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GM Game: BARiTONES
[ The door shuts behind you, leaving you in a copy of this room. Upon one of the fancy tables is your card for the round, along with slots for each unit for you to go slide in your choices.
You can come and go as you will, but once you have left the room, you cannot speak of anything that transpires within: not your choices, not your discussion, not your alliances.
Do your best, idol-tachi. ]
You can come and go as you will, but once you have left the room, you cannot speak of anything that transpires within: not your choices, not your discussion, not your alliances.
Do your best, idol-tachi. ]
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He hates me with such vitriol that you would think his throat full of acid if I should be mentioned. It isn't unwarranted, of course. [He can't be forgiven. He WON'T be.]
Fox is quite close to Itsuki-kun.
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I know Fox... does care about you an amount, though, but—not to the extent that he would discount Itsuki's words, I take it.
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It's because of what I did that he'd locked himself away, only to come out of it with a doll he'd named and given a personality, and thought of as a real person. It wasn't necessarily the desired effect, and he wasn't the worst of them, but nonetheless... his hate is warranted.
Fox and I shared some good times together, but I played with Itsuki-kun too much, and he poisoned the well, and Fox hates me now, too. He "couldn't stand to look at the subject" of the painting he did of me.
So I used Fox to convince Itsuki-kun to keep my name out of his mouth, using two people who hate me as weapons against each other. I assume you want to know how?
It's very simple. A child could do it.
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[He scratches his head then.]
But Fox keeps trying to "figure me out", too. I don't understand it, and it's weird.
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Unfortunately, though, it seems like one or the other of them has managed a way to communicate some of what happened. Which is to say, Kaguya knows, and therefore I don't think it'll stay under wraps for long. So, we need to figure out what to do.
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[He sighs. He's actually not in any mood to do so. So troublesome.]
I've got to make their loved ones suffer. Ugh. Why can't people just keep their mouths shut? This is so much more work.
Whatever. You shouldn't feel the need to get involved, unless you want to use it as a way to denounce what I did and distance BARiTONES from responsibility for my actions. Maybe I just shouldn't do anything, or it'll just make things worse.
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Kaguya all but did demand that if we're good, decent, respectable people, we'll disavow you and turn our backs from you and anything you desire, but—I won't do that, and I certainly won't because she threatened me. In fact, I'll extra not do it because of that, just so you're aware.
...This may sound a bit strange, but have you considered actually trying to make amends?
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I've tried making amends with Taisho before, and they all seem stubbornly bent on holding a grudge. Between Doll murdering Itsuki for no reason other than to "drive up demand" that people pay her not to kill them, which they slammed the door in my face for trying to apologize for, trying to assure them that it won't happen again, Itsuki trying to drown me upon seeing me when I offered a friendly greeting, and Fox apparently being so disgusted by my...? I don't know, letting Itsuki-kun choke me after our stay in Hell Proper? ... That he had to get rid of the painting he'd done of me, I just don't think it's salvageable by trying to make nice.
I'm not innocent in this for certain, but my sincere attempts to smooth things over have been met with vitriol, which is why I resorted to kidnapping and contacts to begin with.
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And you want to love, and be loved. And that's all right.
Some things can't be undone, but: I have a lot of confidence in my persuasive ability. If I can, I'll put it to work to help you find peace, in whatever form that might take. If part of that is making sure that they know to never, ever, even look at us funny until the end of time or they die, that's fine too, but maybe we can take care of some of those hauntings.
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I'd be willing to try to work with Taisho, but the problem is that they're extreme in their idea of "justice", and would require anyone who'd ever wronged even one of them to prostrate themselves for some of them to even consider forgiveness, and it feels like that'd just be capitulating to people who don't want what's best, but want to feel like they're morally superior and hold power over others. It feels like it'd just make others think we are weak... if they don't think we are lying.
I'd do it... if that is what all of BARiTONES wanted, but I don't think it'd work. I think... we should make no secret of not only our unwillingness to bow to others, but also our support of each other, even if we disagree behind closed doors.
That's just the thoughts I'm having. BARiTONES has to make a decision together on what we do with them, but it should be something we then all reflect in our interactions.
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...I made it quite clear to Kaguya when we spoke that, even if she finds me pleasant, my first priority is with the unit, and to support the rest of you. She suggested that she'd prefer Yvette or myself as a leader and—I don't think she's conniving enough to have said that as an intentionally dividing tactic, but we should make sure the whole team is prepared for how to respond to that sort of thing.
Ah, there's a proverb, I think—"I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the world"?
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My leadership is only viable if others agree to it, and even just saying it that way lends itself to this idea of "us vs them", "us" here being you and Yvette, and "them" being myself and likely also Kohime. Being conniving because you think you are morally correct or doing it accidentally doesn't forgive the action.
[He waves a hand then, dismissively.]
I'm getting off-topic.
The fact is, if it is up to me, I wouldn't want to work with them or try to save face. I would have us all vow to crush Taisho completely, but if everyone else wants to play damage control, then... I'll do what I can.
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She doesn't have a very good read on me or my motivations, unfortunately for her. When people say that sort of thing to me, it just makes me want to dig my heels in harder, you know?
But: I think we'll need a little bit of both to really get control of the situation. We can never entirely remove a threat, here, so it all comes down to politics and image.
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[Shrugs. Paloma already realizes this and doesn't seem inclined to be swayed by the attempt, so there's no reason to argue against it. It's just how Taisho is.]
I've done what I thought I could on my own, and it just kind of made it's own mess, so... If you have suggestions on what I can do to help, I'd like the input. Otherwise I suppose I'll just keep my hands off of Taisho for the time being to evaluate my next move.
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