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Who: Meeting boys + a CEO
Where: Places + FIN
When: Backdated to like 3am on day 61 abouts

[we had a good(??) time talking to Mukuro

time to get to work]

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[ E didn't even do that. enjoy Out Of Costume AlcheME, intensity ]

[I---

You guys could have put on actual clothes if you wanted. It's fine]

Hello, E.

[Stepping aside so he can come in]

[ we were too tired to get dressed we've had a night. ]

Yoooo. Sorry to wake you.

I was already awake.

[And gesturing toward the lab---]

Let's talk in there.

Woo.

[ heading in... ]

By the way, to your memory, did Exael ever explicitly say that she worked for Heaven, or did she just not stop us from assuming it?

I don't need memory. Half of my first conversation was over text.

[Give him a few seconds to scroll and---

Showing this to E:]

So you played in the games before you became an actor?
《 Do you really want to spend all this time on my past, rather than talking about your future? 》
Is that your way of saying you won't answer the question? You're a host. I want to become a host or a graduate or an actor or whatever else you want to fucking call it. Your past is my future.
《 Hm~ Well, you can get that. You got it right! Congratulations. 》
How'd you do it?
《 You get a big choice~ It's the most important part of graduation, because it decides the rest of it. 》
What were your options?
《 Heaven or Hell, let's rock! 》
Satisfied with your choice?

She never answered that last question. So no, she never explicitly stated she worked for Heaven.

Aha.

Yeah, it came up in the Mukuro call. If you choose Heaven you just go home - right where you started, apparently. No special benefits. So someone who chose Heaven... probably wouldn't be here, hosting games.

Might be worth asking her about directly.

I don't think we'll be getting any more information out of Exael until we finish our homework.

Homework?

What does Heaven get out of this?

Do they gain anything at all? If it’s ‘faithful followers’, well, it’s a bit self-defeating.

Fuck if I know. But that is our homework regardless.

Anyway, all they’ll tell us is that it’s a test.

A test that's growing in scale if these notes are to be believed. Now they just kidnap people instead of making house visits.

Which is faster for them, but I don’t think as secure as they want it to be.

Hence the amnesia. And the power-stripping. And the artificial construction of conflict.

Exactly. Before, they could target one person and ruin their entire life. Strip them of everything, every connection. Mukuro only accepted Azzy's deal when he was dead and ruined.

Here, there's lots of us. We have connections and we can organize. So there's that.

Yes.

. . .

Exael said something that has been bothering me. Though I'll have to revisit it in light of knowing what we do about her and her boss now. But---

"It's better for you if the system works."

I wonder what part of the system she meant.

Well, someone working in the system would say that to us regardless; she wants us to think that's what's good for her is what's good for us.

Otherwise, I imagine— graduation is what happens if the system works. Either we work for Hell or we go home, by the rules of the system. And if we don't graduate, we're Faceless, which seems frankly miserable.

She probably hasn't taken into account the possibility of it breaking apart in a way that benefits us, because why would she entertain that idea, or introduce it into our heads?

She already knows I want to overthrow the status quo, so saying that isn't fucking going to mean jack shit to me. And she likes her position, so there's no real reason to offer assistance to us or lie in such a way that would be caught so easily.

I'm more concerned that when they designed this production, they went with less horrific options that what they could have. And how we navigate the opening act will determine how they react in subsequent acts.

Mukuro did say he’d graduated from more than one program, so...

. . .

Does that mean he allied with a different Prince every time?

Almost certainly not. He was very against the idea of switching allegiances so easily.

So he had to prove his worth to Azzy multiple times.

Bummer, right? Or he just kept jumping from ‘program’ to ‘program’ for fun.