audience: robin

[mygod]

Comments

[sonorant]

[ NOOOOOOO she was hoping to be ignored.

they're walking towards her, and her little head wings immediately cover her face like that'll hide her. ]

I did not ask for this week to be like this, but if your spirits are better for it, my embarrassment is enough of a price.

[mygod]

[ robin you are so cute ]

You could always tease me back, if you'd like. Though you needn't worry. I won't reject you.

[ even with this week being what it is ]

[sonorant]

Somehow, this wasn't the response I was expecting, but I'll keep it in mind.

[mygod]

[ laughs ]

It seems to be a trend lately. Though I don't see a point in rejecting non-existent advances, funny as the situation becomes.

[ sweet robin is spared ]

[sonorant]

I agree although not about it's amusement factor, but I didn't expect you'd invite teasing in return.

[ someday, someone will reject robin unprompted or prompted. ]

[mygod]

No?

I don't particularly care what people think of me, though banter is more worthwhile than dealing with droves of personal questions.

[sonorant]

I felt like you preferred to be left alone, more than wanting to entertain questions or banter, but if the opportunity arises, I won't let it go.

[mygod]

Hmmm...

In order of preferences, I would rather be left alone. If that is impossible, I will take productive conversation, or amusing company. I dislike the personal questions and annoying, repetitive nonsense the most.

[sonorant]

I'll take that as a small victory. Although I would imagine being an overseer to us would lend itself to a lot of repetitive, if not annoying, nonsense.

[mygod]

Yes.

[ just yes ]

However, I'll fulfill my responsibility. I would rather follow through than leave you all without answers. Context for your experience is the least that you're owed.

[sonorant]

I appreciate that you do. We are owed quite a bit for all that we've had to experience.

[mygod]

You could always try to take revenge on the big cult at the end of all this, if you think that would be satisfying.

Or is that too violent for your tastes?

[sonorant]

It depends on how the revenge is done. It doesn't have to be violent to be effective. If what's most important to you isn't your life, it wouldn't be the best revenge.

[ she shakes her head. ]

But I'm not much for vengeance in the long run.

[mygod]

Oh? Then when you say that the lot of you here are "owed" something for what you've been through, what do you have in mind?

[sonorant]

Even if we are owed, does that mean we'll receive it? We should be compensated for our suffering, but is there anything that could even make up for it? Can we gain our time, our lives, our friends back? Can we receive an assurance this will never happen again?

I don't want to deceive myself. Revenge often makes people emptier, and I would prefer to be fuller.

[mygod]

I ask not in the realm of reality—if it was that, I would not ask for your opinion when you don't get to decide what becomes of all this.

[ shrugs ]

I was merely curious.

[sonorant]

Is that enough allusion to what I wish for? Time, life, security.

[ as a start. ]

I'd like to save people from your cult. I'd like to save your cult from itself.

[mygod]

[ tilts head ]

You would seek to offer salvation to even the people who put you in this situation?

[sonorant]

Yes.

[ famine asked for even the impossible, and this is the impossibility she acknowledges. ]

I don't forgive them. I won't exonerate them, but I would save them. It will never happen, and I accept that.

[ some people can't be saved, and she acknowledges that, too. ]

[mygod]

Some people will refuse salvation even when the hand of it reaches out.

[ that said

famine shrugs ]

... we aren't in disagreement. Most cults are just a few corrupt people taking advantage of the desperate.

[sonorant]

I know. Some people don't wish to be saved, but that doesn't mean I don't wish for them to be saved, too.

Would you say that some of your cult members are being taken advantage of?

[mygod]

More generosity than some people deserve.

[ simply, but it's not a particularly condescending answer. they don't fault her for it. ]

But yes. Of course. They are people who want a wish, who seek something that they cannot grant themselves. That is the definition of a person easily taken advantage of.

[sonorant]

It's a little tragic, but it's also too selfish.

[mygod]

It's not surprising for people. They're often self-serving.

[sonorant]

They can be, but it's not everyone. That's why there's always hope.

I know the chances are low that the cult members will see they're being taken advantage of, but it'd make it easier if they were open to the thought.