week 5 - execution

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the pygmalion. . . ONLINE CAPTAIN'S LOG: WEEK (5)

sunday EXECUTION (32) survivors As voting comes to an end, a song filters in played so loud that it becomes distored and fragmented. If a participant checks their datapad, they will see the the victim and suspect chosen by majority's pictures displayed. If they attempt to scroll, they will see a list of characters and their votes in alphabetical order.

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[mnasthai]

Yes.

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[Here we go]

Okay, the reveal is that it's no big mystery at all:

You are eight years old. If I had to guess, you're an artificial person, not meant to exist. An abomination created in an evil laboratory for a reason you wouldn't ever have control of. Who you are, what you exist for, all that is something your creator or creators input on you, so you achieve it.

How you do it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who gets involved in it, too. Hell, for all I know some innocent kid got their DNA taken to create you, that's the most likely option.

So yes, you were created and released into the world as no more than a puppet with no thoughts of your own, and no more goal than following someone else's orders.

[Shrug]

I knew it for several weeks already, but I thought...I thought you wouldn't take well the truth, if that was accurate. I didn't...want to hurt...someone I liked.

[Okay, yes, she's starting to cry now. God damn it. But yes, everything she said is from her own experience, because she saw it happen herself, and she knew the consequences of all that. She even was the donor of the DNA]

[mnasthai]

...

Don't talk to me like you know me, don't talk to me like Trinity. [ The one person who maybe could have saved him from his fate, but it's all too late now.

And then he laughs, but there's no real joy in it, as he's laughing at himself.]

I failed Terumi, so it doesn't matter if I die. [ He may actually be genuinely upset at this too, for what little of his heart there's left.]

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[When Shelley sees Kazuma refuses to listen, she loses control over her feelings a bit more. She's screaming now, not caring who was listening or what she was going to say now]

The reason why those beasts were attacking you is because it was obvious to others that you shouldn't exist! They were trying to kill you to stop you! Back at your home you're no more than a kid whose creators don't care a little bit about, and who other people want to see dead at all costs!

You're an error that shouldn't exist, and that needs to be destroyed! And look at that, it's finally achieved! They won, and you brought your own doom on yourself! They triumphed over you and this 'Terumi' guy you failed to, all because you were too stupid and useless to get away with it!

[There are a lot of things Shelley wouldn't say if she were in her right mind, but she's way too angry to think her own words]

Maybe it was even useless to try to change it! It must have been useless to try to give you some other reason to exist! All people like you are good for, created to do someone else's dirty job, is to get killed in the worst way possible!

[mnasthai]

[ ... ]

I didn't want- I didn't want anything to do with it! [ And now he's yelling too because he's genuinely upset. And it's just him talking, without the shadow of Terumi overlapped on his mind.]

What was I supposed to do?!? They just kept attacking me and I didn't want anything to do with it at all. I didn't want to just die, I didn't want to just be useless. They all pushed me... what else was I supposed to do?

I'm stupid, I'm weak and I'm no good at magic compared to everyone else. So I did what they thought I was doing anyway, I betrayed them all. Even Trinity who I trusted was spying on me for Nine, so what did it matter if I nearly killed her? They all never liked me anyway.

And I was close, I was so close... [ His head is his hands, and he's shaking because this all a bit too much despite what face he showed prior. If she was to look closely, she would see he's crying too.]

[tacklefordwhimsy]

[Oh god, he's crying. Shelley feels a pang of guilt, but she fights it. She really is going to try not to feel bad for Kazuma, not after all this. In a way, she's satisfied he's upset. That's what she wanted]

Whatever. I'm done. Have a nice death, Kazuma.

[The last ten minutes have been really taxing for Shelley, and once she's far enough the rage she was feeling fades away. This hurts way too much. This spaceship is the worst experience of her life, definitely]

[mnasthai]

[ Ultimately when it came down to it, he was just scared. When faced with death, he chose the only option he thought he had, to ally with the mysterious man who offered him everything he ever wanted.

Even if he could go back and change things, he wouldn't. It was too late now anyway. The Kazuma he was before he met Terumi was gone, and there was no point fighting himself anymore.

Her words hurt, but it reaches a point where it just snaps him back to where he was before. Yes, people like her were exactly why he acted the way he did. He calls to her as he leaves, the vitriol dripping from his voice.]

You'll get what's coming to you too, for being so foolish and naive.