Capitalism, Hey!: avante en garde

[idolpro]

[ Everything fades to black...and you awaken in a run-down one-room shack, with the distinct feeling that the people around you are your family, if you didn't already have such a bond with them.

You're wearing raggedy versions of your uniform, and a newspaper informs you that you are currently in %COUNTRYNAME%, in the year %CONTEMPORARY%. The newspaper is otherwise actually fairly unhelpful, aside from something detailing a recent high-profile murder having been solved: despite confusion on the part of the authorities conducting the initial investigation, it turns out the victim had been tragically murdered via gun in the knife.

What do you do? ]

Comments

[deicider]

Must be something... maybe if we can get into the medical wing we can... figure something out.

[softlyfalling]

Ah, we could... at least stabilize our injuries? Before... finding a way to escape?

I don't know why they didn't just execute us. It would have been kinder, as things are.

[deicider]

The infirmary, it will have... stuff. Maybe we could make a bomb or... something.

[softlyfalling]

...you think so?

[deicider]

I don't know for sure.

1/2

[softlyfalling]

I'd gladly die for all of you, but—

2/3 just kidding

[softlyfalling]

I can't—

3/3

[softlyfalling]

...I can't watch all of you suffer like this.

Re: 3/3

[deicider]

It doesn't matter to me! I can take it!

1/2

[softlyfalling]

It matters to me—!

2/2

[softlyfalling]

...it matters to me.

[deicider]

[After a stunned silence, they laugh weakly.]

At last you're saying whats on your mind.

[softlyfalling]

...at least you still have the strength to rib me, so you can't be doing all that badly.

[ she wipes the tears from her eyes, even though she's still sniffling. ]

I don't know what to do. Hope for a quick death, maybe.

...This is a little bit what it felt like, to want to destroy the world.

[deicider]

... The world is made up of choices. You can destroy one world just by choosing another.

[softlyfalling]

I want... the world to be better on this.

It's just hard to even imagine right now.

[deicider]

It can be. I know it can be.

Once we have that world, all of this will have been worth it a thousand times over.

[softlyfalling]

...let's try and survive to see it, all right?

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Wheezes an interjection]

Where... would we even escape to? Back to living in a box...? 'C-c-cause fuck that.

[softlyfalling]

I... don't know. I don't—I don't know how anyone can live in this world.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[He sucks in a long, painful breath]

B-by making sacrifices.

[softlyfalling]

...and compromises, I suppose.

[gigadevilbreaker]

Whatever happens...

[It was hard. It had to be hardest on them, the ones making the call. Griffin lets out a shuddering breath]

S'okay.

[softlyfalling]

[ she gently strokes his hair. ]

No matter what, we'll be together.