008 SPAM LIST TWO/VIDEO
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deadliestviper
[Spam – Backdated to 8/29-9/5]
[The cell was spartan in its trappings, the whole room nothing but cold metal and hard surfaces. It was small, too, hardly large enough to pace from one end to the other, and offered a distinct lack of privacy due to the row of bars separating Beatrix from the rest of the cellblock. It was tedious, cramped, awkward, but on the whole, tolerable. Worse things could have happened, she knew that well. In terms of punishment, a week of solitude below decks was a remarkably light one for a murder.
Murder. When Sarah had described the killing that way Beatrix had bristled a little at the use of the word (as she saw it, killing Cato had been the natural reaction to his attack) but didn't protest it. Slight inaccuracy aside, murder was what she did.
She supposed she should feel some guilt for that.
The guilt didn't come, however. Instead, B only felt a mixture of mundane emotions: exhaustion from the flood, annoyance at her captivity, and a quiet, hidden satisfaction at a job well done.
Zero, she thought, was not having quite the intended effect on her.]
[Video – current]
Guess who's a free woman.
[At this point, there's little else to say. A fairly empty smile crosses B's face before she turns the feed off.]
[OOC: Joint post for Zero and for the Pants on Fire flood!]
[The cell was spartan in its trappings, the whole room nothing but cold metal and hard surfaces. It was small, too, hardly large enough to pace from one end to the other, and offered a distinct lack of privacy due to the row of bars separating Beatrix from the rest of the cellblock. It was tedious, cramped, awkward, but on the whole, tolerable. Worse things could have happened, she knew that well. In terms of punishment, a week of solitude below decks was a remarkably light one for a murder.
Murder. When Sarah had described the killing that way Beatrix had bristled a little at the use of the word (as she saw it, killing Cato had been the natural reaction to his attack) but didn't protest it. Slight inaccuracy aside, murder was what she did.
She supposed she should feel some guilt for that.
The guilt didn't come, however. Instead, B only felt a mixture of mundane emotions: exhaustion from the flood, annoyance at her captivity, and a quiet, hidden satisfaction at a job well done.
Zero, she thought, was not having quite the intended effect on her.]
[Video – current]
Guess who's a free woman.
[At this point, there's little else to say. A fairly empty smile crosses B's face before she turns the feed off.]
[OOC: Joint post for Zero and for the Pants on Fire flood!]
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Date: 2012-09-09 11:02 pm (UTC)You've helped me so much here, I want to help you too. [Not sure how to at the moment, but the desire is there.]
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Date: 2012-09-11 01:16 am (UTC)Spam
Date: 2012-09-11 06:45 pm (UTC)[Reaches for one of her hands and squeezes it.]
I'll keep trying until something works.
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Date: 2012-09-11 10:43 pm (UTC)[B stiffens when he takes her hand, but relaxes into it and squeezes his back.]
Kon, sometime – and it might not be now – I'm going to have to tell you a little about myself.
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Date: 2012-09-11 10:56 pm (UTC)Whenever you want to tell me, I'll be ready to listen. [Smiles at her encouragingly.]
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:01 pm (UTC)Spam
Date: 2012-09-11 11:05 pm (UTC)Spam
Date: 2012-09-11 11:13 pm (UTC)Beth's not my real name, for a start. And killing that boy isn't the worst thing I've done. Not by a long shot.
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:16 pm (UTC)What is it? And did I ever tell you what caused me to escape from my incubation tube and the aftermath?
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:18 pm (UTC)No, you didn't, only that the facility was destroyed.
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:22 pm (UTC)The first month of my life outside of the incubation tube was filled with so many poor choices and mistakes. I spent three and a half months inside of the incubation tube. The scientists at the time thought I was brain dead because my mind is spread through my t.k, so they didn't pick up on any of it.
[His mouth suddenly feels dry and he wishes he had something to drink.]
They injected a lethal serum into my incubation tube, planning on killing me. It triggered my self-defense mechanisms and my powers spiked. I didn't just kill everyone in the room, I completely decimated them. All that was left of them was literally a bloody paste.
At the time, I barely felt any remorse or guilt. I don't know if I was even capable of it and if my creator had had his way, I'd still be like that.
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Date: 2012-09-11 11:34 pm (UTC)In fact, I know it didn't. You've got a good heart, Kon, you really care. Your creator really bit that one. [She gives a weak smile.]
...I never told you my mantra, did I.
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Date: 2012-09-12 12:43 am (UTC)[Shakes his head.] That was then and this is now, I've come along way since then and I want to keep it that way. I just hope having a good heart is enough.
[Free will isn't universal. Humans and other alien races but not every race does. What if that third genetic component inside of him one day robs him of his free will?]
No, you haven't. What is it?
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Date: 2012-09-13 03:51 am (UTC)Her own words echo back in her head: "I don't care."] Well, sometimes they do.
[She recites the mantra with the solemnity and ceremony of a prayer, first in Japanese and then in English.] "When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern. This is the first and cardinal rule of combat; suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God, or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat. Once it is mastered thou shalt fear no one, though the devil himself may bar thy way." The mantra of the Yagu ninja.
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Date: 2012-09-16 02:00 am (UTC)Can you really suppress your compassion and not show any mercy, no matter the target?
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Date: 2012-09-18 05:02 pm (UTC)I'm not a very nice person, Kon.
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Date: 2012-09-20 03:29 am (UTC)Even with me?
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Date: 2012-09-27 02:48 am (UTC)