- let me know if your victim of the Perturbation Situations would be still in the maze/no longer in the maze and you want me to switch that for them
- absolutely zero rush to tag into this if you're still working on your experiment threads!! just wanted to get the framework of it up
for those getting found Still In Maze, LMK if you want to tag in here for Jedao finding them or if you want me to wait to jump in on the existing thread in Justine's log, either is 100% fine with me
also
waningsunflower do you want to play out Justine being In Time Out on the sidelines while Jedao handles all of them or just jump to him teleporting her down to Zero? (he is going to. stay in with her. and then start the Crying once they're locked in)
because he is not abandoning her!!!! however. he is hanging on by a thread, lmao
i shall be on tthis when i have brain
She won't say or do anything, so it wouldn't be a cery interesting thread! She's taking a vow of silence (fortunately for Jedao) and so we can skip ahead a bit!
Jedao, wondering if he might need to gag her to keep her from shrieking and freaking out the aborted subjects: oh thank fuck
Jedao, out loud: ....very well, be that way.
Is there anywhere specific Cloud will be found or is that vague?
and if she'd fight him once she's no longer floating he'd hoist her up in a fireman's carry
lookashiny that's up to
theSSjuli but Rawne should be able to find him via his item since he's his temp
read this as 'justine appreciation post' and i don't think that's exactly what's happening here
I suspect Will would be wily enough to make it out of the maze! so yeah, the message to Malcolm works.
FYI! I took Laura out of Justine's plot so not to rock Sweeney and Justine's cr.
lilbeejack OOPS I keep getting you and PG's handles confused bc you both play such awesome ladies
hehe hehe Justine Appreciation. That is THE OPPOSITE
I am currently in quilt hell but I'll get to plot things as I'm able
Yelena would probably make it out of the maze, yeah, so the message to B works.
He’s probably the best person to find her anyway, since she’s liable to try to straight up murder anyone who corners her while she’s amnesiac, and he has the context to anticipate that.
he is also the one with a yelena homing device, helpfully. good luck B!!! sorry about it!!!!!
Abel just like why is always drugs???
gonna tag this tomorrow as today is full of social things
B will not blame Jedao. he's just glad he got the heads up and will def go find her ASAP :|
lookashiny tagging into the filter so Jedao can be in the know if that's ok!
is it going to be Rawne->Aerith->Jedao or just Rawne and Aerith?
I was thinking Rawne->Aerith->Jedao if that's ok?
I think maybe one more jedao tag once I found out if Sephiroth is gonna be in it or not,
coeurl ?
he is!! I just got murdered by work so I'm behind
got it! I'll add stuff for him
Harry just like
coeurl extremely legit - thoughts on Sephiroth being still in the maze or Out In The Barge after completing his trials?
he'll be out in the barge
fun times for everyone!!!
Zack like
meanwhile i appreciate that Jedao just casually throws out that Pyotr took a chunk of his skull of
blade_works: don't worry, Cloud and Sephiroth will find each other while not remembering anything and still be weird to each other
nammah I tagged, in case you missed it
Thanks! Yeah, Aerith will ping
blade_works with the news
Jedao, a certified Quiet One: it's always the Quiet Ones!!!
if pyotr didn't want to get tattled on maybe he shouldn't have made Jedao feel like a chump for letting pyotr get a hit on him!!!!
i thought we agreed that jedao would believe or at least not be sure he was brainwashed?
he's not sure, he's just a Suspicious boy (and also in a mood to be uncharitable) - if you're not cool with it I can definitely back up and edit
Fuzzytale it was during the battle with the NS, when Hela gave him her powers
yarnzipan not totally sure what John is asking?
ancillaries: don't think Malcolm won't ask Walter about that
onemuon: I think Walter is aware of the basics of what went on, right? Especially if I'm remembering correctly that he told other people freely (on network) about being brainwashed. But that might have just been Yenn IRL thread
I edited this a bunch so the "being brainwashed" scare quotes got lost lmao
he kept it on the downlow and never talked about it publicly on the network, just with yenn in person
with walter, he probably would not have said much actually
pyotr doesnt talk about his trauma!!!!!!!
Okay that makes sense. So details like ending up in the engine room Walter really genuinely has no idea about then
So this will be more like that version we were talking about early in the event phase, where Walter knows that Pyotr and Silver are sneaking off to fight and is hoping that his Intel and negotiations will help them in some way but has been separated from them
he'll lie to walter about it too
Somewhere in the cosmos, Hela is deeply offended by being accused of mind control.
well, the cosmos favored pyotr enough to not have her show up at least
She controls people with fear, thank you very much. Or necromancy.
Honestly he was controlled by the sheer temptation of power
oh whoops, I missed this plurk when I responded to the other one -_-
no worries, we're all all over the place
I'm still seeing how Norton's maze thread pans out, but right now there's a good chance he'll still be in the maze for Jedao to find.
o7 I've got it tracked and i'm enjoying it greatly!!! just lmk whenever would be a good time for him to intervene
man Aerith feels so bad for Jedao rn...it's hard to be a warden sometimes
he is not having a great time!!! he is however going to use his bad time to passive aggressively cry in front of justine which is weirdly effective
sometimes it's honest emotions that do it
Jedao: if I had a nickle for every time my inmate was absolutely awful about cloud strife specifically
I'd have two nickles but it's weird that it happened twice
THANKS SHEN WEI FOR BEING THE EXCEPTION
B will want to come give you a hug later, Jedao, once he's done being stabbed
LOL, he was just awful about Sephiroth, and long before Jedao XD
Jedao: i don't know what it is about my inmates!!!! not one of them can be normal about the FF crowd
Aerith: Maybe we're like catnip but worse
at least Shen Wei probably wouldn't try to claim Sephiroth deserved iti anymore.....
Juatine's wasn't even personal! She likes them all well enough separately
blackletter lmk if that works for Norton or if he would get attacked before he could get words out, lol
Tendi has some experience with evaluating the extent of memory loss and will probably offer to do some screenings if any victims are worried about long-term effects
She's gonna be fucked up about Fives in particular tho
Me just popping to that thread to make sure I'm familiar with what happened, seeing that crazed Icon. Man. Norton's actor has such an expressive face xD He looks wild there
my plan is for Jedao to coax Norton out and hand him to Abel at/near the Enclosure door once their thread is a little farther along, I'll us both in on Abel's comment
Perfect
I am laughing at the inevitability of Norton getting his memories back after Abel has attempted to make him tea.
If there's amnesia drug samples Tendi's going to try to request one for antidote synthesis purposes for sure
Aaaand she's probably going to insist on seeing Fives ASAP
I might do a Maggie response set a little later, and I'll ping you for Jedao when we get farther along in the amnesia thread?
...I was mid-typing and hit a keyboard shortcut that posted
anyway, let me edit a bit more into that
That tag works for me! (Norton thinking about attacking, but he's had a few minutes to chill, and Jedao isn't attacking him.)
BBitsaboi I so rarely get to use my Extreme Expression icons, so I always love it when the opportunity comes up.
they are amazing. I have so many upset Abel icons but most of them are pretty over the top angry so xD I get it.
OKAY time to go grocering and so much cleaning to do!!! but tags again later
omg which other of Jedao's inmates was awful about cloud strife specifically XD
his first inmate, James Flint from Black Sails - a previous cloud player I think?
Cloud had killed someone close to him actually on accident and James Could Not Handle It (his whole four seasons arc is revenge for his murdered lover so like. very on brand)
jedao was straight up babysitting him around the clock when he wasn't with another warden friend for a couple of months to make sure he could go attack cloud
previous cloud player yeah
Sebastian when he finds out Jedao is staying in the cell with her:
narrowmybed: Florian brought her a changing screen and is getting her dressed in the mornings
narrowmybed: Florian brought her a screen and is coming to tie her dresses and do her hair through the bars in the morning. So you know...she's living in barbaric conditions rn
I saw! Florian is the best as always and Sebastian appreciates him.
Still! A man and a woman sleeping in the same room without being married... scandalous.
I'm her warden. that's like the ultimate chaperon (is that how you say it?)
he says it with a hard CH somehow
when did he even see it written down? who knows
Justine just shaking her head to the side "no, honey...."
alternative answer: I AM married :3
Also Justine has had SOOOOO many people spend the night. Sebastian....
but it wasn't obvious (it was)
also tbh Jamie or Yunlan is on shift in zero - they aren't actually alone!
also: are there technically two bunk beds in the cell? yes
is Jedao sleeping on the floor anyway to give Justine The Bed Side? also yes
Does Justine ever consider telling him it's okay to take the bottom bunk? Absolutely not.
...honestly I think being without his mothsense for a week, the floor is less disorienting than a mattress
Look, Sebastian didn't come up with all these silly rules of etiquette; it's not his fault they make no sense half the time.
Does Sebastian just want something to puff his cheeks about?
he very much feels sort of like he's gone blind, or like all the reality has drained out of the world and there's nothing but voice and everything is fake. the floor is nice and solid
it's fine, he can handle it!!! he spends a couple hours in zero once a month just to be sure he won't be incapcitated if there's a warden-depower flood or they go back to some shitty place like the galley or something
and he has chosen this!!! a week is a lot though
and he missed a month on the NS and all
It is a lot! Says Justine. Pouting.
Jedao: So we're going to learn that actions have consequences...
Florian and Sebastian: Not on our watch.
the consequences are mostly the boredom and the Not Being Able To Get Away From Thinking About It Because He's Right There
she can't think about it properly if she's just bitching about her clothing
gotta take care of the essentials and then she can properly ruminate on her fuck up
yeah, it's meant to be time out, not degradation
he is very much a tiny bit miffed at Florian for the "the help" comment
cause that seems a lot one step forward two steps back to him
he was trying to explain it to her in language she'd get
but he didn't interrupt because. takes a village!
Honestly, this timeout is.......really, really effective.
he's dealt with enough nobles that 'but they're people' is not the argument to them most people think it is
'this is SPECIFICALLY how you degraded them'
'as in you treated them as being in your employ/at your service which they are not'
Jedao is, from his own baggage, extremely hypersensitive to "they don't count" on account of. the ritual torture of heretics thing. so anything that sounds like endorsing that has him with his ears up like a hunting dog
the 'we don't experiment on the help EITHER' is, to his mind, step TWO
and I mean, Florian himself is of a class of people who in his world would have been murdered at birth so like
just taking her down the path one step at a time
but also like. he acknowledges that like....his role is different? he's the last call arbiter for her as her warden, so he can't endorse stuff he knows to be wrong
it's the kind of thing he'd never say to her WITHOUT Jedao in earshot
everything he said and did was specifically because Jedao was there
he does appreciate that !! and may or may not talk to him about it later, we'll see
class in the hexarchate is so wildly different in its paradigms
nodnod. Florian's got a weird place in all that because blue-blooded as hell BUT broke as a joke.
family founded the city but also worked as an accountant for a living.
but hopefully they get to talk!
I do think Jedao understands Where Justine is At enough that his take is less "but they're people!" but like. "IN A SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS, they are people. Wild. let me know if we have to break down the shylock speech line by line, it's cool"
which is sort of where they're at in their own thread. inching towards "pain is bad" and "i understand most people aren't giant masochists like us"
Not me looking for an excuse for Sebastian to helpfully be like "well, of course it would have completely fine to experiment on the help".
didn't see you down there sipping the rose water, Sebastian :|
Sebastian, deeply offended: "I would have if she had asked :|"
(Sadly a true statement.)
...Okay, caveat: he'd tell her he'd be happy to do it, but it'd be a terrible idea because he would likely be legitimately dangerous, and he could already tell her he would not rescue some rando before saving himself.
She wouldn't ask Sebastian. That's her SOULMATE and also she's pretty sure he would have cheated
lol, which, right there, makes it very clear that she knows it's A Bad Thing To Do To People XD
The fact that her "psychological experiments" came up in conversation with Tendi and she refused to elaborate also means she knew it was a bad thing, or at least that other people wouldn't approve.
yeah John pointed that out, especially since they were spending a lot of time together before that
True! Justine has a very...complicated relationship with it. I was actually saying this earlier somewhere else, but Justine is well aware that the dynamic with her father (using her for experiments and such) is one that she sees as fine for them. And she carries some of the blame for it because she antagonized him. But it's how he showed his love!
She does, however, recognize that other people don't have that dynamic. Combine that toxic view with a dubious definition of consent and you get...this.
Will just nodding his head along with toxic love and experiments and terrible definitions of consent. getting past that was a big part of his graduation.
(also sorry he blew up at you, Jedao. he might be doing a little less okay than he thought.)
Maggie just had a harebrained aftermath idea, which she might throw out to Jedao without strategizing it as fully as she characteristically does.
I need to get some responses into the Justine thread too
not me waiting for Jedao to tell Norton how pretty Abel is
Norton asking the important (to him) questions.
Jedao is always willing to objectify a man in a good cause
Abel over here dying.
let me know if you want to hit that first or I can!
no worries
BBitsaboi - and you can skip Jedao for now!
okay! I might just split the thread off cause Abel will want to ask Jedao about Justine later since he just learned Fitz is seeing her. and he's concerned about his behavior...
we can pull the thread with Norton into his inbox soon too
Abel just shoving Norton in his adorable pajamas because he's afraid that Norton will judge his choices if he dresses him wrong. either that or let him pick out for himself and see how he likes amnesia Norton's taste in clothes.
Amnesiac Norton deciding that ties should be worn on his wrists like ribbons.
Jedao @ Hakkai: "Honey, can you... give Sebastian something to clean while I'm running around putting out fires?"
Hakkai is seriously dubious about Sebastian bringing Justine tea.
DON'T INTERFERE WITH THEIR LOVE
DON'T INTERFERE WITH THEIR LOVE
Given he suspects "casually enabling others' worst traits" is one of Sebastian's own bigger problems....
Jedao: but have you considered. I also want tea
and if he does not bring two teacups I WILL wrestle her for it and it will be very scandalous
He will win and she will throw her shoe at him
Hakkai, suddenly territorial: I can make tea.
this is why John brought Jedao tea
I'm sure you've got it if you're tracking, but I finally got Will coming in to talk to
Justine.