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[um...]

Yeah. Maki.

[for very legit reasons that Phoenix will explain.]

She let go and let me off with just a punch to the gut.

--

Fuck.

[ which is all he says for a good long bit because what else do you even say ]

[yeah, that's basically it.

just kind of looks down at his hands because it's way easier than trying to talk.]

... ya wanna sit down?

[that gets a quiet nod.

though moving around hasn't been that great since he was already sick in the bathroom]

[ offers his arm so he can at least try to guide him to a couch ]

[yeah, sure. immediately gonna sink into the couch, though.]

[ sinks down beside him, seeing if he can wrap an arm around his shoulders ]

[still doesn't really feel like people shouldn't bother with the whole comforting thing with him because IT'S NOT LIKE HE WAS EVEN HURT???

but also curling in against Oni's side, letting the arm drape around him.]

[ you fucked up in a huge way you obviously didn't mean to and accidentally hurt units you loved that deserves some sympathy ok!!

exhales, rough, gives him a light squeeze ]

... Sorry I wasn't there.

... Prisoners' Dilemma... that's what they called it.

Every unit had someone separated out to take damage if they were betrayed.

[ the irony of that doesn't escape him but he just nods, letting him speak, if he's comfortable with explaining it. ]

[i mean... not really, because. well. you actually know the Issues here. so.]

... I got separated out. I was fine taking a hit, if it came to it, but...

[that's. not what happened. and everything was Bad.]

... Didn't go down that way, huh?

[ he says, as a redundant sort of confirmation. ]

We tried to tell them to betray us because we were going to betray them.

They trusted us instead.

[and fuck, it's hard to get out that last sentence and he is officially giving up on words now because otherwise he might actually cry and that's stupid]

Shit.

[ under his breath, because -- again he's almost at a loss of words for that ]

And considerin' the types of games we play here they got burned pretty bad on that, from the sounds of it.

... if you trusted and were betrayed... the prisoner's changed in some way. Permanently.

[we fucked up real bad.]

[ he inhales, a bit surprised, at that ]

-- no healin'?

[shakes his head]

That's jus' -- fucked up.

[... thunks head against Oni's shoulder]

Yeah.

[ another little squeeze ]

... I know -- ya fucked up, and I know ya must feel like absolute shit about it. And I ain't sayin' it's wrong to feel that way.

But I know you, and I know you'd never, ever wanna do somethin' like that to a person if you could avoid it.

[well, fuck him. he's definitely going to end up crying at some point.]

... it was Taisho and AlcheME.

[the worst. the absolute worst.]

[ softly, voice rougher; ]

Pheonix told me.

[... oh yeah.

welp.

time to just be.

extremely sad.

and angry.

in fact, Very Angry. at self, at Mukuro...]