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graveyard part five
 You wake up in an unfamiliar cabin. At first, it almost seems like you're in an entirely different place and that everything had been just a dream. The interior of the cabin looks nothing like the run-down, old-timey shacks that you had been living in before. Everything in here is sleek and modern, from the enormous flat-screen TV mounted on the wall to the fridge and mini-bars stocked with all your favorite foods. There aren't any individual rooms in here, just a common area large enough to house everyone comfortably, no matter how many more people join you...and there will be plenty more people joining you before the week is over. Because if you look outside the window, it quickly becomes clear that not only are you still in Prayer's Pass, but that you are no longer among the realm of the living. Judging from the tombstones directly outside, you're now in what had been the abandoned broken-down cabin in the graveyard. The cabin's not all that changed; the world outside has gone completely grey and everything you see appears to be faded and blurry. The only things that remain sharp and in color are what's inside the cabin, including your fellow ghosts. Occasionally, people who are still alive may enter, but it's clear that what they're seeing is completely different from what you're seeing. The door's unlocked; however, a mysterious force prevents you from stepping beyond the threshold, no matter how hard you may try. After all, this cabin is a cage for the dead - a gilded one, perhaps, but a cage nonetheless. On the flat-screen TV plays everything that is currently happening in the town. It will shut off once night starts...and something else will appear instead. |
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It's a tough call. Naegi was an absolutely awful hunter, without a single doubt the worst one in the pack and I'm counting the ones who did nothing until they got set on fire, but outside of that his friends seem to have liked him somehow. I think he was just one of those sorts who responds to a situation like that - having to make sure like forty people including several of your good friends all die, I mean - with denial instead of getting really into it. [unlike some people]
So maybe if he became a ghost he would have been okay. Or if he'd been prey all along, which is basically how he acted anyway. The Doctor, though, he'd probably be pulling this garbage no matter what his role was. And be intolerable in the afterlife continuing this craziness here. You realize if he's this convinced he can help "over here" he's probably not gonna give up like a sensible person but keep trying the rest of his godforsaken time here.
You aren't going to catch me saying a single good thing about Naegi, no way. But he at least waited to turn himself in until he got Watched. ...or thought he had been. Okay, I'm still angry as hell about that whole damned trial but you get the point.
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Holden! My, it seems like it's been ages since we've last had a chat! Wherever have you been, hm? And goodness, why so far away? I can barely hear you, you ought to sit here! [pats the space between himself and Joshua HAHAHA]
—Ah, but that much I can vouch for, it's true. The man is a stubborn mule and he doesn't let go of anything once he thinks it's a good idea, no matter how idiotic it is. I can only be grateful that your pet snake is sensible enough to not be cowed and that's really saying something. [...] You know, that trial is one of the reasons we didn't even bother clearing you before we took you to the gallows.
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He just cannot resist the siren song of opportunities to talk about how awful Naegi is or the role his failure had in his own death.]
...I had a feeling. I mean, I stuck my neck out so goddamn far for the guy. I knew that would look bad later. But I'd figured, you know, it could delay his execution at least a little and if we were lucky get Lithuania lynched. I know if he'd actually tried at all to command the Hope's Peak army he would have been guaranteed at least another day. But he didn't care about the numbers. It's a good thing we took his gun away from him because he probably wouldn't have shot anyone if he'd had one on him before he died either. Did you know he didn't even carry it with him?
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Yes, do come join us! [gives him a sparkling beam] Don't worry about intruding. Charles and I may share a special relationship, but I assure you there's always room for one more - ah, what was that word you used again? - flit.
Ahh, what a disappointing trial that was. Here I had geared myself all up to defend Lithuania's bluff, and the only person who even bothered questioning it was...[waves a hand at Holden like he can't even bother sparing the effort to remember] If I knew it was going to be that easy, we should have started faking the lookout's results ages ago.
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Ah, you really must join us in that case! They say that two is a party and three is a crowd but crowds are always a little more entertaining, wouldn't you say? If Joshua doesn't mind it, I certainly don't. [propping his chin up and smiling genially!! too bad even his genial smiles are kind of wolfish. can't do much about that when you have sharp teeth...]
About that trial though, I do agree. If we had done that sooner we might have been able to keep Ukraine around a little longer. [SIGH] Well, we already know our biggest mistake was overestimation, yes?