audience: cloud

[mygod]

Comments

[residentmerc]

Think in her case it's just her being polite.

[ also her being a private person and cloud not being a gossipy bitch, a very funny mix. he raises an eyebrow and the emotion is judgment sorry ]

They seriously went to you to decide punishments too? [ can't these guys do anything by themselves!!!! he's mean sorry ]

[egodist]

[ no scien feels the same way. the emotion is disturbed flashbacks to mountains and mountains of work ]

Right? Like I wasn't rebuilding a system of government after a coup and making up for the lack of doctors after half the population died.

[residentmerc]

I'm starting to get why you left the way you did. They were never trying to think of a way on how to work without you, were they?

[ which is. foolish. they are now two assholes being judgmental ]

[egodist]

No.

[ just. no. ]

They got used to it because they thought I was going to live forever, but that doesn't interest me. Also who wants to be doing paperwork forever...

[residentmerc]

Why are you even doing paperwork if they're making you decide everything.

[ he says that but in the tone of even the great sephiroth did paperwork... paperwork is inevitable.... ]

[egodist]

I ask this all the time. Why is it that even when I re-design systems, they insist on paperwork? What do you need my signature for? I'm the one who told you to write the damn report, I obviously sign off on it.

[ THE TIRED SOUL OF A BUREAUCRAT WHO DIDN'T WANT TO BE ONE ]

[residentmerc]

[ ok well there is amusement at his suffering there. sorry. hes not sorry and neither am i but sorry ]

Yeah, but they need triple the signature to make sure you know they did their job and they can get a gold star. [ mean. but: ] ... Least you probably haven't had to read paperwork here.

[ PROBABLY? ]

[egodist]

The second they ask me for a seal on something, I'm leaving you all behind.

[ his emotions are a dead giveaway that he would fucking never



but it's distantly tempting ]

[residentmerc]

Damn. There go my requests to get your seal of approval on redecorating plans.

[ this is clearly very serious. so serious. 100% serious ]

[egodist]

Why? So they could have two useless opinions instead of one?

[ neither he nor cloud would be useful at all for redecorating my god ]

[residentmerc]

Isn't that the whole point of paperwork?

[ having multiple useless opinions??? ]

[egodist]

Most of the time.

People just like to feel busy to fill something in their lives, I guess.

[residentmerc]

Or they want things to happen slower. Something like that.

[ the vibe of someone who hasn't had to do paperwork in [mumbles] years because he was the experiment being written about ]

[egodist]

[ ugh

there's a spike of annoyance ]

The enemy of progress.

[residentmerc]

Bureaucracy?

[egodist]

Mm.

Well, their problem now.