livestudioaudience | Viewing Party 2

It's possible one of them is something like I was--thinking they're human while being decidedly otherwise. Although if that's the case, it calls into question why he'd point that out and not the self-confessed vampire.

Perhaps because she is self-confessed? If he wishes to sow distrust, revealing something that is already no secret would be ineffective.

Is something the matter?

[He shrugs.]

Easy enough to do it himself, then, if he wants them dead. There must be more to it than that - otherwise, it's not really functionally different from the existing Rule 7. Unless he's implying that someone who killed his target would just go free without a trial?

Well, uh... you've found some disturbing things already, right?

That's true. It sounded like, if they killed the "right person," then everyone would go free instead of an all-or-nothing setup. That would be tempting enough, especially when the group got close enough to not want to kill.

Such as the "shipping war" over whether I am more compatible with Rii-san or Clarith?

There's a trap, as far as I can see:

[Togami narrows his eyes at the screen]

Let's suppose he picked that Pyrrha champion as "the right person". If she's killed, what guarantee is there he won't simply stay silent and pick another "right person"? That's the problem here: the champions have no believable guarantee this is a fair proposal.

[Blaze Dudely can just keep moving the goalposts indefinitely]

That's true. Yet as far as I've been able to tell, the rest of them seem largely ordinary; nothing openly inhuman like myself or Roland were. If one is harboring a secret like that, it may not be easy to determine.

That's definitely disturbing, but it's kind of on the tame side. Um, maybe don't read things with... certain tags!

Uh. ...Thanks. I think? Promise I'll be more civil today.

I can't imagine why he thinks they would take it. They can see the holes as well as we can. But this...

...I don't know much about them, but I've seen that flag in the news before. At the very least this is based on an actual group of pirates. Which is odd on several levels.

You're quite welcome.

[SHE'S GONNA HOLD YOU TO THAT]

[Quietly, Jane wipes her hands on her skirt to make sure they're not salty or whatever before placing one comfortingly on Yl'lb's shoulder.]

Something had to of changed. Between when things were fine and when Nina...did what she did. Something changed. Is...was she going through an ordeal at the time? Trouble with sponsors? Anything?

[At least it's more than a three-second realization of being dead with your crush in a slowly shattering afterlife.]

Well, no, I mean, they don't necessarily have to bring real chocobos here, but to not play them up in merchandise? There's no Ardyn-themed chocobo pajamas? No Lightning-themed hats with her riding one? What a waste!

She...was always ambitious. She wanted to expand, past what we could be on public funding. It was a point of difference between us, though not...something we ever really fought over, exactly. I might have known it was all coming if we'd ever fought.

I know that she was trying to move in that direction after she cancelled my show. There were... [He thinks for a second, then waves a hand dismissively.] ...soap operas, for a while. Some genre shows. I've looked them up again since I met you, and they all had real actors in them, they've had other work since. None of it ever really took off, until this.

[Ambition is something Jane can understand. She nods once, solemnly - public television is a wonderful thing, there wouldn't be nearly as many children of all species being edutained if it wasn't around, but if you're a business woman and you want more, usually you go for more. Just like Betty Crocker had done, twice now, so long ago.

And just like her wishes to change the fork back to a spoon, Jane wishes she could go in and make things how they were. Public television sounds much more beneficial than bloodsports.]

So she must have gotten some sort of...inspiration, to turn things in such a direction. Or she was desperate to get something that would really launch the network into notoriety, and...she found an opportunity, and took it. The technology to bring us all here, maybe? Or that there were all these other worlds and realities to begin with? [A pause.] Mister Ein, if you happen to know off the top of your head, how long have memory altering to this degree and the ability to reconstruct organic bodies...how long has that been a thing that's possible? Roughly speaking.

[...

She's still technically not here, but. She's passing by. And she does hear that lovely nickname.

So Jane's muffled snickering around the corner should be every indication of how she feels about ~*Master Byakuya*~]

Does it truly matter? Many in our group were not what they claimed, or even believed they were.

Of course it doesn't.

[humanity is not exactly a dealbreaker here]

I'm merely trying to understand which of them he's after here.

I have already been avoiding the "Twincestails" and "United Kingdoms" tags.

[Natsuhi’s silent in the confusion for a good few minutes. Even after the titles are brought up she doesn’t say anything. Not until one of them earns a mixture of a chuckle and a scoff.]

…Champion Detective… They’ve got to be joking--

[She doesn’t even realise that she’s jumped up from her seat to snarl, or the hysterical edge to her voice. For a few more seconds she stands there, clenching her fists. Then she just turns and storms out the room.

…Bye?]

[When Natsuhi is ready to be with a person, she'll find Jane in their shared room, pointedly looking away from the door and ignoring anything going on outside. She'll watch later. She'll see the titles later. For now, she's just trying to stay in reality.

At least she already dislikes Erika...?]

[The funny thing about threatening to destroy Insomnia was that someone had beaten that incentive to the punch.]

[The city was (had been) beautiful at one point, looking not unlike Tokyo on your average modern Earth. What wasn't in ruins was empty, the sunlight making that even clearer than the endless night had.]

['Even were the dawn to break now, it would only bring the horrors to light-!']

[Nearly in unison with Noctis, Ardyn turned sharply and walked out of the room.]

[He lets Ardyn storm off this time to blow off his steam. Because shit's going down on this episode.]

Oh shit! He just shanked that guy! Geez, I'm glad PAL didn't pull this bullshit on us, holy fuck, it's not even the end of the week!

Viewing Party 2 - R3: THE RE-CRY-ENING

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

After the titles are given

no subject

MMMMOTIVE TIME someday i'll stop spamming

no subject