shiftingwinds | [7rings] catchall for vira

[ ...vira will join her, but she's pouring herself a glass of wine. hypocrisy! ]

It's difficult to raise one's spirits after a day like this.

[ even her smile feels flat, small and forced. ]

[she'll

just be jealous that vira can drink and she can't. thanks for the easy envy indulgence, nu.]

...very much so.

[ thanks for easy gluttony points, meanwhile! she will definitely have a second glass for sqx, though she takes this one very slowly. ]

...Are you all right? I know you had defended Misa's innocence during trial.

I'm frustrated.

[she sighs]

I still don't think she killed Eleanor - the difference in what we saw this time compared to last time, with Law, was too obvious. [...] But, if Harrow hadn't managed to stop her, she would have... killed Grace.

[so.

maybe misa's reaction to being accused of eleanor's murder was genuine, but...]

I don't know that she killed Eleanor either.

[ she'll admit as much. ]

Still, it doesn't excuse what she did. And she did try to manipulate people's feelings into seeing her as a victim.

[i mean

she was pretty successful in making sqx feel sorry for her.]

I suppose not. [...] But I can't help but wonder what tomorrow will bring. Surely we could have found some way to keep her from killing again...? ...but if she fights back against whoever she's up against tomorrow, it could go badly for that person.

[although she would probably be revenge killed immediately in that case.]

[ she knows, sqx. she knows. ]

Could we have?

[ vira considers this. ]

When I heard about her plans to murder this week, I knew the only way to guarantee that she wouldn't would be to kill her myself. Because I didn't, she nearly killed Grace. I think she would have continued to try on another week, because she is driven by something she wants more badly than anything else.

I am no better or worse than she is, but we all must be decisive when it counts. Whoever fights her tomorrow... will need to make that sort of decision as well.

...I just hope whoever faces her tomorrow will be equipped to defend themselves. If she was ready to kill then, she'll... be all the more ready to kill now, when her life is on the line, right...?

[she just

really would like to not see someone innocent at risk of getting executed? thanks?]

...Yes. I'm not certain that Misa has any combat capabilities, but that may not be relevant. These executions are so unpredictable.

They're twisted, is what they are.

They are.

[ sqx knows that firsthand. ]

More than anything, they make me question the nature of this place. If it is working as designed, then why include something like executions, deliberately built for suffering?

...if the intent was simply to punish whoever we voted for, there wouldn't be any need to involve one of us at random so directly in them.

[like.

they could still be made to watch, of course, but all of those executions honestly could have just been carried out solo. torment beau with an obstacle course only for her to fall into lava at the end, just trap hk-47 in a room that's slowly closing in on him, give fukuda the choice between freezing to death while conscious or injecting himself, vent law out into space...]

Perhaps the intent is to give someone who was voted for incorrectly a chance to fight for their life, but... that isn't quite fair to the person who is made to carry fight them. The whole thing feels senseless, but it seems especially so to involve someone who had nothing to do with it in that way.

I don't think there's any fairness to be found in a place such as this.

[ they've already seen it in these terrible adventures, in the cruelty of watching beau's struggle, in everything. ]

...I still don't understand the grander scheme of it all. It strikes me that there must be something, some actual rhyme or reason for us to be present, but I don't know what it could be.

[me staring at my last tag like "what the fuck does carry fight them" mean. i guess i was more tired than i thought yesterday sorry nu]

I don't understand it, either. ...I'd like to be able to figure it out, but...

[...]

I can't wrap my mind around it.

[but maybe not being able to understand it without help just means their way of thinking isn't as twisted as whatever is coming up with it?

not necessarily a bad thing, really.]

[ it's okay i died for three days, rp is hard ]

Perhaps that's a good thing.

[ she doesn't really want sqx to be the sort of person who understands this. she takes a sip of her wine, though she doesn't seem to be enjoying it much. ]

It feels sometimes that indulging is an excuse to push us—what depravities are we willing to commit for the sake of a wish?

[ how far are they willing to fall? ]

[rp is so hard]

...I get that feeling sometimes, too. Like we're being tested, somehow, on how far we're willing to go.

[she doesn't really like the fact that being a decent person sometimes feels like failing.]

[7rings] catchall for vira

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