[he. he may have said he'd yell at anyone he found out voted for Kara but he literally cannot bring himself to yell at Magnus so he just SLUMPS IN HIS SEAT]
No fucking idea! [He's kind of angry about it!] It's not like I wanted to die. But I didn't want to risk a fucking tie! Only outcome that would've been worse, and we must've been so close!
Yeah, but. I can't imagine they're gonna be willing to try it that way again. It's gonna be stupid ass murder trials for the rest of the time we're stuck here.
Apparently the only things that work for actually getting a relatively unified vote is making wild accusations at the last minute, or stumbling into the murderer in the first hour.
[ wryly: ] If I or someone else had jumped in with an accusation at that point, we all probably would have spiraled into 'wasn't the music box Flayn's?', 'you seem strangely eager to pin the blame on someone, 45', and maybe even a 'perhaps Magnus is trying to make himself look good and selfless so what we couldn't possibly think he's the actual murderer' ...
But we might have panic voted you anyway. Who knows.
Yeah. Damn - I must've volunteered so I'd be sure to get away with it. I'm pretty nefarious.
[He still finds this funny, because he's just so, so angry about what happened.]
Everybody wants there to be someone to hate, 'cause then it doesn't feel so much like what it is - that every week, we're all voting to kill somebody else because we don't want to die.
How terribly insidious. You never told us you were such an accomplished actor, Magnus.
[ Dark humor is the only way to deal with unending amounts of bullshit, really. ]
You know, I wonder what this game would've looked like if everyone had simply accepted that from the beginning, instead of letting the cognitive dissonance soften the blow. But yes, it's much easier when there's a single concrete enemy to face. Something that makes it us versus them, no?
[ possessions, monsters, corruptions- things that make it easy to explain away their voting for someone at the end of every week as the right and good thing to do.
they're all united against pink, sure, but pink isn't something tangible yet. ]
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[DO WE]
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[Sighing! Taking a big drink!]
How'd it even fuckin' happen? I voted for him, but that's because I didn't expect any other assholes to do it! I thought shit was clear!
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[he. he may have said he'd yell at anyone he found out voted for Kara but he literally cannot bring himself to yell at Magnus so he just SLUMPS IN HIS SEAT]
I get the feeling thaaaaat was the whole problem.
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[Leave him alone!]
I came clean to him and Lili, okay? Feel shitty enough about it.
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[a tired huff]
. . . there isn't much we can do about it now.
[frowns a lot]
Why didn't more people vote for you. . .?
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. . . I guess it's a silver lining that we didn't.
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Yeah. If we'd just had someone go. Magnus, I bet you did a thrall on him with fifteen minutes to go, we'd be home free.
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[ wryly: ] If I or someone else had jumped in with an accusation at that point, we all probably would have spiraled into 'wasn't the music box Flayn's?', 'you seem strangely eager to pin the blame on someone, 45', and maybe even a 'perhaps Magnus is trying to make himself look good and selfless so what we couldn't possibly think he's the actual murderer' ...
But we might have panic voted you anyway. Who knows.
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[He still finds this funny, because he's just so, so angry about what happened.]
Everybody wants there to be someone to hate, 'cause then it doesn't feel so much like what it is - that every week, we're all voting to kill somebody else because we don't want to die.
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[ Dark humor is the only way to deal with unending amounts of bullshit, really. ]
You know, I wonder what this game would've looked like if everyone had simply accepted that from the beginning, instead of letting the cognitive dissonance soften the blow. But yes, it's much easier when there's a single concrete enemy to face. Something that makes it us versus them, no?
[ possessions, monsters, corruptions- things that make it easy to explain away their voting for someone at the end of every week as the right and good thing to do.
they're all united against pink, sure, but pink isn't something tangible yet. ]
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[it set the tone. . . the tone for their awful time in camp]
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[she isn't answering that question but what she thinks is written all over her face.
(it's "no".)]
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but she also doesn't really do anything else either.]
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Hey. . .
Can you look at me for a second?
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[she raises her head, just slightly, to look at him]
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It's okay.
[his voice is quiet, barely above a whisper]
. . . no. It isn't okay. But-- [. . .] It. . . will be.
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...soon.
[it has to be soon.]
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[because he knows neither of them can take much more of this]
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[they absolutely cannot.
and tomorrow is going to be even worse.]
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