small stepping stone - as Komaeda says. To deter or level another's thoughts into a well of emotions.

With the two coinciding thoughts that press against her mind and will - how she now shapes her thoughts into cause to do something. A mere observer doing more than she were made to ever do, but she need only be crafty in her actions.

What Nanami wants isn't change, she wants growth. She wants an alternative, for each and everyone of them. She knows no one is free of sin, and no one person can escape what they had done in the past. That is not, what she wants when she says killing is unforgivable. Forgiveness is something instrumental to a person, and what Nanami merely wants is understanding. Alternative. Growth.

What Nanami merely wants is more then the construct of Hope, but ultimately in the truth of it all. It could surmount in the most simplest measure of it's word: Hope. Like a container holding the meaning of Nanami's intent in one quick and easy understanding statement. She wants people to move forward into a better future regardless of the pressing regard this world offers to all of them.

A future they can make, for themselves out of this unfortunate deranged place. ]

... That's not how it is, that's not how I feel. I don't want you to die, [ She does not want anyone to die - why do people feel death is the solution to issues going on? Dying. Or Killing. It is so simple an action, and consequentially the wrong course of path. There is always another way. ] and I don't want you to kill anymore - but I don't know how to stop any of it. [ Honesty. Its the truth. Even as a Observer, she is not allowed to step in and stop anything from happening unless it occurs already. Further, Nanami is out of her league when it comes to this situation. There are too many people here. Too many variables against each other, and she is again only one girl. ] Please help me. Please believe in my Hope.

[ The Kind of Hope where people don't need to die to inspire one another. The kind of Hope where death is not an option, and one person can in fact instill benevolence enough toward one another to do better than what was done.

Her hope, is them. Class 77-B. If they can do it, then so can the rest of them.

Yet she cant say that. Cant infer that. But she can - ask him for help.]

....

[ Her head cants upward and there are tears - albeit only a few. They stream down from her eyes. She does not sound as if she were someone who was crying. Her voice is even, and it may come off rather jarring toward the other or perhaps he may be indifferent. It merely is a sign that she is an AI learning. It's almost as if the tears are a product of how she feels, and merely that.

There is a fierceness look upon her instead, and she looks up toward Komaedas face. She is asking him for help.

If he wants something to do, then she will give him something to do.
If he wants to think about hope, then she wants him to think about her Hope.
If he wants to forget about what happened and move on from it, into a better stepping stone for it. Then maybe Nanami thinks, she needs to do it herself but she does not know. She lacks experience, understanding, and the ability to do anything about it.

She does not want the same thing to happen on Jabberwock Island. To happen here.
She does not want him to capsize.
She does not want him to kill himself in the name of something he believes in, for the sake of others. Like some twisted martyrdom, to placate the bellowing issue that is - she knows. In all her intuition and all that she is made to understand and believe, is indefinitely going to blow over the upcoming month - or months. ]

You remember? Your promise on the island? That you would help anyone if they wanted to be a stepping stone for Hope?

[ Nanami does not mean she will die, to be others stepping stone like Komaeda understands it - but lets be real we all know that she would. She means to successfully do it without the death or dying of anyone. Can she even do such a thing? Asking him of all people for help. ]