Day 2: The Motives

[pandatrash]

[Your first "chillaxin day" comes and goes. No exits are found, no help has come, no real explanations are given. But all of a sudden, the tablets reboot and start showing... a spreadsheet. Well, that's something, at least.]

[Tycoon is out in full force today, dashing up to everyone he meets and handing each of them a cute envelope with their name written on the front in crayon. If they should look inside, they'll find their murder carrot written there, as well as, "FOR YOUR EYES ONLY." If your character is one of the ones who has no bribe for which they would kill an innocent person, they will instead find a picture of dickbutt, but with their own face crudely drawn on it, and helpful "DIS U" with an arrow, just in case the point was missed.]

((🔪 Setting
🔪 If you haven't filled out the character list and IC profiles yet, please do that. Until those are done, we have the aforementioned spreadsheet the raccoons are still fixing their tablet software, okay).
🔪 Trust sheets are due Sunday, 6pm PST
🔪If you decide to drop but would like to play out a death scene, you can comment here to volunteer to die.
🔪 We had two last-minute drops: Hiyoko, who did not intro, and Kaito, who would like to retcon having intro'd. The original sign still said 32... well, lbr, raccoons aren't that good at counting.

SOME THREAD LINKS:
McGonagall gives a speech
Oops the library is on fire))

Comments

[afailedmurder]

[you're not the boss of me!!]

It's not mutually exclusive.

[purrtagonist]

[he'll get a spray bottle don't think he won't!!]

No, but one does tend to shine more than the other in moments like this.

[afailedmurder]

[hmmmph]

...It wasn't worth having to listen to all these pathetic cowards whine about it.

[purrtagonist]

[. . . a snort, and he flicks some foam from his fingers to the ground]

I guess if you were going to burn anything, the library was the best bet.

[with all of those nosy, stalker books existing, and all that]

Speaking of, did you-- [gestures at a pile of ashes] -- with our book, too?

[afailedmurder]

As with many other things, it's more "your" book than "ours," though it doesn't mention either of us by name. I'd kept it safe because I hadn't finished reading it yet... but Dazai snatched it while I had my hands full.

[ W H O O P S ]

[purrtagonist]

[a h]

[damn it Akechi you burned down ALMOST THE ENTIRE LIBRARY and you couldn't have taken their book down with it!1]

[DEEP SIGH]

I'll take care of it.

Meanwhile, we need to find you a less dangerous but equally as destructive way of expressing your frustration.

[does such a thing even exist]

[afailedmurder]

I don't suppose you have any suggestions...?

[please tell him what to kill, it's been like three days since anyone has done that for him]

[purrtagonist]

[WE ARE NOT KILLING ANYTHING IT'S TIME TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF]

[anyway, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a fancy paper snowflake created from both a motive envelope and a motive piece of paper]

Arts and crafts.

[. . . this is symbolic he swears]

[afailedmurder]

...Seriously?

[where is Sakamoto when I need a "for real"]

[purrtagonist]

[someone play the "sakamoto_forreal.wav" soundbite]

I'll explain in a second.

[folds the paper up and slips it back into his pockett]

We should get out of here first, though. [the fire's out but there's still ash and shit everywhere] Are you okay?

[afailedmurder]

I'm fine.

[not really, he's singed and smokey and at some point he got into a book-throwing fight with Kaiba. but he's ready to leave, at any rate]

[purrtagonist]

[children, why]

Kitchen.

[and he gestures for Akechi to follow as he makes his way there. his shoes are squishing as he walks because. . . foam]

[afailedmurder]

Right.

[following along, squish squish squish]

[purrtagonist]

[SQUISH SQUISH SQUISH]

[once they get there, Akira lays his glasses on the counter and gets to work, fetching a glass of water and a damp dish towel and clumps of ice from the freezer wrapped in a dry dish towel. that last one is for the bruises from Kaiba]

Did you get into a fight. . .?

[afailedmurder]

Kaiba and I had a difference of opinion.

[purrtagonist]

Over the library, I'm assuming.

[plops the ice pack and the damp towel on the counter in front of Akechi while simultaneously sliding him the glass of water]

[afailedmurder]

Naturally. Of course, there were several others who disagreed with my actions as well...

[goes for the towel first, cleanliness is next to godliness]

But there's a difference between someone who can express concerns rationally and someone who needs to build himself up on the backs of others, wouldn't you say? The latter being nothing more than a pissant bully.

[purrtagonist]

[you need a shower buddy]

Believe me, I agree. But also, in this case?

You set the library on fire.

[JUST. . . JUST SAYING]

[you probably sent a lot of people into a blind panic Akechi!!]

[afailedmurder]

I know, I know...

[Once he's mopped up a little, he goes for the ice pack, pressing it awkwardly up against his face.]

Letting loose in the real world isn't as satisfying as I'd have hoped.

[purrtagonist]

Sometimes, it isn't.

[personal experience, here]

Everyone has an opinion on what you do, solicited or not.

[afailedmurder]

Of course I know that. I'm only worried about what people think of me every single minute of my waking day.

[shooting him a lopsided grin, as if that were a joke]

But you never let the opinions of the public hold you back. So why should I?

[do you ever get the feeling Akechi admires you for exactly all the wrong reasons?]

[purrtagonist]

[. . . at this very point in time, absolutely]

You shouldn't. But that doesn't mean you should burn the bridges between yourself and the rest of the world. Nobody can survive completely alone.

[HE HAS A LOT OF THOUGHTS ON THIS. . .]

And there's a difference between harnessing your anger as a weapon against an unjust system that should be torn to the ground, and letting it run wild so it burns everyone caught in its path.

[afailedmurder]

I can. I have. If I hadn't been so desperate for people to like me, or so obsessed with Shido, or if I could have just left you alone — wouldn't I be better off right now?

[he, too, has a lot of thoughts on this, even if all of them are kinda dumb and bad]

And that's easy for you to say, but going psychotic is my power. It's the only worthwhile power I have. Or should I say had?

[purrtagonist]

[buddy!!]

Do you really think that's all it would've taken? That loneliness and isolation isn't the whole reason you fell into that obsession with Shido in the first place?

[if only we had met a few years earlier--]

That was how you handled things then. Who's to say you can't take this opportunity to make different choices?

[afailedmurder]

[deflates, because he damn well knows it's true]

Of course it was. But even if I meet somebody like you, I'm just making your life worse. Maybe I wasn't supposed to be around people to begin with. Maybe... my strength is in doing the things that you can't.