we're all out of pep

[identitypolitics]

Who: pep!pep!
Where: pep dorm
When: day 408 late/day 409

[ anyway that was bad. didn't like that

time to lie on face ]

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[thisismagrave]

[wait what]

You what?

[quickpersuader]

future is now wanted us to go to the school with them to meet with you because they said it was safe. Then we got the announcement of your death. My plan was to try to clear the water park so we'd have a base with turf advantage to extract you, but it didn't work out.

[Which they're still a little annoyed about, but what happens, happens.

Back to scribbling in some detailing on the map.]

[thisismagrave]

Why would you retrieve me?

[quickpersuader]

...Because we're unitmates?

[thisismagrave]

I also never do anything you say.

[quickpersuader]

And somehow, that doesn't change the fact that our survival is dependent on working together.

[thisismagrave]

You died!

[quickpersuader]

That was the miscalculation.

[Sigh.]

[thisismagrave]

Seems pretty opposite of survival.

[quickpersuader]

More living team members means more people who are able to watch each other's backs. But even when I was trying to be cautious, there was just no good place to set up base. My legs were already injured by then, and I'd taken a few hits, so either we could stay in the sewers with the acid slime monster or try above ground on turf that should have been to our advantage.

Unfortunately, the trap they set up at halftime at the waterpark caused it to throw people to other zones, which had their own traps.

That was my mistake.

[thisismagrave]

Except you knew there was danger where I was! Where FiN was telling you to go because they were possessed, but that should have been the tip off for danger!

[quickpersuader]

It wouldn't have been a solo expedition. We had a strong avante who agreed to help us, as well as Pink and Ren. The members of future is now fled when they heard the announcement of your death.

Anyway, sorry it didn't work, if all you want to do is nitpick my planning during death matches, I'm already a little busy.

[thisismagrave]

Wait.

All of you tried?

[quickpersuader]

Yes?

We're a unit. That's the point.

[thisismagrave]

But I'm- [His mouth snaps shut.]

[A bother. A weak link. Hated. Unwanted. Useless useless useless useless-]

[quickpersuader]

You're a member of pep!pep!, and someone I am obligated to help and support.

...Whether or not it's returned, unfortunately for me, but there's no helping that part.

[thisismagrave]

But I wasn't worth it!

[quickpersuader]

Is that the part you're caught up on?

[thisismagrave]

I couldn't keep Ren alive, I could barely give Gladio and Pink information, I couldn't protect anyone from harm, I only helped revive one SensitIV after they gave us so much healing, I started the stupid mannequinn chain, I couldn't even successfully talk someone into killing me to lessen the next round, and then died to a stupid ghost anyway in front of my friend who begged me to not die in front of her! Why in Titan's name would you think I was worth going back for?!

[quickpersuader]

Because we're a unit. And my personal thoughts aside, being on a unit means having each other's backs, because no one else can or will.

...But besides that, I'm not in the habit of assigning worth to people's lives anyway. My usual lifestyle is solitary and largely benefits myself and very few others - and I'm fine with that. So whatever ideas of worth or value you're assigning yourself... I don't really care about that.

[thisismagrave]

Except you died for it! When you just...abandoned Pink with some deranged lunatic for all you knew in your own dorm!

[quickpersuader]

...My own mistakes in that game aside, do you really think every single member of pep is incompetent in a fight?

Every single one of us... well, the ones of us who were there when you arrived - all of us know how to handle ourselves in dangerous scenarios. And besides that, after talking with you a little, you didn't seem like you were about to strike anyone, not that you would have been able to take on three people with super speed and no powers anyway.

[Ugh. The circle is beginning all over again.]

If you're just going to call me a liar, just do it outside, please? I'd really like to get back to this.

[thisismagrave]

I just want to know why you'd risk your life for someone you don't care about when you'd leave someone you should! That makes no sense!

[quickpersuader]

Because I know my unitmates can handle themselves against a single newcomer whether or not I'm there. And because just now, we were in a game where we needed to be backing each other up, which I tried and failed to do.

[thisismagrave]

Which makes no sense! You just said you didn't think the favor would be returned and abandoned a person who clearly cares about you for someone who doesn't!

That makes no sense!