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[rollplayinghouse]

Who: Maki & whoever
Where: Dissonance group chat
When: Day 40, night

[What do you do while lying in bed feverishly awake and thinking, getting progressively more angry about progressively more frivolous things? You pull out your phone and rant to the group chat, obviously.]

Maki: This is Maki, from Taisho.
Maki: A lot of people probably feel like they know what that means, and even what this is going to be about.
Maki: Well, you're wrong, and THAT'S what I want to talk about.
Maki: People keep acting like they can judge a whole unit based on the actions of one or two people. Or like a unit all has the same opinion. Or even the same personality type. Whether it's Taisho, or avante, or anyone...
Maki: It's incredibly stupid.
Maki: They brought us all here and gave us a name and a color scheme and a set of traits. What do you think they're trying to do?
Maki: They're trying to mold us just how they want to. They're pushing us to act out the characters they set for us. They want us to see each other as the groups THEY defined for us.
Maki: Why are people so happy to do that?/?

Comments

[artificialinelegance]

foxglove: human nature mostly
foxglove: also some of us do genuinely love and want to part of our unit
foxglove: like in general in life you get assigned a group at birth you're part of this isn't really a thing unique to idol hell
foxglove: so there's a lot of answers to that question I guess

[rollplayinghouse]

[ouch. there's a pause before she responds to that]

Maki: So you're saying it's a family thing?

[thanks_satan]

GoodViverations: That's DEFINITELY stupid.
GoodViverations: Why would someone even think that?

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: How should I know?

[motorcycle_noises]

sanguine: i think some people end up using it as a shorthand, which really isn't always applicable
sanguine: or even mostly applicable in some cases
sanguine: you can say, "Bad End is like that" but what you REALLY mean is "one or two people from Bad End are like that"
sanguine: it's an oversimplification at best
sanguine: but people like to put people in boxes

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: Well they're stupid boxes.
Maki: People could at least pick boxes that weren't literally given to us by the same people having us murder each other.

[thanks_satan]

GoodViverations: Who even says that much?

[nohalation]

Angel: hi

[rollplayinghouse]

[...]

Maki: Hi, Angel.

[thanks_satan]

GoodViverations: hey angel

[hexsplosive]

Infinity: hi!!!!!
Infinity: ( •̀ᄇ• ́)ﻭ✧

[crossmyheartandhope]

hurricane: hey :)

[artisticliberty]

f0x1111: Are you feeling alright?

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: No. I'm angry at most of the people here.

[glaring]

----dere: I was wondering the same thing
----dere: Just because Im angry at someone on
----dere: g hh

[rollplayinghouse]

[...]

Maki: What?

[metafaliure]

Bell: THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT IT IS SIMPLY HUMAN NATURE
Bell: IT'S EASIER TO ASSUME YOUR BROAD KNOWLEDGE IS CORRECT THAN TO SEEK OUT EVIDENCE THAT DISPROVES IT
Bell: OR IF CONFRONTED WITH EVIDENCE THAT DISPROVES IT
Bell: TO PRETEND AS THOUGH THAT ONE PERSON IS SPECIAL
Bell: AND AN EXCEPTION

[artificialinelegance]

foxglove: THAT'S TRUE BUT WHY ARE YOU YELLING
foxglove: THIS IS THE INTERNET NOBODY CAN HEAR YOU

[puzzlekeeper]

[ This existential rant is nice and all but, ]

King: Why are any of you awake right now?

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: I have a fever and it's hard to sleep.

[hexsplosive]

Infinity: PREACH IT, GIRL!!!1
Infinity: !(•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑
Infinity: i have these things as an option to select in my texting application i don't know what they mean but it's cute!!!!!

[artificialinelegance]

foxglove: is your entire unit like this?
foxglove: is that a generalization that's actually true?

[syncintohell]

Mssr: It is human nature to other people and reduce them to outlines upon which they can project whatever they wish to see rather than to look and consider each individual.
Mssr: Questioning them will not make it stop.

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: It could at least make them think about it a little.

[sonof]

Yasuragi-no-Mikoto: You're all very endearing, but how do I make my phone stop buzzing?

[artificialinelegance]

foxglove: perish.
foxglove: 🔪

[rollwillpowercheck]

hydrangea: It's a good question
hydrangea: I thought most of us understood that an individual isn't a whole unit?
hydrangea: but I guess not, maybe
hydrangea: I think units do tend to share some traits, and that's why we're picked for them
hydrangea: not necessarily the traits that are listed for vids or anything!
hydrangea: I just see some similarities in my own unit
hydrangea: but sometimes I wonder how much parts of myself are inherently "me" and how much are influenced by everything around me subliminally pressuring me to fit a certain mold
hydrangea: though honestly you could say that about anything, right? societal expectations, etc.
hydrangea: that got kinda stream of consciousness, sorry

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: You could say it about anything, but I feel like it's particularly important to think about when it's an experiment being tried on us by Heaven or whoever.

[dragonheartedgirl]

Hiryuu: This is why I want to make sure I meet as many people as possible.
Hiryuu: It's easy to reduce people to one group but it's harder, I think, to keep hearing each individual.
Hiryuu: Maybe for the same reason it can be hard to see an individual tree in a forest.
Hiryuu: But it's important that we try and that we embrace the differences as much as possible.
Hiryuu: Thank you for posting this, Maki.

[artificialinelegance]

foxglove: how do i upvote on this app

[afailedmurder]

[Meanwhile, IRL, A stirs in his embiggened bed and eventually, when it becomes clear Maki's not going back to sleep, rolls over.]

...I might be able to make you a sleep potion...

[rollplayinghouse]

[but people are wrong on the internet]

...I'll go to sleep in a bit.

[searingedgelord]

Silk: are you ok?

[rollplayinghouse]

[...]

Maki: Not really.

[unbr8kable]

Nemesis!: its easy
Nemesis!: and a good hateon feels good
Nemesis!: youre right p dumb tho

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: I don't understand it.

[crossmyheartandhope]

hurricane: idk, guess some people think it's easier than getting to know people?
hurricane: seems way more fun to get to know ppl instead of just thinking u know, tho

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: I don't think that's it.
Maki: You can not get to know people and still not judge them that way.