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[chrysophilist]

[so, rikku is in her superhero outfit again! she's just chillin' in her ~*new apartment*~ that she got when she turned eighteen i guess. ANYWAY. she's lying over the arm of a bright red couch, as in, her legs are dangling off and her head is on the cushions. the comm is on another cushion, and so this entire post is done with her face upside down.

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[rock_it_punch]

Some people are just dicks. That's all there is to it.

[Private]

Sure, I'll come over anytiwait what? Really?

[chrysophilist]

Seems like too easy of an answer.

private.

Yeah, why not? I mean, I stayed with you for a long time. I think it's okay if you stay with me.

[rock_it_punch]

I like to keep it simple.

Private

Well uh. Yeah, but that was a temporary thing. This is like. Permanenter. And that's pretty big.

[chrysophilist]

I've noticed.

private.

Oh, well, yeah. I guess I shouldn't've just asked you like this. Didn't think about that. Y'know, just take as long as you want to think, okay? And I won't be upset if you don't want to. I mean, that's totally cool--the school is a great place to live and it's homey, y'know?

voice

[violentsoftie]

Some people are born evil.

[chrysophilist]

Like I said, that's silly.

[violentsoftie]

No, it's a fact.

[chrysophilist]

How can you prove it?

[Voice]

[fangsmile]

It takes pretty much a Perfect Storm, darlin'.

Someone has to be born with a spark of wrongness in them. Be genetically predisposed to what you call snapping. Gives us a lack of empathy, which sounds bad, but definately helps keep us from seeing aspects of ourselves in our victims. Hard to kill someone you identify with.

Then, someone has to have a shitty upbringing that changes a person's worldview from normal, whatever that is, to one where violence and selfishness is completely justified, no matter what the effects are for anyone else.

Now, maybe someone was born genetically bad but got raised in a nurturing, loving family and became able to control it and adapt to being a functional member of society (although the urges never go away, not completely). Or maybe someone had the bad childhood and lived in times of constant war, but when it came down to it, they were just kind-hearted down to their fucking soul and there was no way to beat it out of them. Either way, you don't get a supervillain out of it. Gotta have both.

permavid.

[chrysophilist]

Huh. Never thought about it like that. I guess you're right. It just doesn't seem like all the bad things could happen to one person. Everybody has something good in their life, even if it's just I dunno, looking at the sky and seeing the clouds go by.

voice

[fangsmile]

Clouds ain't band-aids, pup.

If you're already got that Bad Seed gene in your blood, just having a little something good isn't really going to cut it, when it comes to making the decision to ignore your instincts. Don't tell anybody, but me, I've got a real sweet-tooth, from time to time. But I've never said to myself, "Wow, this blueberry pie is the best I've ever had... maybe war isn't the answer!"

voice

[chrysophilist]

I... guess so. I mean, it'd take something really big then, yeah? Like falling in love or finding someone you can rely on. Or something like that.

So, you like pie?