give your friends a surprise

[closewithnewintown]

Who: EVERYONE
What: FAMILY MEETING
When: 8/4, right after school closes.
Where: Student council room
Warnings: Eventually, probably.

["If my friends back home were acting like this, I would've already locked them in a room and forced them to figure out their feelings."

the job puts all of her considerable superspy skills to the test. she knows where every normal kid's locker is; it's easy enough to slip the note into each that morning. if it's someone who she knows would be unable to read the note, she tells them its contents, but keeps her own involvement out of it. lies of omission don't count.

the note reads:]

I have very important information about this place. Please come to the student council room after school ends today.

- Nao Sato

[and if the text looks just a bit girlier than you'd think she'd write, hey, you don't know her. she's got layers.

either way, it's a pretty interesting proposition: the student council room door is, for the first time in seemingly ever, wide open. anyone can walk inside - and, hopefully, most everyone should. because it's only when Stephanie thinks that she's got enough of them inside that she actually enters the room, shutting the door behind her.

click.

it locks. she grins, spins the key on her finger, and slips it into her pocket.

"How are you supposed to do that with grownups?"

the exact same way, she's decided.]

We haven't had any meetings since, um. Well. The last one. But, I'm pretty sure nobody has no more murders to report, so it shouldn't be too bad, and we can all just focus on the most important task: Getting along! All of us are on the same team, but most of us barely even know each other; some of us even hate some of the others! [SHE SAYS, LIKE SHE DOESN'T ACTIVELY DESPISE KOKICHI] So, I figured we could spend the evening fixing that problem. Play some games, talk about stuff we've discovered since the last time...

And, maybe, if everybody does a really good job, I'll unlock the door!

[smiles]

Comments

[insecution]

Must Komaeda-san be allowed to come back alive?

[ Shinobu smiles, all sharp and razor thin like a knife’s edge. Those in favor of killing Nagito, say ‘aye.’ ]

[carpevinum]

[Lucifer agrees with this, he's nodding. Not saying "aye" but he's nodding like, yes, good, kill him.]

[commences]

( :) )

[bloodmetries]

If you want him dead I wanna get paid for it.

[insecution]

I don’t want him dead. I want him to be made to suffer the same pain his victims suffered.

[ There’s a difference. ]

1/2

[bloodmetries]

[bloodmetries]

You in the yakuza?

[ She gives off the deranged, a little off-putting vibe. Reminds him of Seiji. Hot. ]

[insecution]

[ By some mercy, Shinobu manages to keep her emotions from seeping out into her voice. Instead, they manifest themselves in the form of two tightly balled fists. ]

… No, I am not.

[ She’s not beyond cutting one of Akira’s fingers off as punishment, though. Not if he deserves it. ]

You ought to be a little more careful, young man. You don’t know what someone might do if you accuse them of something like that.

[bloodmetries]

[ Has she not grown an inch since she was 12 what is she so angry for — ]

I’m only asking since you’re so violence prone.

[insecution]

[ yes actually that is precisely her issue ]

I don’t believe what I’ve suggested is entirely unreasonable. Every crime should come with a suitable punishment. Do you think he should be allowed to roam free in spite of what he’s done?

[bloodmetries]

I'm not saying what he's done is right or wrong, but I'm not a cop and I don't plan on being one. [ pigs... he hates them ]

I want information that he might got. If you want him dead then kill him yourself.

[decrypter]

Please do not kill Mr. Komaeda.

[mark this date on your calendar, someone wants him alive.]

[insecution]

You’re right; we shouldn’t kill him.

[ … ]

We should have him slice open his stomach to atone for his sins instead.

[decrypter]

Please do not have him do that either.

[so bloodthirsty...this is why she told Stephanie that locking people in would only heighten tensions.]

I don't know what he did to you to warrant your hate, but surely there's some kind of punishment that can still allow him to live.

[bloodmetries]

He's done enough, clearly.

[decrypter]

It's not clear at all.

[this stranger...she already doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him.]

[bloodmetries]

Listen, I've don't know shit of what he's done but he has just slapped my hand away like I was infected with something. He's rude at best but I'd say he'd deserve an ass beating.

[ Which is exactly what Akira did. ]

If you're going to say that you'd better be ready to defend against any claims.

[ Like a fucking whiteknight of all things. ]

[decrypter]

[there's a feeling she gets in moments like this, like a set of familiar hands on her shoulders. control, restraint. anything that isn't politeness tucked back away. it means she can respond measured, her own hands folded on her lap.]

You've said he's "done enough", but then also admitted you don't know what he's done. Neither of us are in a place to attack or defend. All I've asked is that he not be killed.

[that's hardly defending him, she thinks. no one should be killed at this meeting.]

[insecution]

Oh, you poor thing… You haven’t been told, have you?

[ That’s all right. Shinobu’s happy to rip off the band-aid, because it’s better that Nagito sympathizers know who they’re really simping for. ]

A little over a month ago, we discovered that he was responsible for the murder of the previous student council president. He also confessed to dismembering the body of another student. That’s why we can’t have him walking the same hallways we do.

[closewithnewintown]

And that's exactly the kind of thing we need to work on! Because, at the end of the day, he's gonna have to walk the same halls; there's no debate on that one. You don't need to be his friend, but trying to convince everyone we have to kill him is exactly what this place wants.

[decrypter]

You would be answering murder with murder.

[her voice remains quiet, controlled. there is no surprise in her - Sou had said Komaeda was a murderer, but she had not understood who he murdered. that it was recent is more the shock, with the air about him. most killers she knew had something distinct about them, as if the shed blood hovered somewhere behind them.

perhaps, this place has already made her complacent.]

It's not the only option in the world.

[comprises]

[damn his twin isn't popular is he!!

Joshua puts a hand on his chin, considering...]

May I ask why there's the animosity? He's been nothing but kind and helpful to me.

[because they're worsties, but still.]

[insecution]

He wasn’t nearly so kind to the previous student council president.

[ Or Izumi, for that matter, but the dead can’t really object to having their limbs hacked off. That’s why Shinobu’s here to protest on their behalf. ]

[comprises]

Oh? I sense a riveting story.

[he always likes to know what kind of bullshit goes down around here, since this place seemed crazy as hell to him.]

Do tell.

[samuraiwomen]

[ SO TRUE QUEEN. Sara is also nodding. ]