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[therushingsky]

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[therushingsky]

Who's delicate, dude? I'm saying-- look, yeah, so I don't think it's good, but like--

[Ugh, how to say this in a way that won't start them both fighting again?]

It's like, that lever thing, right? You're on a train, and the train's going to crash, unless you pull the lever to put it onto a different track. But if you pull the lever, it's going to run some people down. And-- there isn't a right answer. Like, that's the point. Then, the second part of the question is: What if someone you love is on the train?

[All of this is muttered into Jedao's shoulder.]

Might be Psycho, but it's a really normal kind of psycho. Especially when it's kids.

Re: Spam

[ninefox]

[Jedao has not really been exposed to the wonderful world of trolleyology. But he can pick up the gist.]

You have to kill the guy laying the train tracks, obviously.

[Which is easier to say than I put everyone I loved on the train just to get to the switch.]

If there's no right answer, you have to change the question.

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[therushingsky]

Yeah. That's why you're not a monster.

[Because everyone would pull the switch if they loved the people on the trolley.]

Just, regular bad like the rest of us.

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[ninefox]

[He wouldn't. He didn't. He killed everyone, fucking up the scenario.

He goes a little bit stiff, even as his hands clutch fistfuls of Rhys's clothes. It sounds awful and narcissistic, I'm not like the rest of you. But before Fives, he was so, so alone.]

I don't understand why you're so invested in this word.

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[therushingsky]

I don't know, it just--

Feels very-- locked in, a word like that.

[He feels Jedao tense, and lifts a hand to rub in slow, reassuring circles on the other man's back, trying to soothe away some ember of his distress.]

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[ninefox]

[There's a long quiet where Jedao doesn't say what he's thinking.]

Why?

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[therushingsky]

Well, a monster is a thing you are. Like a cat is always going to do what a cat does, and not worry about it, because that's it's nature. A monster's always going to do certain things because that's it's nature.

You made a decision, and you did something shitty and difficult, and you're still hurting because of it. That's some real people shit. You just had to do it on a really scary, enormous scale.

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[ninefox]

I feel like this is not really a nuanced understanding of how fuckin' weird cats can be.

[Truculent mumbling more than real argument.]

People are animals too. We have natures. Some parts of people are terrible.