week 4 ( friday );

[reidentify]

[Vriska probably expected this visit.

As Lief approaches, he does his best to keep his expression neutral, but even so, something hard settles in his eyes. (Please, please do not let this be what breaks his partner.) Once he reaches Vriska, he asks, quietly,]

Which ones among them?

[Or all?]

Comments

[reidentify]

... Killing the spirit seems rather risky to everyone in my eyes, though I will admit I am far more uninformed about this than you. What if killing it results in this entire game ending—and not in a pleasant way? Or if it is tied to the dead?

[hypertoxic]

That is what I plan to find out! Either way we should learn something, right? I would absolutely love to fuck the spirit's shit up because I am beyond sick of this dumb fucking game, but if I can't, then I can't!

I have killed things like this spirit before. Even without my powers I feel confident I could do it again. That said, your concerns are understandable! I will be careful, Lief. There wouldn't be any point to going to all this trouble if all I did was just get everyone killed anyway!

[reidentify]

... I wish I had your confidence [both in her and in oneself] but very well. Just remember that not everything is up to you.

[It's meant both as a reassurance, that there are others to depend on, and a reminder, that she is not the sole person to decide their fates.]

[hypertoxic]

[ ... oh.

Vriska will be pensive in the wake of that comment, cupping her chin in her hands and staring down at the sand. ]

I think if you'd told me that even a day or two before I got here I would have taken that kind of comment as an insult! I've just always kind of assumed that I could do whatever I wanted, I guess? And as long as it helped people, it didn't matter how I did it or who it impacted! Or who got hurt. Because I was right and they were just being babies! But I definitely don't believe that now. I have made too many mistakes to keep thinking that way.

I know you think I'm brutal and probably a little heartless, Lief, but I really do want to do the right thing. What do you think I should do?

[reidentify]

... I think you are doing what you believe is best. And no matter how soft-hearted you may see me, I am no stranger to making difficult decisions.

[He's... not exactly thrilled with what Vriska does. But, in the end, haven't they all committed atrocities here? This game has put blood on all of their hands.]

But I do not know. I have far less information than you do, Vriska, and I cannot know what I do not know. It is not as if I have not made my share of mistakes in this place, either.

[hypertoxic]

[ With a small smile, Vriska reaches out to poke Lief on the cheek - right in the middle of one of his scars. ]

I had some idea. I just think you're a better person than I am.

I don't think I'll actually be able to bring anyone with me, but if you could talk to the volcano spirit, what would you ask it? At least we can start there.

[reidentify]

[Instinctively, he frowns, batting her hand away. Why do people (well, really only Prussia) keep poking him?]

... Why these murders appease it, I suppose.

[hypertoxic]

Alright. Assuming this meeting happens, I will make sure that is something I ask.