week 4

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[Just like the previous week the status quo is restored with frighteningly quick efficiency. PAL still makes the morning and night time announcements through the PIP on each Champion's arm, and still the Champion unitards are freshly laundered and re-hung each morning in their closets. Even the glass roses Choromatsu and Takumi broke after the trial in their fit of anger have been replaced with fresh ones. All signs that there was anything amiss this weekend are completely gone.

There's a new floor to explore, their "reward" for a job well done.]

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your AC for week 3, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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[myocordial]

[Heart is quiet for a moment, because this is... not something he generally tells people about. Not that there's really much need to, generally, but it's... a difficult subject.]

To have any objections like that, you must first actually consider someone a person. And he... did not. [He smiles wryly for a moment.] Not that I believe he would have any issue doing something like this to a human. He just couldn't get away with something like that back then.

[If ever someone deserved to be described as a sociopath...]

...There's nothing stopping me from choosing a different form. I could copy a different human. But I... I chose to keep this. As a proof of my strength and resolve. [He finally looks back at Rhys properly.] Do you understand? Every day of my life, simply by being who I am, I have to be strong.

If I let what he's done now affect me too much...

[To Heart, it's almost like admitting defeat. He has to be okay. Because if he's not, then Banno, even when he's not here, has power over him.]

[plugout]

... it means he's won.

[ Yeah. He gets it. Rhys falls quiet again, and it's a thoughtful kind of silence. ]

You know what I think, Heart? I think you're a hundred times--maybe more--the man that asshole is.

[myocordial]

[He's glad Rhys understands. It's a pleasant surprise. Well. Everything about his interactions with the humans he's found himself getting fond of have been pleasantly surprising.

As is what Rhys says next.]

...Thank you. I... appreciate you saying that. More than you might think. [Talking with a friend... really is very calming.] I will make sure he doesn't win, of course. No matter how dire the circumstances... and they were dire... the man is hardly invincible.

[It's hard to have hope. He didn't have much in his memory. But that was when he was truly alone. Here, it's different.]

I've proved as much once before. Now it simply has to happen again.