sea witch + captain hook trauma game

[oceansflower]

[everything sucks.]

TK. . .

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[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!

[oceansflower]

That's what we're doing by offering them favors, isn't it? I'm not going to give up what control I do have!

[lifeistooshort]

[places a hand on her shoulder and squeezes, tightly]

Marine. . . are you sure?

[oceansflower]

... Mm. I am. I don't think I could be anymore sure than I am now.

[lifeistooshort]

. . . all right! Then let's say fuck you to the Personae and their stupid game, too!

[oceansflower]

Let's do it! We're in this together.

[high five? '-']

[lifeistooshort]

[high five!]

Yeah!

[oceansflower]

[and another hug!!]

I'm glad I'm here with you.

[lifeistooshort]

Hahahaha. . .

Yeah! Me too.

[oceansflower]

At least everything that happens is going to be on our terms.

[lifeistooshort]

Just the way it's supposed to be.

[oceansflower]

The way it's always supposed to be.

[lifeistooshort]

And the way we'll make sure it stays!

[oceansflower]

[hops up so that she can properly drape on ed and he's tall enough for it to be kind of hard if she doesn't hop]

I hope they get this over with soon.

[lifeistooshort]

[. . . awkwardly drapes an arm around her shoulders]

Yeah. Me too. Waiting sucks.

[oceansflower]

Especially this kind of waiting.

[lifeistooshort]

Which is exactly why they put us through it.

[oceansflower]

They suck.

[lifeistooshort]

They suck a lot.