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LIAR HELL OR BUST

Who: More Idols
Where: Liar Hell
When: Tuesday Morning

[ What's everyone up to this morning? Still stuck in Hell? Busy doing crimes? Maybe, like some people, you hopped on a train from Vengeance Hell to get over here! Hope you didn't have to give up anything too precious for that.

In any case, however you've ended up here there's still plenty to do. Shopping, restaurants, movie theaters, maybe you can even find a tour bus to make the rounds of some of the other shows being filmed here! ]

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The guards were talking about an "escape attempt," so it kind of sounded like they had some... inter-dimensional security system that just missed you guys somehow.

Yeah... But Absinthe told us he got the thing from fake-DadBoss, right? Why give him tech that didn't work?

Well, it clearly did work for you guys.

The way things seem to me now... That Asshole was actually trying to sneak us in to "Heaven," without Exael or her boss knowing. If it only half-worked, that just means he only half succeeded, and her security caught the rest of us as we tried to "escape."

...I have some theories based on that, but... I'd like to hear what you guys saw firsthand, first.

[Looks around for paparazzi, before deciding the open's as good a place as any to hide. Nevertheless, she lowers her voice a bit.]

Back to the great upstairs...seemed like their control room. 'Course everything was on autopilot, so we couldn't do much with it. Then we came to bust you guys out, and ended up here. Guess there was no need, anyways.

[raises her eyebrows slightly]

I was hoping for a little more detail than that. Req and Intensity both told me some things.

Assumed you didn't want a minute-by-minute play-by-play and'd rather I cut to the chase. If you got questions, ask 'em.

"The chase" in this case is how you talked an angel into destroying Tokyo-F and that's why we're all here.

Unless I misunderstood something.

As much as I'd love the credit for that, we just asked Elly to help bust you outta jail, and they ran with it. ...Flew with it, whatever. Guess next time we can leave you with border patrol?

We were managing jail fine on our own.

...You just wanted to break us out? Not all of us, out of hell more generally?

And here I thought you'd be in favor of stunting to help people they care about.

Anyways, busting up Imeeji itself was just the cherry on the sundae. Don't tell me you're mad you aren't stuck on TV murdering some kids in dumb outfits.

I'm also in favor of trusting the people you care about to handle themselves when you don't actually know they're in trouble, over destroying entire cities because you haven't seen them for an hour.

[dry.]

You realize we're now in actual hell, right? People sprouting wings and new eyes and bleeding and wandering around in weird fugue states? In much higher danger of losing our color and our selves, like the Damned, if we're not careful?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying being here isn't a big break in our efforts to figure out what the hell is going on. But don't act like you were on some altruistic rescue mission that's going even better than planned.

I woulda destroyed that city just for fun. I woulda destroyed it if it meant no one ever got out. People're fucked up in the head and looking weird? So what else is new? Way I see it, we're in exactly the same situation as we were before, 'cept maybe we can actually do something this time. At least, if we act instead of twiddling our thumbs 'cause we're afraid of something what's gonna happen anyways.

I'm not afraid of anything. I'm angry that everyone's in hell and has no idea what's going on or what's going to happen next, and you apparently think it's fine to skip over all the actual information relevant to that with "oh yeah we went to heaven, everything was on autopilot, then we tried to come get you guys, it's fine now, the end!"

People can't act if they have no idea what's happening!! Do you have any idea what that's like? Because I do! When everyone was turning gray, people were talking to Exael behind the scenes or summoning demons or whatever, and I didn't know about any of it! All I knew was that I was losing all my memories and sense of self, and the only thing that maybe might help was getting along with my unit, who couldn't even try to understand and help me when I was literally fading out of existence! I resigned myself to whatever happened while everyone else made stupid decisions and got possessed! So sorry if I don't think that's a great way to approach things!!

Wow, can't imagine what it must've been like to go grey while your team was no help. Oh wait, I can. And my takeaway was that if you don't act, somebody else will. And I'm not gonna wait 'til that somebody takes away my choices again just 'cause people like you're afraid what might happen to the status quo. Which, if you haven't forgotten, is pretty terrible.

So instead of worrying about why we're here, you should be happy that we're here. Something happened for once; maybe there is a way outta this place that doesn't come with infinite strings attached. But sure, different strokes for different folks. If you wanna go back to your "safe" Hell and all the great times being torn apart and mindwhammied, go give Exael another call. I'm sure she'd find you a new cage if you asked nice.

"No help" is not even remotely close to describing what happened! I had yelling arguments with half my unit, got told I was selfish and thoughtless, and stormed out to cry in an alley!!

And I didn't say anything about wanting to go back!! Or even not wanting to be here! Listen to what I am actually saying! You're the one who's taking my choices away right now! You're the one who's telling me I should just sit here and be happy and not worry about why or try to do anything about it!!

Edited 2019-08-09 06:52 (UTC)

I'm telling you that there's no point in worrying about stuff that's already happened. You wanna do something, do it. I just recommend you come up with something better to do than yelling at me, 'cause I got better things to do than stand around being yelled at.

[colder, now:]

And I'm telling you that I can't do anything productive without information. I didn't do anything during the monochrome not because I didn't want to, but because I didn't know how. I didn't know people had Exael's phone number. I didn't know how to summon a demon. What exactly should I have been doing, other than crying and yelling? What should people here do, who don't know anything about this angel, other than crying and yelling? Make ill-advised deals with demons, like Talon already did?

I'm not worried about what's already happened. I'm worried about what's going to happen. You all think the angel's going to get us out of here. I'm not even saying that plotting with them is a bad idea, but I really think you need to approach that with a little less blind faith it will work out exactly like you expect, given that we have no real idea what they're thinking, they managed to sleep through a war, and they destroyed a city we weren't even in when you asked them to get us out of prison.

If you're going to stand here and tell me you've decided what's the best course of action is and you're not interested in sharing your information or getting any more opinions, then fine. That's your prerogative.

But it's also my prerogative to take that for what it is, which is you unilaterally making a decision on something that could affect all of us catastrophically. And you have to be prepared for the consequences of that. Because I am going to take action, and it might not be something you like.

Edited 2019-08-09 07:23 (UTC)

Your boyfriend's got more information than I could ever know. If you still can't keep up with what's going on, I don't know what to tell you.

In fact...I guess I'd better get a move on. Gotta run a mission against some dumbshit Heaven-kin demon fucks before you go tell the teacher.

[And she turns to go]

...

[to her back]

I'm not Intensity. I don't automatically know whatever he knows. And I'm tired of everyone acting like I'm just some extension of him.

And I'm not limited to what he'd do, either. We'll talk again.

[also turns to walk away]

[huffs out a breath, but doesn't look back]

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