It's going exactly as I was worried it would -- if we get it right, Ryuki blames himself for any part he had in helping catch the killer because they're going to die and it's just perpetuating the cycle we're stuck in. If we get it wrong, he blames himself for being "bad at his job" and not figuring out who did it to protect an innocent.
By the end there, there was plenty of evidence that double H didn't do it, and I still voted for him. Mostly 'cause I couldn't accept the other option it was pointing to.
I wouldn't change it anyway's the thing. Not if things went down the same way, and we still didn't have any leads on Satan's case.
[ it wasn't that he couldn't accept the truth, but that he refused to accept that outcome. ]
I knew if Taky did it there was a lot more to the story that we didn't know. I've seen how far he's willing to go and put himself at risk to help people and how much he cares about all the kids here.
I'm pissed as hell that he didn't cop to it to any of us before so we could've focused on finding the truth of the other case instead of wasting all that time chasin' after him, but it's because he's an idiot and didn't wanna put anyone else in a position of feelin' like they had to lie for him.
... Mm. I'm kinda frustrated about that. I was at least hoping for some answers about why it happened, even if we couldn't answer the question of who.
[ datz your nicknames it takes her a moment. ]
... My theory is Yae Miko was the aggressor. Whoever she went after knocked her out and locked her in that cage to try and keep her in one place until the morning. So no one had to die.
[ that's what she's working with right now. ]
I don't like any of this. Logically, if it is him, I should confront him about this. It's my job to, and I know it's what Ryuki would want to do. Even if things aren't black and white in cases of the law, if someone's guilty, then they should face that.
[ but ] ... It doesn't feel any more simple here than it does back home.
[ there's a little bit of a laugh at that, just like, damn, you're good. ]
I'd say that's a real good theory.
[ which she is free to take as a passive confirmation if she chooses.
he just leans against a wall or something and closes his eyes for a moment. there are probably kittens mewing in the background of all of this, i just realized. ]
I don't like anything about this either. I hate it. Bein' a Defiant Dragon's all about making sure everyone gets a fair trial, and I feel like a big damn hypocrite right now. But this place is so messed up that it was never gonna be fair no matter which way it went — it was gonna be someone who didn't deserve the punishment they were gonna get either way.
So I decided I was gonna save the friend I trust to keep doin' good at the expense of someone I didn't, fair or not. [ ... ] I'd do the same for Ruty if he got stuck in a situation like that.
[ yeah she may have posed this theory while looking reigen in the eyes. ]
That's... a group you're part of? You don't get fail trials where you're from? [ this is how she gets the spirit of justice lore. ]
I know none of this is fair. It should work in the opposite of all this and... I struggle to be fully okay with it when I know what it does to Ryuki. [ she is so biased. ] I'm not... mad that Nimona isn't losing someone else she cares about and that we're not stuck with another situation like we had with Mika, but I don't know how that makes me feel.
[ it took me a second to realize that was a typo and i was like well they do get fail trials actually they suck ]
Yeah, that's our revolutionary group back home. Our country had nothing but guilty verdicts for 23 straight years 'cause people could just be accused of whatever and weren't able to get a defense attorney to represent them and argue their case. Changing that system is what we've been fightin' for this whole time, so this whole thing's just... puttin' me in kind of a tough place. Which probably isn't that far off from where you are.
If this place wasn't so screwed up, he could've just confessed to a self-defense kill off the bat and gotten a lower sentence, and we could've spent our time on the other case and found out the truth of what happened there. That's what should've happened.
-- wait, no defense attorney? How do you even run a justice system without one half of the law team?
[ ... ]
You're not wrong though. I'm meant to catch criminals, even if I don't like the outcome. Ryuki is driving himself to the edge of his nerves because he needs to solve cases and bring people to justice. He hates criminals deeply, and he has every reason to.
And I'm selfish, and Ryuki's well being matters to me more than anything.
[ ..... ]
There's literally a jail cell -- why couldn't we just...
Do you think it's similar here? What better way to gather protectors -- ones that you can found into obidience by whittling down "trouble makers"? Either way, it feels like a power trip. Something like the one you just described.
[ yeah, mood. ]
All they're using it for is holding people before they have them killed. [ she pauses, and then her lips twitch slightly ] And well meaning jailbreakers.
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Not really.
It's going exactly as I was worried it would -- if we get it right, Ryuki blames himself for any part he had in helping catch the killer because they're going to die and it's just perpetuating the cycle we're stuck in. If we get it wrong, he blames himself for being "bad at his job" and not figuring out who did it to protect an innocent.
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[ he feels like shit every time he has to play into this system too. sometimes worse than others. ]
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[ seriously. that is the biggest battle. ]
He will blame himself until the sun explodes.
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By the end there, there was plenty of evidence that double H didn't do it, and I still voted for him. Mostly 'cause I couldn't accept the other option it was pointing to.
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You can just say it, Datz. It's not like we can go back and change our vote.
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[ it wasn't that he couldn't accept the truth, but that he refused to accept that outcome. ]
I knew if Taky did it there was a lot more to the story that we didn't know. I've seen how far he's willing to go and put himself at risk to help people and how much he cares about all the kids here.
I'm pissed as hell that he didn't cop to it to any of us before so we could've focused on finding the truth of the other case instead of wasting all that time chasin' after him, but it's because he's an idiot and didn't wanna put anyone else in a position of feelin' like they had to lie for him.
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[ datz your nicknames it takes her a moment. ]
... My theory is Yae Miko was the aggressor. Whoever she went after knocked her out and locked her in that cage to try and keep her in one place until the morning. So no one had to die.
[ that's what she's working with right now. ]
I don't like any of this. Logically, if it is him, I should confront him about this. It's my job to, and I know it's what Ryuki would want to do. Even if things aren't black and white in cases of the law, if someone's guilty, then they should face that.
[ but ] ... It doesn't feel any more simple here than it does back home.
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I'd say that's a real good theory.
[ which she is free to take as a passive confirmation if she chooses.
he just leans against a wall or something and closes his eyes for a moment. there are probably kittens mewing in the background of all of this, i just realized. ]
I don't like anything about this either. I hate it. Bein' a Defiant Dragon's all about making sure everyone gets a fair trial, and I feel like a big damn hypocrite right now. But this place is so messed up that it was never gonna be fair no matter which way it went — it was gonna be someone who didn't deserve the punishment they were gonna get either way.
So I decided I was gonna save the friend I trust to keep doin' good at the expense of someone I didn't, fair or not. [ ... ] I'd do the same for Ruty if he got stuck in a situation like that.
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That's... a group you're part of? You don't get fail trials where you're from? [ this is how she gets the spirit of justice lore. ]
I know none of this is fair. It should work in the opposite of all this and... I struggle to be fully okay with it when I know what it does to Ryuki. [ she is so biased. ] I'm not... mad that Nimona isn't losing someone else she cares about and that we're not stuck with another situation like we had with Mika, but I don't know how that makes me feel.
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Yeah, that's our revolutionary group back home. Our country had nothing but guilty verdicts for 23 straight years 'cause people could just be accused of whatever and weren't able to get a defense attorney to represent them and argue their case. Changing that system is what we've been fightin' for this whole time, so this whole thing's just... puttin' me in kind of a tough place. Which probably isn't that far off from where you are.
If this place wasn't so screwed up, he could've just confessed to a self-defense kill off the bat and gotten a lower sentence, and we could've spent our time on the other case and found out the truth of what happened there. That's what should've happened.
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You're not wrong though. I'm meant to catch criminals, even if I don't like the outcome. Ryuki is driving himself to the edge of his nerves because he needs to solve cases and bring people to justice. He hates criminals deeply, and he has every reason to.
And I'm selfish, and Ryuki's well being matters to me more than anything.
[ ..... ]
There's literally a jail cell -- why couldn't we just...
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[ ...sighs SO deeply. ]
Yeah... I get ya. It's infuriating. Not a lick of sense in any of it.
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Do you think it's similar here? What better way to gather protectors -- ones that you can found into obidience by whittling down "trouble makers"? Either way, it feels like a power trip. Something like the one you just described.
[ yeah, mood. ]
All they're using it for is holding people before they have them killed. [ she pauses, and then her lips twitch slightly ] And well meaning jailbreakers.
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Supposedly there's some "real" villains holed up in some cells there somewhere, but we never met 'em while we were there, at least.
[ he's still very ??? about how this place keeps claiming to be overrun with villains when they rarely see anything close to one. ]
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[ ... ]
I wonder if we could find them. If I could get to an access point, I might be able to find holding records.
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[ it's always seemed fishy and keeps getting fishier. ]
Ya think? They got that power nullifyin' thing at the jail's the problem, but if you could get into the network or whatever from somewhere else...
[ he's not going to be much help here, khura'in is not on the cutting edge of technology. ]
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And then the insistence on making one of us into a villain weekly as well.
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... .................................. huh. ]
Maybe I should try. All we know is there are very high ranked villains being held somewhere in the jail, right? That's all?
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[ ... ]
I think they said one of 'em's in some special round cell 'cause his power is boxes or something?
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[ ... ]
Did you get this from the leaders? [ she just bullies hers. and everyone else's. apparently. ]
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[ huh x 3000 ]
I wonder if these "villains" are like our "villains".
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Yeah, that's the question, ain't it? Though I don't know why they'd be hangin' around in prison here when ours are gettin' the death penalty.
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