ballies | NORMA

Couldn't they like, just say anyone is a villain if they want to get rid of them? How many people have they executed were actually bad?

Probably. Or, they could have ways of making people act? Blackmail possibly?

[ ... ]

Bad or incovenient to have around. It makes you wonder.

Even if we try to warn the people who actually live here about it, who are they going to believe? Their own government or us weirdos who just showed up randomly.

Not us. Trust me, I already tried talking that shady guy around but he just got shadier.

Really? What happened?

[ they could not overhear the conversations in jail ]

He’s shady.

[ thank you tama. ]

But… this isn’t the first time these executions have happened. For similar reasons — a hero did something “wrong”, and were made an example of. It sounded like the general public just accepts this is how things happen.

Are they brainwashed or something? I don't think they even know what happened.

An information diet can do that. They didn’t know what happened in the trial, so the details were missing.

Ugh...

Can we unbrainwash them or do you think it's a lost cause?

…

I mean. There’s nothing stopping us from talking about it? I have and no one’s popped up to arrest me, dystopia style.

[ if this was later in the week she’d have more to say… ]

Yeah, but, who would they believe? We're just a bunch of random strangers who popped up and allegedly can turn into villains.

You never know. Plant a seed of doubt, and who knows what'll happen.

Maybe... it just feels like it might be a little easier if the populace was on our side, you know?

Oh, for sure. But if doubts are going to sink in, then nothing's going to stop it. That's the joy of the whole thing.

Oh... you're good at this.

It's just how people work. If they hear it from enough of us, that's when the uncertainty sinks in.

One ticked off hero? Sure, whatever. They're just unreasonable, or bitter. Ten ticked off heroes...? 20? 30? Harder to ignore.