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[lefthandpath]

Who: BARiTONES and... ??? visitors???
Where: BARiTONES
When: Day 130, post-game

[two cats drag home a bird--that is to say, Crown Royal and Kohime help Eichi get home and into bed.

what's everyone doing after that horror show?]

Comments

[notadrop]

Oh. Okay.


...


Aaaaanyways, Lord Commander, I'm like, super glad you and his majesty get along so well? You both really need a super close friend like that. Plus, it's cute.

[purrrnicious]

. . .Where are you going with this?

[notadrop]

Uh, nowhere? It's just an observation, dude. Too hard to believe I might be happy you're happy with someone?

[purrrnicious]

Yeah, pretty much.

[notadrop]

Dude, I might be dumb and greedy and incapable of not screaming my ass off angrily for like ten seconds? But I'm still pretty invested in my unitmate's wellbeing and happiness? Like, you're all...

[ ,

no. he can't say important, that's bad, ]

...

You're just good, okay?

[purrrnicious]

[Laughs –– honestly amused, not mocking.]

Oh man, you've gotta be the first to ever call me that –– not even Adora ever did. Sure you're not just a bad judge of character?

[notadrop]

[ hufff ]

I mean, you're not like, morally good or whatever? I mean, you mostly are honestly, more than like, half of this unit? But I don't think being like, a good person has anything to do with morals anyway. Look at fucking all the "moral" idiots here who'd rather watch people die than have any backbone at all. Being good's more about like, conviction and justice and stuff. You know?

[purrrnicious]

Mmm. . .

[Swishing her tail.]

You know, I don't really think there's such a thing as "justice". That's just a fantasy that little glitter princesses in their tall marble towers have the luxury of playing out.

[notadrop]

That's not tr...

[ hm. ]

Guilty as charged, I guess? But I dunno, I think everyone's got some idea of justice. Like, what do you fight for?

[purrrnicious]

What, here? Or before?

[notadrop]

...Both, actually. I'm curious.

[purrrnicious]

The Horde, and BARiTONES.


. . .

[Pauses, then amends that to:]

To survive. And to prove I'm stronger than anyone thought.

[notadrop]

[ he tilts his head a bit, thinking ]

Actually, aren't those kinda the same thing?

[purrrnicious]

. . .What are the same?

[notadrop]

Proving you're strong and surviving.

[purrrnicious]

[unless "proving you're strong" is actually "seeking external validation because you have serious insecurity issues"]

I guess so.

[notadrop]

[ I mean yeah but nobody here has to acknowledge that ]

And in the end, isn't that justice? You take what your strength lets you and take care of everything you've made yours!

[purrrnicious]

Pff, that’s just how it is. You can call it whatever you want.

[notadrop]

What do you think justice is? I always thought it was just how things are.

[purrrnicious]

Something some jerks made up to make themselves feel better about doing whatever they want. You’ll run into it lots here. It’s “justice” that we die for the community so they can save who they want while patting themselves on the back that they tried really, really hard to minimize damage.

[Says that last bit in a mocking tone. ]

Apparently, it’s also “justice” that some teams are the same ones that always die.

[notadrop]

But if we were stronger than them, none of that would matter. See? It's not justice if it's not absolute, you know?