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[npc_desu]

[It's the holiday season, a time of love and affection, sharing and caring. The mistletoe already has the former down, but what about the latter? It's time to open up, citizens of the DR, and show your true self to your friends.

That is why you are now trapped in a room full of televisions.]

((The TVs will play memories. Funny ones, traumatic

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[darkboot2thehd]

[Oh. It's that time I was a cannibal.

Awkward.]

[besomeothername]

[... All the awkward. No really. All of it]

Persephone?

[darkboot2thehd]

[What is eye contact]

That's Queen's curse. I took it as a penalty for a game... It's gone now.

[besomeothername]

[Something that Lavi is trying to establish]

Penalty for what?

[darkboot2thehd]

[NOPE NOT HAPPENING]

...Every team was given a list of options, penalties to send to another team for points. If you got enough points you could buy a barrier to protect yourselves. That was the point, to try and get everyone playing the high cards and causing the most damage to each other. Some games are just like that, Lavi.

[besomeothername]

I'm guessing your team didn't get enough points, yeah.

[Reaches out for her hand. A little gesture to say that he doesn't think any less of her because of what he sees on the screen. Really, it's not like she should be blamed for things like this out of her control]

[darkboot2thehd]

No, we didn't.

[Not for lack of trying, as this next memory shows. Persephone doesn't want him to see this, to see her volleying so hard for her team to play a loss of limb card. She turns away, pulling her hand back, ashamed.]

[besomeothername]

[Not letting her take her hand back. Not letting her curl up into herself]

Persephone.

...

People don't know what kind of choices they would really make in those kinds of situations until they are forced into one.

[Not excusing her actions or agreeing with them, but no judging her for her choices either. There wasn't any point. There were people in his own life that he wanted to protect, would do horrible things if it meant protecting them]

[darkboot2thehd]

[B-Bawwww okay I guess you can hold my hand that is cool ;.;]

...There is an understanding in Sabra la Tau. Games require you to kill, and self sacrifice or refusing to play is rewarded with the Judges killing your own team. What happens in games... People get angry, and fight back, but very few teams carry those grudges outside of games. We do what we need to survive. Everyone knows that.

It's not the same here. People still have their morality. But I will do whatever it takes to keep the people I love safe.

[besomeothername]

If that's true, then you shouldn't be ashamed of this memory, yeah. Or any of the other ones.

You do what you have to do protect them. And no one standing on the outside of your situation looking in should judge you for that.

[darkboot2thehd]

...I might live in a murdercave Lavi, but I'm not so far gone that I won't judge myself for it. I know it's wrong. Being ashamed of that... I don't want to lose my sense of decency. Even if I'm willing to do horrible things for them, I have to remember that they are horrible.

[besomeothername]

[Lavi's still of the opinions she shouldn't blame herself, but he can understand that logic. Doing something that one knows is wrong but knowing that it has to be done. A forever tricky and messy slope]

As long as it doesn't carry over to your personal life, yeah, I think you'll be fine, Persephone.