GODLY AUDIENCES: SASUKE UCHIHA

[divus]

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WEEK 2

[divus]

[There's someone leaning on Sasuke's statue the next time he finds himself alone in the courtyard. She beckons him closer with one hand, stance leisurely as she waits for him to come closer.]

I thought we should get to know each other now that you're my follower and all.

[moralmyopia]

[Oh boy.

Thankfully, Sasuke isn't scared to approach. He has enough crave of death to give him an overabundance of confidence, but he's wary enough to stop at least a foot away.]

Disorder.

[Pink. His mosT HATED COLOR NEXT TO ORANGE.]

[divus]

That's right.

[Stop having bad taste in color, Sasuke I-only-wear-black-or-maybe-sometimes-really-super-dark-blue Uchiha.]

I'm just curious about you...I hope this is as good a time as any to pick your brain.

[moralmyopia]

[NO]

I don't think you plan to give me a choice. [He doesn't leave, at least.] What is it?

[divus]

I'm all about choice. But then, I'm all about consequences to those choices, too.

[So, leave, but regret leaving?]

I'm wondering what motivated you to active your new power in such a way that puts you under suspicion--and against your own former god, at that. It's clearly a strategy of some kind, but I haven't figured it out yet.

[moralmyopia]

It's simple. I want to destroy all of you. [He's not a fool (mostly). Gods gossip. Probably.] I want to see who has the guts to talk to me about the rumor.

Scared you'll lose a follower?

[divus]

I've already lost one. Do I sound scared, to you?

[Disorder laughs, sounding...charmed? at Sasuke's threats.]

You're not really serious.

[moralmyopia]

[In the end, he really isn't serious. He's trying to play the long con, but that requires long conning the gods and the players without shooting himself in the foot.]

You can't really afford to lose more. I'm serious. [He wants to see who all would be willing to bostler Justice's ranks through protection. This week as host maybe helped. Maybe.] Did you all make a rule for "rebellion"?

[divus]

I know I can't. Honestly, I got lucky that you chose my team out of all of them, and I won't deny it. I can be a bitch but nobody can say I'm not self-aware.

[Disorder crosses her arms, sighing.]

You mean, a rule against double-crossing your own God? Or going after any of us as a target?

[moralmyopia]

[Hmmm.]

Both.

[divus]

There's no rule against it. You can do what you want, though I don't recommend just trying to jump any of us while we're sleeping.

[Might not turn out so great.]

[moralmyopia]

I'll try to be a little more reasonable. [his joKES ARE SO BAD] What happens when one of you is destroyed?

[If they can even be destroyed, he's wondering.]

[divus]

I couldn't say.

[She pauses, watching him, her voice light.]

Oh, I don't mean that as in it's a rule that I can't tell you. But I actually don't know. I've never seen a god destroyed before. What do you think would happen?

[moralmyopia]

You wouldn't exist. Or... [This is where he frowns.] Someone else takes your place.

[divus]

If that is the case, you might want to be careful you don't end up in a position you never meant to take on in the first place.

[But, again, she has no idea! Haha!]

[moralmyopia]

[Well, he doesn't actually want that, so he has nothing to say!!! He just looks incredibly sour about the idea.]

Are you here to punish me for how I used your gift?

[divus]

Why would I do that? I told you, I just thought it was interesting. I like people who have ideas. You're already my most valuable follower, even though I have no reason to believe you plan on sticking around for very long.

[moralmyopia]

Playing favorites? [It leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Definitely not the god for him probably.] Me leaving depends on how I go about my plan.

Give me a reason to stay.

[divus]

[One can practically hear her rolling her eyes.]

I'm just complimenting your initiative, don't take everything so seriously.

[But Disorder raises her chin, watching him, his expression, as she thinks over her next words carefully. She has a feeling that it won't take more than one single poorly-taken phrase before he turns around and refuses to see her again.]

I wonder if anything would be good enough, but here goes: if you really want to destroy us and that wasn't just a ploy to test my mettle, I'll help you do it. I won't even ask you to keep me off of your hit list.

[moralmyopia]

[Sasuke goes incredibly still and incredibly quiet. His eyes narrow. It's obvious he is extremely skeptical about this offer, but also obvious he isn't quickly turning it down.]

Before I ask you how, I'm going to ask you why.

[divus]

Why I'd put myself knowingly at risk for the sake of keeping you around? Why I'd even offer any of it at all?

[Her foot taps idly before she slides it back around to hook behind her other ankle.]

The greatest plague of all is habit. Habit turns to routine, which turns to tradition, and after long enough it turns to tyranny, and then into a scourge. So the only way to fix that is to upset the structure. Change is progress.

[moralmyopia]

[Oh BOY. This is hollering Revolution™, and he was one hundred percent ready to give Naruto a grand speech about Revolution™. Yikes.]

Is that what kind of world you want?

[divus]

The world I want is a world that's free.

[moralmyopia]

No rules. No routine. A world always changing. Don't you have that already? If Indulgence was a former ruler, but you are now deciding another--is there already change?

What happened to make you have to decide who was going to rule next?

[divus]

Right now the problem is lawlessness. I don't want that. It's just that I also don't want us to fall in line with every other system throughout history that's always inevitably become corrupt. It's bad enough when you have one person in charge for a few iron-fisted decades. Can you imagine that for a millennia? I don't want to.

[She clicks her tongue.]

Forget about Indulgence. Indulgence is the biggest, most narcissistic idiot I've ever had the misfortune of becoming acquainted with.