drymonster | scawwy pcs: karlach

[ this logically should not be private but whatever. we're at the swamp during box surfacing time and he's going to be a pathetic little bitch about it because he saw someone who reached into that water come out with leeches and noooo fucking way.

so he goes to beg the tallest person around to do this for him, and the tallest person happens to be... this huge red woman, good god. okay. he feels less great about asking a woman to do this, but also, look at her. she's probably reached into plenty of swamps before, so he won't discriminate. ]

Um, excuse me! Do you think you could help me with that box over there? [ points to it, where it's bobbing around somewhere near the shore. ] I can't reach far enough...

[it's fine they can have a private swampfest. anyway, he's right, she's been in so many swamps and all of them have sucked, so she doesn't mind this one.

when he toddles over, she blinks a few times, and then gives him a grin.]

Oh, hey, sure. No worries, I got it. Which one is it again? [she's happy to help!! she's probably already in her default outfit, her box shut on the ground next to where she was sitting. the most notable thing about her is her chest is glowing a soft red, like a pulse.

she'll wade in to grab it. leeches do not bother her, her best friend is a leech.]

[ jesus how much of that outfit is just repurposed belts... he's also kind of ?? about the glowing pulse box, but. not at the top of his list of priorities right now! ]

Thanks, you're a lifesaver! [ trots along behind her and points it out more clearly from his safe leech-free spot on the swampbank (where shrek keeps his money) once they're closer to it. ]

Iiiit's that one there! [ ... ] At least I think it is?

[ actually he has no idea WHY he thinks that, when it's not even a particularly cute box. it's just a vibe. weird. ]

[probably a good bit of it, nomura just came in like here i've collected these from other games (no)

anyway, she grabs said box, and wrinkles her nose as she comes out of the water. hands him the box. and then sits down to pick leeches off her legs. ugh.]

You know how to open it, yeah?

[ applauds and then accepts his box!!! sorry about your leeches.

he had not actually considered how he would open this box before this point, but now that she's brought it up, the answer is suddenly there in his head, even though it's weird as hell. ]

I... feel like I do...

...Kinda creepy.

Real creepy. [she agrees, amused.]

Want a leech? [don't just offer that]

No!!!

[SHE JUST LAUGHS SORRY]

You've gotta get in there somehow!

I can just give myself a papercut or something, it's fine!!

Yeah, yeah, that's true. Some guy asked to use my claws earlier for it, so that's open to you too, if you want.

[ looks at her claws like, damn, she literally calls them claws ]

Did you do it?

[they are in fact claws]

Yep. I didn't slice his face open or anything. Just a little prick.

[ honestly those are not far off from my usual nails lmao ]

Mmmm... I think I'll stick with the paper this time, but thanks for the offer!

[ and then he's going to spend an hour sitting with this locked box while he tries to work up the guts to run a piece of paper over his finger. ]

[help to be fair this is a regular human person and not her it's just as close as i could get without booting up the game]

Uh huh. [she is so tempted to just reach over and pinch him to get it over with, but she restrains herself.] What's your name?

[ if i wouldn't have to retcon it being a paper cut in other threads i would go for it!! ]

Oh! Todomatsu.

Haha, I guess I kind of skipped the introduction and went right into it...

You've got a box that's yelling for your attention and we're in a weirdo swamp with leeches, I'll forgive you this time.

[amused.]

I'm Karlach. Nice to meet you, Todomatsu.

[ flopped on a bench by the bonfire because he got sick of the stale clown air real fast

waves... ]

Where'd you end up?

[ do you fit there... ]

[not the stale clown air

she'll come over to flop down next to him.]

Mortuary. [makes a FACE.] You?

Whoa, yikes.

Theater, which... apparently could be worse.

It's not that bad, we've got blankets.

[ok]

And it's not dirt, and it's not outside! I'll take a coffin over dirt with bugs in. Who else you got with you?

[ that icon is so hot ]

Haha... yeah, I guess that much is true...

[ though he's pretty sure there are still bugs and rats hiding out in his shitty clownhole. ]

Um... Alfyn-san, Erin-san, Camille-san, and that little red-haired punk.

[resists urge to make an on fire joke]

That's not too bad! Except for leeches, that punk. [yes this is the nickname she has bestowed upon him] He giving you a hard time?

Yes!!! He tried to kick me into the fire when we first got here, and he's still being super annoying and rude!

[i foresee another game of having to pick ori's character up by the ankles, upside down]

Gods. Well, listen, if he tries that again, come get me and I'll set him straight. [threat]

What the fuck???

[WHAT A MOOD]

Yeah! What the fuck! [her tail is going at top speeds] It - I don't get it!

Me neither!! And you know where we found him? At the FUCKING THEATER.

[ he is SO DONE WITH THAT PLACE ]

I mean— how did he even get out of the cabin?!

You found him?

[jesus christ!!!]

Wait, hang on, are you alright? [like, you saw a dead body]

Yeah... I mean— Laudna-san fell on him, Alfyn-san and I didn't get to look that closely before everything disappeared.

Good. [she doesn't want you to look at a dead body!!]

... I don't even know what to do with this.

[ he's even been a dead body, it's fine..... ]

Yeah, me neither. [ sighs. ] I don't see how any of this actually fits in to the ritual plan... at least not how they described it before.

[every day i remember how wild his show is]

I didn't think it was going to start this fast. And now all we can do is talk to people and wait and see I'm no fucking good at that.

[she's out by the swamp just staring into the distance, mostly still. it's weird. she's usually full of movement, but not tonight.]

[ this place is terrible, why are you here... ]

Hey...

[best brooding spot tbh

she startles a little when she hears him, bringing a hand up to rub at her face briefly before smiling at him.]

Oh - hey, pics. You alright?

Is that my name now...

[ sighs and nods ]

Yeah, just... you know. Suddenly a whole lot of new things for all of us to be worried about.

if you hate it, I can workshop it.

[she says, tail waving.]

... But yeah. No kidding. Didn't think this is what I was going to do today when I woke up.

[ ...hand waggle. what if someone who hears it assumes there's a k in there and thinks he's being accused of being a nose picker...

anyway. ]

The trial thing wasn't that big of a surprise to me, but... I thought if anything we'd be trying to find a killer who did it because they wanted to. Not because the cult basically brainwashed them into it.

[yeah that's exactly what people are going to think, totty]

... Really? [she seems surprised.] This made loads more sense to me. Why the fuck would anybody want to kill someone on purpose here? We're all in the same pile of shit.

Honestly, I thought it was Akabane on a revenge kick. I mean, the hand? After his tiny hand rage and how much he talked about wanting to take someone else's??

Yeah. There was bitten nails, too.

I don't know. The goats said it was the greater cult's doing when I talked to them. I don't see why they'd lie about that.

Well, yeah, but they couldn't say that until after the trial. So that was my theory at the time.

[ and he's MAD that it was wrong because he wants that kid GONE ]

Fair enough.

... Me and Aerith are trying to keep him in line. [roped into being hanako 2's handler]

I hope that works. I do not feel great knowing he brought a gun from home.

With any luck it hasn't got - bullets? Is that what's in those?

Yeah... I don't trust that he won't manage to find a substitute somehow if that's the case, though. Or that the rest of the cult won't just give him some as a present.

[ hhhhhh. he liked this so much better when he thought the cult had an investment in keeping them alive until the final ritual. ]

Just going to keep my distance, I guess, since I don't know what the hell else I can do myself. I'll leave it to you guys.

Probably a good idea. [she reaches to pat his shoulder.]

... You can stick close whenever he's fucking with you. He behaves around me, mostly.

Thank god he does around someone. Thanks.

[ puts us in a time loop so karlach and daan can both help him ruin rosie's life ]

[ well, todomatsu blew the shitty popsicle stand that is their haunted village and escaped to the new and improved area as soon as he learned of its existence, and now he's standing outside the cutest little house in the area and looking at it thoughtfully. ]

[adds rosie to my list of animal crossing characters that one of my large ginger fire women has destroyed]

Oh, all that in there looks your style. [peering through the window...]

[ help me don't harpoon rosie ]

Right?? It's like it was made for me!

[cocks harpoon cat people can't survive in this environment]

You could really just take it over, if you wanted. What's going to stop you?

Hmm...

[ it's at least obvious from looking in the window that no one's home, sooooo... tries turning the doorknob...

...and it opens! ]

Well, not this door, apparently!

[ooooh, she peers over him to see into the house.]

Spooky. You want me to go in first?

[comes to find him!!! she's all sorts of anxious, jittering her way around to see where he ended up.]

[ he is at rosie's stolen house! and has taken a bath and is now in blood-free clothes, sitting on the bed up against the wall. the hot bath did nothing for his complexion; he's still pale and borderline grey.

he's got a bandage around the knuckles of one of his hands, and now that he's cleaned up and things are less hectic, she can notice that there are also a lot of paired puncture scars on his neck that weren't there yesterday, though they look like they've been healed for a long time? somehow? hm. ]

Hey.

[i see,

she comes to sit down! not on the bed, on the floor, but she's tall enough that she's probably at a decent eye-level.]

Hey, buddy. [worried tail flicks] How are you feeling?

Uh, I've felt better, haha... but I didn't get hurt too badly.

[ that much seems to be true; while geto and alfyn both looked like they were at risk of dying, his fresh injuries aren't much worse than what you'd get in a fistfight (if you then got struck by lightning on the way home from the playground, i guess). ]

That's good. Don't take any offense but I don't think you're exactly built for damage.

[swishy tail...]

But that doesn't mean you can't be hurt in other ways, and based on what I was hearing when you all got back, you went through some shit.

[ kind of a tired laugh at that remark, but it's not clear if it's out of agreement or disagreement. ]

Yeah, it... wasn't great. Have you heard much from the others?

Not really. Geto hinted at some of it.

Mm...

[ considers for a moment how he should summarize this... ]

...Well. The short version is we ended up in a city — though I think it was like its own world or something — and this necromancer was trying to get one of us to be a "vessel" for her to help her get out. So she put us through a bunch of shit to try to break us to the point where we'd be desperate enough to accept her help and give her something in return. And then at the end we had to fight her and destroy her to get out of there.

We were all split up for most of it, so I don't know exactly what she did to the others. [ ... ] I was in there for almost two months, though, I think.

... Gods, two months?

[what the fuck!!]

That's - bullshit. You poor thing.

[ yeah it is!!

he nods. with a little bit of a half-smile, because he appreciates the sympathy. ]

Kind of backfired on her at least, because after she made me go through all of that there was no way in hell I wanted anything to do with her, even if it could have made things easier.

Hah. I like that, though. I'm all about giving evil bitches the finger.

[...]

And you got her, in the end. That doesn't make it better, but it's... something.

[HEY EVERYTHING SUCKS FOREVER

anyway, you can find karlach on the beach. she's slamming something into a tree over and over and over again. it looks like a piece of furniture or something. it doesn't matter what it is she's just beating the shit out of a tree.]

[ oof. honestly, though, valid. he doesn't have the energy for anything like that so he'll just sit down on the beach a little ways away and watch and smash things vicariously through her. ]

[it takes her a while to work her way out of it - she's a barbarian, rages last a bit. but eventually she does tire herself out, throwing the whatever it was on the ground, dragging in a shaky breath.

she brings a hand up to rub at her face.

and then, ragged, tired:] Hey, pics.

[hello my child i refuse to figure out a location we are void

and also, hello, surprise memory!]

Edited 2024-06-25 16:04 (UTC)

[ well. parts of that hit close to home in a way they sure wouldn't have a few days ago. todomatsu is not an empathetic person in the first place, and the way his reality has always worked — where almost everything is for the sake of a joke, and whatever real suffering they do go through is (mostly) erased by the next episode — this kind of pain would be so far beyond him he wouldn't know how to (or want to) touch it.

it's still far beyond him — years is much different than a couple of months, for one — but he actually has a frame of reference for some of this now. which kind of sucks, because it gives the shadows of those feelings a foothold to linger afterward. ]

...Sorry.

[ for seeing that. he'd rather die than let anyone see his own raw emotions, and even if she's a much warmer and more open person than he is, he can't imagine not feeling uncomfortable with this.

... ]

You're really dying...?

[she swallows a little hard, at that. it is a little uncomfortable - if only because she doesn't know how to deal with people seeing her sad. it isn't her usual. it's like being caught doing something you're not supposed to.]

... Yeah. [she says, finally, brushing her hands off on her clothes.] Haven't got long at all, but - it's alright.

[ is it? how long is not long? before or after the two months they're supposed to have here? is that why she was so quick to volunteer herself as a sacrifice if they couldn't find the real killer that first week? doesn't that make it even more fucked up that she got assigned to the damn mortuary??? ]

Mm... [ he rubs his neck a little absently. ] I can't really imagine what that must be like.

[ having a countdown looming over your head, anyway; dying he can definitely imagine. that's got to be the worst, just waiting. ]

...It's easier not to talk about it, right?

[did you know that you're the first person to make the connection about her volunteering herself up as sacrifice, because HELP, that's exactly it. actually you just opened your third eye on both of those things

she drags in a breath.]

I don't like to. [she says, glancing at him.] But - I don't mind it, it's not like it's going to go away if I pretend it doesn't exist.

Mostly I just like to try and enjoy what I've got. Never know when it's going to be the end.

[ THE UPSIDE OF BEING FICTIONAL YOURSELF IS THAT YOU'RE GOOD AT RETROACTIVELY IDENTIFYING FORESHADOWING AND IRONY I GUESS. ]

You don't have an exact time frame, then? You just know it's soon?

[HELP YAY... I THINK...]

Dammon told me a couple weeks ago that I've got - well, a couple of weeks. [...] Might not make it out of here, honestly.

Shit.

[ ...well, he'll say it since they're going there. ]

That's why you were ready to volunteer if we couldn't find the killer before, huh?

[a beat, and then she kind of laughs, tail swaying back and forth.]

Yeah, actually. Clever of you. I figured if it had to be someone, it should be someone who didn't have any time left anyway. It's still an option, honestly, though I'd prefer to find the monsters.

[ nods... ]

Yeah, that... makes sense, at least.

[ it's pragmatic, and the part of him that wouldn't rather just vote for someone he likes less out of spite (an admittedly small part, though the spite vote options aren't as appealing now that karma's gone) can respect that. ]

...Well. All the more reason to make sure we do find the monsters.

[a little smile!!]

That a compliment? That's sweet. [she's not sure if it was necessarily but hey, she can take a bit of embarrassment.] Sorry to dump all that heavy on you, actually.

Yeah, it was.

[ little smile back! ]

It's okay. It's probably better if we know where we're all coming from anyway.

[ for situations like that especially, so they can understand the reasoning behind why someone might be willing to make a sacrifice instead of having a kneejerk reaction like they did.

...though when he says this, he has no intention of telling anyone anything about where he's coming from, actually. it may be better but he doesn't like it and he's not doing it. so! the shadows will help take care of that.

and okay this memory is truly like. peak meta gag anime and it makes the least sense out of all their weird fourthwalling stuff and i have no idea how to square it away with anything but it's also like, damn, i can't just ignore this. so. here it is. ]

[HELP ME THIS IS JUST A WHOLE LOT OF BWUH

karlach doesn't understand like half of it, but she does get some sort of sense from what she does understand, so:]

... That was your family? And they just kicked you out? [gag or no, she takes it seriously enough to sound like it makes her sad.]

[ KARLACH GIRL I DON'T UNDERSTAND HALF OF IT EITHER

like the way they do it is hilarious because he was absent from all the previous segments in the episode and they even erased him from the final shot of the opening... but also it's fucked!! and a good example of why he's so full of repressed rage all the time and doesn't handle personal attacks well!! ]

Nnnnggghh... It's... hard to explain [ and i refuse to try ] but. Yeah.

...That was temporary, they brought me back after that replacement went back to Florida.

[ and then he went crazy and shot up the house but he's going to gloss over that because they're anime characters and it doesn't matter!! they're fine now!! ]

[she shifts, and moves over to settle next to him, putting a hand on his arm.]

Doesn't matter if it was temporary. That had to hurt, being replaced like it was nothing. [maybe it was a weird tv show thing but she's trying her best with this. her tail does little flicks.]

I'm sorry. You didn't deserve that.

Well... yeah. It definitely kinda sucked.

[ like. a lot. he never wants to eat a frog again. it just doesn't seem so bad in the grand scheme of things now, because it was a one-episode joke and it was never acknowledged again.

what he's been dealing with since coming here is a lot more troubling because he can't be sure that everything will be fine at the end of this. he's been keeping his shit together by treating this as another work of fiction in his head, at least to some extent. but they're on what should be the third episode now and there haven't been any resets.

the warm hand is kind of nice in the face of that uncertainty, though. he exhales, and she can feel some of the tension leave his shoulders. ]

Thanks.

[ feels like i'm going out of my fucking mind typing w2 in these headers

todomatsu is still in kind of in a daze after all of that because jesus fucking christ. where are we, can we just lie down. ]

Well. I guess we actually did catch all of them this time.

[THIS IS NOT THE WEEK TWO VIBES AAAAAAAA

her too, though, she's kind of just curled up somewhere. she's like absolutely exhausted.]

Doesn't... feel very good to do, even if we did.

Edited 2024-06-30 02:23 (UTC)

[ cool. collapses. ]

Yeah. Not really.

Can't believe we lost this many in one week. What the hell.

Kind of feels like bleeding out, huh. Slowed down, but.

[reaches to pat him gently.]

It'd almost be better if they'd just knocked us to death to start with.

Seriously, that "keep us asleep until it's time for the ritual" idea they started with is sounding better every day.

[snort.]

Maybe if we ask the goats really nicely. [this is a joke

mostly]

...Man. Think we can ask them to do that with Camille?

Honestly? Maybe.

[it's not a bad idea.]

I'm afraid she's gonna get hurt, if not.

Yeah, me too. Which, like... wouldn't be unreasonable, but. Ugh.

Yeah.

... It's not her fault, she didn't ask for it. She's had a shit time, but - so have all of us.

[sigh.] I'll ask Famine, maybe they'll know.

Mm, I need to ask them some stuff tomorrow too. There's still a lot about this monster situation that's way too confusing.

Good luck. I haven't got any idea how half of it works.

You get any answers, let me know? I'll trade what I can get.

[ nods ]

Yeah. I will.

[there's distant barking coming from the woods... do you investigate...

imagine you say no and it's just the end of the thread]

[ no

ok no he'll... start that way tentatively, because what if pickles got unraptured!! though he's wary of going too far into these woods by himself because who knows wtf is in there (dog-sized spiders are in there). ]

[this was my secret plan to murder you on a monday and you fell for it

no, he can make his way in just a little, which is fine because immediately a dog comes bounding out of the woods excitedly, barking at top volume. he sees totty, and his tail goes so fast he might take off if he's not careful.

pets? pets for dog?]

[ NO THAT'S NOT PICKLES!!!!

how big is this dog because if it's big enough to knock him over he is in fact going to run the other way because MAYBE THIS IS MURDER MONDAY, he doesn't trust this place not to kill him off schedule after ishtar last week!!!

if it's more moderately sized he's... still going to take a few steps back because he is really just not much of an animal person even though this dog is giving off very friendly vibes ]

Uh... hi...?

[he's like typical mutt size? like husky, maybe, that kind of big. scrawny, though.

he bounds up, though - he does pause when totty takes a few steps back, tilting his head. whines...]

[ looks around helplessly like IS THIS SOMEBODY'S DOG??? COME GET IT??

but nobody came

looks back to it again... ]

Did you get lost? This is a pretty spooky place to do that.

[settles down in the dirt, belly to the floor, ears pinned back.

and gives a little boof. like he's replying.]

Is that a yes or a no........

[sir he is a dog he cannot speak

iiiiiinches closer...

totty can probably hear yelling somewhere, now.]

[ HE'S AN ANIME CHARACTER AND THE ONLY DOG HE'S INTERACTED WITH RECENTLY IS PICKLES, HIS EXPECTATIONS ARE SKEWED ]

Eh-?

[ looks around again... is it familiar yelling? how is the dog reacting to it? ]

[i think this dog should get a translator too in order to be fair

anyway, yeah, he does react - he lifts his head, and stands up, tilting his head. and then he looks at totty, whines, and starts going towards the yelling. which sounds like karlach, actually, so yes, familiar yelling.]

[ oh good. going to follow this dog then...! ]

[well, the dog leads him off in that direction, sticking close like he intends to protect totty.

the good news is: karlach is here and can be easily seen in the woods!

the bad news is she is being pursued by three giant spiders.]

[ oh... thank you, dog

but hm! yikes! it may be alpha week but he's not a complete idiot, so he is just going to keep hanging back and watching this for a moment.

does it look like she's actually in danger... dog-sized spiders can't be that big to her, right? ]

[totty said fuck that, that's none of my business

she's running from them and yelling for something called scratch, so maybe she's in danger, but it looks like she's looking for something.]

[ looks to the dog when she yells that like, IS THAT YOU? ARE YOU SCRATCH? ]

[ WELL. STARTING TO HEAD BACK TO THE VILLAGE AFTER BEING A FUCKING IDIOT AND CONFESSING ON REJECTION WEEK. ]

[HELP NOOOOO

karlach sees him, and jogs to catch up with him!!]

Hey - hey. You alright? [generally upbeat, trying to not be condescending about it...]

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[ ah... turns around and forces a smile ]

Hm?

[ he'll pause to let her catch up, though he's not walking that fast anyway. ]

Yeah! I mean, I haven't been cursed in almost 24 hours, so I can't complain too much!

[snort.]

Low bar to clear. [she shoves her hands in her pockets.] But that's about as good as it gets in this shithole, huh?

You wanna be alone? I was looking for someone to hang out with after all that, but I don't have to bother you.

Oh. Really?

[ well. because it's alpha week he'll believe that she didn't immediately have better options. ]

Yeah, we can hang out for a while if you want.

Yeah, of course.

[everybody be nice to totty for the rest of the game or else]

Great, though! You found any exciting spots in this new place? All I've been doing is writing mean notes in the margins of the books for Gale to find.

[ absolutely will not happen. i typed happy at first and that's also true.

ANYWAY that gets a little snicker. ]

That's pretty good. How many has he found so far?

[>:U!!!!

her tail wags a little.]

At least one. He threw the book at my head. [heehee]

What'd you write?

If you're reading this, you're a nerd. Simple but effective.

I think he was mostly mad that I wrote in a book.

[ hehe ]

I mean, fair, I guess, but it's not like anyone else has used these books in a long time, from the look of it. Who knows if this place'll even keep existing after we leave? Might as well get what fun we can out of it while it's here.

[ ... ]

...Oh! Right, interesting places... well, that old underground city's cool to look at, but the ride down is kind of of awful.

Right? I regretted not going to the beach more while it was here.

Anyway - yeah, you're right. Always a con for a pro. I liked the sense of it, though. It felt like I was going to find a treasure chest right around the corner.

We could go look again? Or just go get drunk again. Finding I like that.

[ welp. sighs and sits down outside the barrier. (I GUESS I'M JUST ASSUMING THAT'S WHERE SHE IS SINCE CAMILLE GOT BABYJAILED THERE?? CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.) how's she looking. ]

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[bad!

she's still hulking, horns sharp, third eye open. she grins widely, but it's more like baring rows of sharp teeth. she crouches down in her bubble barrier prison, almost like a gargoyle, tail swishing like she's looking at prey. hello...]

Hmm. If you're thinking about eating me, I've been told I'm extremely dry, for the record.

[ sighs. man!!! ]

Sorry. It really sucks that this is happening to you.

[the way she is actually sort of vaguely thinking about eating him after he says this, help me.]

Shouldn't be. [she growls, still grinning.] You're going to regret not killing me when you had the chance.

[ IT'S FINE he has faith in pesto's barrier quality..... :stressed: ]

Maybe. But I don't think anyone was really equipped to deal with it in the moment, and voting for you wasn't really an option when we had another culprit who probably didn't have a partner.

Though I think some of them probably would have refused to vote for you anyway.

[there's just a heavy weight of despairing thoughts at that. just like, so much she can't even breathe at it.

she coughs. spits blood to the side.]

Oh, whoa. Are you okay?

[okay, well

she laughs at that, giggling weakly.]

Best I've. Best I've ever been.

[ shit. i am so bad at this stuff. ]

Sorry. I guess that sounded like a more positive thing in my head. It's just— you know, people want to have more time with you and talk to you as yourself again before it's over.

Yeah. Yeah, they all want.

[another cough.]

It is. Positive.

...I guess that doesn't make things any easier.

I still killed someone! Positivity only goes so far.

[she says, cheerfully. sort of.]

The monster did it, not you. Killing someone here was the last thing you wanted to do. And if you're going to blame yourself for that, you're blaming everyone else who ended up in the same situation.

[a huff of a laugh.]

There's no fucking blame in it. Positivity just doesn't bring him back.

Well. Yeah. ...Honestly, I hate shallow positivity bullshit. I'm way out of my wheelhouse in situations like this.

But you can be sad and angry that he died for this stupid cult without saying "I" killed him.

[her tail flicks back and forth, agitated.]

Yeah, okay. Sure. Tell me how to talk, too.

My point is that you — Karlach, minus this dumb monster who should stay out of the conversation — shouldn't be including yourself as a significant factor in this equation. The cult chose to activate your monster and incite it to kill someone. You were just handcuffed to that monster and along for the shitty ride.

Which, like— it fucking sucks to have your agency taken away like that, so looking at it that way may not feel any better! But you shouldn't be looking at it as you hurting someone. The cult's always been the villain here, so let's just take this out on them.

Edited (i did not finish my thought) 2024-07-14 16:58 (UTC)

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w0, friday

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w0, SATURDAY 2

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w1, monday

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w1, THURSDAY

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

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w1, FRIDAY

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w2, MONDAY

no subject

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