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Who: Pyxis and Visitors
Where: Pyxis
When: Day 267, Afternoon
What: [Memories and mingling at your leisure!]

[After derping around the main area awkwardly for a while D'Eon finally speaks up]

-- Ah, while things were a little waylaid by everyone... transforming... it does seem that things are back to normal now, and I was wondering if there were any procedure around taking our memories? I haven't, yet...

... [and while on the subject of being awkward as hell]...

As well, ah, the last I desire to do is take advantage of recent misfortunes, but I have been sleeping on the floor to date, and with ...fewer people... I was wondering about the possibility of perhaps claiming a room-?

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*definitely chokes at the sight of another black coming toward him, and looks down and away*

A-ah... That's me.

Weed-san, what-

[Wait. That is NOT a reaction from a blind guy.]

*nope it sure isn't. And given that he wouldn't expect Number One's girlfriend to be in black, he's not placing the voice at all*

...s-sorry. I don't know what you want...

[Oh, damn it.]

[And there's a long pause as she debates what to do.]

[And eventually sighs.] I don't want anythin', Weed-san. I just wanted ta say hi.

...ah. Um... Hi...

[Might as well say it.]

It's Kazuha.

*MORE CHOKING and he leans back against the wall hard*

...you lied...

Ah... Shit... I'm sorry... *quickly trying to go through his interactions with her, trying to make sure he hadn't done anything punishable*

Ya don't have ta apologize! [Quick to say this.]

....and I only really lied once.

A-ah. S-sor--

Um...

*trails off*

... [Sighs and she just LOOKS sad.]

I lied about why I didn't want ta hit ya. I thought ya were hurt wrongly enough by my team's temper tantrums. It wasn't pity, it was a distaste for some of their actions and not wantin' to make it worse.

*shocked look*

...temper tantrums?

[Blushes a bit.] I know that I get angry at Heiji for stupid things. It's...somethin' we just do.

And what he did... [The blush fades and the sad look returns.] He...

[And then it's angry.] Agh! If it didn't feel like kickin' a puppy, I'd have given him the hits he rightly deserved! He was supposed ta be one of the sane ones because we got the new people! And yet he let himself get all angry and did something so STUPID and WRONG!

[...she doesn't know about your other trauma yet.]

...He's Ophiuchus.

That doesn't matter!

I know we're not all right in the head. The fact we agreed ta be in these positions, no matter what the reason, requires us ta have some sort of ability to do what we KNOW is wrong. And we'd have ta be crazy ta do that!

But doin' what we know is wrong when we have ta is one thing, it's another ta do wrong when we DON'T. There was no Judge, there was no order! It was a fight between two friends who were frustrated in the situation and if he was still pissed, fine, he could taze ya! That's a lot more acceptable than what he did.

What he did wasn't and his reasons were stupid and if actually thought about it, wouldn't accomplish what he wanted anyway. But no, he had a temper tantrum and even if I get why he did, it doesn't make it anymore right!

[...she's really been not happy with this. And trying to think of the best way to lecture Roy about it without him being unreasonable. =|]

*s-so many words, that he agrees with, and yet*

A-ah. Yeah. I... I figured he'd taze me, figured I'd earned that much...

Then maybe the fight was bad enough to warrant it. I'd probably punch Heiji's lights out if he knocked me out too, accident or not, but even if it was unreasonable, it's short, temporary, and something ya can apologize for.

But no! No, he went and did somethin' STUPID. He was supposed ta be one who didn't like what we had ta do, he was the one who got why I hate ta do the bad things, and he just...

Agh! It was wrong! And he was wrong! He was supposed ta be better than that!

[And even in her angry ranting, there's some tears in her eyes, crossing her arms, and not looking at Daisy.]

He's supposed ta be better...

...I knocked him out because he attacked me with fire...

I just... I know how Ophiuchus works... Two eyes for an eye, generally. Make sure everyone knows their place. Dealt with it before, when they broke my arm.

....HE WHAT?! [Yeah, he...left out that part.] Of course ya would knock him out! Who wouldn't knock out a blind man attackin' with fire?! Damn it, Blaze!

It SHOULDN'T BE HOW IT WORKS. We're enforcers! The rules we have ta enforce, the work in the games we have ta do, it's bad enough. We don't need to make thin's even worse, but...

[Gritting her teeth and rubbing at her eyes.] But that's how it's been! The time of people who join, they've always been...it's only recently it's changed...

I still attacked an Ophiuchus. So there had to be a punishment. That's how Ophiuchus works.

He attacked you with FIRE. A kick does not deserve fire! Especially when he can't aim properly!

[No, will never think this is right.] There's a difference between force and unnecessary force!

Maybe but... Might makes right.

No, it doesn't!

...Ma'am, you... I uh... I don't want to correct you, but... You and Orange might be the only ones on that team who think that.

...

There's a few more. At least possibilities.

And a few who don't care if it's right or not.

But just because some think it is, doesn't mean it IS.

...

Ma'am, I was knocked to the ground, had my pants and shoes stolen, and my feet burned because I walked into a situation blind and didn't know what was happening. It... It doesn't matter what the ideal is, if enough people act like that's how it works, then the rest of us have to live as though it does.