Take...Responsibility?

[kingmakereffect]

Unlike previous weeks in the Vault, there was no specifically allotted time for investigation; for the first time, this weekend the elevator doors remain closed at the end of the first floor corridor. There's no getting down into the courtroom from here – but then, you don't need to. After all, no one is dead. Just the same, however, a crime has been committed; perhaps not one that warrants any sort of death penalty, but one of your number was attacked by someone else still walking among you. The dining hall has been chosen as the allotted meeting place for the day; it's not the same as the trial circle by a long shot, but even so, the portraits of the deceased watch the proceedings from the far wall. Ten Survivors still remain. Let's see who wanted to lower that number by one – or nine.

Comments

[amygdalae]

[PIPING IN HERE.]

You call yourself a leader all this time, then act like one.

[Its probably something he'll regret later but

jesus christ you have no idea how pissed he is right now]

[isafraid]

Oi!

[...]

Just leave it be for later, right now there's other things to figure out.

[boy the stress of a trial never really leave, no matter where it is, does it?]

[amygdalae]

[Sorry, Speedwagon.

Bruce still looks pretty damn pissed but he'll--take a couple of breaths to get back his composure and turn his gaze away from Sigrun.

Later. He'll deal with it later.]

[isafraid]

[Yeah.

We'll all work out our frustrations later, Bruce. Like adults.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Ooooh it's worse hearing it a second time.

And she'll fall silent there, crossing her arms.]

[penduli]

[ .......... ]

Leave Miss Sigrun's leading ability out of this, Banner. Wasn't it you who told me that it's good that she still thinks with her heart sometimes, after what she did with Mettaton? That it reminds us we're still human, and that includes her?

[amygdalae]

I can understand why she did it then. I can understand why she's doing it now. I can't understand why she wants to do this again willingly, when we've all already gone through this song and dance before.

[...admittedly a lot of personal trust issues are thrown into the mix here. Of which Bruce obviously won't voice out at all.]

[penduli]

People do anything they can for the people they love. That's all. It's not that hard to understand.

Even if it might be a little misplaced.

[amygdalae]

[...there are so many things Bruce can say in response to that, all of them pretty much spiteful and petty. But of course, he knows better than to say them.]

There's still a limit to that.

[Is what he says instead, eventually.]