CITRINE

[dramatispersonae]

[The room is circular and surrounded by a series of ionic columns, the floor and ceiling stretching overhead fashioned out of cracked, white stone. The area beyond the columns is pitch black, and the room itself is lit only by dimly flickering candles. The candles rest on top of a stone table, which sits in the middle of the room.

And next to the candles rest four numbered boxes]

Comments

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

Us being new doesn't mean we can't face this. Your wants don't trump ours. We're teammates, we're friends, and we care about you. Sixes and I have faced horrible stuff before, we can handle this just as much as you can. Don't disrespect us like that.

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

It's not disrespect to want to protect someone.

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

IT'S DISRESPECT TO TREAT US LIKE THIS! You're telling us we can't be involved, we can't decide for ourselves, because you think you know best! Whatever way you spin it, you're looking down on us, and you're not letting us fight alongside you.

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

This isn't fighting. This is a stupid game.

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

Well obviously I'm not speaking literally!

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

You do realize you're arguing over wanting to get hurt, which is stupid?

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

That's not what I'm arguing over. How the hell do you not get this? I don't want to get hurt. I don't want any of us to get hurt, what we're arguing over here is the fact that you won't accept us as your equals. You won't let us help you at all, you're pushing us away when we can help. We're offering to stand by you, and help you through something awful and you're spitting on us.

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

Accepting someone doesn't mean that we just let them get hurt. This shouldn't even be something we have to consider, but we do because that's how Aather is.

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

In one of my memories, this guy took a little girl hostage and told Nami to beat me to death or he'd kill her. Yuta had to watch.

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

...

[oh]

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

This isn't just how Aather is, it's something I've had to consider before. And we had to trust each other and work together to get out of it alive, without killing that girl. We did. And maybe we aregued and I got a few extra holes in my lungs, but we did it together. Let us take this on too. Let us work with you, Riku, or we're gonna fall apart.

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

This isn't working together. This is all of us agreeing to get hurt together.

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

That is working together. Even if it's working towards something awful.

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

That's not how it should be.

Re: Discussion

[heroic_homemaker]

But that's how it is.

Re: Discussion

[inherited]

Let's just keep going.