[7rings] catchall for fukuda

[shiftingwinds]

i was so convinced we already had a pc that i spent way too long trying to find it

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week 7 friday

[holeful]

[Well huh sucks about the avatars but people still need to eat!! Fukuda is getting a katsu sandwich out of the machine and almost jumps when he turns around and sees SQX.]

Ah... hello, miss Qingxuan.
[He seems uncomfortable!]

[shiftingwinds]

[oh. he does seem uncomfortable.]

...hello.

[she doesn't want him to be uncomfortable? she glances from him to the sandwich]

I'll - be in and out very quickly.

[he can just relax and eat, she won't linger if he'd rather not be around her]

[holeful]

[He was about to say the same, but. Well. The irony of them apparently both skulking around is sort of funny. He can't help but laugh. But then he just looks sad.]

I don't understand you, miss Qingxuan. But please, don't feel need to hurry yourself.

[shiftingwinds]

[she's just here to get some tea from the vending machine tbh


so she'll do that once it's freed up]

...I suppose I haven't been very easy to understand, have I.

[holeful]

... Why did you kill miss Eleanor?

[He just fucking goes for it.]

[shiftingwinds]

I was told that what happened to Nathan was going to happen to her, and that it was too late to prevent it by helping her indulge.

[she's not bothered by the question; she's answered it plenty of times by now.]

They also said that it would be detrimental to the group as a whole if it happened again - that the first time, it had caused some of the already-accumulated indulgence to be "burned".

[which tracks, unfortunately, if their indulgences are fuel.]

[holeful]

[What is this, Redacted?

Anyway, he frowns.]

And who told you that, one of the avatars?

[shiftingwinds]

Yes. Envy did.

[also it was believable, given that creepy-ass "INDULGENCE IS KEY" message when nathan vanished]

[holeful]

[HM.]

... But why you?

[shiftingwinds]

I think because I was the only one aligned with him at the time.

[holeful]

But wouldn't the other avatars have known about it too? Eleanor was aligned with Sloth.

[shiftingwinds]

...I think they might have. Greed said something to me in a conversation earlier in the week that implied I'd be doing something more than just the usual that weekend, but...

I didn't realize what he meant, then.

[holeful]

... Have you killed people before?

[He's just trying to find the logic here.]

[shiftingwinds]

...I've fought ghosts, demons, and monsters, but...

[she doesn't normally dabble in murder



which is why the whole thing with eleanor got so chaotic; she didn't have the faintest clue how to do it quickly and cleanly.]

[holeful]

[He seems to untense a little, tentatively.]

... And you're not lying about any of this?

[shiftingwinds]

I'm not lying.

[what would be the use in lying now, anyway? everyone already knows she's a killer.]

[holeful]

.... So you really meant everything you said to me? When I was still alive.

It wasn't just because you could sympathize, being a killer yourself.

[shiftingwinds]

Yes, I meant that.

[and that's part of it - one life can't mean more than others. so when it comes down to "one person will vanish anyway and it will be bad for the group" vs "you can kill one person to minimize the damages for the group," it was a no-brainer. there was no way she wouldn't agree.

(of course, there are exceptions. she has her biases, just like anyone, but she tries to be fair.)

her brow furrows.]

...you died before Eleanor did.

[even if she was sympathizing because she killed eleanor, it hadn't happened yet...?? she's confused.]

[holeful]

I know, but... We had no idea what you could have had to Eleanor, so maybe you were just...

[Just the sort of person who has killed and will kill again.]

I don't know, it made more sense when Eleanor said it? That you'd been lying to me rather than being that benevolent...
[He just does not expect people to be that good.]

[shiftingwinds]

...I can't blame her for thinking that.

[considering she killed her]

But I wasn't lying about what I said to you.

[holeful]

[He smiles a little.]

Then I'm sorry for doubting you.

[shiftingwinds]

There's absolutely no need to apologize to me for that.

[she literally killed a woman, fukuda.]

[holeful]

[So did he and also he killed five other people???]

Haha... Well, I still feel bad. Only a few people still felt bad for me after that vote.

[shiftingwinds]

[yeah, being a serial killer will do that...]

Feel however you'd like about it, I suppose. I just don't really think you need to apologize for losing faith in me.

[holeful]

I suppose faith hasn't ever been something that comes easily to me.

Though I am curious how a god ended up on tean Nevy.