Week 4, Saturday

[foundationmods]

[As everyone files into the studio once more, they will be invited up on stage instead of to their audience seats as they normally are. On the far left of the stage is a set of 16 chairs, one for each living contestant, arranged in two rows of 8. On the right is a podium for Dazai to stand at, and in the center is a big board with spaces and numbers on it.

Once everyone gets settled in, it's time for the game.]

Comments

slight suicide tw

[odasaku]

...Sit down. Or lay down. I don't care.

[ he'll just...push moriarty in the direction of a couch. ]

If it all goes wrong and the Foundation comes to kill us all, then maybe we can kill each other before it happens.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[He just...goes along with the shoving, sitting down almost mechanically.]

...There would be no point to that, Oda.

[It's tired, but -]

We have missed our chance, and everyone else has suffered for it.

...I am a fool.

[There's a genuine bitterness to his voice when next he speaks, old and deep, venom as he spits out the words.]

...The Napoleon of Crime? A demon, a devil, a Heroic Spirit? No. I am nothing but a pathetic, doddering old man who can do nothing but stand by and watch.

You come to me for a plan? Every Single one of my plans have failed. And at this point, I no longer wish to even try at doing anything else.

...Leave me be. I am no longer 'James Moriarty', not in this damned house.

[odasaku]

[ oda looks at him with an emotionless expression. whatever venom that drips from moriarty's words doesn't cause any visible reaction. when he speaks, his voice is even. ]

"To me, life is one long process of tumbling and turning. I see a human being turning over and over in the same pathetic rounds...And as a writer I go on describing that same person over and over."

....Or so I read, once.

[ he glances to the side, and sighs. ]

As long as you breathe, you're still a person. And, as long as you're a person, you'll go through every trouble that people go through. If you don't wanna be James Moriarty, then that's fine. Take this time to think up who you wanna become.

[ and with that said, he'll walk away. ]

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[He says nothing to that, merely watching as Oda turns and walks away.

When the man is finally away far enough not to hear, he speaks.]

...Your mistake was in assuming I am a person to begin with.

[Because, technically?

He isn't.

He really, really isn't.]