sea witch + captain hook trauma game

[oceansflower]

[everything sucks.]

TK. . .

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[lifeistooshort]

Food, gemstones. . . hell, you could offer to design a dress for that mermaid chick.

[oceansflower]

Why not! I could do a different pirate outfit for the pirate guy, too. Even though they don't deserve it.

[lifeistooshort]

And then we could offer to do favors of them, too! Swab their stupid pirate decks and tend to their stupid mermaid gardens.

[oceansflower]

And offering to find the mermaid lady's frogs! She lost them on the boat.

[lifeistooshort]

Are they still lost?

[oceansflower]

I don't know, but if she lost them once, she'd probably lose them again!

[lifeistooshort]

Okay! So we have gemstones, Apollo's cooking, new clothes, favors, and an offer to find lost frogs.

Think that's enough?

[oceansflower]

It's all a lot of work, isn't it? So it had better be.

[lifeistooshort]

It will be!

[. . . and now for the tough choice]

[oceansflower]

[... Yeah, and now for the tough choice.

Getting up and going over to Ed and just hugging him.]

[lifeistooshort]

[. . . ????]

Marine?

[oceansflower]

Just shut up and let me hug you!

[lifeistooshort]

[. . . yeah k. hugs her back sssssuper awkwardly, like. he doesn't even know how to hug]

[oceansflower]

[at least you're letting her do it '^']

I'm really scared.

[lifeistooshort]

Don't be.

Don't give them the fear they want from us, Marine.

[oceansflower]

[silent for a bit, but then she takes a deep breath.]

Then I won't be.

[lifeistooshort]

[knows very well that that doesn't change anything, but not pressing the issue any further]

I'll do it.

[oceansflower]

You'll do what?

[she knows, but. . . she still can't help asking.]

[lifeistooshort]

If it's not enough. I'll do it.

I hate shitty self-sacrifice decisions like this. But I'll still do it.

[oceansflower]

No.

[there's a long pause before she says the next part]

. . . If you do it, I'm doing it too. Being the one left behind would be terrible, and they'll probably love the reactions the people alive are going to have.

[lifeistooshort]

Stupid. Isn't the point of this to make sure we live?

[oceansflower]

[ugh, silent again for a bit]

It is, but. . . TK, they're making us bargain for our lives. We shouldn't have to bargain for something that's already ours! Doing what they want, and only choosing one person to die is just giving them what they want. It's playing by the stupid rules they've made up.

[lifeistooshort]

I don't want to play by their dumb rules any more than you do, Marine! But I refuse to let there be more casualties than necessary to get through this!

[oceansflower]

I hate this self-sacrifice thing too, okay? But I still don't want to give them what they want. I don't want to live because someone died to save me! I don't want to live because we bargained away our freedom. I don't want any of that!

[lifeistooshort]

[PREACH IT SISTER]

. . . ha! Our freedom, is it? That's what they're taking from us. . .? Our freedom to live our lives damn well the way we want to, without having them held over our heads like a carrot for a goddamn horse!