Trash Squad Day 11 - SECRETS

[chinhotta]

Are you ready for it?! It's the long awaited final event! This is your last chance to get close before your final dates and the final bonus event!

And, back by popular demand, it's the motive vi—wait, no, not that. Well, I guess you're motivated to build your relationships? That's better anyway.

...Anyway! Check your tablets! You will find you have a few interesting video files! They should be familiar to you! The catch is... if you don't share each one with a different person by nighttime today, they will all be shown to everyone here! We'll have a fun midnight viewing party!

This may seem a bit cruel, but... love is cruel sometimes. Take it as an opportunity to get a bit closer to the people you care about, or everyone will learn a bit more about you! It's win-win when you think about it that way!

[ On your tablets are a minimum of 3 video files! There is no maximum; it's however many you OOCly want to deal with. Each video contains some sort of secret your character has—'secret' loosely defined as anything they would be uncomfortable being thrown up on a big screen in the auditorium in front of everyone. The presentation can be as simple as lines of text with embarrassing facts (Alice wet the bed until she was in junior high!) or as involved as a dramatically edited montage of the murders they committed through their whole life. Your choice!

Each file should be shown to a different person to count as 'shared'. If there is anything they do not manage to, or choose not to, share with someone in particular, comment with a brief description of it over here. These will all be shared publicly in a post which goes up on Thursday before the date announcement post. ]

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Comments

[truthstranger]

You don't want me to see them?

[afailedmurder]

I don't mean to hide anything from you, but knowing about something and seeing it are two very different things.

[truthstranger]

Maybe, but it wouldn't change anything, you know. That is... it wouldn't change my opinion of you.

[afailedmurder]

Since it's you, that may well be true... but what do you think I was like during my darker moments?

[truthstranger]

Much different than you are now, I'm sure.

[afailedmurder]

All the same, do you really want to see the expression on my face while I'm destroying someone's psyche?

[truthstranger]

I don't want to, but... if someone needs to see it, I know that's not you now, so...

[afailedmurder]

Okay. Thank you. I'd... like to take a little more time before showing anyone.

[truthstranger]

That's fair.

Ah... do you want to watch mine, then?

[afailedmurder]

Yes, of course. I'll watch whatever you like.

[truthstranger]

Mm, then here. I mentioned it before, but... like you say, seeing it is a bit different.

[ He cues up the video and passes the tablet to him.

The video opens with a helpful title card. At the climax of the 53rd killing game, Shuichi Saihara saw this video about how he got there! After that, it shows his audition video. ]

[afailedmurder]

[more curious than anything]

...Well, that's definitely not you now.

[truthstranger]

...Yes. If it's even real, my personality would have been completely rewritten since then... but that's the only hint I have of who I might have been, before.

[afailedmurder]

I know it must be difficult to cope with, but isn't that for the best? I've always been a little envious of your clean break from the past.

[truthstranger]

...It's not that I really wanted to break from the past. The killing games, and all that, yes, but... I had friends, hobbies, things I liked and disliked... mm, it's just hard, sometimes. To not know if anything was real... to have to figure out everything about myself from scratch. It's more like I just have no past.

[afailedmurder]

I know. I don't mean to make light of it.

[truthstranger]

...It's fine. There's not... much to be done about it, anyway.

[afailedmurder]

At least we got you out of there.

[pauses]

On that note... there's something I've been needing to talk to you about. Something I learned from Tatsuya during our date.

[truthstranger]

Ah... Kitagawa-kun mentioned something, also, though I didn't... get many details.

[afailedmurder]

I don't mean to be alarming... but the world may be ending.

[truthstranger]

There's basically no way that couldn't be alarming...

[but he mostly just sounds wry, since, in fact, Yusuke mentioned that before in a way less tactful way]

How... exactly? Why?

[afailedmurder]

We have a much bigger problem with gods and demons than I initially realized. The Phantom Thieves managed to stop one, but the world has already ended once in my lifetime, and there's a whole alternate dimension full of the things right outside our normal perception. There's no reason to believe the things we went through are isolated incidents. Quite to the contrary, I believe it could happen again at any time.

[if only he knew the next installment was just gonna be a dancing game]

[truthstranger]

...That... does sound worrying. You all went through a lot. And Suoh-kun did too, right?

[afailedmurder]

Yes...

I can't promise something like that won't happen again. I don't know if I'll be able to protect you if it does. We ought to have some kind of plan in place.

[truthstranger]

A plan... for the end of the world?