PEACE WEEKEND

[airlockedmods]

[It's your first week here, and you've been offered a fantastic prize for killing someone: an all-expense paid vacation! It's a pretty standard prize as far as reality game shows go.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it), this isn't exactly a game show.

It seems that no one has died this weekend, and the deadline for the prize is now expired. There's no announcement from the Overseers to that effect; in fact, none of you have seen either of them since Tuesday. Maybe they'll make a reappearance soon, but for now, it seems that you've got a moment of peace.

Hopefully nothing happens to it.]

Comments

[quadjumps]

I came to that meeting to try and help, big surprise! Isn't that a concept? That I don't try to pick fights with every fucking person I meet?

[newcycle]

I know, and yet you picked not one but two fights. And neither of you are blameless.

You know, she probably came to help too, until you gave her attitude?

[quadjumps]

If you just came here to lecture me then you can kindly piss off.

[ he gives the wall a kick. ]

Maybe I wouldn't be trying to "pick fights" if I weren't stuck in the middle of twenty-something other people who might soon be out to murder one another.

[newcycle]

I came here to let you know you're not doing yourself any favors! Who cares what these people want? No one here wants to murder anyone! So why antagonize people?

[quadjumps]

Why does everyone get hurt like little pissbabies over everything I say here?!

[ he's raising his voice, now: ]

Nobody ever gave a shit about any of that where I'm from. This is just how I am. You don't have to like it, I don't care, so why should you?

[newcycle]

Here isn't home!

[obviously, but Korra snaps]

People are just as scared and stressed as you are right now! In case you didn't know, you're unnecessarily antagonizing!

[quadjumps]

I wasn't antagonizing her until she gave me a reason to!

[newcycle]

Then ignore her!

And stop acting like you didn't give her a reason to be annoying in the first place.

Just... trust me. Talking that way to people creates more problems than answers.

[quadjumps]

... Why are you telling me any of this? To get me to stop acting that way? People can't change overnight.

[newcycle]

I know.

But you're not even trying. And I don't want to have to stand over you and try to bully you into it all the time.

[quadjumps]

[ yuri gets quiet. ]

Why do you care? You're just doing this for the others, aren't you?

[newcycle]

I mean, I'm sure it'll help them...

But no. This is a really stressful situation, for everyone. Even you. I know you can see it, or you wouldn't lecture me about trusting people if you weren't worried too.

I want you to help. Just... don't end up isolating yourself.

[quadjumps]

...

[ don't end up isolating yourself.

she's smarter than she seems. no matter how many fronts yuri puts up, people always manage to see right through him. it's annoying.

but he can't let her see weakness. ]

That's how I've always been.

[ alone. ]

[newcycle]

You don't have to be.

[a pause, and then more firmly:]

You shouldn't be.

[quadjumps]

[ he's leaning his back against the wall, now. ]

... Maybe I like it better that way. You don't know me.

[newcycle]

No... I don't. But even so, I can tell you don't really like it. You're just saying you do.

[she puts a hand on his shoulder]

Try, at least?

[quadjumps]

[ when was the last time someone spoke to him like this? with genuine concern and...

he shudders when she puts a hand on his shoulder, but he's looking at her with a weird mix of confusion and....gratitude? it's hard to say. ]

No promises.