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

[devilsavocado]

The law isn't everything.

[iustitiae]

So then why don't you take guilty clients?

[devilsavocado]

Because the law favors the guilty as long as they can afford a good defense. The innocent need to know they have someone fighting for their side.

[iustitiae]

[he doesn't say anything for a moment, and then:]

That's bullshit.

[devilsavocado]

[ Matt frowns. ]

That's how it is back home.

[ Um. No it's not?? ]

[iustitiae]

No, it's not. You're just saying that because you like me.

[his tone is incredulous, accusatory]

Last time you told me it was about moral high ground. You didn't have to say it out loud to make it true.

[devilsavocado]

[ Matt glares. ]

You aren't a bad person, Connor. Bad people justify their actions and tell themselves it's okay.

[iustitiae]

[you mad because he's right, bro?]

A good person would've gone to the cops. Would've ended it before all those other people got hurt.

[devilsavocado]

[ Sure is, but then he's never been friends with a murderer before? (Oh, Matt, wait till you find out about Karen...) ]

Your professor blackmailed you. She should've gone to the cops and argued on your behalf, not dug you all deeper into this hole.

[iustitiae]

[ LOL good joke matt. rip fisk's boyfriend ]

She just played on a propensity towards nastiness that was already in all of us.

[devilsavocado]

More like she preyed on your fears and your futures. Of course none of you wanted to go to the police, you're in law school.

[ Ruining your law career before you even have one... yep. That would be bad. ]

[iustitiae]

You don't know that. You can't know that.

[devilsavocado]

I know how important law school can be, Connor. Your professor used that against you, when she should have instead tried to help you. It should have been her responsibility.

[iustitiae]

This was just her way of protecting us.

[that's what annalise always said, wasn't it? that she was protecting them?]

[devilsavocado]

Her way of protecting you involved having someone else killed, Connor. And framing someone else for another murder. Does that sound like she was protecting you, or protecting herself?

[ It sounds like blackmail no matter how you put it, even if Matt doesn't know all the details... ]

[iustitiae]

She wouldn't have had to, if we hadn't done it in the first place. People dying wasn't her intent, it was just...it was just the consequence of our actions.

[connor believes this. both versions of him. he doesn't want to, but annalise has gotten to him way more than he's wanted.]

[devilsavocado]

And your intent in the first murder wasn't to kill anyone, either. That logic applies to you, too.

[ Matt hasn't even met Annalise and he already hates her. ]

[iustitiae]

Our intent was still to steal. To cause a crime.

[maybe not his tho. but definitely wes and rebecca]

[devilsavocado]

You say "our" intent like you knew what the others were thinking. What was your intent, Connor?

[ Somehow Connor doesn't seem like the kind of kid who'd sneak into a professor's house to steal their data. Or maybe Matt wants to think he isn't. ]

[iustitiae]

It doesn't matter. I still hacked up the body with the rest of them.

[devilsavocado]

[ Guess who's gonna choose now to have selective hearing. ]

If it doesn't matter it's because it wasn't there. You never intended to commit any crimes, didn't you? Did your friends put you up to it?

[iustitiae]

[matt do you want an award]

I could have gone to the police. I could have stopped it, or left, or told them no.

[devilsavocado]

Have you tried going to the police, since then?

[iustitiae]

I lied to them.

[devilsavocado]

What did you tell them?