Dr. Newton Geiszler (
completelycrazy) wrote2018-03-24 10:49 pm
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week 2 - magnus - saturday, post-trial
[It's late when Newt spots Magnus hanging around outside of the movie theater. Ugh. This guy. Newt is so beyond not in the mood to talk to him right now.
But, well, he'd be lying if he tried to claim their last conversation hasn't been stuck in his head all night.]
Guess we're three for three on Reapers.
[And that's as much as his pride will let him admit defeat.]
But, well, he'd be lying if he tried to claim their last conversation hasn't been stuck in his head all night.]
Guess we're three for three on Reapers.
[And that's as much as his pride will let him admit defeat.]
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But if you don't want me to talk to them, or, uh, rough him up a little, what do you want from me.
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But, hm. He's not sure what he wants, actually. He thinks for a moment, chewing on his lip.]
Why do you trust me all the sudden?
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[Is... that better or worse?? Newt can't tell. Eh. At least he's used to people not liking him.]
Okay, so why did you trust me in the first place? There are seven of us running around trying to kill everyone. [...] I mean, I'm not a Reaper, but... Realistically? You have no way of knowing that I'm telling the truth.
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Well, that's easy. [Crackling his knuckles, just enough to show off the muscles underneath his partially rolled up sleeves.] Even if you were a Reaper, if you came for me, I'd kick your ass.
Uh. Seriously, though? I don't like, y'know, manipulative shit. If I've got a problem with someone, I wanna punch 'em and work it out. If I wanna kill someone, I'll just kill 'em. I don't really care about hiding from the Reapers. I mean, I have to care some, because I have Taako, and because, uh, there's some really important things I have to do at home. But not enough to just not trust anyone just because they might try to kill me at some point.
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You're really that confident that you could take out a Reaper if one tried to kill you? They get, like, special weapons and stuff. And they get to set the stage for whatever they want to do to you. Plus, who knows how these things actually go down? The whole group could come for you at once. They have a definite advantage, dude.
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So, it's not that you trust me when I say I'm not a Reaper. It's that you don't care if I am.
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I don't even necessarily got a beef with Reapers. Like, fuck Junko, fuck Dahlia, but I dunno. Terra wasn't the worst. It's just that the way things are set up, it's us against them, and they're playing us versus them, so so am I?
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Uh... Okay, but "us versus them" is them trying to kill us. It's not like we're, I don't know, playing baseball or something. The stakes are too high to treat this like it's all in good fun, dude.
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[Pausing to gather his thoughts.]
Uh. I don't really care about moral equivalency? I've never understood why people think right and wrong are so complicated you have to debate over it. Junko and Dahlia seemed pretty bad, and everyone keeps saying Terra was a good guy, but, uh, he strangled someone who didn't hurt anybody and lied to all his friends. Seems bad to me!
But there's a lot of people here who keep saying it, right? Hey, Terra was a good guy. Reapers aren't so bad. Maybe the Reapers are being forced. Like, it's real important to them for us to know about it. So. I can't help but think, hey, do you know something? Got a buddy who told you something? Is it you? And, um, if they are trying to tell us something, I want it out there. I'm listening, now. Once you've killed somebody? I won't be listening anymore.
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Gathering more information is always going to be useful, even if it's coming from crazies like Junko or Dahlia. [...] What about the other murders, then? The ones that weren't done by a Reaper?