2.14 - Voice

[breakingmyheart]

[Posted about two hours after Megamind's post.]

[Seconds before transmission, almost everything is reset. The lost areas and items reappear, the above-decks areas are restored in their entirety, and the 'space' and sunlight around the ship come back. Zero is returned to normal and anyone teleported down there is automatically released. Anyone who has had their powers or weapons temporarily removed will get them back. Auto-demoted Wardens regain their previous status and everything associated with it.

The loose panels are still around. For some reason, it's raining lightly on deck. A few random bits of furniture in the common rooms have changed colour.

The voice of the 'Admiral' comes from Toshiko's network signature, quiet and tired.]

I don't stand by everything I said, but I don't hold myself above any of it. Anyone who wants to call me a hypocrite, a coward, a sadist, a weakling…

[The feed shifts. Tosh's voice. Hi, Barge.]

I know. I just - I know.

I need…time. To end this without doing any more damage. Tomorrow I'm going to come out. I'm not - I'm not going to fight. I'm not going to defend myself in any way.

[There is a background interjection from Megamind: But I will!

Tosh is quiet for a moment, probably pulling a face at him.]

...Whatever's decided, I'll....go along with it.

Comments

[technophilic]

[ Satsuki has been watching events unfold from a safe haven. She has also been on suicide watch. Not that she would have helped anyway. And while she can understand the impulse, she rather likes the quiet option better. ]

I believe all of those terms apply in this circumstance.

Do you wish to die?

[ The response isn't emotional, just. Satsuki. ]

[wecanavenge]

You bitch.

[breakingmyheart]

I know.

I know.

But at least you don't need to worry about having a bitch for a Warden.

[ Audio ]

[warisart]

You punished everyone.

Because you could.

[breakingmyheart]

[Kinda.

But if she says yes, certain parties are going to take that as permission. If she says no, those very same parties are going to take that as justification. So silence seems like the better option here.]

[megamind]

Because this is the most helpful way to jump at things ever.

[ Snappish? Exhausted? Yes. Yes he is. ]

You can attack her verbally later, when we've gotten her unhooked, stabilized and cleared out what was the ship in her brain and what wasn't, okay, Erik?

[wecanavenge]

And that makes it better, hm? You have a psychotic break, and it's all right because you're sorry, and - what, demoted now? Or are you finally just leaving?

[There's some sounds of movement; he cannot get out of Zero fast enough.]

[routemistress]

[Iris is tightlipped and furious, speaking in a clipped and careful voice.]

As long as you're detaching from the barge, as long as you're putting right what you messed up, I'll be one of them standing between you and anyone trying to 'urt you.

Not because I agree with anything you said, not because I'd be sorry to see you 'urt; right now I honestly wouldn't. It's still me job to prevent 'arm on this boat, though.

[Private]

[wedonot]

[It takes Charles a long time to respond. He wants to scream at her, wants to ask if she realized what she was doing to people, that nothing she did did anything but hurt people, that apologizing doesn't change anything, but he swallows it. He's spent two miserable hours remembering the four worst days of his life, and all he really wants to do is lock himself in his room and not say anything to anyone. But he can't pretend this didn't happen, that they'd tried to stop Rex from blowing up the goddamn engine room, with her in it, and this still happened.]

Whatever else happens, [And his voice is tight and controlled, almost like his throat's constricted and it's taking him an effort to form each word.] I hope you're unpairing yourself from Erik.

[The "you should know what your new policies, you did and what it did to him" goes unstated, but is still heavily implied. B(]

[technophilic]

[ She may be socially inept, but she can sure translate that silence. ]

It seems likely that you will get your wish. Considering the publicity, likely several times.

What did you hope to accomplish? Did you intend the changes to be permanent?

[ It doesn't really make any difference to her. She's just curious. ]

[Spam]

[breakingmyheart]

[She reaches over to touch his wrist.]

Megamind, don't.

Just - it's just words. Let him - let them all get it out. It's not as if I don't deserve it.

[wecanavenge]

No, I think I'll make it clear exactly what she is right now. Later you can fuck her and tell her not to listen to all those inmates she just spent days torturing.

[Private]

[breakingmyheart]

That won't be a problem.

[Private]

[wedonot]

Good.

[dalekemperor]

Are you... interfaced with the ship? Does anyone there... know how to remove you without... damaging the system?

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[ichoosefight]

and wardens

[ Steph is too furious to allow herself anything more than that. She just wanted to point it out. ]

[Spam]

[megamind]

It's wrong.

[ He's frustrated, watching them all--revert to the same old shit immediately, given someone to hoist on the cross. ]

Look at it. It's wrong. I can't even imagine what you're getting on private channels.

[breakingmyheart]

Demoted.

I didn't say it was alright.

I know it's not.

[an_abomination]

[Covers his mouth, in part out of shock, and in part out of wanting to resist the urge to yell and scream. While he had suspect it was someone on the Barge, knowing it's a Warden is still a shock.]

Without doing any more damage? [Drags a breath in through his teeth.] Is the Barge stable?

[megamind]

Because I can only possibly be thinking with my genitals. [ EYEROLL ] Thank you for that sum up of what you think of me and my efforts.

[wecanavenge]

Good. At least you have some fucking sense left.

[Although, this raises some very, very unsettling questions about the state of his mutation that he is afraid to have answered.]

[Spam]

[breakingmyheart]

It's just words. I can take some name-calling. Okay?

[She doesn't add that maybe giving people the opportunity to vent their anger verbally might be useful in the longer term.]

[Video]

[mistconduct]

Dead girl walking.

[wecanavenge]

And wardens. [He gets that, at least, but there is not much logical thought process going on here.]

[Spam]

[megamind]

[ He fusses, a little more, and then sighs. ] I'm going-- to work. See what we need to do to get this set up right, get everything tip-top, and ...back to normal.