Week 4

[airlockedmods]

[After everything that this case was, you probably don't want to deal with anything else. But you wake up on Sunday, just like before, with some new memories, and some new stores to check out.

Let's see what this week brings.]

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(( Don't forget to check in, and check your memory regains! You can also stop by the gacha machine and Xander's office hours. ))

Comments

[burninglight]

[ayyyyyyyy]

I'll take you spouting some unheard-of assessment over us shouting at each other, as well.

[motherfucking_ghost]

This isn't because of before, right? This is...you wanting to be friends for right now, right?

[burninglight]

I won't lie and say these memories aren't some contributing factor. But it is not for the reason you might think.

I'd like to get to know you as we are now, if we can. Not as a person who thought he was a healer and not as whatever kind of different person you might have been without your memories of home. Just...ourselves, for whatever that might mean at the moment. Does that make any sense?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yes. Yes please. I know it...it's hard not to be influenced by what we remember. With my...issues of...my amnesic shit, with that shit, I should be happy to remember anything, and I get it, it influences, and maybe it should, cuz obviously we all felt certain ways about each other. Like I get along with Junpei cuz we were bros and shit. And I guess we get along cuz we were roomies and I was your Shield.

But...like, it freaks me out. I don't know those people I remember, and we didn't even remember our histories. I threw myself, reluctantly I might add, at a suicidal mission after I learned my life was a lie. I gotta be a different person for that now than...the doofus I was before.

[burninglight]

There's no way of knowing what else we might remember from here, yet I've no doubt it will influence us one way or another whether we like it or not. But I don't know that Ardyn any more than I know this one. Now that I know the last thing I did at home was spend eternity in solitude and madness to bring ten years of darkness on the world, I can't just...pretend to be that savior who never would have.

...I want to learn who I am now, not who I was in the mansion. And if those memories should influence us to get along, then I want to expand upon that and see if we might still be capable of friendship as whatever we are.

That's...alright, with you?

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah.

Yeah, it is.

...I've been a real asshole to you.

[burninglight]

...I'm not angry. Which is...nearly unprecedented, for me.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I'm an asshole and I'm secretive and I need, like, a muzzle or something, but not in the kinky way.

[burninglight]

You could do with the ability to know when to shut up now and again. But I think it likely I'm not very different in that respect.

I've dealt with worse than you. Frankly, I've been worse than you.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Yeah.

Well, if nobody else feels that way and I get punched a lot, then I still deserve it, probably, so.

[burninglight]

Maybe you'll be lucky and I'll make sure you're not punched more than you deserve.

[motherfucking_ghost]

What, are you gonna like talk at people on my behalf?

[burninglight]

Oh, no, you can get yourself into trouble all you like.

I'm simply offering to see to it that you don't get more than you deserve in return. Since apparently I'm some kind of monarch people might listen to.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Pretty sure I deserve a lot, dude.

[burninglight]

So do I. [Ardyn cracked the faintest sincere smile.] Don't worry so much.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah, but you didn't piss off basically everybody.

[burninglight]

Yet.

Give things time to calm down, I suspect they'll understand tensions are high at the very minimum.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I told them basically I'd kill 'em all if I was tempted enough.

Maybe they're just mad at themselves because they'd do the same damn thing under the right pressure.

[burninglight]

It's a difficult offer that I've no doubt several of us would actually consider. Still...I should hope no one actually does more than consider it.

Arianna wants to get everyone back together after things calm down somewhat and talk over the motive. You could try just saying that perhaps you overreacted. ...We might not even end up screaming at each other this time, if a miracle feels like happening.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I should probably not show up.

[burninglight]

Because that will do so much to convince the others you're not actually going to do something stupid.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Okay, and when people walk out of this meeting because I showed up?

[burninglight]

They're not seriously going to walk out just because you show up. Tell them what you just told me, that you're an idiot and you've been an utter asshole and whatever else.

If they put up with me and half of them tolerate Xander, they'll at least coexist with you.

[motherfucking_ghost]

So, just apologize?

Togami kinda suggested the same thing.

You all got a lot more faith in these people than I do.

[burninglight]

Is it still faith if I've been watching these people be unreasonably kind firsthand? What I mean is, there's clearly a line between 'blind faith' and 'reasonable assumption'.