audio; un: nanatsuya

[counterfeitheart]

So uh

I see everyone got this bullshit list of bullshit. Or at least numerous people.

So here's the deal. You got this shit here that don't mean shit, like "Geoscience"? Is that even relevant to us right now? "Comms Officer". Yeah that sure as hell doesn't mean shit to anyone here. Sounds like some military crap, first of all. Here we are, everyone using the comms and I can't see anyone figuring out how to stop someone yet. "Quarter Master"? Who the fuck even cares.

Now "Chief Food Supplier" is something we direly need but seeing as all we have are those crappy food dispensers, I'm not entirely sure what you would even do. I think that could be reworded to "Head chef" too, unless one of you fuckheads want to fly your happy ass down to that planet over there and try to catch some real meat.

Anyway, that's all just unnecessary garbage, but what I'm trying to get at is that we HARDLY have what could pass as a society here, and I don't know about you, but ain't none of you paying enough to get me or like anyone with a shred of self-respect to be a goddamn "Waste Disposal Chief". We don't even have an economy here.

So, how 'bout we just set this shit aside and don't even think about it, honestly? If you want a roster so bad, take one of those books and write everyone's names down.

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[wingstosee]

Yeah. And the prison, actually. [ she sounds like she's smiling. she doesn't sound like she likes it. ] I mean, isn't that how it always is? Save the world from the bad guys.

[ wow, that's kind of a hot take, venus. ]

[solarcharged]

Those pesky bad guys, always ruining the world. [ His lips twist at the edges, smiling despite the severity of what they're talking about. ] Either way, they apparently failed. Seventh time the charm?

[wingstosee]

Ruining the world. If you're boring, maybe. [ clearly, she's working with a different interpretation of "bad guys" - probably thanks to what she's told apollo elsewhere. ] And I kind of want to know what we're trying to save the world from before we go for it? Like, maybe that's why everyone else keeps failing. They don't even know what the problem is yet.

[solarcharged]

Like maybe the people who are 'saving the world' are actually the real bad guys?

[ That faint smile is still on Apollo's lips, even if the topic in question is still deadly serious. Apollo knows from painful experience that sometimes saving the world can easily make a villain out of you, even if you're doing the right thing. The smile cracks a little bit, turning bleak at the edges. ]

You've got a good point.

[wingstosee]

Maybe. Or maybe there aren't even any bad guys. Maybe they're saving the world from one thing by ruining it with another.

[ a pause, a breath- and then a soft laugh. it's not happy, exactly, but it's not angry either. ]

It's not really a good point. Just... maybe something we're forgetting. Sometimes, people do things without really understanding what they're doing.

[solarcharged]

[ It hurts, how much Apollo agrees. He can't bring himself to regret the impact that the Authority's actions have had on the world but he remembers. He'll never forget. ]

I think that's called human nature.

[ There's a crooked smile on his lips that can be heard in his voice - rueful, a little sad. He'd said exactly the same words to his daughter, once. ]

[wingstosee]

Haha. I guess so, huh? [ but she pauses, for a moment, before- ] But... maybe it's even more than that? Aliens, devils, angels - maybe we're all just sort of crappy at that part.

[ it's not a particularly deep observation. but it's important to her. ]