[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"?
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?
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?
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.
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.
[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.]
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.
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?
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.
The solid resolve he had to support Justice begins to crumble. It isn’t any different than fighting his brother for blood and then finding out later he knew nothing. “Everyone lives in their own illusion”? But if he hadn’t talked to the other gods, he wouldn’t know. He’d be ignorant.
Now he has to decide. He thinks he knows what might happen if he refuses Disorder. A tantrum, a cold shoulder. If he doesn’t accept, he loses the opportunity. If he does, what does it mean for the little god he wants to protect? Does he have the strength to become his brother? To double agent this.]
Fine. They've been making me a target of ridicule ever since the start of this competition.
[It's bad, fam.]
They'll say something about everyone being honest to themselves but what they really care about is everyone catering to superficial and shallow trends and societal norms to determine their worth. Even if it's not a destructive way to live, it's has no practical meaning in the larger picture.
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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"?
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[Disorder crosses her arms, sighing.]
You mean, a rule against double-crossing your own God? Or going after any of us as a target?
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Both.
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[Might not turn out so great.]
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[If they can even be destroyed, he's wondering.]
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[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?
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[But, again, she has no idea! Haha!]
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Are you here to punish me for how I used your gift?
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Give me a reason to stay.
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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.
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Before I ask you how, I'm going to ask you why.
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[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.
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Is that what kind of world you want?
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What happened to make you have to decide who was going to rule next?
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[She clicks her tongue.]
Forget about Indulgence. Indulgence is the biggest, most narcissistic idiot I've ever had the misfortune of becoming acquainted with.
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The solid resolve he had to support Justice begins to crumble. It isn’t any different than fighting his brother for blood and then finding out later he knew nothing. “Everyone lives in their own illusion”? But if he hadn’t talked to the other gods, he wouldn’t know. He’d be ignorant.
Now he has to decide. He thinks he knows what might happen if he refuses Disorder. A tantrum, a cold shoulder. If he doesn’t accept, he loses the opportunity. If he does, what does it mean for the little god he wants to protect? Does he have the strength to become his brother? To double agent this.]
What do you want me to do?
[He’ll worry about it a little later.]
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[Simple!]
I won't interfere with your own plans, and I'll provide for you what you need any time you do anything to lower their numbers.
[She pauses, thoughtful.]
Of course, if their numbers end up my numbers, I'd be happiest of all.
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Why Sincerity specifically?
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Give me at least one personal reason, no matter how small. What kind of world are they trying to create?
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[It's bad, fam.]
They'll say something about everyone being honest to themselves but what they really care about is everyone catering to superficial and shallow trends and societal norms to determine their worth. Even if it's not a destructive way to live, it's has no practical meaning in the larger picture.
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Is it true what you did to Chuuya? With the mirror.
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