yogen | It's time for another FAMILY MEETING!!

[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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[ Subjective but...If Sara could tell Nanami one thing that was clear from the moment she spoke, it was that she was kind. Someone who stood up in a meeting and was brazen enough to tell a room full of killers not to kill, but not with hatred. Well, Sara admired that tremendously. It wasn't like Ouma's sneering derision at the idea of killing. It was wanting to help people. And yet...]

Completely wrong, huh? No matter what. [ Her tone isn't mocking as she repeats Chiaki's words back. Its true. Yet it isn't true, is it. She knows what her mind thinks is true, what she really felt when she saw someone die due to her own actions. But she wanted to live, didn't she? Even now. ] Its never the answer for you, is it?

[What a kind yet utterly distant person. ]

I didn't say anything about anyone being glad... I just wanted to know what you thought, Nanami-san. Things are much nicer when nobody has to die.

[ Nanami cants her head, 'Its never the answer for you?'

To her answers were always going to be there, they are common sense. They are knowledge once they are found. In the same manner Saihara had come forward with the truth of all of it. ]

... There is always an answer. [ She says, tightly. ] Merely because it wrong doesn't mean that the answer is right.

[ SHIROU VOICE JUST BECAUSE IM WRONG DOESNT MEAN YOUR RIGHT!! Im jk, the point is. It is wrong to kill, but it is right to move forward and make amends with what concurred. No matter the horrific truth of it. Getting to that point is going to take time - that is all she is doing.

Starting that conversation. The one no one wants to hear, the one that will take months before anyone can settle with the idea that people around them are capable of killing. For no reason, for many reasons. They need to confer that it is wrong yes, but that you can move forward from wrong doings. You can heal from wrong doings. You can move on from wrong doings. ]

... If someone does something wrong, the thing you need to do is fix it. Ending something is just an easy alternative to what is harder to do... Ah... When something breaks. Like a game counsel. To throw it away like it was nothing, or try to fix it?

[ Although a simple example... It is one none-the-less. ]

In order to fix it though, you need to realize what is actually wrong with what happened. [ And in this instance, it was killing someone. Several someone's. Even if she understands the reason and the answer is most true. The fact of the matter was that someone was capable enough to end another persons life. That this alone is enough to draw fear in other peoples eyes, enough to want to kill the mself.

Which is why.

They need to contend with the idea of Killing being wrong. To stop that. To try to heal from this. ] .. Things are nicer if nobody has to die, and I know everyone here believes that deep down or wants that.

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Always an answer...Yes. I really hope there is. I'd like to live in the sort of world you set out, Nanami-san. [She gives the other girl a small smile. ]

I've never played any video games, but I do understand what you're saying. Even if we've done something wrong that we regret, the important thing is fixing it. I think we can agree on that.

[ Sara doubts everyone here is as kind as Nanami thinks. A lot of people just want to kill for the sake of it, or just look out for their own survival. The only thing trust fosters in a group like this is just the possibility someone might waver in betraying you...but often thats been enough for her. So she nods, and swallows her own doubts. Choosing to trust that everyone wants whats best for the group...sure. Why couldn't she do it again? If they betrayed her or Nanami later, then that could be dealt with. ]

Perhaps the best course of action here is not what we might say, but to show understanding through actions? I'm not very good with words. [They make people do the things she almost thinks she wants. ] Everyone's opinions might be better swayed with Natsume's own conviction.

[ Everyone's opinions might be better swayed with Natsume's own conviction.

It was her own conviction she supposes, as the entity of who she were. That this was what she wanted ultimately - for everyone to come out of this conversation to believe. It is possible, if Natsume with the support and belief that everyone CAN come out of this situation. That it is possible to come back from wrong doings, which is why it will be up to both Komaeda and Natsume.

All anyone, or her and Sara can hope to do. Is listen to the voices of hurt that were wrong, and give platform to their feelings. Acknowledge them, and affirm that what had happened had indeed happened.

Their friends killed one another, and as it is. They want to keep doing so as well, but Nanami believes its in everyone's best interest and abilities. To move forward from this.

Wrong doings are wrong doings, there is no debate for that. What there is conversation for, is how to handle it and move forward from here on.

NANAMI literally says this like 23942034 times in the game its so fucking annoying. Her robotic voice: MOVE FORWARD WE CAN ONLY MOVE FORWARD!!!]

Mm! There are other course of actions we can take, I know that we can. Everyone here is stronger then we all believe. Everyone has been through so much so far, the anger that is here is warranted but we can be more then what our fears and feelings make us want to believe.

[ Nanami offers the other her hand. ]

... Lets work together to figure it out.

Just give him some time, okay? Show him a shoulder to lean on, and perhaps by the next meeting he might feel differently.

[ Sometimes there aren't other options. Sometimes people are backed into a corner with no way out. Ishimaru was an example. Sara was an example too, or she'd thought she'd been once. Maybe there had been another way, and she'd just been unable to find it. Nonetheless, to choose to kill someone rather then die...she had absolutely no right to judge such people, not like Nanami. Even so, it wasn't hard to meet the other girls eyes anymore. ]

Strong feelings...weak feelings. All you need is for someone's heart to waver, just once. Just a little wavering in the belief that the only option is to kill... I believe, if we give each other a chance, we might be able to offer that, Nanami-san.

[ Nanami's hand seems rather small, in the chaos of the meeting. For a second her hand twinges, remembering red string. Remembering Ranmaru, who she offered support only lose to her own cowardice. The last time he held her hand and promised to kill for her and she'd not said a word to stop it. This girl, she could really be stupid enough to offer this trust, but Sara wanted to be stupid again. Nanami offers her hand. Sara takes it. ]

I'm Sara. [ Her handshake is firm. ] I think I could handle figuring things out with you, Nanami.

It's time for another FAMILY MEETING!!

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