relieable: (the people would sing)
松野おそ松 || Matsuno Osomatsu ([personal profile] relieable) wrote in [community profile] cartesianism2018-10-13 04:51 pm

Week 2 - after trial


[everyone is probably more than a little stunned over what has been going on. while it is true that the Sergeant told them all this would happen, it's different to have to witness it with one's own eyes. while Nine is led away, and the townspeople leave the court, it is up to the visitors to decide how to move forward. do they talk among themselves? do they reflect on the events that took place alone? one thing that is certain is that the Sergeant got his way this week. will he continue to force them to keep picking each other off in the weeks that come? only time will tell.

this isn't really an after party. it's too sad, but perhaps many people will take comfort in the fact that they are not alone. either mingle at the motel, or somewhere else in town, or even visit Nine in his cell. it's up to you as to how you will spend the rest of this afternoon]
burgerprince: (:concern:)

[personal profile] burgerprince 2018-10-15 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's something humbling in listening to Kino talk. Jughead hadn't even begun to see those kind of things, yet he continues to cling to his own misery, and it, if only for a moment, shakes up his sense of perspective.]

I've barely seen the world and I'm already disillusioned.

[Though he says that, it's not entirely true. Despite everything that happened with Riverdale, he still loved it - he still loved it's people, and the pain seeing it become increasingly ugly only proved that fact.]

But...I get it. A little.
quickpersuader: (we will be watching)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-10-15 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I won't say I get it completely, either.

[It's accompanied by a tone of - almost laughter. Still, the traveler dabs at the mouth with a napkin to wipe away the sauce.]

In the end, I'm just doing what I want to do, and if I stop wanting to, I'll stop.

Still... seeing the world and everything it encompasses is a wonderful thing, if you ask me. But it's not for everyone.

[Which Kino understands; as Jughead has likely gathered by now, it's a dangerous way of life. If Kino hadn't fallen into the right circumstances, there's no way Kino would have had the skills to live this long.]
burgerprince: (:monologuing:)

[personal profile] burgerprince 2018-10-16 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sound philosophy.

[He'll cheers to that, but he doesn't have a drink. Instead, he'll just think on it.]

Maybe I'll give it a try if I get out of here.

[He doesn't have a home, and all that ties him to Riverdale are his friends - and even then, he's tried to run away from all of that many times before. Maybe he'll have some grand experience and find himself. Or he'll end up jobless and stranded somewhere.]
quickpersuader: (I met the stars)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-10-17 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's always those what is, when one decides to travel.]

If you do, I hope you can see many wonderful things too.
burgerprince: (:teensip:)

[personal profile] burgerprince 2018-10-17 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll at least see some terrible ones.

[No doubt about that one.]
quickpersuader: (journey continues)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-10-18 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Call it corny, but that's usually what makes the great moments even greater.

Like you've survived everything just to see that one moment.
burgerprince: (:smile:)

[personal profile] burgerprince 2018-10-18 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jughead scoffs, moreso out of instinct than of any real judgement, and barely resists a smile.]

It is corny, though.

[But, as noted by his absence of any further criticism, not entirely wrong. Probably. He believes himself to be too cynical to truly subscribe to that kind of thinking, but that's how the greatest coming of age films always were - you endure the perils of highschool, of your parents, of an unwelcoming world, just to be able to watch the stars from the back of the pickup truck as you speed down the highway on Prom Night.

It's a moment of beauty, of raw feeling, that everything else was just building up to. Maybe everything is just the prelude to something like that.]
quickpersuader: (And then the)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-10-18 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
But still true.

[Though it's followed by a pause, and then, thoughtfully:]

...Then again, maybe it's because I've brushed with death so many times, it's nice to feel like there was a reason for working so hard to stay alive.

[Which is a decidedly less zen take on it, but also, in its own way, true.]
burgerprince: (:concern:)

[personal profile] burgerprince 2018-10-18 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[That's another thing for Jughead to think about.]

I've brushed with it enough.

[Just to keep him safe, as some kind of reparations for all those years he couldn't, where it was directly his fault, FP had taken the fall for something unspeakable, and was serving his sentence for it.]

Guess I should make it all worth it.
quickpersuader: (softly trembling)

[personal profile] quickpersuader 2018-10-19 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
It's a good motivator.

[Though Hermes would probably call Kino weird for it. On the other hand, Hermes would call Kino weird for many things.]
burgerprince: (:snark:)

[personal profile] burgerprince 2018-10-19 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing makes you ready to live quite like death.

[It’s beautifully ironic or something.]