No, that was a joke. I think I can get them to turn on their boss because the Navarch has no control over her own narrative. She's hands-off and that means we can shape what the conception of her is.
If I can get one the rest will become so much easier...
Jeez, that's sneaky. Some of them are a lot more into being wardens than you think, though. I don't know if they'll care about the Navarch when they're looking for a chance to go all mall cop.
If they accept that we're people and that we don't deserve this, that it's actually hurting significantly and not helping anything or anyone, blah blah blah, then they'd have to feel guilty about it. You and I, we're guilt. They'd do anything to shut us up, if we really got threatening. Like, not physically threatening? I mean ego threatening.
The first ones to crack won't be the people who think of themselves as ethical, even though what we're appealing to is ethics. Or, well, I am. It'll be the ones that not-subtly-at-all hate themselves. We're not going to rock their shit that hard by saying they're the bad guys here. Self-loathing makes you emotionally stable, honestly. It keeps you hungry.
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Waver actually wasn't a bad choice, considering that. Sorry, I've had basically nothing to do but think about this.
[Travis thinks there isn't a chance in the universe any of these motherfuckers feels an iota of guilt over cuffing him to furniture or throwing him in solitary. Maybe endless griping and existential distress is a better approach after all.
... Nah, just wrapping his head around a lot of this is making him antsy.
Except that one bit:]
Self-loathing makes you emotionally stable? That's the most ass-backwards thing I've ever heard.
Also, Waver has a hidden dark side. Motherfucker shot me point blank in the face with the stun gun.
I'm fine NOW, yeah. I don't remember anything that happened between getting shot and waking up in solitary, though, so maybe it killed a few brain cells. Just saying, though, takes a certain kind of person to take this work.
Okay, obviously in his position I wouldn't have shot you either way, I think nobody should shoot anyone, but did you happen to be beating the shit out of him at the time by chance?
[Not a medical expert or anything, but if Travis hasn't had anything weird after a week he probably doesn't have... whatever it is tasers can do to your heart. Volk hasn't had search engines in so long.]
We need you in for the long haul, apparently.
Fuck me, I can't believe we're in space. This is going to be a nightmare to pull off. Did you get Lucifer back?
Yeah, bro, we're in space. It'll be hard but at least we can go anywhere, right? It'd be a nightmare if we were trapped on a planet with no way to get off.
[A fact he accepts readily because it seems ridiculous to deny it when he would love nothing more than to fly around space in an 80s gundam. This is the closest he'll ever get.]
And nah, not yet. I gotta wait for an opening. He's got all those powers, right? I wanna figure out if the stun guns work on him. Anyone tell you that I had the gun for a bit back there? I couldn't get it to fire. There's something up with it.
Doubt Rhys gave a shit about anything that happened beyond his own [busted :)] nose, anyway, so it's not like he'd be able to tell you shit. But yeah. Could've been a lot worse.
Goodbye? Jeez. Wardens are supposed to be getting us out of here, though, right? If they want their deals, we shouldn't be saying goodbye to shit. [Do they not buy it either?]
I would have. I asked - I don't think they're going to. I don't think they can.
I think they're as trapped as we are, in some ways. Doesn't mean I like collaborators. Doesn't mean I'm not thinking about what I want to die doing, if that's where this road we're on goes.
[On his side of the turned-off camera, he glances down at the ruby shoes.]
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If they accept that we're people and that we don't deserve this, that it's actually hurting significantly and not helping anything or anyone, blah blah blah, then they'd have to feel guilty about it. You and I, we're guilt. They'd do anything to shut us up, if we really got threatening. Like, not physically threatening? I mean ego threatening.
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Waver actually wasn't a bad choice, considering that. Sorry, I've had basically nothing to do but think about this.
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... Nah, just wrapping his head around a lot of this is making him antsy.
Except that one bit:]
Self-loathing makes you emotionally stable? That's the most ass-backwards thing I've ever heard.
Also, Waver has a hidden dark side. Motherfucker shot me point blank in the face with the stun gun.
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[Love that!]
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[Backing off.]
So you chose to let him shoot you?
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One more and I'll drop it, promise. Do you feel alright? Headaches, weird heartbeat?
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[Not a medical expert or anything, but if Travis hasn't had anything weird after a week he probably doesn't have... whatever it is tasers can do to your heart. Volk hasn't had search engines in so long.]
We need you in for the long haul, apparently.
Fuck me, I can't believe we're in space. This is going to be a nightmare to pull off. Did you get Lucifer back?
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[A fact he accepts readily because it seems ridiculous to deny it when he would love nothing more than to fly around space in an 80s gundam. This is the closest he'll ever get.]
And nah, not yet. I gotta wait for an opening. He's got all those powers, right? I wanna figure out if the stun guns work on him. Anyone tell you that I had the gun for a bit back there? I couldn't get it to fire. There's something up with it.
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Crowns, this ...honestly, the fact that everybody's alive is better than I was thinking.
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You think they'd get in trouble for killing us?
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I doubt it.
... William. Mm. I asked to be able to contact my family, and William asked if I wanted to say goodbye.
[it had been kind, but it -
He's having a hard time. With it.]
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Goodbye? Jeez. Wardens are supposed to be getting us out of here, though, right? If they want their deals, we shouldn't be saying goodbye to shit. [Do they not buy it either?]
You gonna take him up on his offer?
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I think they're as trapped as we are, in some ways. Doesn't mean I like collaborators. Doesn't mean I'm not thinking about what I want to die doing, if that's where this road we're on goes.
[On his side of the turned-off camera, he glances down at the ruby shoes.]