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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:A23gTW4T Wed 31 May 2023 09:59:42 No.5677025 View View Report

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>Just hanging out with the bros

"...Um, shouldn't I-I-I wait for Lottie? To get all that sorted? Since she's, um—"

"Dead?" Madrigal folds her arms. "Waiting how long, exactly?"

You told yourself you'd give it a day. If she's not back after a day, you have complete justification to lose your goddamn mind. "...Tomorrow morning?"

"Sure. Whatever. I'll let Monty know. You can crash on her cot, see how she likes it. Pat, I don't know where the fuck you're staying, but I assume it's with us? Since Management's probably watching your place...?"

"Thanks for the reminder," Pat mutters. "They'll find me wherever I end up, but—"

"Well, fuck 'em. We'll take care of it, you and me—"

"And Lottie," you say impulsively, then kick yourself as soon as Madrigal turns to look. "Um, I-I mean— I'm sure she'd want to help with, um..."

"Sure she does. Sure she'll be a real big help, too."

"I mean, she dug up Ellery's skeletons," Pat says. "Not to mention she destroyed my facility, so I think she's a little brighter than she looks. Not saying I'd like her involved, but—"

You could just stop talking, letting Madrigal forget you said anything in the first place. This would be the logical thing to do. "Um, she would want to help, so I-I-I don't know why you... she's trying to blow up their whole place? And I-I'm not saying I think that's a good idea, or anything, but she is trying, so—"

"After the personality transplant?" says Madrigal.

"...Um, I-I-I... I guess? But i-it doesn't matter how she acted before, if she wants to help now... and are you sure she was really different? Or do you think it might've been, um... Richard?" You measure your words. "I-I don't know how much you know about him, but I think he really... he used to really... um, I think he wiped her memory pretty often, so..."

"How the shit would I know?" Madrigal says, but she looks uncomfortable. "I guess that could maybe... whatever. It doesn't matter. Stand here any longer, steam's gonna melt my fingers off, so—"

"Not how it works," Pat says, and leads you on through Hell.

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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:+0Q45oeL Fri 09 Dec 2022 13:12:14 No.5490758 View View Report

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She buys it. She buys it wholesale. You thought she was crazy, at first, and then you thought she was stupid, but now you're starting to think— stupidly, crazily— that things just work different for her. Like the laws of nature go a little melty in her presence. Or like she dropped in from some other universe, one with brighter colors and fewer consequences, one where unconditional trust of strangers is normal, because what else could explain it? You had no face and a stolen voice and a shitty attitude and she still picked you. You've been a sullen and paranoid and twitchy do-nothing and she's done everything and why? If it's not extortion, then why? Lottie believes in you.

It's fucked-up, is what it is. It's dangerously irrational. You're some asshole off the street: you could've screwed her, fleeced her, killed her, anything, and the fact that you haven't yet's no proof. Hasn't she ever heard of the long con? Hasn't she ever had her heart broken? She can't have. She comes from some universe where hearts never are, which is why she believes in Richard and believes in you. Like nobody else ever has. For no damn reason at all.

And while you're in the business of admitting things, here's a doozy: it's infectious, this belief shit. It's a goddamn communicable disease. It's the only reason why you didn't slip away ten minutes ago, and why your legs are falling asleep now: because you might be wrong about you. Because you'd like to be wrong, and you'd like Charlotte and this dumbass god stuff to know better. Maybe there is some human potential scabbed down way inside you. Maybe there is meaning, and purpose, and value, and all that horseshit. You don't know what any of that would look like if it bit you, but maybe that's the point. Or maybe it isn't. You've been wrong about a lot of goddamn things lately.

Or maybe the point is that you've been sitting here silently for an extended period of time thinking and thinking and trying to gin up the nerve to get up on the goddamn bench, something you decided on ten minutes ago. But not even directly ginning up the nerve, just coming at it sideways, hoping to trick yourself into convincing yourself that this really is a good idea. It's not a good idea. But now you have all this stupid motivational stuff wrapped up in it, and you're still half-high off infinite love and whatever, and slinking off now would look stupid. So sit up straight, stop gnawing on the tree branch, and goddamn commit. Think about it systematically.

What advantages do you have? If Arledge and Lucky weren't paying attention to you before, they've clean forgot about you now: the careful planning has devolved into not-that-passive passive-aggressive sniping. (So much for strange bedfellows.) It can't last forever, though, and you reminding them of a common enemy might actually spur progress. So maybe that's not an advantage.

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Bathic !!1oQZB1czRDh ID:MR7QKP6O Thu 11 Aug 2022 01:56:54 No.5369219 View View Report

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>>5368842
>>5368852
>>5368910
>[3]

>>5368990
>[2]

Writing.

>>5368910
She sucks so incredibly bad, yes, and I admire your guys' commitment to that. The "behave like a normal person" option is there for a reason tho if you ever feel like making her suck a little bit less

>>5368990
If Charlotte were still at 1 ID you'd have a compelling case, but we are firmly POSITIVE THINKING right now. I'll take this as a vote for [2].

>>5368852
I like this but [3] won soundly so there'll only be a smidge of this.

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