mygod | pc catchall | iwatooshi

[flameguard]

this is the single loudest pc catchall in this game

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[flameguard]

[ AAAH he immediately looks apologetic when he feels him wince and moves off. ]

... I... don't think we're going to get as many people as some of the others think, tomorrow.

[naginota]

[ STOP HE WAS FINE WITH IT ]

...I've been wondering about it, too. I think... it wouldn't be much of a surprise if they repartnered, if only to be able to make their own choices about who remains during the week to come.

[ hateful to think of it, but. ]

[flameguard]

...I'm sure they're scared, since they don't know what happens. But...

[ ... but for rondo, it feels like the obvious choice - especially for this group, who hesitated so badly with ashlyn on saturday that it cost essek his life, and caused her to die slowly, painfully, and miserably. ]

... I have faith in them, but... they shouldn't have to make it more painful than they already are.

[naginota]

It's only natural that they'd be afraid. We've no idea what's to come for the unpartnered, and I worry that it won't be as quick or painless as we might prefer.

[ considering that everything else has just been constant misery, he'd be surprised if this went any better.

pats rondo gently. ]

I agree with you. But I think wanting to choose for themselves is very human, too.

[flameguard]

[ the phrasing of that in particular resonates with rondo. he smiles a little bit - lifts his head up, gaze towards the ceiling, thinking. hope like a flame, burning as small as an ember but never extinguished in his too big heart. ]

... I think so too.

[ human. ]

Good, bad... whatever decisions they make or desires they want, people should be allowed to chase them. [ it was part of rondo's crux issue with sazantos' world - desire is bad sometimes. desire can cause people to be selfish and cruel. but... desire can lead to love, too. it can lead to strength. the power that he wielded when he had the flame came because he desired the chance to be stronger. not to harm others, but to protect them. complex, nuance, gray, human.]

[naginota]

[ ...he can imagine what rondo is thinking now, after encountering sazantos and listening to his villain monologue. perhaps it wasn't exactly the same, perhaps sazantos is still out there, but -

iwatooshi nods. ]

That is part of what makes humanity what it is, through the good and the bad. It's part of why I've always loved them.

Even if it feels cruel to us, it's their decision, in the end, and they deserve to make it for themselves.