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

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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Just because he didn't lie then, doesn't mean he never lied at all.

[Another long-suffering sigh.]

...you're really stupid, did you know that? I mean it, I'm having a hard time not getting a migraine from reading this. That was my point, girl. Lie to people about something they want to hear and they'll believe it, because it's easier than considering that hope is a lie.

[But really, she didn't think it was that difficult.]

I don't think it's about 'beating' her at this point, though I'm not against trying. Tell me, what will you do if you beat her and it doesn't fix anything?

I wouldn't think he would. I know that it might be a possibility, but right now, he doesn't seem to be the kind of person who would. IT would be rather out of character for him.

And I'm not that foolish! I admit, I may miss points from time to time, but I'm not a fool. And my point was that Dax would not lie, even about things that people wanted to hear. Why would a crusader willing to risk his own life lie in the early stages? Dax was no fool, and even I can see that if he were to do something like that, people wouldn't trust him later on.

And I'm not expecting just the death of Ruana to solve anything. It'll help us move about, and I'm hoping that people won't kill her outright so that we can get a few useful bits and facts out of her if we need them, but if Ruana, Jason, and maybe Riki aren't in control, it'll give us more breathing room and access to places and information we didn't have before. We could turn the illusions off for good and actually find a way to restore the universes. Finish what Dax was working on.

There's that word again- you 'think'. So it's your opinion, and you aren't actually sure.

Just because the kind of person he was at the end wouldn't lie, it doesn't mean the person he was at the beginning wouldn't. Though he was foolish enough to be caught, so I wouldn't put quite so many eggs in the basket with that line of reasoning.

[At the last bit though, she barks out a laugh that's not remotely pleasant.]

'Won't kill her outright'? You're stupider than I thought. That girl, with the power she has- do you really think anything other than complete annihilation will be an option? We could easier pry information from Jason once she's dead than show her any kind of mercy at all.

I am pretty sure if that's what I think about Dax. Now, I don't know what sort of person he might have been when the Tower was in it's early days or what he was like when people first came here. I only arrived in October when he had already been known for helping out the residents. But, I can say for certain that he wasn't that kind of person when I arrived here.

As for getting caught..if you're talking about his death, have you thought that he was simply outranked when he pulled a very interesting scheme in trying to kill Ruana? Or that he sacrificed himself so that some of the residents might actually rise up in his place? Death spurs people sometimes, even though I hate to admit it. Perhaps he saw it as a good was of getting some people here to act..even though I don't quite like suicidal acts like that.

[..At the last part, Tohko sighed as she typed.]

And perhaps Jason doesn't know everything about this Tower. He's a mechanic, not a worldhopper or a world restorer. I admit, the chance of us being able to do so is very slim, now that Ruana is pissed, but if we do have that chance, I would like to just immobilize her or restrain her so that we could fill in whatever blanks we still have before we kill her. It's foolish to kill a general or a scientist without getting what he knows first.

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

[voice]

[Text] I do apologize for Tohko's bullheadedness here..><

[voice] it's ok dude, it's in her character

[Text] That's true..I just keep sighing and laughing at it though. ^^;