three; video

[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

[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.

[iustitiae]

[well i mean he was looking for the dumbest thing he do and pointing out how thats a stupid thing to base trust on but...oh.. she went with it. ok.]

Yeah, well, the last group of friends I had became a murder club, so.

[64th]

Yeah, well, I won a tiara because I was so good at murder. [ information desk lady emoji here ]

[iustitiae]

Guess we really are perfect best friends. You're a lot better at murder than I am, though.

[64th]

It's amazing how much of a motivator fighting for your life is.

[ but enough about her. ] You don't have anything else bad to tell me, do you? You're just here, collecting everyone else's secrets.

[iustitiae]

That would be stupid, because no one has actually told me anything.

[nah he's got stuff dnw]

I haven't told you about Oliver yet, have I?

[64th]

I didn't say it was a good idea.

[ she shakes her head. ] Nope.

[iustitiae]

He's my boyfriend, from back home.

[he's just going to let her think about all the implications of that & his behavior here.]

[64th]

[ Connor has... maybe not been the most respectful of having a boyfriend. at least recently. but after a while you have to wonder if you're ever going home, right? and you can't just... go forever without intimacy. ]

Serious boyfriend or call you in the middle of the night to burn off some steam boyfriend?

[iustitiae]

[that has pretty much been his biggest problem]

Serious boyfriend. I cheated on him once, but he still took me back.

[64th]

That was stupid of you and very kind of him.

[ she's been the other woman before, she supposes. cheating isn't all that uncommon. ]