[CONTINUE + 3] week 1 || act: indict

[foundationmods]

[Saturday dawns, bright and early again. No one comes to the Inn, but you feel compelled to go to the Core anyway.

It's as if you're forced to. As if....it's inescapable.

You make the walk past everything, until you are directly in the Core, where some kind of whitish, rainbow-gleaming liquid can be seen below.

In this area, you are led to a wider platform that is still open to the liquid before, with the handrails in place - where there are some seats around, and a familiar face waiting to speak with you.

This...for all of you, it is a familiar sight.

It is a trial location.

You are here to find the killer...and convict one of your own, in a murder that makes no sense.

But you have no choice.

You can only forge ahead....and try to find out the truth.]

VICTIM: YOSHI NANASE
ACT: VOTE

Comments

[soupervillain]

But if I don't tell you, isn't that a lie by omission?

[ugly_split_ends]

W-What?

[soupervillain]

You told me not to tell you I'd care, right? But I would care. So by not saying that, I'd kind of be lying anyway.

[ugly_split_ends]

No you wouldn't!!

[soupervillain]

Don't tell me what I wouldn't! There's only one mind-reader here, and he's dead! So shut your mean person mouth!

[ugly_split_ends]

T-There's only ever been one bully here, and it's you! You don't really care... you're just trying to hurt me by making me think you care! I'm not that stupid and I won't be fooled by someone as idiotic as you!!

[soupervillain]

Hey.

[ Giovanni's voice is suddenly coldly serious. ]

I'm a lot of things. I'm a criminal. I'm an exceptionally skilled knitter. I might be a murderer. But I am not a bully. And unless the whatever-it-is starts possessing me to bring down the weak instead of protecting them, I never will be.

[ugly_split_ends]

Y-You totally are! Y-You're just trying to delude yourself by telling yourself 'Oh, I'm just being kind to the freak!' The result is the same!

[soupervillain]

You know what? You go ahead and think whatever you want.

[ Somehow, this moment has gotten to him more than all the previous insults and furry accusations Fukawa's hurled. He turns away. ]

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[She'll just sigh... in relief? Maybe... maybe not...]

[le_mat]

Fukawa-san, that was too far.

[ugly_split_ends]

Y-You're one to talk! You do the exact same thing!

[le_mat]

Yeah, and I can take having my honor insulted better than Gio can. The guy clearly takes his brand of 'evil' really seriously. You're being a bully.

[ugly_split_ends]

W-What the hell... so I'm supposed to tell him: "Oh! I'm sorry Mr. Yiff! Obviously I'm just too much of a loser to take it seriously when you try to hurt me by b-being 'kind' to me?"

Y-You're the same... I i-insulated myself to being scorned and hated and being bullied l-long ago... so you found a new way by attacking me with your 'kindness'... and I'm supposed to fall for it?!

[le_mat]

Either we're telling the truth and you're being an ass- or you're right and you're sinking to our level.

You lose the victim card when you do the exact same thing back.

1/3

[ugly_split_ends]

S-Sh-Shut up! Shut up, shut up, shut up!!

[She grabs a handful of hair on each side of her head and tugs as she collapses inward, clearly distressed and reeling.]

[ugly_split_ends]

V-Victim card... who the hell wants that... I never wanted or needed it. I just know better! My entire life has been n-nothing but people hating me. S-Scorning me. W-Who cares if I do it preemptively?! Am I really to believe there's a group of people out there who would gladly be my 'f-friend'? That all I had to do was try...? And be c-completely honest about having a s-serial killer as a split personality?!

3/3

[ugly_split_ends]

I-I know what's really going on! I'm being ganged up on, like I always am! "Oh, Fukawa, if only you weren't such a psychological train wreck of a human being, you might have some friends who care about you!" I-Is that supposed to make me happy?? It's not going to change anything, so you lose the ability to say "I'm trying to be friends with you," card!

[homeecspacecop]

Can you just shut up? People here care about you, stop telling them they're being delusional.

[ugly_split_ends]

...

[homeecspacecop]

Giovanni isn't a bully, he's a really sincere person. I know it's hard to believe, I don't even really believe it myself, but stop bullying him for being kind!

[ugly_split_ends]

...He's hurt me.

[lovecolored]

He's like a tiny little yappin' Pomeranian. How did he even hurt you?

[ugly_split_ends]

H-He t-tried to act like he was being k-kind... by telling me "Have you considered therapy, because you're such a garbage human being?"

He didn't say it e-exactly like that, but that's what he said.

[homeecspacecop]

That's because he's the kind of person who runs over people! He doesn't mean to hurt people, he's just sincere and a little wild! It doesn't mean he doesn't care, just that he's reckless!

[He's stupid.]