Audience: White

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Comments

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[they shrug back.]

Do people do whatever they want without consequences back where you're from?

[enfangs]

Give or take. Wouldn't say it's anarchy, but you sure as hell aren't going to get the police called on you if you stabbed someone 'cause you felt like it.

[probe]

That sounds sort of scary. It doesn't work like that where I'm from...but sometimes the police are the ones doing the stabbing anyway. [so casually said.] Have you killed people before?

[enfangs]

More than I can count, yeah.

[he's not necessarily proud of it at this point, but he's not ashamed to admit it.]

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[that's okay lust would prefer he was honest about it anyway.]

...is it something you might do here if it was an option?

[enfangs]

... I'm not going to pretend I'm a good person or that I'd never kill anyone, especially if I got something out of it. [...] But... I dunno. After a hundred years of doing it, I've gotten kind of tired of slaughtering my way through life.

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I don't think that's such a bad thing. I guess I was just kinda curious! A lot people asked why we included the dying thing in our guide and...this was why. People are going to act on their own no matter what.

[enfangs]

Oh, yeah. That doesn't surprise me. We had a shit ton of people applying to be Demans even though it wasn't a secret that we hunted down humans. Morals tend to get dropped if you reap big enough rewards from it.

[probe]

That seems to be a universal thing. [they sip their coffee.] Why do Demans hunt humans? What kind of rewards do you guys get from doing stuff like that?

[this is all just for their own curiosity.]

[enfangs]

Immortality, basically. Devouring other humans' souls stalled our aging.

[probe]

Guess that explains why you're here. All that work would be for nothing if you didn't get to live past your death. [the work being a deman and also the sacrifice, they mean.]

[enfangs]

... Well, immortal or not, living in general would, uh, be nice.

[white will continue to pretend he has nothing but wholly selfish reasons to be here, as he would die of embarrassment if he had to admit that maybe a sense of altruism plays a part.]

In any case, the era of Demans is over. Goes to show that sometimes, being a psychopath doesn't pay, I guess.

[probe]

Usually it doesn't. A life of crime never really works out anyway, and I think it's kind of nice when people have a change of heart like that.

[white won't bring up there are non-selfish reasons but lust knows his history so.]

[enfangs]

[STOP LET HIM PRETEND HE'S A SELFISH ASSHOLE WHO DIDN'T DIE TO PROTECT THE WORLD

but he squints at lust, wondering if this is. about him, specifically. in which case he needs to start denying it out of awkwardness.]

[probe]

[...they squint back before offering him a cookie.]

[enfangs]

[he takes it and very (un)smoothly shoves it into his mouth.

after munching and swallowing—]

... Right. Uh, yeah. People will do what's best for them, right? Or crash and burn before they figure it out.

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[they seem satisfied with that :3]

Yeah. I don't really want to see any of you guys crash and burn, but after today? I think you're all gonna have to work a little harder to get what you want.

[enfangs]

Yeah, we really fucked up, huh.

[probe]

Yup. And people are gonna be upset that this is a new thing that's happening now, especially if you vote wrong again.

[enfangs]

[he holds a hand out, as if asking lust to order more cookies for him.]

We should be expecting regular kills now that someone's taken the plunge, you think?

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[white is a good boy and therefore lust will order him more cookies. at least the one they hand to him is fairly large.]

I'd be more surprised if that didn't happen. You guys let somebody get away with murder today. People are probably gonna get more confident about it, especially now that you know what'll happen next.

But I guess it depends on what you count as regular.

[enfangs]

[yay]

My definition of "regular" is probably a little skewed. I'm sort of surprised no one stabbed someone else in a fit of anger or something. Today, I mean.

What's going to happen to the person who got voted for? You guys decided on that yet?

[probe]

I am, too. But then again I kinda thought Wrath was gonna stab somebody if Despair wasn't holding them back.

[but...hm.] We won't really know until tomorrow, but I think the others said there would be "justice." Greed called it a balance, but they seemed pretty annoyed earlier when they came back upstairs.

[enfangs]

Who was Wrath even gonna stab? I was kind of distracted by everything else, honestly.

[...]

Calling anything justice seems like a farce at this point, but hey, I'll admit I'm a cynic.

[probe]

Vira I think? Wrath gets pretty mad pretty easily. [yes, hence why they're wrath, good job lust.]

I get it. Maybe if you guys voted for the right person it'd be justice to find them and figure out what to do next. But...[a shrug.] I just hope some of the others can handle it, whatever happens next.

[they could see the trial and also see people like mineo losing their shit.]