bingo continued 2

[idolpro]

Who: Idols
Where: Anywhere
When: Day 101, later morning

[Just getting started? Running out of friends to do awkward things with? Regardless, bingo continues.]

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[we_meet_again]

It wasn't just Wednesday; other people have told me I'm scary-looking, too. I'm glad you don't think so, though. That's nice to hear.

[He finishes buttoning up his jacket and rolls his sleeves back up, the way he always does. Now he's done!]

You talked to your unitmates about that, huh? Did they say why they did it? I'd be interested to hear, if it's something you don't mind sharing.

[walking to the door and holding it open for Leviathan so they can continue talking in the lobby]

[backstory]

[He still...tends to disagree. But Cobalt would clearly know best how people have reacted to him. It's a shame, though. He is one of the most sincere people here.

He nods though, after a moment and follows after.]

Not all of my unit was there at the time it seems, but I'd like to verify a couple of points I was made aware of by them.

First. The trial took place during an unstable time here. Meaning that our world here and the people within it were fading and turning grey. There was the threat that people may have ceased to exist, right?

Second. During the trial, when a former unit member of mine tried a different method to appease the judges, by having a public break down, she was tortured in front of the rest of my team as a result.

These things are facts, or am I mistaken by anything?

[we_meet_again]

Yeah, the trial happened that time everyone started going gray. It was terrifying. Apparently it was caused by us not conforming to our unit aesthetics properly... Two of the units tried something desperate in an attempt to save everyone, but they wound up getting possessed by demons instead, and while they were crazy they hosted the trial. After that, everything went back to "normal." But the gray thing felt like the end times. The sky went gray, people were losing their memories and fading away, reality started flickering between the present and past states of things... really scary stuff.

I can't confirm the thing about the torture because I wasn't there. But wow, that sounds awful.

[backstory]

Then, can I ask you a question?

Most people would prefer to temporarily die, instead of permanently fade away from existence, I think. What would have happened if none of the units had been able to satisfy the twisted pleasure and rules of the producers during that trial?

[we_meet_again]

The trial was a farce.

Before anything had even begun, the judges already decided that four units would live and four would die. The trial was just to decide which ones it would be. It had nothing to do with whether we were guilty or not of unit crimes, or how any of us had conducted ourselves until then, or whether we showed group cohesion or were entertaining enough for the audience.

The trial itself was the conflict that the producers apparently wanted to see. I believe the outcome of the trial, in regards to the gray plague, would have been the same whether we all slaughtered each other, or whether we had all quietly awaited judgement. It didn't matter. Because the condition of "create conflict so we don't all fade" was already being satisfied by the judges themselves.

[backstory]

You don't believe it would have happened at all, then? That people's existence was never truly in danger?

[we_meet_again]

Honestly? I have no idea what would have happened without the trial. Maybe we would have found another way to solve the problem. Maybe our whole world would have collapsed and taken us with it. No clue!

But I'm not convinced that the additional bonus violence that sensitIV visited on the other units actually improved the situation for anyone other than sensitIV... and even that's pretty debatable.

That's not a judgement or anything, by the way. I wasn't there. I have no idea what kind of pressure they were under. I'm sure it was terrifying.