WEEK 2

[bathymetric]

So far, good news! You've managed to avoid killing! A week has passed in the facility, but how many more are there to go until one of you tries out Rule Seven? I mean.... we know, but.

No new areas just yet, it remains you guys and yours here for now. Well, and Angel, but again - you don't exactly see her unless you want to. It's more than a little lonely... maybe someone ought to shake things up.



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[ ooc: Welcome to Week 2, your first case week! Remember to turn in regains here, your AC for last week here, and if you like, come visit Angel's office hours here!

Comments

[bolderfell]

Are the songs any good?

[lovelikeyou]

They're just about how perfect the Diamonds are. How good can they be?

[She's enjoyed some of them, a long time ago. But there aren't that many, and - and - ]

[bolderfell]

Well, there's more to a song than the subject matter, but the way you talk about these Diamonds... now I'm more interested in the context I seem to be missing.

[He actually... takes a seat...? Gods, but he's weak to a story.]

[lovelikeyou]

[fuck.

well, she brought this on herself. and jasper's going to be spreading some propaganda anyway.]

The Diamonds are the rulers of Gem society. All Gems are just tools or playthings to them, and all other lifeforms are just there to be destroyed. They don't care about anything but themselves.

[bolderfell]

[Sorry to make you Tell Me About Homestuck Steven Universe.]

Sounds like rulers everywhere.

[lovelikeyou]

The human rulers seem okay these days.

[She has to know they've had their fair share of tyrants. But then, they all died after just a few decades. Humans do that.]

I've never known any of them to destroy entire planets, anyway.

[bolderfell]

Only because they don't have the power to, I bet. [He puts his chin in his hand and looks away.] Humans at the top tend not to care about anything but what it takes to stay there.

[lovelikeyou]

They never stay there very long, at least.

[bolderfell]

Long enough, for those thrown beneath them.

[lovelikeyou]

That's true.

[bolderfell]

...How long is long, anyway, for you? You're... how many thousands of years old?

[tHERION.]

[lovelikeyou]

I'm really only a little older than Jasper. I think they might've just gotten a little mixed up with my age on the profiles.

[Rose smiles; how weird!]

Still over five thousand, though.

[bolderfell]

Think that'd make it hard to care about anything as short-lived as a human. Blink, and we're gone.

[Out of sight, out of mind.]

...Heh. When I put it like that, it's hard to imagine why even we humans let ourselves get attached to each other.

[lovelikeyou]

But humans are so wonderful! You have so much fun, and you never really seem to get...stuck, like we do.

[granted, that may be that they don't have the time]

[bolderfell]

What do you mean, "stuck?"

[Humans get stuck all the time. Stuck in chimneys, stuck in prison, stuck by knives in the back...]