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[crusthatecean]

[This is a game post for Alena and Karkat]

Comments

[fighting_alena]

This is even worse than the usual dangerous games!!

[crusthatecean]

[Whoa.]

And I take it they're actually serious about this shit.

[fighting_alena]

Someone really wants us to die...

[crusthatecean]

It's all so fucking pointless! Let's sit around and cry before we form a suicide pact, all so some god has something juicy to imagine while his sweaty hands chafe his divine genitals raw.

I guess we're supposed to be happy to be someone's holy fetish because at the end maybe we'll get a memory!

[fighting_alena]

[sighs...]

And then we'll be revived and life will go on...

[crusthatecean]

Yeah.

Have you died before?

[fighting_alena]

... [takes a moment to think about that]

You mean, here at Aather?

[crusthatecean]

Yeah.

Wow, or in general, if that's actually relevant.

[fighting_alena]

Not at Aather! Possibly in my homeland. But then my companions would have me revived.

[crusthatecean]

Oh.

It doesn't matter. I'm a knight. This shit is evidently my job.

[fighting_alena]

That doesn't mean you have to die for us.

[crusthatecean]

What else are we for? I've been trying to figure it out, but can't. All I know is, we're supposed to protect the heroes.

I'm not a martyr, I'll put something up as an offer and I sure as hell expect you to do the same, but the first part of this is an easy call.

[fighting_alena]

You sure?

We could... both die by no decision. Let the Persona know we won't make a decision like this.

[crusthatecean]

[shrugs, trying to look nonchalant about this]

If you want. I don't really see the point, but it's your life. Throw it away needlessly if that's really what you want.

[fighting_alena]

Thanks, knew I could count on you!

[crusthatecean]

Don't thank me, I don't want you to do that! I'm just saying, it's your life, I can't stop you from wasting it!

You're not doing me any favors by doing that, you're not teaching any personae any lessons they haven't been taught and disregarded before, and you're basically doing nothing but taking a giant shit all over the fact that I have to die when, I'll be honest here, I strongly would prefer otherwise, but that's the situation we're in, and I won't be a worthless knight anymore.

Die if you want, but don't thank me for giving you the chance to make both of our deaths pointless.

[fighting_alena]

Calm down!

Look, I'm just saying let's think this through here. We don't need to default to you being the sacrifice so quickly!

[crusthatecean]

Fine.

What do you have in mind? I'm not going to accept any answer that involves me sitting here with my thumbs up my ass because you wanted to be the hero. This isn't about a suicide complex, this is about the actual reason I'm here.

[fighting_alena]

[frowns] I don't need to hear this lecture from you too. And no one has a suicide complex!

...Except maybe Shiny.

[crusthatecean]

I don't even know who that is.

I'm not trying to lecture you, I just mean...look, I'm not volunteering just because I think I'm the only one who doesn't like to see someone else die, all right? If it was just that, I'd say we flip a coin and leave it at that.

Decision

[crusthatecean]

We've decided. If you don't accept our offer, I'm the one dying, and I'll do it myself.

For the record, both of you are freaks. Just in case you do wind up having the chance to get off on the sight of my mutilated viscera, I'm preemptively hoping you choke to death on your own cosmic spunk.

Offer

[crusthatecean]

And I'll offer my pride.

There are three more pieces of my first memory, and three people I don't ever want to see it. I don't want them to know what I did to their universe, to our friends, and I don't want them to see what kind of person I am. I'll give them the memories and give you my pride.

Once again, for the record, please also go fuck yourselves.

[Double middle fingers I'm outie]

OOC

[crusthatecean]

[And I'll say for Karkat this is a 9.]

Re: Decision

[fighting_alena]

I've lived through many of these dangerous games. Games where people are threatened with death, or at least horrible harm. Usually, but not always, there's a solution to at least live through the game. The game with the tally marks for everyone was one of those games.

This is not one of those games. Clearly these personae are out for blood. If that's what they really want, then I'll give it to them! I offer a quarter of all the blood in my body, and I'll puncture myself if I have to.

[ooc: this is about a 6 for Alena as she's reasonably confident she could live through this.]

[dramatispersonae]

[ The door to your cell creaks open.

When you step out of it, you find yourself back in the ring. What you offered was accepted and is now gone. ]

((OOC: There is space for both fall out and Endgame. It would be to your benefit to participate in fall out. All revivals happen a few IC hours later in endgame.))