[He stares down at his now very pretty hands, face pensive. Help find the cure. Save this world and maybe others, if people are being recruited from all over reality like this. It'd be the 'right' thing to do.
Finally he looks up, eyes sharp]
All we have to do is figure out a way to stop it. Purge it. Without starting the whole thing over again. I get why you're doing it, but I'm going to find another way.
[at first his face twists with rage... only to crumple with realization.]
They'd lose hope.
[Without something literal to fight, without a goal of freedom, everything would devolve into chaos.
More than the dog tags around his neck, more than Usagi literally giving him the responsibility of a god- this knowledge hangs on his shoulders like a weight. Suddenly Ren knows, in a way that has nothing to do with age, what it means to be an adult]
[When it gets closer to the end, and the surviving group is more obvious? Maybe that would be the time to share. But not now, not when people would take that information in the wrong way and lose hope.]
It's a lot to bear, I know. This is my eighth year doing it.
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Date: 2018-06-22 07:22 pm (UTC)[He stares down at his now very pretty hands, face pensive. Help find the cure. Save this world and maybe others, if people are being recruited from all over reality like this. It'd be the 'right' thing to do.
Finally he looks up, eyes sharp]
All we have to do is figure out a way to stop it. Purge it. Without starting the whole thing over again. I get why you're doing it, but I'm going to find another way.
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Date: 2018-06-22 07:24 pm (UTC)Though I must also ask you not to give the other campers the details you have figured out. Most of them would not take it as well as you have.
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Date: 2018-06-22 07:46 pm (UTC)They'd lose hope.
[Without something literal to fight, without a goal of freedom, everything would devolve into chaos.
More than the dog tags around his neck, more than Usagi literally giving him the responsibility of a god- this knowledge hangs on his shoulders like a weight. Suddenly Ren knows, in a way that has nothing to do with age, what it means to be an adult]
...okay. For now.
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Date: 2018-06-22 08:00 pm (UTC)[When it gets closer to the end, and the surviving group is more obvious? Maybe that would be the time to share. But not now, not when people would take that information in the wrong way and lose hope.]
It's a lot to bear, I know. This is my eighth year doing it.
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Date: 2018-06-22 08:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-23 04:27 am (UTC)Just don't stare into the abyss for too long, alright?