LIVE!

[criminaljustice]

Who: some good and helpful BAD END=DEAD ENDers and other Imeejins
Where: hotel lobby
When: Day 66, evening after Plan Crazypants

[so anyway.

a Live alert goes off.

and there's Boss, setting fire to Future is Now's cursed couch. this is fine?

Boss seems to be dressed in a suit that's not quite the right fit and his Take No Prisoners t-shirt. maybe some of you even remember a certain portrait that he seems to eerily resemble?

he just smiles up at a camera and waves before going to lounge on a lobby couch near the flames. he hasn't slept much recently, so a nap is fine, right? it's fine.]

((ooc: Boss will be Sir Chilling In The Lobby while Jeva is at work. slow tags may occur until she is free from work. other Bad Enders will be helpers for other units that turn up))

Comments

[artisticliberty]

Yes, exactly. It seems worth trying as much as anything else.

Still, this is quite a scene, and it would be a shame not to draw at least some of it.

[awakenerd]

I'd like to see you capture it.

[artisticliberty]

I would even throw something into the fire, but all my fanmail was lovely...

[awakenerd]

Just enjoy the warmth then.

[artisticliberty]

It has been a little cold lately...

[hmmm]

What are your thoughts on all of this, Phoenix?

[awakenerd]

Oh. The monochrome?

[artisticliberty]

Yes. It hasn't afflicted anyone from your unit, that I've seen.

[awakenerd]

People were kind of worried I'd catch it, but I haven't encountered anyone else with it.

I think people just need to be whipped into shape and it'll work out.

[artisticliberty]

"Whipped into shape"?

[awakenerd]

Right. Encouraged to conform to their unit image, to keep their noses clean, not to muddy the waters.

[artisticliberty]

Doesn't the very idea disgust you?

[awakenerd]

Why should it? It's for our own good. Look at what happens when people break form, Fox.

Sometimes when rules and structure gets broken, people need to be punished.

[artisticliberty]

How can you say that?! People are not allegories! We all have our own lives, our own wants and desires that cannot be contained by something as trite as a "unit image"!

[awakenerd]

Then do you want to die?

[criminaljustice]

[from his place on the couch: leaning over to stage-whisper to Phoenix:]

Does this sort of thing fall under "stubborn" and "unbending" or is it infringing on "rebellious"?

[awakenerd]

Oh good question. Kind of both, huh?

[criminaljustice]

Ehhhh... sounds like stubborn. Kind of a stoic vibe when he's not yelling.

Kiiiinda iffy.

So up to you?

[awakenerd]

I think because he's from your world it's your call.

[criminaljustice]

... ehhh... I've got a soft spot for him. Knock him around a bit.

[awakenerd]

[Sighs and cracks his knuckles.]

Light bruising?

[artisticliberty]

If I have to choose between stifling my own desires until it eats away at my very soul, until I lose everything that makes up who I am... and death?

I will choose death. And I will go down fighting.

[awakenerd]

And if the alternative isn't dying, but becoming less than a person?

[artisticliberty]

That's... that's!

[awakenerd]

[Reaching forward to grip Fox by the front of his outfit if he can? And just straight up lift him off his feet like he weighs nothing, if he catches him.]

You want to die just to be an individual?

[artisticliberty]

[fox grabs phoenix's arm and tries to get him to let go, struggling]

I am willing to fight for it--with every fiber of my being!