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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.

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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?

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[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. ]

[iustitiae]

[totally crazy. unheard of]

I've had opportunities. I just never took them. And it's likely that Rebecca is dead because of it.

[64th]

It's Interesting that you've decided to come clean now in such a dramatic way because you seemed very upset about it before.

Isn't that weird? I think it's weird.

[iustitiae]

Guess that leaves you to figure out which one was the truth - was the drunk crying just a front or is this the front?

[64th]

As an expert in crying on command, I'm going to say this is the front.

[ she frowns. ]

You aren't you.

[iustitiae]

Hypothetically, even if I wasn't me (which just sounds weird to say) - the information is still out there, now.

[64th]

Looks that way. But it's going to make people suspicious. It made me suspicious.

[iustitiae]

But you also know it's not a lie.

[64th]

Yeah. I know.

[iustitiae]

So your suspicion is pointless.

[64th]

You're pointless! [ wow good come back ]

What are you going to do if people figure out that you can't be trusted? Do you think no one has noticed something weird is going on here?

[iustitiae]

Do you really think that matters? [yeah...great comeback there, cashmere]

So what if they suspect something weird is going on here? So what if I'm not the person you think I am? There's still enough plausibility. And look, you've even confirmed what I've said is true out in the open for everyone to see. You're my best friend, who is going to know better than you?

[yeah so there]

And since we've established that the murder did happen, and that I've been keeping quiet and lying about it this whole time, the suspicion is going to be here long after the weirdness is. You all think I'm just a nice guy. A regular, normal law student. But you're wrong. And if you were wrong about that, how many other secrets could I be keeping from you?

[64th]

[ she huffs. ] I still think Connor is a nice guy. Murder or not. Who hasn't murdered someone? Join the fucking club, honey.

And if you're Connor? You're so good I can't handle it.

[iustitiae]

That's not a thing. Most people don't murder people.

[not all of us are from the hunger games god]

[64th]

We're not most people, are we? Look around.

[iustitiae]

Yeah, so we all ended up in a shitty hell with other bad people. Guess it is a club, when you put it that way.

[64th]

I guess so. [ she leans in to the camera. ] So tell me what other awful things you've done.

[iustitiae]

What happened to your suspicions? Are you sure you want to hear it from me?

[because boy howdy he is happy to share]

[64th]

There's nothing you could say about yourself to make me dislike you, Connor.

[iustitiae]

Wow. That is really trusting of you.

[64th]

It's the truth.

[iustitiae]

Because we gossip all the time?

[64th]

[ well that wasn't the angle she was taking on this, but he's right so she nods. ] Yeah. Because we gossip. And I trust you.