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The Fifteen Strangers Mods ([personal profile] strangerpeople) wrote in [community profile] 15strangers2023-06-17 01:13 pm
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Week 2

WEEK 2


[
It's been one week on the Gigantic
and it's clear that Zero
is a big dickzzzzzsht




A week has passed. However, there is no denying anymore that the power Zero possesses is very real. One person is already dead because of this, regardless of what, exactly, the Gimme's role in it was.

There is also no denying that the ship is somehow powered by blood, if not made of blood entirely. Why? How? And what do the clues uncovered in the previous week have to do with it?

The watches, meanwhile have not changed in any way. Everyone is still in their color groups. The doors to the next floor are still locked as well. Perhaps those are also murder dependent. Which is...also not good. But at least there's food and laundry down here, so...maybe it'll get boring eventually, but for now, infinite confinement on the bottom decks of the ship may not be so bad. right?

...Right?



There are currently 18 strangers on this ship.]
threwabone: (Box Ghost)

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-21 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I still feel like they wouldn't get called heroes!

[Like, 75-80% sure]
hatesdeerstalkers: (Chatter chatter)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-21 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
No, they would be.

[Again, he says it calmly, like a fact of life.]

There are plenty of heroes like that in many cultures across the world. A Hero is someone who saves others - regardless of if the one they slay also needed saving. All that matters is by which perspective they are seen from.
threwabone: (Wulf)

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-21 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That-that's still messed up, you can't say that and NOT think it's messed up.
hatesdeerstalkers: (spins his web)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-21 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...Hm.

[Well....He can't....exactly say that it is or isn't. Morally, of course, but...]

...Still, such is the way of the world.

And that is why This doll is Roland.

[He'll even point to it.]
superstylishsquid: (It's pathetic.)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2023-06-21 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Guess who's leaning in the doorway?]

Sounds like your definition of a 'hero' is a bit out of date. These days, it's in vogue to try to save as many people as you can...I know one who even refrains from killing actual monsters.
hatesdeerstalkers: (you can trust this smile)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-22 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
I never claimed it wasn't, Alastor.

[He'll give a small nod, since he's still dealing with...y'know. stabbity.]

But even you cannot deny heroes in the past did things that we in the present would call monstrous. Or that those who hunt monsters must make hard choices, despite their own wishes.
superstylishsquid: (I don't know what to make of it.)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2023-06-22 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Look. You knew you'd be dealing with stabbity. Not his fault if you regret your life choices.]

'Course not. Ancient so-called 'heroes' could be as bad as most demons, just in a way that usually benefited civilians. Those days are in the distant past, though.

Monster hunters, on the other hand...I won't argue there, except saying that some of them don't even consider the choices hard. A devil's a devil, unless you'd never even be able to tell 'it' isn't human.
threwabone: (Wulf)

CW: Emeto Mention

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-22 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't mind the teenage girl who looks like she's gonna be sick about all this talk, I'm sure she's fine.]
hatesdeerstalkers: (Hmm...hmm)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-22 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
That is what I meant when I told Miss Anya -

[He looks over at her for emphasis...and sees how green around the gills she looks, and then adopts a chagrined expression.]

....Ah. It appears I've made quite the blunder. Please accept my apologies, my dear - I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable.
superstylishsquid: (That's just painful.)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2023-06-22 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[He glances over and winces.]

Ah...right, modern people don't exactly grow up knowing about that sort of thing anymore.
threwabone: (Youngblood)

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-22 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine, I just...

[Forcing herself to take in a breath.]

It's hard for me to think of anyone as a monster, let alone a kid.

And the idea that people just...could do anything they want, then say they were the heroes, just because of something about a person that doesn't even matter...

I know it's like that whole "it's always the good guys that win the war" kind of thing, but it's just a lot to think about, when it's that level of things.
hatesdeerstalkers: (Seriously part three)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-22 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He wants to mention that every side has their own story, that no one, regardless of age, sees themselves as the villain of their own life.

Except, something he's forgotten whispers in him, those that have made the choice to fully commit themselves to the path of Evil, knowing the end they will eventually suffer despite their struggles.

But he can see she's already thinking, already willing to see past it even if it seems abhorrent to her current worldview. And so, that part of him ultimately wins out, as he nods his head.]


I do bid you to keep thinking about it, miss Anya. We are in a...fraught situation as it is, but thinking on other perspectives will only help you in the long run.

[...He sounds like a teacher talking to a student, there.]
superstylishsquid: (Can we not talk about it?)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2023-06-22 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
[He frowns, and his tail swishes to curl partway around his legs.]

...Most would disagree with you that it doesn't matter.

But yeah, a lot of details get lost or blurred by the time they make it into the history books, so it's always a good idea to think about things for yourself.
threwabone: (Kayako Saeki)

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-22 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She sighs, partially out of frustration, partially out of exhaustion.]

I will. May as well - life keeps throwing me for loops, philosophizing about it may help with some of it.

But hey, good to know now that morality is more complicated than I thought, right?

[Better now than when it could bite her in the ass.]
hatesdeerstalkers: (old man smiles part two)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-22 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[A chuckle. On...a lot of things. Anya's comment, Alastor talking about the history books...

Servants were formed by such perspectives, after all.]


Indeed - so complicated that one may yearn for the days when things were black and white.

Yet, I believe it is also beneficial to embrace those shades of gray, as it were. What is important is that you eventually come to learn what it is - and what it is not - that you can personally accept.
superstylishsquid: (It's pathetic.)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2023-06-22 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Better to think about it when it's theoretical, instead of waiting until you're the one who has to make one of those hard choices.

Considering the rules our 'hosts' have laid down, I wouldn't count on it not coming up eventually.
threwabone: (Sidney Poindexter)

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-22 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
I can do that much. Figuring out what I can or can't deal with. Shouldn't be...impossible.

[Not gonna say difficult, because it absolutely will be.]

And hey, at the very least, I get an extra week to stew over it without having to worry. I won't say anything else about this..."motive," but I don't think anyone here has shown any real interest in it.

[And yes, she did do finger quotes, because even if she's not verbalizing that it's terrible, she can sure as Hell imply it.]
hatesdeerstalkers: (oh no it's tsunpa)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-22 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, he's making a face at the motive.]

I still cannot decide if I should be impressed at Zero for realizing how little some are willing to end a life for, or insulted that he assumed that it would work on us.

[Words Moriarty is going to eat come friday: that]
Edited 2023-06-22 03:21 (UTC)
superstylishsquid: (Oh yeah...)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2023-06-22 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Especially with what's on the line if someone goes for it and gets caught. Not only is it an insult to our standards, but does he really think that is going to motivate someone to pin their lives on getting away with it, if just getting out of here hasn't?
threwabone: (Default)

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-22 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
That, and it would be an insult to anyone that did die. "Congrats, instead of dying to find a cure cancer or bring back the dead in way that doesn't cause zombies, you died for a cheeseburger."

It really just feels like a middle finger to...pretty much everything anyone could stand for.
hatesdeerstalkers: (siiiiiigh)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-22 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, it would be a rather damning insult to the one who passed on.

[A sigh.]

But, this hypothetical situation is merely the worst case scenario at the moment. Let us hope no one among us is so...stunted as to kill for such reasons as those.

Honestly, I'd take even a mere dislike or argument over...that.
superstylishsquid: (What the-?)

[personal profile] superstylishsquid 2023-06-22 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Right? At least offer something valuable or hard to come by.

...Unless this is the real motive. Spit out everyone's worst secrets, hope one of them offends someone enough to kill over.
threwabone: (Inky)

[personal profile] threwabone 2023-06-22 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
If that does end up being the case, I'm willing to ignore everyone else's secrets just so Zero can't say it was a fifty bucks that got someone to murder.

[For some reason she can just sense that's what he'd claim. She can feel it in her soul.]
hatesdeerstalkers: (content)

[personal profile] hatesdeerstalkers 2023-06-22 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[A fond head shake.]

Yes, it seems my first impression of you was correct.

[Someone Good, and a true Hero - even if he wouldn't call himself one.]
Edited 2023-06-22 00:28 (UTC)