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yogen2021-08-05 12:02 am
closewithnewintown) wrote in yogen2021-08-05 12:02 am
give your friends a surprise
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]
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]
(elizabeth voice) the elevator......
( it can be a bit of a downer, but it's alright. )
In example, in my own world, my guest decided to fight for what he believed in... He challenged fate and death itself, and he sealed away the destruction of the world. ( she sounds proud, yet a little sad. elizabeth smiles regardless. ) However, there is a beast which returns each and every year to attempt to break that seal — and I do battle against it, in order to help him and to find a way to save him from his fate.
( ... )
The world I rescued Minato from, however, was one where he chose differently. ( it isn't said unkindly. she loves minato, just... well, this is complicated, let's not get into it. ) The moon was coming down, and the streets were rather empty... The world was ending, in essence. I couldn't bear to watch him die, and thus I and Thanatos spirited him away to here.
( is that better or worse? well— )
Regardless of if that was the correct choice to make... It was mine to make, and so I made it. ( ahem. ) And while I'm well aware the meaning of this meeting is to diminish any potential incidents... Should any harm come to my guest, I shall not hold back.
Re: (elizabeth voice) the elevator......
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kinda puts a wrench in the illusion theory.]
... Did he have a face? Were you able to hear him speak in that world? Explain it in more detail. Don't leave anything out.
How are we sure he's real?
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Nothing like having an existential crisis because somebody's questioning your being real]
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he still wants to hear Liz's answer, but while he's burning a hole into Minato's head anyway]
This school teeters on the edge of the void. In Henir's domain, where all time and space is linked and history is etched into the fragments that drift within... perhaps this boy is just a fragment himself, a recording of someone whose time has already ceased. Memories may be intact, but that would prove nothing. We'll need to perform a physical examination...
Kukuku... if you're just the traces left behind in time and space... perhaps we're more alike than I thought? How interesting.
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...I'm okay being a memory. That doesn't change anything I did... the effects of my actions, or my being.
[ It doesn't matter what sort of existence he is, does it? What matters is that he exists. ]
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Still, it'd be troublesome if you turned out to be a mole planted by those in charge of this place... eliminating a potential threat would be the wiser action.
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Liz, very casually as they're talking, will just pull Minato's cheeks into a smile as if this is going to prove he's a Real Person. )
Nobody will be eliminating anyone, Minato, and if they try, I and Thanatos shall take care of them swiftly.
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Elizabeth: only I get to kill ]
...even if they have a good reason?
[ gestures to Add ]
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hold on. Ahem. ) You've never met him, but there is another wildcard user I've met on my travels... He is the guest of my older sister, Margaret, and he saved quite a number of people without murdering anyone.
( so. )
Besides... There are much worse things than dying.
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...like seeing your friends suffer.
[ It's why he did what he did, being told that they would all die before spring, but the choice he has to make is whether that would be in pain and suffering, or ignorance and bliss. ]
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Now, as someone on her own journey and a fellow wildcard on the other hand— )
Correct... Or experiencing suffering yourself.
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[ For him, at least, seeing his friends suffer is suffering himself. For somebody who had toyed with the concept of death for so long, the fear of death has no grip on him. Physical suffering, emotional turmoil, it doesn't matter if it's his and him alone, as long as everybody else is okay. ]
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I meant more in the way of the techniques once employed by the Spanish Inquisition, among other zealous organizations, but... ( Mmmm... ) Yes, I suppose that it is, for some.
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[ Either you run out of teeth and fingernails, or you die. But there is an end to look forward to. ]
...guess it doesn't matter, if no one's dying.
[ him looking at Add and Stephanie, when will Steph snap ]
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Kukukuku... but I don't really care enough to intervene. Still... if one was concerned about escaping from this place, wouldn't it be better to remove such suspicious wildcards...?
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[ On both accounts, yes. It would make sense to eliminate Minato, he can't argue that. ]