how we doin, Taisho

[rollplayinghouse]

Who: Taisho (and anyone who wants to check on them)
Where: Taisho dorms
When: Day 66, late morning

[Maki ultimately spent the night at Future is Now, but in the morning she finally takes everyone's advice and returns to Taisho. She is fully grayscale at this point, and also looks... a bit darker, maybe? Like she's standing in a shadow, or someone moved the brightness slider down slightly.

She changes back into a Taisho outfit before coming back to the common area.]

So... does anyone have thoughts on doing better at unit unity.

Comments

[rollplayinghouse]

Why, exactly, do you think I attacked Intensity? It's because I accepted that we wouldn't attack any of the units people put off limits, and because I didn't want you all to start a blood feud with avante that would come back to bite everyone. It wasn't something I wanted to do.

[bluerosestyle]

When we discussed what to do in the first round, I disagreed with your decision to attack Intensity. And you... shamed me into shutting up, pointing out how you were the only one who was making decisions and suggesting names. But that wasn't all-- you told me he'd be okay with it, and you also said you were fine with killing people. You made it sound like you wanted to do it. Like I was insulting you by disagreeing.

So I said I'd think about names for the next round, because anything less than that didn't seem worth considering for you-- and I did. I thought about it, I came to a conclusion. But it didn't matter at all. By the second round, you didn't seem to care about that blood feud with avante you were so worried about before anyway, and what I might have had to say clearly wasn't even worth listening.

I've given up trying to understand you. You only care about what you consider important, and other people's views aren't worth anything to you when they don't match your own. But-- since you asked me, I think you attacked Intensity because you thought you'd be fine with it, the same way I thought I'd be fine with dying in games.

If people don't ask for something, doing that for them is not a favor. And no one asked you to make any sort of sacrifice in that game. By doing it, you just set yourself up to resent anyone who wasn't thankful for it. But even if you might have done that out of your own sense of consideration, what kind of reaction do you expect when you force your own idea of kindness onto others? I doubt you'd like that yourself.

[rollplayinghouse]

[She gets more and more upset as she listens to that, but about at the middle she breaks, and when he finishes she just snaps—]

You never tried to understand me in the first place!

[—and turns to storm out of the apartment before he can see her angry tears.]