011 ❀ Scratch your Name into the fabric of this World before you Go

[floreatnoctem]

Memento mori- remember that you will die.

[Chidori's voice is quiet, somber as always, but there's a lack of the usual note of resignation in her voice, a spare bit of determination.]

I don't... make speeches, usually. And I haven't kept up with whatever you've all been saying here, so if someone has said this before...

[Feel free to ignore it, is the implication.]

In any case, the main thing to remember is that we're all going to die. Permanently, I suppose I should say- and it isn't that big a deal, in the grand scheme of things. We're not real, and I think by this point it should be obvious that the 'circumstances' under which we were supposedly brought here are a lie. Convoluted, well-crafted and well-enforced, but a lie nonetheless. I can only presume the dead versions of our worlds are programmed into us when we 'leave' and 'return', but that doesn't matter either. As I said, it doesn't matter that we will die...

But what will matter is what we each do before then.

So regardless of what they put us through, regardless of how we are 'punished'- because that's no more real than anything else, really- we have a year, right? The time I've had here is more than I was supposed to anyway- I've been ready to die for a long time.

So take my advice, and live so you won't have any regrets in the end.



After all, what's the point in holding anything back anymore?

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[chainsawn]

... Are there people who hold back?

[ A strange concept to her, but then again, Urotsuki is mostly really.. different from others, to put it in a positive light. ]

That's weird. If you only have a little more to live, why would you hold back?

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[floreatnoctem]

There are. They're afraid, usually. Of themselves or what they might do if they stop holding back.

[chainsawn]

I don't get how you can be scared of yourself. After all.. you're you. Everyone's themselves. If you're scared of being yourself, then.. [ .. she pauses, trying to imagine what it would be like. ] .. then it's like you're not even alive at all, right..?

[floreatnoctem]

Because they're afraid if they act like the real them, others will be afraid or repulsed. Humans care about the opinions of others far too much.

[chainsawn]

.. Nobody's ever been afraid of me here though.. Or repulsed, I guess. [ As far as she knows, either way. She's pretty oblivious. ] And I've just always acted as myself.