ethics...club...

[comprises]

Who: the ethics club and whoever wants to crash their party
When: whenever in august!
What: just a mingle post for the disasters
Warnings: uhhh...........well there's a bunch of problematic people here probably, so we'll see how this goes. will update.

The "ethics" club isn't really that well furnished so far. So far, there's only a few things -- things that only Josh is able to access, as well as a dart board, a cheap (and faulty) polygraph machine, and a button maker?

Well, the other members will have to make those. But he does have a certain design for it, if someone was interested in ""helping"" him make the pins...

Otherwise, Joshua's probably usually in here, in classroom 2-D, and he won't turn anyone away. He might warn of anyone coming in of their eccentric group, but he doesn't really mind either way.

But there are papers spread around, not that he really wants to do the work of ensuring that his club stays open, but he figures there's no use in just ignoring it. So there's probably going to be some reports to go through on the papers, or something that could be defined as work.

Loosely.

There's a folder on the desk he'd moved next to the door which holds the topic of the month on it for whoever comes into the room:

good and evil: how do you spot the difference? Do those lines truly exist?

He's very interested in what people would say about it.

Comments

Crona Gorgon | OTA

[radnarok]

A. [ Crona stands by the desk looking down at the folder Josh has left with a furrowed brow. Its unclear if they're having more trouble reading the script or if they just find the concept difficult ]

Um... [ They speak aloud to nobody to particular. Its a bad habit, but maybe someone will come over and explain something if they hear Crona is confused. ]

I don't really get it. Dividing everything into lines seems hard to deal with...I'd have to sort so many things, I wouldn't get any sleep. [ They tap their chin. ] Um...evil is, a sin. And good is whatever the opposite of a sin is. I don't really get either, because people scare me, but I guess thats how it is.

B. [ Crona is...weirdly good at darts, and at some point during the club meeting they'll wander over to the board and start playing. It's clear they have no idea of what the actual rules are, but they're having a good time collecting a dart and throwing it over and over again. They startle when they spot someone nearby. ]

Oh...do you want a turn? I can stop.

a

[commences]

Crona-san, I've taught you all about this.

( crona attened hope class for a reason, but that's not going to stop komaeda from taking the folder as he points at the questions offered to them. it's pretty simple when komaeda looks at it as he manages to split good and bad into two separate things: hope and despair. despair can't even hold a candle to hope, but this isn't asking which side is better, it's asking how they're able to tell which one it is. )

Even though this is Ethics Club, should we begin our session of Hope Class to jog your memory?

( it HAS been awhile. )

[radnarok]

O-oh?? [ They both perk up and cringe a bit at Komeafas words. It’s good to see someone they know or like, but did they get something wrong? ]

Oh so just…hope being good right? [ Hope is the greatest good that makes other things okay. Which is probably the opposite of a sin…but sin could be inate right…? Hm. ] Waaah. I didn’t forget! Morals are hard…

[ They shake their head quickly. ] I don’t mind at all! Maybe other people would like to help out with hope?

a

[comprises]

[well, here comes mr. shitlord himself to tell Crona thing or two about good and evil.

...maybe.]

I don't think it's so black and white, is it? What if someone else's "good" is another person's "evil"?

[just. y'know. to fuck around with Crona some more.]

[radnarok]

[ Oh god, Save Them. ]

Eeeehh… [ They turn to frown at Joshua ] Don’t make me confused! I can’t deal with ambiguous sounding questions like this!!

I already said I don’t get people. [ They almost mutter “stupid” under their breath but think better of it, because Joshua is nice and this is his club. ]

So if people think different things, what does that have to do with me?? They should just figure it out themselves…

b

[necrophily]

[ It catches Dito's attention in earnest to see Crona actually that good at aiming. He wonders idly how good they might be with a spear in hand or something.

He's just kind of standing there watching a few feet away, arms crossing over his chest and head slightly tilted as he watches without any particular expression on his face sans for an observant (maybe curious) demeanor.

He shakes his head and lifts up a hand when Crona mentions stopping. ]

Like I'm gonna go after someone as good as you.

[ Although... ]

Think you can hit something else though? You should try for a harder target.

dito my friend dito

[radnarok]

I can't be that good, I don't know the rules. You use a spear right...I'm sure you're really good at aiming!

[ Crona hasn't used a spear but they have had to aim their blood so they should be...okay. If they don't trip on it. They like the charm on Dito's spear a lot, though, so they'd love to borrow it sometime. ]

A harder target... Um. I guess this target is soft, should I aim at the wall? [ They don't actually wait, tossing the dart in their hand straight at the wall with zero regards for the property damage to this classroom. They fiddle with the others and give Dito and expectant look. ] Er...I guess its less fun without something to aim at...?

b.

[decrypter]

[the voice is mutually a little startling - she'd heard them near, but she hadn't been entirely turned their direction. pivoting around, she pulls up a polite smile and shakes her head.]

Please, keep going - I'm not very fond of sharp things like darts, anyway.

[but she knows the sound, from friends playing and then arguing over the rules. it feels like a distant life ago, even though it isn't - so it's a familiar sound, one she associates with calmer moments.]

Are you winning?

nagito komaeda | ota

[commences]

01.

( at the start of the club's creation, komaeda made rokkun be a dear and lug the refrigerator from home ec all the way into this class. there's nothing special aside from it being a normal sized luxury that's for them to use — also to die for, because apparently when certain people find out. now someone's been playing musical chairs — or refrigerator because it's taken from them. the only thing he can do is try to push it back to its rightful home, which is literal, because whoever you are, you'll find komaeda pushing it, and every so often he comes to a complete stop because he's on the weaker end of the scale.

he can't see on the other side of it which makes for a pretty good excuse for him to push one more time on the trolley he's using, but the wheels roll over something in the way, causing the fridge to rock before leaning forward. now if your character is in from of it, they're in the way which means a fridge is now about to fall over and crush them...

which should be the case, but the top of it catches the wall, so whoever is there can safely stand on the other side with a fridge ominously hovering over them, and the wall their only help. )

Oh, can you push on the other side to set it back in place, I don't want my friend missing out.

( "friend" he says, but there's only a fridge for them to push. hm. )

02.

( he doesn't have that many weapons, especially since someone took his switchblade, it's a little upsetting, but he can make due with everything else. since the nurse is gone for summer break, it's the student's time to shine, and komaeda recalls there's not one medical kit to be found within the club room. he understands that certain people there may hurt themselves — crona, shin. everyone else is fine, they're either masochists or sadists, so they don't really count considering bloodshed is all that sits on their mind.

he knocks on the door first, already aware that no one's inside, but that doesn't stop him from looking away from the door to call out to someone. )

Hey. ( he holds out his mechanical hand, offering it, why? who knows, but i have a coin flip generator up if any character takes it so... ) Are you okay?

03.

( this is the wildcard, also might throw a separate little write up for josh's question! so komeda's free game anywhere, you can find him at the button maker machine... and they'll be cats! or there's this crackhead thing he did in a dr official comic, but i can't ruin it, just ... tell me to give you a surprise.

and also... lmk if you want his luck to spike in a prompt when you reply, and i'll do so or not accordingly! here's his opt-out! but i'm posting this in ethics... i know yall crazy. )

ii

[compendiem]

[ Minato is in the cot in the nurse's office zzzing, doing his best to ignore the knocking at the door but cracking open an eye when he hears somebody speak up. He looks at that hand and slides his own hand out from under the covers without hesitation to hold Komaeda's, but then closes his eyes again.

zzzz ]

3 im just wildcardi n it

[comprises]

[Josh watches Komaeda for a while as he does his silly little antics, but he wants to get to the root of the matter. to the heart of it.

because he wants to get to know Komaeda more -- he feels like he knows him to an extent, but to know someone is to better be able to..use them later. and also the other is hella interesting.

Komaeda might be pumping out buttons or whatever when Josh approaches him, shifting his hair behind an ear as if that ever helps anything.]

What do you think of this month's subject? I'm dying to know.

1

[necrophily]

[ god i hate this

Dito is watching this, tilting his head and kind of amused because Komaeda is struggling, and that's inherently great to him.

At least, until he realizes a split second too late the fridge is fucking tumbling down toward him, and Dito falls back in a scramble, ending up on the floor with his back and arms against the wall as he looks up at the fucking looming refrigerator.

He blinks for a second up at it, because he's still not used to his body being back to how it normally is again -- i.e., he can't get fatal wounds easily anymore. He's instinctively used to being squishy like when he first arrived at this place. ]

Hell--

[ He finally spits after a pause, moving one of his legs up to press his boot against the fridge, kicking against it abruptly to shift it back into place. Perhaps a little too hard, since the momentum might push it over back on top of whoever's on the other side if they don't catch it in time. ]

Watch it!

3

[closewithnewintown]

[at some point during the meeting, a small person obscuring their face with a large book sits down at a desk in the back of the room.

every once in a while, she peers over the top of the book. she is wearing sunglasses that she definitely got from somewhere but otherwise has made no attempts to hide her incredibly obvious identity.

secret agent]

Add | OTA!

[subtract]

[A]

[what the fuck is this club.

Add has no idea why he's here, but Komaeda convinced him to show up, so... he picks up one of Joshua's papers at random, glancing over it with a bored look for a few moments before holding it up to the light and tearing it cleanly in half from the top. Then he takes those two strips and tears them again. And again. And again... and eventually just tosses the tiny bits of paper into the air like confetti...

Hmm.]

... Pointless. What a waste of time. [and then he picks up another sheet of paper...]

[B]

[Eventually he gets bored of ripping up paper and discovers the polygraph machine, which is infinitely more interesting than anything else in the room. It's his now. He already has the thing partially dismantled, spread out in chaotic little piles across a couple of desks he's pushed together, trying to figure out where everything fits together and how it can be improved...]

... when the parameters are exceeded, a different output can be triggered... if I connect this part here... hmm, would need to upgrade the wattage first... should the shocks increase in frequency over time, or...?

[... he's mumbling to himself over here, but y'know. totally just normal stuff. nothing to worry about.]

b!

[sisters]

( add's not the only one who's wound up being dragged into here by that particular disaster but, luckily for amami, it doesn't seem like there are all that many people hanging around. the first to catch his attention is the guy messing with some parts across the desks, and amami will lean absently against one of them as his eyes pass over the bits and pieces that are lying out. )

Wow, is... was that a lie detector?

( might not be anymore, but y'know, all those parts — they look kind of familiar. it's not important why they're familiar, but the point here is that... there's probably something resembling a frame still sitting out here, so it isn't difficult for amami to piece it together in his mind, more or less. he sounds pretty impressed when he does. )

Didn't think they'd have one of those in a high school. What are you trying to do with it?

( because right now it sure does sound, Well, )

[a]

[commences]

( at least he's making a mess so komaeda feels compelled to clean, it's been awhile since he's been able to do so — aiko's body aside, too much has been happening within the school. he had trouble to cause, but he'll kneel down next to add as he begins to pick up a few of the ripped pieces, and the first one being a scrap that reads the word: EVIL. )

Grenore-kun, are you making things difficult for yourself again?

( add knows things down to a science, and some people can debate if good and evil is part of that — it contributes to their actions, at times, but that's if he wants to study humans. komaeda remembers that the other is more fond of machines than anything else, so he picks up a few more of the pieces. )

Back home, there was someone who could have been the Ultimate Robot. ( not exactly, because he was a different title, but he did get turned into a machine. ) I thought... he was amazing, that hope could be found in machines as well... What do you think, are robots able to pinpoint the difference between good and evil?

( maybe the other will be interested from that point of view. )

b

[necrophily]

[ Not this guy again.

Dito squints as he's messing with the machine in question, although Dito really has no idea what the machine is or what the fuck Add is talking about. His brow furrows and his eyes narrow almost instinctively, though.

He crosses his arms as he takes a step closer to the other, a little curious about what the hell he's doing. ]

Why do you always gotta be a freak about shit.

b.

[decrypter]

Excuse me, are you building something?

[her voice is softer, trying to not terribly intrude on his work. but it's the scent of oiled machinery that caught her interest - that and Add's words. while she's no expert, hanging around Senku enough as he built the program and other memories make it more understandable. just a little.]

If you're trying to make a shock device, I have to wonder how that connects with ethics.

a

[comprises]

[well excuse him!! Josh has really been trying hard to make the club something, okay...

not really though. he's working on it -- the ethics club just now has had their first gathering, so there's all of that.]

Messy, messy...that's kind of rude, don't you think?

[how Josh has any ability to comment on someone else's rudeness, who the fuck knows.]

Someone might've worked really hard on that.

dito | ota

[necrophily]

𝟬𝟭. )

[ Not the invite.........

Honestly, Dito's probably half here because Zero is also here, and he has a tendency to drift wherever Zero goes. Also he is kind of interested in Joshua, if only because the other humored him with his goreposting, even if he doesn't trust the dude as far as he can throw him.

In any case, there are two points of interest that attract Dito.

One being the messy pile of papers spread about everywhere -- it makes him wrinkle his nose. It's not his problem, but it does irritate him slightly. He doesn't give a shit, but he can't help thinking about how it would never look like this if it were his paperwork, akin to what he did for Five.

Not that he's ever doing that shit again. So he scoffs, pulling out a nearby chair to sit in unceremoniously before tossing both of his boots up on the table, crossing his legs slightly as he throws his hands behind his head. ]

This place is a fuckin' mess.

[ You're not helping anything, Dito... ]

𝟬𝟮. )

[ This doubles as the wildcard option.

But also Dito can be found hovering around the dart board, experimentally pulling out one of the darts from said board and poking it against the tip of his finger, as if to test how sharp it is.

It would be so fun to do something else with them, he almost considers stealing a few here. Piercing things is fun, after all. ]

1.

[decrypter]

It's not so terrible. We can still walk around.

[which is Helena's true barometer for things, though it being difficult to find anything is a bit trying. the stranger's voice sounds suitably annoyed, but she's in a decent mood, and a little mess won't alter that. instead she's still checking out the room, wondering what exactly an ethics club in a high school is supposed to be doing.]

2

[comprises]

[for some reason, Josh is nearby Dito while he's poking the tip of his finger with the darts. probably within stabbing distance, but he doesn't seem bothered. instead, his hands are in his pockets as he watches the other, almost like he's interested by him.

except he is interested with him, and how his mind works...]

I'll know if you try to walk off with them, you know.

[He's just saying...]

If you do, at least tell me what you'll do with them.

crawls.... in here......

[notsosou]

A. [Shin's been dragged in here (possibly very literally by the scarf) by Komaeda, so you'll probably see him sitting near the button machine as well. He's very focused on making a lot of small little cute cats and also looking like he isn't listening to everything that's going on. He's muttering into his scarf a bit.]

How many of these do we need?

B. [The miscellaneous option! Shin's been trying his very best to seem like an unobtrusive piece of furniture because everyone in this club is deeply concerning and makes him extremely aware of his inevitable mortality (not you Helena, you're fine why are you hereeee) but don't let him get away with it. Corner him about the good/evil question he's been ignoring. Rope him into something. It's very hard to say no to this group.]

b

[comprises]

[well. you know that Joshua would end up finding the person trying to be a wallflower, and even though he hadn't met them before, he figures it was Komaeda that dragged them along for the ride. it seemed like he'd done that for a few people, which he isn't necessarily going to complain about.]

And what do you think? About the question of good and evil, I mean.

a.

[commences]

...

( he grabs at the other's scarf, pulling a little more so that he can make sense of his muttering — he's gotten used to this, catching the end of his complaint. funny enough, you think he'd be free from komaeda's annoyances by actually doing his job for him, but he's not, and komaeda sets his chin on top of the male's head, eyes peering down to watch the buttons being made. )

A purr.