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[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You sell yourself short, Commander. You care about the community even if you're indifferent to the majority.

[deicider]

That doesn't count for much when my unit is a mess and the community would still rather waste time ripping each other apart in games than make even the smallest effort to talk to each other.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

But yet here you are. Still trying.

[deicider]

I'm apparently an optimist by nature.

[might be pouting a bit at that.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Moving to lean up against the table next to them. Or closer - since they are laying down.]

Maybe you're just a sucker for complex problems.

[deicider]

[turning to their side to keep him in view, propping their chin on an arm.]

That's definitely true.

What do you know about Lucifel?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Tenses. Probably noticeably]

He's the worst kind of the villain. One you can't hate because he's so---

Lucifel.

[deicider]

[Whoa. Raises an eyebrow. ]

Can you elaborate?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Did you hear what happened on our side of the trial?

[deicider]

Of course. He and some other Sensitivs did the same thing to Nemesis during that arena game.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Oh.

Oh he didn't know that.

Now he looks mad. As if being mad at the trial wasn't enough.]

Did he now?

[deicider]

[frowns lightly.]

Yeah. He wasn't there but then Sensitiv and Yasuragi went for Nemesis and Requiem a round later.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I heard about that latter part from Nemesis.

. . .

Did you talk to Lucifel after the game? Or since then?

[deicider]

Not directly after. During the truth game.

He seems to think of himself as something of a villain.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes.

It seems that's what he's set his mind to.

[deicider]

... Unfortunately, I think I gave him an idea.

I told him if he really wanted everyone to band against him, he was underestimating everyone's capacity for inaction. That he'd need to be a host to get results.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

How do you figure that will help the cause?

Sure, it will mean people hate him. But people care even less about their hate for the hosts than they do for the units that wronged them last week. Mostly because there's jackshit we can do about it right now.

[deicider]

I was mostly using it as an example to point out why his current plan sucked. But as a host he could run whatever kinds of games he wanted. That's a lot more pressure he can apply than as an idol.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs out loud at that]

The games not turning us against each other fast enough.

I thought that last one did a great job. And no host required - it was a fucking AI.

[deicider]

That's the problem. Nothing so far has motivated the units into action to stand against the system. In games everyone's still more concerned about scrambling for their lives, and the lives of the people handful of people they care about. That's all. Lucifel wants to force them to see the bigger picture by being an evil to unite against.

No one wants to admit it, but the games do control how we act toward each other. With an in depth knowledge of the community as a whole, it would be easy to push and pull everyone into place.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And if we all rebel agains the system instead of snipe at each other?

How much of that would the producers put up with before putting us in our place with another grey disease? They want us to fight each other - the Manager even explicitly said so.

So if Lucifel wants to be an evil to unite against, he has to stay here.

[deicider]

We can fight each other and still fight the system if everyone would get over their personal drama. I killed Red and we were both nice about it. We're idols, we can act.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's because Red is reasonable. In as much as she acts predictably.

. . .

And I can't believe that this is the fucking bar!

[deicider]

[they turn their face slightly more towards the table, laughing.]

Zrael is a very reasonable unit.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's not funny!

[Except. You know. It is. It really is]