Week 5.

[trustharder]

WEEK 5 Three more have joined the deceased this past week. Taichi Yagami was punished for breaking a rule, Megumi Sakura was killed, and Norman Bates... well, the less said about Norman, the better. A third of you are dead now; your losses are becoming more and more evident with each passing week. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; there aren't any bodies to be found on Sunday morning. But that doesn't mean the night was uneventful - it seems something else may have brought you some newfound clarity. Or perhaps not... Once again, that spiral staircase leads farther than you remember, clear up to a previously inaccessible fifth floor. Go ahead and explore as much as you like; you'll probably need the distraction after the last trial. SURVIVORS REMAINING: 18 SURVIVORS REMAINING: 17

SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

[OOC: Welcome to week five of Trustfell! Save your threads for coins and the coming week's activity check; don't forget to check in to this week's activity check and submit your memory regains!

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!]

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[happysweets]

[ She looks like she's seriously mulling it over a bit, before.../ ]

No, it's fine. You can join me if you'd like. I'm not that secretive that I wouldn't let you be in the same room as me, after all. ...Or as petty.

[ Though it's mostly just an image thing. ]

[cherryblooded]

Thank you. I didn't want to just assume.

[That's good enough - he'll take a seat at her table. Let's see, materials for a mask... well, it has to be pink or red, first of all...]

[happysweets]

No, you're fine! Don't worry about it. ...Besides, it's better for us to talk every now and again. So people don't worry, you know?

[cherryblooded]

Right. Better to keep up appearances.

-Yosuke knows, though. Can't really keep secrets from family.

[happysweets]

I guess his reaction wasn't as bad as mine. ...For what it's worth, Misa-Misa did mean what she said the last time we spoke. That she let her emotions get the better of her. So maybe some things I said were a little extreme, but...

I'm very...passionate about this sort of thing. You pushed a bad button.

[cherryblooded]

I understand. You saw me at the trial - I'm not any better when my own buttons are pushed.

[Whoever it was that killed Megumi, he hates them. He hates both of them.]

What I actually meant was that right now he's the only one who knows we're fighting, though. A couple more people have some idea about my own secret.

[happysweets]

Ah, I understand. I did see you, by the way. ...Misa-Misa saw the fire in your eyes.

I'm glad to hear that other people are a bit more forgiving, if nothing else...

[cherryblooded]

...I don't think of myself as a good person, but there are some things that I've never done and never will. I don't have any moral high ground to speak of, but even I get outraged by certain things.

It's subjective, really. Everyone has their own opinion of what the worst crime is.

[happysweets]

That's true, too. ...Honestly, Misa-Misa doesn't think murder on it's own is the worst crime, either. I suppose it's all about intention. There's a difference between someone who murders for sport and someone who murders because they're backed against a corner, of course.

...But Misa-Misa can't and won't forgive criminals. Or people who murder just to benefit themselves.

[cherryblooded]

For me, it's torture. Pain for the sake of inflicting pain alone. There's nothing gained - it's just because they want to see someone hurt.

...There are some other things, but they fall under torture, for me.

[happysweets]

...You don't think that's a bit hypocritical of you?

[cherryblooded]

...I've seen someone after they'd been tortured for months, Miss Misa. They were barely responsive - I could hardly get them to eat, and leaving the house was a lost cause for the better part of a year. They're doing better than that now, but the scars left will probably never heal.

I've done many things I regret, but I've either left people dead or in mostly one piece - nothing like that.

[happysweets]

But they're still alive, aren't they? It's horrible that they had to go through something so gruesome, but, at least they've lived to tell the tale, at least their family can see them again, they have people to support them and help them get back on their own two feet so they can have years of small steps and, eventually, they can be happy again after going through months of hell. Which is more than you can say for someone who's dead. They'll never be able to smile again. ...And the people they care about have to pick up the pieces.

[cherryblooded]

...That's all true. Suppose there's nothing I can say to that argument.

Alright then. I hate torturers and rapists because of what happened to my daughter, and there's nothing you can say to that argument, either.

[happysweets]

Your dau--

[ Oh. ]

...O-oh my gosh, I-I'm so sorry...

[cherryblooded]

It's nothing you could have known about.

I recognize my reasons are subjective. I understand. From anyone else's point of view, especially yours, I'm sure murder is by far the worse crime.

[happysweets]

For a father, that...must have been horrifying.

[ If her dad was still alive, if she had come home after someone did that to her, he would've probably stopped at nothing to strangle the bastard himself. That's a natural reaction for a parent. ]

I didn't mean to bring up something terrible, though. ...No one deserves that. And no one deserves to see someone they love go through that.

[cherryblooded]

It was.

[There's nobody Cherryblod could possibly hate more than the demon who hurt his daughter.]

I'm glad there's still something we agree about.

[happysweets]

Misa-Misa may have different morals than you do, perhaps. ...She's not heartless. And no father should have to see their daughter like that. Not even one who's done things like you have.

[cherryblooded]

Never thought you were heartless. You're a kind person, essentially. That's why you hate me so much.

[happysweets]

It's such a shame, too. We could have been wonderful friends, but, Misa-Misa just can't ignore the blood on your hands.

[cherryblooded]

Don't expect you to.

-Ah, how does my mask look?

[It's starting to come out a little like this.]

[happysweets]

Looks like it needs just a touch of glitter, and it'll be perfect.

[cherryblooded]

Of course. What mask is complete without some glitter?

[At least it'll make Mettaton happy, anyway.]

[happysweets]

Hm...

[ There's something else that's bugging her... ]

You told Yosuke that we're fighting, but...you didn't tell him why, did you? Like, the reason why? You're still the only one that knows Misa-Misa's secret, after all. With her parents...