week two ♡ sunday ♡ jinah

[jokered]

[he definitely needed time to clear his head—tensions were high all around during the trial. it's no surprised that people were getting snappy at the end of the night, himself included.

but akira has a very thick sense of justice, and a thicker sense for protecting people in the biggest ways he can. so he got heated hearing an adult completely, selfishly vote with their conscience like there was a moral high ground to really stand on in a game of life and death.

he's not the sort of person to let things sit, though.

grudges and bad blood in a game of trust sounds awful, and bellamy somehow talked jinah from the ledge to make the wiser choice. maybe there's ground to talk and try to work things out? it's... frustrating.

really frustrating, since the trust is compromised—akira's faith in any adult is tenuous at best and this definitely shook his in her. but he has to do what he can. so before the execution, he'll still make an effort to find her, and quietly—and calmly, much more so than during the trial:]

Do you have a few minutes?

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[sasetai]

[ He is certainly not the first person she expects to greet her in the morning to say the least. Truthfully she had no regrets about what had transpired. When you were open about your feelings you gave other people the right to comment. She made a choice, and those were the consequences. If she was entitled to speak her piece so was he.

Still, it's hard not to be a little nervous. Especially without Vriska around.

She still manages a smile in greeting. ]

I do, did you need something?

[jokered]

[it's a good start, if nothing else. she could have easily brushed him off or showed a lot more visible discomfort—so he'll take that as a sign that maybe it's actually a worthwhile endeavor.

he knows he could walk away from this conversation more frustrated than before, but if nothing else? he's calm. mild-mannered, almost, but still with that underlying sense of being assertive; he stands for what he believes in, so he has to at least try here.]

I just wanted to talk. I'll keep it quick. [mostly because it's die day part 2 and everyone's got a lot on their minds as it is.]

[sasetai]

[ It's not difficult to guess about what. She's not sure how satisfying this talk might be for him, but it's not in her nature to turn down what might possibly be a white flag.

Though she supposes, it could also be something else. ]

If you want to talk, I want to listen. Please, go ahead.

[jokered]

[yeah. he's definitely not waving a white flag here. sorry to disappoint, jinah.]

Thanks. For not just voting in a way that eased your own conscience. [yeah. he's not going to ever agree with her way of thinking, but.

he's still honestly relieved that she didn't just vote for "whoever," especially after seeing how easily votes could have been swayed thank to hal and pal.]

We all need to get better about working together and looking out for each other as much as we look out for ourselves.

[sasetai]

You should be thanking Bellamy I think.

[ She says it a little sheepishly, because it's the truth. Ultimately she had voted the way she had out of concern for Austria, not much else. She was many things, but she was unable to pretend to be anyone but who she was.

There is a moment of quiet deliberation before she speaks again. ]

Um, can I ask you something?

[ She had her own priorities, yes. But they didn't misalign entirely with the group's as a whole. ]

You think about this kind of stuff a lot, so I guess you might have already considered it but.. the Chief won't let us do what we did again. What are we going to do if the next time is like this time, and we can't figure it out again?

[jokered]

Bellamy isn't the one who submitted your vote. You still did that yourself.

[she could have easily lied to appease them and then wrote in a different vote, or not have been convinced by him. he doesn't necessarily agree with her reasons—likely even if she voted randomly, it wouldn't have changed the outcome.

it's just that the line of thinking is a dangerous one, and a habit that should be broken before one vote really could be life or death for someone undeserving.]

More than anything, we need to not give up on trying to find the people actually responsible for killing.

[but...] Otherwise, we need to try and make an agreement as a group. There's no easy way out of this—I hate it, but coming to a consensus on how to best vote is all we can do.

It's never going to be fair. It's never going to feel good—but I'm not sure the punishment risks are worth the reward.

[though he notes:] I'm fighting against my own beliefs in this game for sake of protecting my partner.

[in case there was any doubt that he feels strongly about what he's doing, it breaches his moral fiber in a really sickening way.]