GAME OVER (S██'s Palace)

[pointzeropercent]

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[prozaic]

[Oop-- time to run to the source of the yelling! Might even make a dynamic entry if he can.]

[pointzeropercent]

[They reach the classroom, and the door slides open.

It is indeed Teal and Magenta arguing, though the argument might be one-sided as Magenta is definitely the more aggressive one. He's screaming at Teal, who's covering his head with his arms and flinching away from it. Though don't doubt Teal either, even though he looks scared he's still yelling back.]

That moment of weakness is why we died! We could have continued our plan and just gotten Kanna voted out! Then we would have survived!

She's our sister! I couldn't let her die like that!

We barely knew her!

She's family!

Our family is Mom and Dad! She has her own family now!

[It seems like they're arguing about how they died. Definitely the perfect time to interrupt.]

[beathollow]

You loved her enough to die for her regardless.

( even if he regrets it on some level. )

[prozaic]

[Shalem is just going to go and grab a chair to put in between them. Slamming it on the floor in between them, in fact.]

That's enough.

[metagame]

Does your own survival only matter to you..?

[pointzeropercent]

[Both Teal and Magenta are startled by the sudden introduction of the chair, breaking up their argument.

Magenta will respond to Mafuyu, though he's stopped yelling thanks to Interrupting Shalem.]

Tch! If we had really loved her, we would have prevented all of this in the first place. But we were too lax and didn't consider the possibility that Kanna would be acting nervous for reasons beyond getting the Sacrifice card.

[Teal will likewise respond to Atem.]

Well...he probably carries most of our sense of self-preservation, so it makes sense that he's like that.

[Even now, he's being charitable to Magenta.]

[prozaic]

[He'll leave the talking and negotiating to others-- Shalem is just going to stand here where he slammed the chair down, and is drumming his fingers on the backrest. He's just going to be intimidating (12), to keep Magenta from losing it at Teal again.]

[pointzeropercent]

[With a 15+3, Magenta doesn't look that intimidated. But with a 1-3, Teal does. He actually looks so scared that he ducks down to avoid getting hit by anything.

Magenta just looks at Shalem while gesturing at Teal like "you see this shit?"]

[prozaic]

[Just raises an eyebrow at Magenta, unimpressed. His intimidation sucks atp, honestly, what can you do when these people have already seen you die multiple times.]

[pointzeropercent]

[lmao yeah, Magena saw you die already dude.]

[beathollow]

And how would you have done that in a game that is actively stacked against you?

[pointzeropercent]

I would have found a way. That's why I exist: to do the things he couldn't.

['he' being Teal here.]

[beathollow]

But you didn't. You fought a losing battle for two people, and you know it. And now you're torn up about it, literally, or we wouldn't be speaking to two of you right now.

[pointzeropercent]

The only reason I didn't succeed is because he intervened at the end! I can't be blamed for his actions!

[beathollow]

( internally )

It was still you. And what would you have done if she had died, Shin?

[pointzeropercent]

[Magenta seems to react pretty violently to that, flinging a table across the room. Teal flinches away from it too, like he can sense what's coming before it happens.]

That is not my name!

[metagame]

Yet you believe it a lie, do you not? Your guilt was obvious. If you truly embraced your identity as Sou Hiyori... you wouldn't have faltered.

[pointzeropercent]

I'm not the one who faltered! Everything would have been fine if he hadn't intervened! Just look at him!

[Teal is in fact sobbing quietly on the other side of the room. He hates confrontation.]

Do you think he would have survived even a second in there on his own?!

[metagame]

Why must he do it alone?

[He tilts his head.]

I was in your position once... The angry half of a broken whole. I once saw tears as weakness, too...

We are separated now... That better half of me walks on his own legs elsewhere.

But he's capable of much more than you think. Did he not outsmart you until now? Does he not temper your anger toward better goals?

[pointzeropercent]

Oh? You think he was outsmarting me? You didn't think for a second that I knew where all of you were this whole time, or that I could shut this whole thing down if I wanted to?

I let you get this far for a reason, after all.

[metagame]

And what reason is that?

[beathollow]

Because being the man who put you in this situation to begin with is better? Is it? Is it really?

( its telling how mad she is that she doesn't flinch and instead steps closer. )

[pointzeropercent]

[Magenta does not react to this. If he notices her resolve, he doesn't show it.]

I wasn't the one who chose that name, you know. He did. I'm just sticking to the name I was given.

[beathollow]

( bluntly: )

And you're both stupid for it.

So I'll ask again: What would you have done if she had died?

[pointzeropercent]

Watched her die, then killed everyone else there myself.

[He seems serious about this answer.]