Week 5

[airlockedmods]

[As with the weeks before, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to something resembling normalcy with shocking efficiency. The second floor rest area and Adventure Zone Death Orb Room are spotless again, the demon glitter has been vacuumed, the deflated orbs have been replaced. It's like none of it ever happened, like three more friends aren't dead and stored away in the guest house morgue.

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 activity for week 4, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[misanthropicprinciple]

[CAN'T SHIT A SHITTER, ARDYN.]

Right, right. So, just so I'm clear--you want revenge on your planet for wronging you, right? That whole system that made you what you are today?

[scourgingstars]

...The thought's crossed my mind, to say the least. What about it?

[misanthropicprinciple]

I've been used for much the same purpose before. On a much smaller scale, sure, but--like most humans--I kinda take things personally.

Do you hate us, Ardyn?

[scourgingstars]

And what happens if I say that I do? If I told you 'I would sell out every last one of you just to destroy my world', what would you do then?

Even with as few memories as I have, I'm willing to guess I've destroyed much more than a single room of people in the past centuries.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Well, if you were stupid enough to do that, I'd probably fight back. I mean, I don't actually want to die.

But I don't see that we have anything to do with that. I mean, even if PAL used it as a motive, would you believe him? That's dumb.

[scourgingstars]

Then I suppose the answer to your question simply depends on what happens once this is over. Say I did go through with that--or perhaps already have--and my entire planet's effectively in ruins.

What happens then?

[misanthropicprinciple]

...At Lee's trial, Mary said there are good people and bad people.

Is that something you believe?

[scourgingstars]

Is this meant to point out that I'd be eradicating both? Because that's not something I can bring myself to care about.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Uh, no, I figured that'd be obvious, since you're not an idiot. I'm asking because I want to know if you think in such black and white terms.

[scourgingstars]

There are those who exalt the Astrals, while I condemn them as ruining my life. 'Good' and 'evil' come to a matter of perspective for things like that, do they not?

[misanthropicprinciple]

Yeah. You get me.

I think... that people are selfish. Nobody chooses to do anything they don't ultimately want to do. Money, power, survival, love... it's human nature to want it all. Hell, I don't know. Maybe gods are the same way.

So we take, and we trample others in the process--and we get trampled, too, all trying to get what we want. So no one--no one can judge anyone else for the things they do, unless they're the ones getting their damned faces kicked in. And that's just revenge. Nothing noble about that.

So what I'm saying is, you already know what I think of your fucking planet's goddamn horseshit. And while I'm not exactly a fan of genocide, I like your rationale better than others I've heard.

[scourgingstars]

...

I don't hate you, Junpei.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...Oh.

[Even though he's been more or less arguing from that assumption, the statement catches Junpei by surprise.]

Well. Great. Uh, because I don't hate you either. Which is the point I was trying to make, but with. Fewer words.

[scourgingstars]

At this point, you're one of the few I expected might not.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...

If I couldn't hate her, I can't hate you.

[scourgingstars]

... ['The woman I've dedicated every waking hour of the past year to finding-']

[What was it with these people and their refusal to just hate the ones that did horrible things to them in the first place?]

...I'm not asking you to forget anything. And if I'm right, none of you could actually be rid of me even if you tried. So I think myself a little different than who I assume you're talking about.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Oh, definitely. I mean, you've never lied to me. Or stabbed me. Or locked me in an incinerator. So you've got that going for you.

[scourgingstars]

...Technically I did lie to you several times, if we're to get into semantics. I knew I was carrying Starscourge for far longer than I believe I let on.

Besides, I don't have a knife or an incinerator. My options are a bit limited.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Well, she stabbed me with a bracelet, but I see what you're saying. Point stands, you've been a downright saint to me in comparison and it's not my place to say, oooh, no, revenge is bad.

[scourgingstars]

That's something I doubt anyone has called me in a couple thousand years. So, not allowed to stab you, then. Noted.

[misanthropicprinciple]

No incineration, either. That's important. Also, I'm sure you don't know what sudoku is, but if you ask me to solve one I'll probably try to headbutt you in the throat.