Week 5

[airlockedmods]

[Five weeks in, and suddenly your numbers have been reduced by a lot. All evidence of Oda's methodical slaughter has been wiped away by the robots, but getting rid of the memories isn't going to be so easy. Not to mention the emotional scars.

Again on Sunday morning, you'll find yourselves with some new memories and some new items. Today, however, there are no new rooms.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday


(( ooc: Don't forget to turn in your AC for Week 4, submit your memory regains, and put in your Benefactor threads! ))

Comments

[goldrighthand]

Diego didn't break.

[Funny, how the one he started being most annoyed with has crawled his way up through the rankings.]

Even Rideaux was defiant. Alec...

[Well, his lip curl kind of explains what he thinks of that guy.]

[tuskenlancer]

[ She scoffs, making a disgusted noise. ]

So that's your justification? He wasn't strong enough? He didn't commit?

[ She takes a step closer. ]

What does that even mean?

[goldrighthand]

[oh, are we doing this now.

are you getting in his face, CT, because he is straightening to his full height and Looking Down at you and narrowing his eyes.]

It means that you see a course of action to its end.

[He speaks each word clearly, his accent audible but hardly detracting from them. If anything - it sharpens them, the cold meaning framed in to spikes of ice.]

You do not try and twist things for sympathy and hope that you are pitied. [like Alec] And you do not give up when it becomes clear you have failed. Assume you [he makes a gesture at her] tried to kill me, right here - and assume you succeeded. Once they decided you were at fault, would you not stand by your actions? Perhaps claiming that at least you took down someone who would kill them, given the chance?

[tuskenlancer]

[ Yeah we fucking are..

CT's armor gives her a few inches of height, at least. She still has to look up to meet his eyes, but then, she's used to that.

Her eyes narrow in return, growing hard. ]

He accepted his fate. He owned up to what he did.

[ It doesn't make what he did right, but... ]

I'd say that's a hell of a lot better than being a coward and trying to claim you were doing everyone a favor just to save your own skin, when you know you did it all for yourself.

slapping a cw on this because safer than sorry?????

[goldrighthand]

He killed himself before the first vote was in.

[Akande's judgement is harsh and merciless. In fact?]

Had Blaze simply handed him the gun, I have no doubts he would have done it himself.

[tuskenlancer]

He knew what he did was wrong.

[ She's not backing down from this. ]

There's nothing...nothing honorable about killing your friends, and then acting like you did nothing wrong.

[goldrighthand]

Ah. My mistake. Clearly his last actions comforted him in the end.

[S U C H S A R C A S M.]

In fact, I'm certain all of this- [and he gestures at the wall] -gives them comfort, wherever they are. How good to know that their own killers memorialize them.

[what was that about acting like you did nothing wrong, CT?]

[tuskenlancer]

[ CT frowns unhappily. She's never liked her part in the executions, and she hasn't made a secret of that. ]

We don't have a choice. If we don't participate in the trials, we all pay the price.

[ She shoots a glare at the bent plate in Akande's hands. ]

Better than stealing a memorial someone else chose to put up, just because you don't approve of how he acted in the end.

[goldrighthand]

You are still justifying murder as - how did you say it, claiming you are doing a favor when you are trying to save your own skin? You could easily sacrifice your own vote and have the majority save you. Perhaps that would sooth your beliefs. Knowledge that you were not responsible for their death.

And considering this [he glances at the plate] has already been replaced once, I have no doubt the rest of you will replace it again. But if you are so affronted by this - here.

[he holds it out to her.

>take?]

[tuskenlancer]

I'm not justifying anything. I'm taking responsibility. Unlike you.

[ Abstaining from voting wouldn't change anything. Whoever was convicted would still die, and as far as CT's concerned, refusing to get blood on her hands while doing nothing to stop it is the coward's way out. ]

I don't need soothing.

[ She gives him a distrustful look when he offers the license plate, but after a moment, she steps forward, cautiously reaching for it. ]

1/2

[goldrighthand]

[Well, she can try and reach it. But he raises it up-]

Good, because I have no comfort to give.

2/2

[goldrighthand]

[tuskenlancer]

[ CT's still reaching for the plate, still half-expecting Akande to turn on her suddenly. To throw it at her face, or maybe whip out a knife.

Instead, he does neither. Just as she's about to touch it, he curls his hand into a fist, crushing the metal plate effortlessly. CT's expression turns to surprise, shock, and then rage. ]

Fuck you.

[ It's a bare whisper, and then she steps forward, knocking his hand away. She's almost shaking, beside herself with anger, and unable to come up with any more articulate response. ]

Fuck you.

[goldrighthand]

You can just make another one, can't you?

[He's standing his ground, looking down at her with a coldly amused expression. What're you gonna do, CT.]

Touch me again, and I will break your hands.