text; un: shitpost king

[hedonistic]

ok listen up, this is actually legitimately important

if this is your first time getting locked up like this, you need to understand one main thing going forward: our lives are less than worthless to these people. every second we're still breathing is a second more than they needed to give us.

i can't promise that we're going to be okay. i don't know if ALASTAIR gives enough of a shit to come for us. but even though i'm not gonna be the guy who has a lot of pretty words to say to keep hope alive or whatever, i do know a few things about staying safe in here. surviving, if this is for the long haul

1) don't make a fuss or be a nuisance to the guards. don't draw attention. the more forgettable you are, the better off you'll be

2) try to avoid using your jewel comms as much as you can. if they realize we're communicating through these, they'll be confiscated

3) DON'T TRY TO BE A HERO. this is the most important point here so i'm gonna repeat it, DO NOT TRY TO BE A FUCKING HERO.

we're not in a fucking action movie, trying to escape or break everyone out will get you in deep ass shit, maybe even made an example out of. don't fucking do it.

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[fourscores]

I would hope they're smarter than that, but I suppose you're right.

TEXT | un: huntsman

[dishearten]

i agree.

you'll be no more free if you die trying to escape than you are incarcerated.

( Graham coming in like a real ray of sunshine... thanks graham. )

[fateality]

I'll assume "rambo" means "crazy".
But I find it interesting how someone like you is so scared of our situation.

Not my first jailbreak. Probably won't be my last.

[keystaff]

I know there isn't many, from when I first remember showing up with ALASTAIR and all, but. Some of us have helped them with missions for over a year now.
But I suppose, there are other teams too. I know we aren't the only ones.

If you're saying we can't wait, can't...um, guarantee they'll come for us then it's up to us?
What should we do?

text; un: demon cyborg

[scrap_metal]

[ an advice coming from someone living this life ]

Noted. It's a sound advice for the situation we're in.

[ he's not promising he's going to follow it, tho. ]

NINU ;A;

[hedonistic]

[He hears the words, but they don't really register at first; the absurdity of them passing through his ears as if someone had just told him 2+2 actually equals 5.

It's going to be okay. I won't let anything bad happen to you.

There's a time-delay, of sorts, processing that. The anger is still white-hot in his veins, his frustration and bitterness and impatience with a team that never seems to want to face difficult realities, that thinks they can fix everything in the multiverse as long as they want it bad enough. He doesn't hear Ninurrta, at first. Not really.

And then they rush in and over him suddenly, like the oncoming tide, and --

For an instant his lungs are empty. Then...

What was before faint huffs of derisive chuckles with only the tinge of mania to them turns into full-blown laughter, ugly and sharp like broken glass, dissonant and wild. A mad hyena's guffaw.

His eyes don't hold the child's wonder Ninurrta saw back at the gala. No, something far less innocent has replaced them, something damaged. Something that's died a hundred deaths and had to keep on living anyway. How ironic, that the first person to ever say those words to him would be a literal stranger? The words he most longed to hear 17 years ago, when his parents were handing him over to officials not unlike these...looking on with sad, drawn faces, mourning for their only child rather than dare fighting for him.

I won't let anything bad happen to you. It rings in his ears. This stupid kid, acting like he'd throw away his life for someone he doesn't even know. What a fucking joke.]

What'd I just say about being a goddamn hero?

WOW Y I K E S!!!

[trueborn]

[ It's a sad, sorry sight that he's presented with - a little shocking, to say. Not everyone was cut out for imprisonment, but he didn't think ( he didn't think ) that any of the fine combatants and tactical minds that Audentes had curated would be this broken by prison.

Ah, he's no better, though. A little jumpy, a little nervous. A guilty conscious, weighing him down. ]

I am not a hero. Nor do I have to be, to promise you this.

[ He is a traitor. A liar. There is nothing heroic about him, badly as he wishes that there was. He repeats, drawing near: ]

I won't let harm come to you.

text | un: RHY5-W1NZ

[dbag]

You've been in jail before???

he's Not Okay

[hedonistic]

Shut up.

[It comes out a bark, sharp and angry. There's another layer of irony here; he's always craved having people to care about him and accept him regardless of who and what he is. He found that, among his fellow Enforcers, the rest of society's garbage heap, but found himself sorely lacking in Audentes. And yet, someone offers it to him unconditionally, and it burns at his insides like hellfire.]

You won't let anything bad happen to me? What if something happens to you, dumbass?

[He's probably one of those types. The ones like Akane, ready to bleed their own souls dry for something stupid like finding the reason for their existence.

Kagari stands up, then, looks Ninurrta dead in the eyes. He still has that wild look about him, but there's a renewed steel there, too.]

Your life is the only thing in the world that's ever really yours. Don't be willing to hand it over so freely.

[trueborn]

[ It's not as if they can escape one another, in this cell. Antagonizing Kagari could spell a trip to solitary, for the two of them. ]

I have no intention of letting myself come to harm either. I wouldn't be able to keep my word, if it did.

[ There is someone else depending on him, as well. ]

[hedonistic]

oh hey, this team does have some people with common sense after all
it's a goddamn miracle

[hedonistic]

OR!!! i'm just a huge coward who has no idea what he's talking about (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
50/50 odds

[Someone is Very Frustrated about how this post has been going so far. He's forgotten about Genos being Mr. Literal, unfortunately. Oops.]

[hedonistic]

try: my entire life (◡‿◡✿)

[hedonistic]

not yet

[He's been through worse, too. And he knows the road to worse isn't very long at all. Especially if people don't listen.]

[hedonistic]

What if it's me or you? Would you really pick some random guy who said your magic was cool once over your own neck?

[He scowls, dark and ugly.]

Think real hard before you say "yes."

[ofobedience]

What fun.

[Perhaps his wryness isn't something that translates over text, it really remains to be seen. And the truth of it is, Giovanni is naturally inclined towards quiescence, for the most part. He has little intention of misbehaving.

I mean, until the riot happens and he gets swept along in all the violent fun, but he's unaware that it's yet to come.]

[dishearten]

it's hard to have perspective on things you haven't experienced.

I have plenty of perspective on prolonged captivity.

[scrap_metal]

Doesn't matter what you are when you know what you're talking about. Laying low and plotting in secrecy next step is the only thing that is left.

We can't just blow a hole in the prison wall and run away.

[hedonistic]

[......]

sarcasm, dude

[scrap_metal]

I'm not being sarcastic.

[hedonistic]

[.............]

i was

[....]

about the coward thing, not the original post

[hedonistic]

yeah, it'll be a regular party

[Kagari doesn't find it particularly funny, either way.]

[scrap_metal]

Ah, I see now. I didn't get it initially because a "survival at all cost" strategy can be seen as a cowardice.

It probably often is.

But figuring our next step as a team seems to be more pressing right now, than trying to fight our way out of here. We're supposed to go on trial, which means, we'll have to leave this place. Unless it doubles as a tribunal.

[ Then they're pretty much screwed ]

[ofobedience]

Perhaps it would liven things up. It's terribly dull around here.

[...although after six days in solitary confinement, he might change his tune a little...]

[hedonistic]

[He doesn't bother to explain the reference, this time--frustration has taken hold, and he's slowly growing impatient.]

you guys just don't get it, do you
we're in outer space
there's no breaking out because we can't GO OUTSIDE
if we land somewhere then maybe we have a chance, maybe
assuming they didn't put some kind of remote kill switch in us along with these tattoos, anyway, and that's honestly a big damn assumption

so i guess someone like me is scared, because guess what, i've been through shit like that before! go figure, right?