third ♢ filters & voice

[versusnurture]

filter } inmates

How many of you think that you're insane?

filter } inmates-turned-wardens (minus ben)

What made you decide to stay on as wardens?

Comments

private

[persecutioncomplex]

I don't want to talk about her.

But I think you needed to know. You're the kind of person she'd get ideas about, she does about everyone who's close to... someone important.

private

[versusnurture]

There's another 'you'. Someone else in your head. The way Harvey has.

private

[persecutioncomplex]

I don't like her like he does his.

private

[versusnurture]

Yes. He's very attached.

Do you hate her?

private

[persecutioncomplex]

All she does is get in the way. ["Yes."]

Ben's never met her.

private

[versusnurture]

[Maybe, Abigail thinks, he should.]

You don't want him to.

private

[persecutioncomplex]

I don't want anyone else to. She makes people think I'm someone else.

private

[versusnurture]

I like who you are now. So far, anyway.

What's she like?

private

[persecutioncomplex]

All she cares about is filth. She likes hurting people, making them suffer.

private

[versusnurture]

Lots of people do. But not you?

private

[persecutioncomplex]

[She has to be polite. She has to be, or she's going to lose him because Abigail will say something.]

If I did, I would just be her.

private

[versusnurture]

Lucky that you have a part of yourself to do those things for you.

[She is definitely, definitely trying to provoke you now, Touko. She wants to see what will happen.]

private

[persecutioncomplex]

If you think that, you don't know anything about it.

private

[versusnurture]

I know plenty.

private

[persecutioncomplex]

What do you think you know?

private

[versusnurture]

There's a part of everyone that wants to do bad things.

private

[persecutioncomplex]

[It's about her specifically, she knows, and she doesn't know who's told Abigail what. Her teeth grit and she lets out an irritated sound: she's not going to let this be about her.]

Most people here let theirs free.

private

[versusnurture]

Because they have nothing left to lose?

private

[persecutioncomplex]

[No, because people are vile.]

It's not as if it's any different from the world before.

private

[versusnurture]

It's different. There's no real structure to make them not want to let it out. A week in Zero? A death toll? What does that mean, in the long run?

private

[persecutioncomplex]

[She's had the same thought hundreds of times since she came here, generally in the context of hurting or killing someone she hates.]

Nothing. But it isn't as if any kind of threatened punishment stops people back home, if they're smart enough to evade it or don't care.

private

[versusnurture]

But you don't even have to be smart here.

private

[persecutioncomplex]

You have to be smart to realize it doesn't mean anything. Some people still feel terrible about being shamed publicly.