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Noise

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

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But I can use it to protect.

I could keep everyone safe. Make it just bad enough to please the snake, but they don't have to keep finding new and horrifying ways to suffer. I just have to be strong enough to make them listen.

[He pulls up a holographic display of a bunker, expanding it out.]

I just need to prevent teleportation. That's the tricky bit.

[Glancing at the display, then down at the chain. Is that doing anything?]

If it's just about getting someone to listen to you, there's easier ways.

[Its following along.]

[Its attached to the snapper back.]

Oh, if only. But I know so many people who are willing to throw themselves into death for the smallest thing that they would fight me every step of the way then just let me handle it.

[Just going to. Shift her stance, and put a foot on the chain. This is her idea of testing what Doing A Thing might do.]

I know. Alright? The fastest way to get me to investigate a dangerous ruin, is to tell me that I can't go there.

But I've had a lifetime of being told what I can't do. What I can't have.

If you aren't careful with this sort of thing, you make yourself look like an obstacle.

[All motion ceases as she steps on the chain.]

[Sits down.]

What's wrong with being an obstacle? It just makes it harder for them to throw themselves into death.

Edited 2023-02-12 20:18 (UTC)

[If he doesn't get up the moment she moves, she'll come sit with him. Almost back-to-back, if he's still facing his work. Not actually touching, because - she's got her own things to work out when it comes to that, but. Trying to be there, in her awkward way.]

Because obstacles are there for us to struggle against. Because we want to choose, even if we might choose badly.

[A careful breath.]

A friend of mine was trying to help me. I didn't appreciate it, because I thought he was trying to hold me back.

[He doesn't get up as long as she's holding that chain.]

[Also welcome to massive backrest.]

I have no intentions of holding anyone back. I just want to keep them safe from dangers we can't overcome, just suffer through.

[She wasn't strong enough to save that friend. They followed her plan, and it didn't go right, and now it's too late to be fair to him.

Maybe.

She should be stronger.]

"When things look impossible, look deeper, then fight like you can win."

You could be stronger. Just give in. Join us.

You haven't been through the Scenarios yet.

[No surprise this time. She just clenches a fist.]

Tell me the plan. How does protecting everyone with Kraang abilities work?

The Kraang are biologically efficient. They need less mass for their strength, they are difficult to injure, both physically and mystically, they are able to grow and expand from a small amount to enough to take over buildings in minutes.

They are persuasive, but...

But we are not that far yet.

If it's so great, why am I hearing 'but?'

Is it worth the cost yet.

Let's start there. With the - what did the old ones call it?

Risky cost analysis.

Risk cost analysis.

That is how we always operate. Sacrifice and Selfishness determine that.

And, what? You're just stuck in the middle?

Logistics.

[He gestures to all the plans.]

I figure out the means. They determine the should.

[She gets up, paces over to the plans.]

But you know the cost.

They are part of the planning. They need to be factored into how to accomplish my end goals.

Edited 2023-02-13 04:39 (UTC)

Okay...Let's make a plan. Right now.

You'll actually go along with a plan?

[Also do ever say if she's not holding that chain]

[For reasons]

Edited 2023-02-13 04:47 (UTC)

[Pff.]

This might be hard to believe, but I've managed to do it at least once.

[Actually. Since he sat down when she first touched it, this is probably where she'd be letting go.]

Edited 2023-02-13 04:53 (UTC)

The plan also has to keep you safe.

[how does this keep happening whomst the fuck do people think they are why do people think they can tell her she can’t just drive herself into the ground to fulfill a stupid sense of moral obligation you blow out a dam wall one time and almost drown and suddenly everyone wants to know your ribs are intact remember when this was all just about winning a parkour contest to figure out who mom was maybe she could get some blasted sleep if the world would stop trying to end every five minutes did anyone ever think of]

[Hands on her hips. Stare at the ceiling for a minute. DEEP BREATH.]

Guess I walked into that one. Fine. In this plan, I will be safe.

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