week 2, tuesday

[seaclipsed]

[ katara is seated in front of the bonfire, cooking... well, fish. fish is probably like 90% of everyone's diet at this point honestly.

anyway, this is a good opportunity for anyone to come by. it's almost midnight don't expect me to write anything more eloquent than this dammit. ]

Comments

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[vipmix]

That's very possible. People's behavior typically isn't fair. They're controlled by emotions and beliefs, same as in any other scenario.

[seaclipsed]

I'll just make sure everyone doesn't slack then.

[vipmix]

[... lmao]

Hee hee... Are you planning to wrangle everyone in the game into behaving? You realize you're not fully impartial yourself.

[but god does he want to see that tbh

TOO BAD HE'S DEAD!!!]

[seaclipsed]

[ YEAH TOO FUCKING BAD!!! ]

I never said I was. But someone has to try.

[vipmix]

You don't strike me as the worst possible wrangler. I'm looking forward to it.

[ha ha he won't see it]

[seaclipsed]

I will do my best not to let you down then.

[ she will, when they definitely fail to catch the murderer. ]

[vipmix]

[just... giggles]

Are we back to that? [please god no] It's not going to be easy, you know. People are always going to be themselves, and our group seems particularly volatile.

[seaclipsed]

Well, we're all just going to have to get over yourselves then.

[vipmix]

You make it sound so easy. [i left you hours to fix that typo live with it. he looks away] Not everyone is on your side to begin with. The hardest thing will be those designated killers.

[seaclipsed]

I know it won't be easy. Nothing in life is, honestly. I can only really hope that other people will help out.

And if they don't, I'll do my best on my own.

[vipmix]

[... giggles because ofc he does]

Hmm, well, hopefully not fully on your own. You've got that friend of yours, don't you? And I'd rather not be doomed to die because people settled on the easiest path.

[backtagging is funny]

[seaclipsed]

I don't want to assume that Zuko is always going to agree with me.

[ he's probably going to always agree with her. ]

[vipmix]

Hmm, really? Friends usually have similar moral values.

[way to make it sound like you've had a single friend in your entire life, josh]

[seaclipsed]

Zuko and I weren't always friends.

[ an understatement for the ages. ]

But... this is the kind of game where people are going to argue a lot, so I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up arguing at some point.

[vipmix]

Hm. Something to do with his father?

[GUESSING, 100%, BASED OFF OF ZUKO'S DAD ISSUES]

Maybe. But we were talking about wrangling people to do the right thing. Do you think Zuko would argue against you in that?

[he's honestly asking the fuck does he know he's not even mildly omniscient rn]

[seaclipsed]

... sort of. I guess it all lead back to his dad, but in the end, what he did was on him.

Not against doing the right thing. But... sometimes people's ideas of what the right thing is differ.

[ like the time she and aang argued over whether or not she should murder a man, so. ]

[vipmix]

Hee hee... I'd have been worried if you said otherwise. You would make a good wrangler. Even going all the way to realize people's morality is subjective.

[and then katara kills him here because he was just being a leading asshole]

[seaclipsed]

[ yeah we're gonna have to retcon the entire trial tbh ]

I won't lie and say that I haven't acted as if what I think is the absolute [ she... she does that a lot tbh... ] but this isn't a situation where we can all afford to think like that.

[vipmix]

Hmm. I'd say even being that level of self-aware is impressive, but I doubt you want to hear it. [remember that whole argument about him being condescending. yea.] The only way to succeed in trials will be to focus and work together and argue... less, but I don't see that happening immediately. We might go a few murders before catching a single killer.

[seaclipsed]

[ look. she is only aware of it because the gaang constantly yell at her about it. she and toph even have a bonding episode over it.

at his words though, she looks annoyed for a second, but then her shoulders just droop. ]

That's... probably why they bring in such a large group at the start, right? It's harder to figure things out when there's so many possible suspects.

[vipmix]

Where's their fun if all we do is succeed? [shrugs] It's an extra challenge, but since the idea from the start is to cull numbers... It works better if all your killers aren't uncovered too fast. They'd either run out of designated killers or discourage potential ones... or both.

[seaclipsed]

Ugh... I really hate that you're right. I mean, I want to say that we'll catch them, but...

[ it's not that she thinks they won't, but they're definitely at the disadvantage here. ]

We can't even examine the body, or-- have evidence!

[vipmix]

Because the emphasis is on "knowing" one another. We'll just have to make sure we get the information we need from the body before we give it back to the Chiefs.

[and not kick it down a mountain without looking at shit, NEKU]

[seaclipsed]

Last time the body was all... [ chopped up. ]

Well, it was kind of like they purposely made it hard. The rest of them might be like that too, right?

[vipmix]

If the killer wants to get away with it, probably. The more gruesome a death, the less likely people are to want to look closely at the body.