disingenuous | crow catchall

[ you can, and it probably feels similar to the vibe he gets from half the people he knows. ]

Teamwork, Ro. Teamwork.

[ ... ]

Wouldn't it be wild if the way out was right there, and no one took it because we doubted the boat?

As a team player, I would be here to report whether you're lost at sea.

[ Vague amusement. ]

That would be ingenious in a sick way, but I think the Prism wants us to stay too much for that.

[ Even if there's a lot of fucking murder going on. ]

If it was that eager for us to stay, it'd just forcibly make us think we were all wonderful and happy inhabitants of this place.

[ ... ]

Yet here we are not feeling that way at all.

It tried that for the first week. [ ... ] After the first few days.

I don't know how it's learning or what it's taking away from our experiences.

Seeing as it's already proven it's able to overpower a mind, you'd think it would be more aggressive.

[ ... ] Not that I want it to be, exactly.

Maybe it's just decided we're too stubborn to be worth the effort.

It's aggressive in its own way.

[ Murder is pretty aggressive. ]

Do you think so? [ There's some mild fluctuation in her vibes, but it's still pretty calm. ] Whatever causes refraction.... I wonder what the point of it is.

It could compel us all to kill ourselves, Ro. If it wanted us gone that badly.

[ just to make that lovely point. ]

Maybe. Not that that means I want to give it the satisfaction of just rolling over and letting it do whatever it wants to us.

… but so far it’s not like I’ve made any headway there. [ … ] You know about what people’s colours are like after they’ve been controlled, right?

[ Well, he's not wrong. She thinks its control on people isn't quite to that point yet. Otherwise, it could affect more than a few people at a time, but... she can't disagree with that. ]

What do you mean? What are their colors like?

Bass said even after we caught Kazuma, and he snapped out of whatever was manipulating him, his colours still felt wrong. I think the phrase they used was like he was “more and less of himself”.

[ … ]

I mean, I’m taking a wild guess here, but if that imbalance stays after a murder and we don’t catch them and deal with them— [ then we get malik. ]

[ the mood is complicated. understanding that this is going to get dire. huge dislike but a muted huge dislike. ]

The focus will shift to finding those who've been compelled to kill. It is not happy, but it is a mercy.

From what they've been saying, yeah. They certainly see it that way.

[ his own mood is... mixed. it's a clear goal, a clear thing to work towards. but it's still going to involve hurting a lot of people along the way. ]

There is no avoiding it now. We don't know how much longer this will last.

[ their numbers are steadily dwindling. ]

Unless we find ourselves a wild plethora of methods to help those who were corrupted. And even then, it’s not going to be pretty if we descend into a popularity contest of who to kill and who to save.

[ something that’s been playing on his mind ever since malik turned like that. if they do catch two killers and have a method to save one, it’s going to get nasty. ]

[ There's a grim acceptance. ]

People are going to have their biases. If there are two again and we manage in finding both, I don't know if people can leave those aside.

[ If she's honest, she knows people will pick the people they care about more. It's how people are. ]

Ways to save people are fewer and far between than ways to do away with them.

Yeah, I know. But it's going to be a shitshow when it happens.

Some choices are going to be obvious, but not necessarily fair. And if something really does come to blows, I'm not sure we need the divisions it'll probably cause.

Divided, we fall.

[ Although she doesn't necessarily feel they're all that united even if they're going to have a meeting to talk about everything they've found tomorrow. ]

We'll have to see who will be willing to put the whole before the individual.

[ ... ]

Yeah. Or the people that are fine to throw someone under the bus to protect their own. Not that I'd blame them, exactly, I get it.

I can be selfish too.

I won't pretend I'm not selfish.

[ But she'd kill anyone who threatens her life like she killed Malik, each and every time. ]

We'll have to do whatever damage control after.

Mm. That might be half the fun of it.

[ he does not sound like he thinks it will be fun. ]

[ There's mild amusement. ]

I'll leave it all to you, then.

Noooo, thank you. United we stand, blah blah blah.

Good luck, Crow.

[ as if she didn't hear him. ]

[ he's ignoring this. ]

[ She laughs. There's a ripple of amusement that goes with it. ]

I'll leave you be.

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cw: suicide ref??

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