speed dating 2.0

[idolpro]

WHO: More idols looking to have a good time
WHERE: Game Tower
WHEN: Day 120, morning

[ Hello, Idols! Are you ready for a game?

Some of you may have played this before! The area is familiar for sure: today's playing field is an expansive balcony with several mini-tables paired with two patio chairs each, garden umbrellas planted to keep the heat away. You can see the rest of the city from up here, too - it turns out you're pretty high up as you can even see the start of the Rainbow Bridge from here, though the railings are high so there's not a high likelihood of accidentally falling down.

There are a few pink lemonade pitchers scattered around with paper cups if you're thirsty, and some bite-sized chocolates if you're hungry. Cute snack food!

The instructions look familiar, too: it's a light game, with no enforced truth-telling even. No status effects! Just dates!

There are cards on the table, too! ]

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Comments

[syncintohell]

And so, you concede the point about love.

[ He picks up the glass of lemonade and rises to circle over to stand behind Cardigan's chair. ]

However, I ask you to reconsider one thing. Did you ever, truly, attempt to appeal to a better nature?

[deicider]

No. I think you humans are worse at love than you like to think. Anything inconvenient you refuse to understand and then abandon.

[Even now Cardigan is optimistic that Shu isn't going to make a point by dumping a glass of lemonade on them. ]

Yes. A nature that could face responsibility without devolving into vengeance. And not just me.

[syncintohell]

Humans are, at heart, weak.

[ Predictably, he raises it up over Cardigan's head though he doesn't dump it yet. ]

However, you are working with some base misconceptions, if are not attempting to lie. One does not attempt to appeal to one's better nature by looming over someone, threat in hand, forcing out explanations with no understanding of another's circumstances.

[deicider]

Oh? My life would be worth something to you if I had asked nicely after being betrayed and mutilated for you?

Humans really are weak, if they can throw someone out of the human race over a point of etiquette.

[syncintohell]

Etiquette? Have I ever once bothered pretending politeness with those I abhor?

That you would couch this as a matter of etiquette truly shows how abhorrent you are. Blackmail is not wrong as a matter of etiquette. The use of force, the use of strength to ensure the world shapes to your own values is true monstrosity.

[deicider]

[They snap a sharp hand gesture to indicate the world around them.]

You'll have to explain to me how my program of force and coercion has shaped this world. I even let Yasuragi get away with being a base murderer until I caught him at it again myself, like I knew I would.

[syncintohell]

Simply because you had a failed doctrine does not make it less abhorrent. Do you think only victors are capable of sin? Are you a child? It did not work, so in your mind it ought not to count?

[ Irritated, he tips some of the lemonade down onto Cardigan. ]

And furthermore, why are you so insistent upon making this about Yasuragi? I do not even have the slightest idea of what you are speaking. We have all killed here. You, yourself, have threatened it and furthermore done the deed.

[deicider]

Just dump it. Talking to you is a waste of time.

[syncintohell]

That is too reasonable of a request. You have yet to earn the rest of it. Do threaten me into it, if you wish for the whole glass full.

[deicider]

[Tips their chin up.]

Do it, or I'll leave.

[syncintohell]

At your leisure.

[ He motions with his free hand for Cardigan to go ahead. ]

I assure you, Tsukinaga and Prim both showed be a far better time.

[deicider]

[Standing,]

You get five stars from me. You showed me something I won't forget.

[syncintohell]

[ puzzled; ]

Sarcasm? I hardly said anything at all.

[deicider]

No, you said plenty. Really. Thanks, Shu.

[syncintohell]

[ The buzzer rings and Shu continues to look upon them, disgusted and perplexed. ]

Very well then, go.

[ He isn't going to be leaving first, with the mess he made. ]