Resistance Meeting 4: Live Free or Resist Hard

[clearasmud]

[ Early Saturday morning, long before the meeting could reasonably be expected to take place, there's a fresh note slipped under everyone's doors:

Please bring as many letters from the Conductor as you saved. Not only yours, but those of the deceased, if you have them/COULD find them. We NEED to compile what we know.

In the hopes of easing any understandable reluctance, every letter brought grants you the right to hear one of my secrets/embarrassing stories at your leisure.

Wow, that must have been a pain to write 10 times... let alone 26, just in case anyone else has been playing musical rooms. Or maybe Youko had insomnia last night. Who knows? What matters is that she'll be in the Conference Room from 9AM onwards, nursing a cup of that Anteiku Coffee and writing things sporadically into a notebook from time to time. She's... also still wearing Logan's spare goddamn clothes, because apparently that is going to be a thing.

But hey: at least there's two large plates piled with biscuits/cookies and the fancy candies from the kitchen! As well as 11 plates because we are not savages, oh my god. ]

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[blazeit]

[ Bakugou has too many letters full of questionably useless stuff. That's why he compiled this script of all his letters so far.

......... Yeah, the sad thing is how much that actually gets rid of a startling amount of bullshit his letter correspondences have entailed. ]

[oftheland]

...

It sounds like the two of you have had a good time getting to know each other.

[blazeit]

Yeah, I bet I'm his favorite person to write back.

[ His expression practically screams: "heheheheheheheh" ]

If it weren't for all the death and killing, he'd be kind of a fun guy to talk to.

[oftheland]

Oh, I definitely agree. He seems like the kind of person I'd come to like if it weren't for... all this.

["all this" meaning "fucking over people he's come to like," not the death and killing part]

[blazeit]

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, he seems like the kind of sick fuck who would fit right in with our particular group of sick fucks. I guess that's why he says we remind him of his old coworkers, though.

[oftheland]

...it's true. As much as I have some amount of fondness for everyone here, I have to admit that there are definitely some of them I could see being even worse if they were in the same position as the Conductor...

[blazeit]

... I hadn't thought of it like that before, but it's true. He's not totally unreasonable and is at least mostly okay to talk to. The only annoying part is when he says "I'm not going to answer that", and even then that's better than being straight-up lied to.

[oftheland]

I think the message we need to take away from this is "Some people really shouldn't be given power over life and death, even if they're pretty decent otherwise."

[blazeit]

Especially not some guy who kills people his own sister would rather not be dead. Because he was bored.

[oftheland]

Well, sometimes your own desires can be a bit... at odds with your family members' desires, and that's completely understandable. Although... this is going a bit far, I think.

[clearasmud]

Maybe he killed them because she didn't want them dead. Because he wanted to see how she'd react.

It's probably not an important thing, I know - but if I'm right, then we certainly have a little more insight into his character. It's a more... idiosyncratic thing than just happening to kill people she'd rather stay alive.

[clearasmud]

You did excellently, Katsuki.

[ It's obvious Youko is trying to sound proud and generally Fine, but. Something about Bakugou's notes have quietly stressed her the fuck out.

It's a pretty good attempt, to be fair! Maybe it'll even work. ]

[blazeit]

[ NICE TRY YOUKO ]

Something about them bothering you?

[clearasmud]

...What if you make a guess, and then quietly tell me what you think it might be... son?

[ do or die, kid. either show her how well you know your foxmom or drop it. ]

[blazeit]

Either it's something that could concern us all, in which case you'd better say so now... Or it's something personal, in which case it can wait. So which is it?

[clearasmud]

[ "-in which case it can wait."

Implying he would ask her again later. Out of pure concern.

...

Softly: ]

I don't know. Are there even any other proper nonhumans left...?

[ Youko sounds almost... defeated. Sad. ]

[blazeit]

Uh, well yeah. We have Pokémon.

[clearasmud]

[ . . . ]

I meant participants.

[ ... ]

They weren't turned into humans, anyway.

[blazeit]

How would I know. Kaneki didn't look like a non-human.

[sunsong]

I never wrote the guy, since I just use the phones, but he told me about his sister, too.

for real this time

[blazeit]

Huh... what'd he say about her? I guess she's his only important family, but it's kind of weird that he talks about her so much if she's not involved with all of this...

[sunsong]

Nah, it wasn't weird. I asked about it. He said he's the older brother by several years, but they were never that close.

[blazeit]

Huh... he said to Jean and me that she's the only one he considers family, though.

... It's going to be weird as hell if his sister isn't relevant to anything here whatsoever and we just randomly know some stuff about her anyway.

[sunsong]

Uh, let me think...I mean from the wordin', he said that she probably never saw him that way, or somethin'...? Geeze, maybe there's an upside to letters after all.

[ #THE ONLY PERSON TO ONLY USE THE PHONES? ]

[blazeit]

Wow, that's harsh. I mean, he probably deserves it, but to not see him as family from the very start?

I wonder if he'd tell us what her name is...