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[secondreturned]

You should have just killed me.

[Did you expect her to be thankful? Delight's text post comes a little belatedly after the poll has been closed and isn't quite the pleasant cheeriness that some of you have come to expect from her.]

I died the moment you saved Hope. We all did. This is just prolonging the inevitable.

I don't much care what you think of my decision or my actions. I tried to save what I could. I planned Hope's assassination for months, negotiated with the beings that killed everything I knew, traded the life of someone I adore very much- all to save my other allies and to save you. This was not a decision made quickly or lightly and I will not be made to regret doing what I felt was right.

I see now that I was too optimistic. You could not be made to lay down your weapons for a more peaceful arrangement- I suppose I should have known better, considering how antagonistic you've been. Still, I had to at least try. Nobody else would.

There's nothing more to say, save for this- don't rely on the other gods to save you. Fear will turn his back at the first opportunity and Hope will not fight alongside you. The others will use you how they see fit. What opportunity for survival you may have had with the Null has faded now. You're on your own.

Comments

[hasitsthorns]

In Haven, definitely
Home is... I mean, I'm pretty sure
Didn't see any way getting out of this shit I was in

[circumitus]

[Rey can't say she's surprised, because it would explain a lot about Rose's compulsions. Still, the confirmation is unpleasant.]

guess it doesn't help that we're in shit now that SOME PEOPLE seem to think the "noble goal" is to return us to wherever we came from.

would think that they maybe need a reminder, but clearly they dont give a fuck about that.

[hasitsthorns]

[ Understandably so after what she's recently been through. Also, yeah, it does generally put a lot of what Rose does into context. ]

I mean
Nah, not really
Which doesn't surprise me but... It sucks and I'm gonna bitch about it,
so

[circumitus]

well you're not the only one, and definitely not the only one who has nothing to go back to.
which is why delight here is full of shit.
just like the null's offer for "coexistence" is also full of shit.
there's no telling how long that deal would even last, or if they would find some mean of enslavement just like they did with their previous allies to any of us who has no choice but to stay.

[hasitsthorns]

yeah, I don't think people like me can win for lose here
life under the null wouldn't be one I'd want to live
and this is the only one I've got any more so, and I promised I'd try to fight for it

[circumitus]

have dealt with synthetics before. living with the assholes in this world doesn't sound very appealing either.

there's also a chance that anyone they don't see as useful or able sustain themselves for whatever reason should live in the first place.
they made themselves what they are so it doesn't seem likely that they're going to enjoy the company of most of us here anyway. we're sort of destructive and disagreeable assholes ourselves.

[hasitsthorns]

you said it

and i can agree with that
but we're FUN destructive and disagreeable assholes, at least
most of the time

[circumitus]

[Pfft.]

most of the time. sure. [Whatever you say, Rosie.]