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[iustitiae]

[oh hello hadriel. it's "connor" but this isn't the silly laid back way he normally starts his posts, he looks very serious as he starts talking.]

Man, you guys are collectively the weirdest group of social media users. One day you're asking who ships what the next day you're making vague comments about something horrible someone did once. And it's always, "oh I couldn't possibly tell you what I did, but let me look for emotional support for my vast and intense guilt!" Please. You think you deserve sympathy for that?

[connor laughs, cold and bitter and shakes his head.]

I get it, I do. It's easier to not talk about it. Easier to live on the reputations you've built while you've been here and ask for help based solely on what people know than give up the ghost and actually show them the skeletons in your closet that you're so upset about. Maybe your friends will just imagine you cheated on your significant other once upon a time, or you accidentally lied to your mom, or you did something that, when we tell the whole story, actually sounds like it wasn't your fault at all. The kinds of things good people feel guilty about.

But let's face us - how many of us are actually good people? Why waste our time talking in circles about vague half-truths or covering our obviously deep-seeded issues with superfluous shitposting?

[he clears his throat and is quiet for a moment - dramatic flair, like he's about to drop some real truth bombs. (he is.)]

Here, I'll start: I killed my professor's husband with a group of friends. We covered up the murder like the good little future-lawyers that we are. We did a good job. We'll probably get away with it. Not that I'm likely to find out, since I'm stick here with all of you now.

[he's just going to let that...sink it. better to do it now before people start getting completely paranoid about the doubles than later on. but even if they figure out he's not his original - what does it matter? this wasn't some lie he was fabricating.]

That feels good, getting that out there. Now it's your turn.

Comments

[wormintheglass]

I very nearly succeeded in giving over control of a large chunk of the universe to a pack of interdimensional worms.

I'm afraid I have always been talented at getting in my own way. Why did you kill the husband?

[iustitiae]

Your thing is way more colorful than my thing, that's for sure.

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time. One of the people in our group was trying to steal data off his computer and he found out.

[wormintheglass]

It was. Oh, how I wish I still had my cabaret; you would have loved it, Connor.

How did you kill him?

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[64th]

[ hmmm this is not how Connor acted last time he told this story. Cashmere is officially suspicious. ]

You don't feel bad about it?

Video

[iustitiae]

[damn it connor being a good bestie and actually telling cashmere things]

Not bad enough to go to the cops after all this time.

[64th]

[ yeah who tells people things. that's crazy. ]

Really. [ she does not look convinced. ]

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[unitas]

This is shitposting, too. [ He killed someone with a group of friends? Sounds a little I Know What You Did Last Summer, without the slasher murderer and Jennifer Lovehugetits. ]

audio

[iustitiae]

Yeah? So what constitutes a good post to you, then?

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[unitas]

[ She hums as if she's seriously considering it. ]

Concise and useful are usually my favorite types. [ She shrug is almost audible. ] Not pitty shitfests.

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[benumbing]

I think you've overshared.

[and jack is officially unsettled. or maybe that nagging feeling is his own guilt, or even paranoia. but if the "bad twins" could use the network, his own certainly would've popped up by now.]

video

[iustitiae]

[jack's double just needs to murder him and grab his communicator that's all :') ]

Ignorance is bliss, huh?

video;

[fourthsaken]

[Something is obviously very, very wrong with her housemate.]

Connor...

video;

[iustitiae]

[ "what is being dead?, Alex" ]

Jade?

voice;

[devilsavocado]

[ Matt doesn't even know what to say. Is this what gave Connor all those nightmares? ]

Connor?

[ HAHA as if it wasn't clear that something is wrong, this is it. ]

voice;

[iustitiae]

Yeah?

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[survivethis]

Oh my God...

[Not really what she expected to hear on the network, though lately things are entirely unpredictable.]

Why would you do something like that?

[Jill doesn't know him. Maybe he's just crazy. But there had to be a reason why... right?]

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[iustitiae]

One of the people in our group was trying to steal from him and he caught her.

[honesty is the best policy :) ]

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[unknowable]

That seems like a particularly strange thing for a lawyer to do.

Was there a reason?

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[iustitiae]

Not lawyers yet, just law students.

[is he legally obligated to say this maybe]

We were stealing from him and he caught us in the act.

[Video]

[elegant_and_proud]

Why does it feel good to share this information with everyone?

[Ikaruga can already tell based on other people's responses that this isn't normal behaviour for him. At the same time, hearing about one murder doesn't trouble her. Most people have the capacity for it under the right circumstances. Much as people like to think they don't.

Right now, she'll just ask a different question than what others have, and see what he says.]

[Video]

[iustitiae]

Just good not to have it on my chest anymore, you know?

[connor knows way too many people, is part of the problem here - but seeing someone he doesn't, that's a good, fresh start.]

video.

[gymnast]

[ You know, if it's between this and him playing Hot or Not, Allison would much prefer the latter. ]

Do you feel guilty about it at all? Because you definitely don't sound like you care at all.

video.

[iustitiae]

[yeah allison be careful what you wish for, honestly.]

Guilt didn't stop me from doing it.

[text]

[readytobe]

[He has a lot of questions about this. Well, a few questions, at least. ]

"Shitposting"?

[text]

[iustitiae]

[totally fair]

Did you see that post about shipping the other day? That's shitposting.