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[crusthatecean]

[This is a game post for Alena and Karkat]

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[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.

[fighting_alena]

He's a member of my team. Tall guy, bald head. He has an ability where even if he dies, he comes back to life a few moments later.

Okay, hold on, let's brainstorm...

...I think I have an idea.

[crusthatecean]

What?

[fighting_alena]

Let's hit each other at the same time so we knock each other out! We won't be able to make a decision, and we'll probably both die... but we'll be unconscious, so at least we won't feel it or have to watch it.

[crusthatecean]

...How about no? I'll feel being hit into unconsciousness, dumbfuck. Besides, you don't know what dying is like, maybe it's excruciating and awful whether or not you're asleep for it.

And here I thought you had an actual plan.

[fighting_alena]

How would you feel it?! You'd be unconscious!

Let's hear YOU come up with a better plan then!