glencolaaa | TRUTH OR DARE

TRUTH OR DARE

1) Post your characters, one per comment.
2) Comment around ICly asking other characters "truth or dare?"
3) Truth is self-explanatory; dares should involve tagging out to another character's top level somehow ("Insult someone you find terrifying", "Tell someone you think is hot one thing you find sexy about them", "Strike up a conversation using the most awkward non-sequitur you can come up with", etc.)

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I don't know if you guys are current or not, but that cop kneecapped Ben - Lalo, whatever - and left him by the river to die. I had to listen to that shit!

And he knows stuff about me, and I don't know how much of that he told you... I've seen mob justice in the jungle before and I'm not keen on seeing it again.

Barely had anything to do with you, so chill.

Truth or dare?

He kidnapped the cop first.

Yeah, sure, then just kill him!

Leaving him there to decide between being killed by a monster or ending it himself is - is like…

[It's what happened to Harry because of her]

If that's what you do to people you don't like here I'm not waiting for him to show up and do it to me.

Hurting your kidnapper while escaping from them isn't the same thing as kneecapping an innocent person for fun just because you don't like them.

Hurting your kidnapper while escaping them isn't torturing them for irrelevant personal information then leaving them for dead either, come on.

Wanting to know about the guy who's established himself as a threat? Isn't irrelevant.

Look, I wasn't there for anything but his death so I don't know, but the poet was fucked up about you when he was at our camp. It wouldn't shock me if taking him prisoner like that was the only way to get him out of the storm.

[Sometimes you just have to take idiot heroic types prisoner for their own good, it's a fact of life]

He knows shit about me too, since Ben knows it, and I don't know who he's spilling that shit to. You'd really walk into camp in that situation? Let the crowd decide your fate?

He hasn't said crap to me about you. Or to anyone else, that I've seen.

I don't know! You can make messages private.

There's people at that base talking about “criminals” like they're not even human. Squalo’s been accusing me of random shit since day one. I don't know any of you well enough to know where you're drawing the line.

-- Yeah, okay. That's. Fair.

Me, I draw the line at hurting innocent people. I've done some stints as a thief, I've even done some stints as an assassin - including jobs I'm not so proud of now. My hands aren't clean. But drug kingpins? Those are the kinds of people who wreck whole communities. They push their crap onto kids.

And that's like, what it takes to make it okay to leave a guy out there for that thing in the cabin to take apart if he doesn't have the strength to drown himself in the river?

Look, I don't like that shit either but if I couldn't suck it up and hang out with people who do work I find distasteful I'd be dead. I owe him.

I mean, same, but I'm still not going to cry over someone getting a taste of their own medicine.

Not doing a great job of convincing me that splitting was a bad plan.

Like I said, if he’d got shot in a struggle over the gun, or even like they had a fight and your cop friend drowned him in the river, whatever. I'd be telling him to walk it off. What Cohle did was personal. He wasn't even hurt that bad. Worst he got was from the elephant.

[ SNORT. ]

Oof. Yeaaah. You're not wrong there. I had it coming.

[ Not sarcasm, despite how it might seem. He really, really, really did have it coming. ]

Edited (Clarification lmao I didn't realize how it'd come off) 2023-09-25 22:52 (UTC)

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[ He fucking what? ]

No, he left that part out. He didn't even kill him himself?

[ Also: ]

"Mob justice"? The hell did you do, assault a baby?

[ As far as he's concerned, it should be something extra heinous to warrant that sort of reaction in an environment where most people are preoccupied with their own survival. And she called him paranoid. ]

[ ...he does feel a little better that he apparently wasn't a huge factor in her decision to bail, though. ]

Dare.

He just left him there. I offered to go out there and take care of it but the thing in the cabin would have beat me to it either way.

I don't know whether I have to have done anything.

Hm. Go lecture someone about wanting to see their manager again. I missed that and I want to see it.

[ Squalo looks scandalized. Mostly because being maimed out of fighting shape is a very real but also deep and dark fear of his. ]

Okay, what the fuck. You don't do that. Who does this cop think he is?

[ The other half just gets her a blank look though. ]

I imagine most normal people here are kinda preoccupied with, y'know, surviving? There's only so much energy left for public outrage when ya keep pissin' in bushes and eating a pineapple diet.

[ Long, blank stare. ]

Well fuck you, too.

[ He'll still do it though! ]

Truth or dare?

Edited 2023-09-26 22:51 (UTC)

He thinks he's a guy who can do what he wants to people because no one will stop him. Anyone on a power trip can find someone to hurt out here if they can convince everyone else they deserve it. Who would I call about it, the cops?

Oh, beautiful. I can see why everyone remembered that.

Truth.

Edited 2023-09-27 00:41 (UTC)

Well, he sounds like he deserves it.

[ Squalo isn't going to bother hunting him down or whatever, but he may definitely have some choice words or actions for him if they run into each other. ]

Alright. What exactly did you do back home?

Right now? People pay me to find stuff. Wheelman shit sometimes if I'm broke.

Alright, when you say "find stuff", do you mean more lost kittens or grave robbing?

How much money is there in the lost kitten business?

Depends whether you're willing to hold them hostage to get paid.

Ha! I feel better doing that with inanimate objects.

Edited (Typo) 2023-10-06 14:56 (UTC)

Grave robbing it is. [ He doesn't sound judgemental at all, though, more amused. ] That's gotta be fun, right? I mean if the Indiana J*nes movies have any segment of truth in it...

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