011 ⚸ forward-dated to after Port West

[notsaul]

[There's really only one thing for a semi-immortal to fear, really. And that's death.

Now that Annie has experienced death for the first time, she's slightly surprised by how little it appears to have affected her. She's back, isn't she? She's lying in her bed and walking to the bathroom and staring at the mirror. She's alive. There's nothing to

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[chosenreplica]

You're wrong.

[notsaul]

... No, dude, I can see the car out the window. It has my name on the license plate.

[chosenreplica]

I don't care if it's really there. Not caring about the people's names of who you killed! Being happy to be rewarded for it! You're wrong.

[notsaul]

Oh come on, their names were, like, really fucking hard to pronounce anyway, I think! Lots of vowels and shit!

[chosenreplica]

That doesn't matter! It's their lives and you just... you're not even thinking about them at all.

[notsaul]

It's not like they didn't come back or anything. Calm your tits.

[chosenreplica]

[Xion's not quiet, she's angry about this whole stupid event.]

They almost didn't! And death isn't meaningless-- you can't go playing around with people's lives like that.

[notsaul]

Calm.

Your.

Tits.

Girl.

It really doesn't matter.

[chosenreplica]

It does matter. It's people like you who will never understand that doing things like this is wrong.

[notsaul]

The fuck does that mean, people like me?

[chosenreplica]

You've never been used as a puppet before. And that's exactly what they're doing. Everyone here... they're just puppets for whatever games they want to play.

[notsaul]

You don't know me. Don't act like you fucking do.

And yeah, we are. And some of us try to make the fucking best of it and not get murdered by all the other fucking psychos in this godforsaken town.

[chosenreplica]

Your behavior is what makes me know you've never been a puppet.

No one would have been murdered if they didn't let the town tell them what to do as easily as it had.

[notsaul]

Okay, everybody's been saying that lately, but do you really fucking believe that? Have you seen most of the motherfuckers in this town? They're all fucking insane. There's serial killers, supervillains, fucking Nazis. Acting like "oh, if we all just didn't listen to the town, no one would die!" is really fucking sweet and all, but it's also completely fucking stupid. Because if all the sane people here put down their guns and sat in a circle and held hands and sang fucking kumbaya? The crazies would mow them all the fuck down. They don't even need prizes to do it.

Don't be so fucking naive.

[chosenreplica]

I'm not being naive and you're missing my point. There's bad people everywhere, but half of the stuff that happens here... it wouldn't happen if everyone didn't go for it so willingly!

[notsaul]

How is that not totally fucking naive? Even if we lobotomized half the town into not being fucking homicidal crazies, there's still the town itself. If you don't play along with them, they'll start fucking making you play along. And sue me if I think losing my mind forever is a lot fucking worse than being dead for a day.