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[criminaljustice]

Who: BAD END = DUMB END and others
When: post-game
What:

[SO.

THAT SUCKED.

THAT REALLY REALLY SUCKED.

TIME TO FLOP INTO OUR SUCKY DORMS AFTER A SUCKY GAME.

I GUESS PEOPLE CAN COME OVER TO... Y'KNOW... IF THEY WANNA.]

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[motorcycle_noises]

[ Sanguine doesn't have the energy to people outside of this dorm now. He's just going to flop miserably onto the couch. ]

What if we just never leave again?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Go with that. You can always change your mind later.

[motorcycle_noises]

[ Sanguine groans. ]

It's tempting, but I know I can't. I said I'd face the consequences.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

And how are you going to do that?

[motorcycle_noises]

My first plan is to just do whatever anyone on Taisho or Alcheme wants pretty much until they've decided that they've had enough of it. Even if that time never comes.

[ His hand fidgets at his side. ]

That's just for me, though.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

Not a bad idea.

[motorcycle_noises]

It won't even begin to make it up.... But I'm fine paying that price.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

So that's it, huh.

[motorcycle_noises]

What else is there?

[rollwithdisadvantage]

I heard C say something about frills.

[motorcycle_noises]

[ OH BOY. ]

.....I did say anything.

[rollwithdisadvantage]

[Sitting down next to him on the couch.]

Look. Remember what we were trying to achieve. Yeah, we fucking sucked at it, went at it all wrong, and made a ton of mistakes, but that doesn't make you evil.

[motorcycle_noises]

I don't think I'm evil.

[ He just thinks he's a bad person, which definitely isn't the same.... thing..... ]

[awakenerd]

Ha....

[I wish.]

[motorcycle_noises]

[ SO DOES SANGUINE. ]

I know it's not really a choice... but it's tempting.

[awakenerd]

I can't say I don't see the appeal.

[motorcycle_noises]

Can't fuck up if we never leave.

[awakenerd]

Words to live by.

[motorcycle_noises]

...It's Boss I feel worse for. I don't really have any friends here, but I know he cared for people on both those units.

[awakenerd]

...Yeah...

[Most of his friends are on those units too but Boss knows everyone better.]

We really messed up, huh?

[motorcycle_noises]

Irrevocably.

[ Sanguine sighs. ]

No one will ever trust us again... And they won't be wrong to, even if we never play like that again. We can never take this back. Our actions.... speak far, far louder than our intentions.

[awakenerd]

Yeah. I don't blame anyone for not trusting us. Honestly, if this happened again I'd want us to take the full heat.

I'm not sure I'm capable of playing bad guy that hard, but I'd almost play it up to draw it, if we could. We completely failed to protect anyone this way though, there's no saying we'd manage to help anyone that way either.

[motorcycle_noises]

I don't think I could play up that angle... and I don't want to. I think the best we can do is play as gently as possible in the future, and accept our consequences in those games. If they know it's us, they won't trust us... And we can't earn their trust back. But we can do our best not to betray them again.

[awakenerd]

Yeah. That's probably all we can do, at this point.

I don't... It's not the trust loss that bothers me. We deserve it. It's... Hurting them with it. I...

[Deep breath, repress.]

Taisho's going to be mad for a long time, I think, and that's okay. I don't even know how to make it up to AlcheME.

[motorcycle_noises]

....I don't care about the loss of trust, either. I care that we hurt them. I care that nothing we can do can ever make up for the fact that we hurt them, permanently.