[not again] catchall for phoenix

[fishingforcompliments]

i'll do a properly pretentious visualosity later i just found this while i was looking and died of laughter

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w1, saturday

[fishingforcompliments]

[WELL, THIS SURE AS FUCK WASN'T HOW I ANTICIPATED OUR POST-TRIAL PC WOULD TURN OUT.

but anyway, hi phoenix, welcome to the bonfire! population: one sad green-haired girl. she's staring down into the flames from where she's sitting on a bench, her eyes downcast.

when he draws near, though, she looks up.]

Phoenix...

[slobjection]

[ the most depressing bonfire..... anyway, phoenix will approacheth. he has procured more pudding, so he plops one next to flayn ]

Mind if I join you?

[fishingforcompliments]

[she shakes her head]

I do not mind.

[he's free to plop down wherever he wants! she picks up the pudding to examine it, but doesn't eat it.]

[slobjection]

[ eat your pudding, apollo. ]

Hot off the pudding press. Indulge me, won't you?

[fishingforcompliments]

[ah.]

I apologize, but... I have little appetite right now.

[slobjection]

Even just half of it.

[ how can you say no to this sad hobo face!! it's not sad but still a hoboface ]

[fishingforcompliments]

[she shakes her head]

I cannot. I am sorry.

[slobjection]

You need to keep your strength up, you know.

[fishingforcompliments]

I am aware. And I will eat something later, I swear, but...

[her voice trails off, and she sighs.]

My intention is to prepare everything I eat here with my own two hands.

[slobjection]

Everything? Even a snack from a friend?

[ she really is dedicated ]

[fishingforcompliments]

Everything.

[she would like to not get poisoned again thanks!]

[slobjection]

[ it's sealed, flayn, how is he gonna poison it!! ]

Fair enough. Can I sit with you for a while, instead?

[fishingforcompliments]

[she doesn't know who handled it before it was sealed!!]

Yes - that would be fine. Thank you, Phoenix.

[slobjection]

[ it's factory sealed!! ]

[ anyway he will sit with her. ]

[fishingforcompliments]

[factories have employees!!!




anyway, yeah, now they're sitting.]

...what do you think will happen tomorrow?

[slobjection]

[ and they are all out to poison flayn specifically ]

.... It's sure to be messy. I can't imagine Ogata will take this all lying down.

[fishingforcompliments]

...no, I cannot imagine that he will.

[slobjection]

Suppose it depends on who's the unlucky executioner up to bat.

[fishingforcompliments]

Whoever it is... they will be in an unfair situation. No one could possibly expect them to simply lay down their life, but...

Ogata is innocent of this death, too.

[slobjection]

Can't say there's a right answer to any of this. We all just have to do what we can.

[ thanks for the vague nonsense ]

[fishingforcompliments]

...yes, you are right.

[there isn't really anything more they can do other than what they can - but what if that isn't enough?]

[slobjection]

You were able to save your dead at the end, no?

[fishingforcompliments]

Yes, we were s— that is, we were able to save them.

[slobjection]

Us, too.

And I think that's the prize we should be keeping our eyes on, no? Saving the whole.

[fishingforcompliments]

[she nods]

I do not think any of us shall be satisfied if we leave here without saving everyone we arrived with.