Week 9.

[trustharder]

WEEK 9 For the first time since your stay in the Vault began, no one died this week. That doesn't mean there weren't casualties among you, however – namely, trust, interpersonal relationships, and comfort in the group dynamic as a whole. Hopefully no one else pays the price for it. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. You're safe for now – unless your dreams have told you otherwise... SURVIVORS REMAINING: 10

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY
[OOC: Welcome to week nine of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins; don't forget to submit your memory regains! There is no activity check this week!

THE FINAL INVESTIGATION BEGINS ON THURSDAY!
THIS IS THE LAST WEEK TO REDEEM COINS!
The text and calling posts are still active, for the sake of contacting the jerk who's keeping you here, to be used at your leisure!]

Comments

[captainobnoxious]

I understand and I accept that. I wasn't expecting any less from you, and it's why I decided not to ask anything of you.

[... And really, the people who have put their faith in her still are too good for this world.]

I'd still like to work with you though, Bruce. For the good of everyone. I'll do my best to try and rebuild the trust I had with you and the rest, though I know it's not easy, but-- I don't want you to be alone. I don't want you to think you can't come to me, especially if there's a time where it'd be best to.

I guess that's kind of asking something of you. But I'm not asking for your forgiveness, because I don't deserve that, and I'm not asking for your respect or complete trust. Just that if you need me, you'll come to me, just like if I need you I'll come to you.

[amygdalae]

[It'd be so easy to snap back, honestly. To say that he doesn't need anybody, to say that everybody around him apparently fucking betrays him eventually, because that's clearly what his life had dictated from him, even when he was a child. His father betrayed him by killing his mother, Ross betrayed him by wanting to use the Hulk as a weapon, Tony betrayed him by guilting him into Vision even after what they've already done with Ultron and Natasha--

She pushed him into a fucking hole to die. That was enough to say everything.]

I don't know if I can do that. [Is what he does say, eventually, after a long pause. Even coming to Sigrun alone was a form of trust for Bruce, the trust that she could do something, and Bruce doesn't know if he could trust her with anything right now. He can't just forgive and forget like others.] And its not because I have anything against you. I simply can't tell myself its okay to do that after what happened.

[He can't just go back to trusting when his attempts ended up having the fucking rug pulled out from underneath him.]

[captainobnoxious]

[So even that, huh.

She hesitates for a moment, then steps out of his way.]

I'll always be here for any one of you, if you need me. You might not want me, but I am always going to help. Maybe not as a leader, as much as I'd still like that, but I'll be around.

... And even if I won't ever get even a smidge of trust back, Bruce? You've got good people around you, too. Stan's an earnest man for all he's done.

[So if there's anyone he can trust to go to things, at least him, probably.]

[amygdalae]

[In a much later time he might appreciate that, possibly. But right now he just really wants to clam himself up somewhere and not deal with this. Even if he knows its not possible. But its only been a day or two and the wound is still all too raw.]

I'm in no position to stop you on what you want to do.

[It's all that he says, perhaps not too kindly. But either way once he says that he tightens the hold he has on his items and walks past her out of the room, never looking back.]