PRIVATE MEETINGS

[andexecutioner]

If you'd like to have a private meeting with the Adjudicator, this is where you should go! The Adjudicator is available at almost all hours of the day; just knock and he'll answer.

Comments are screened for privacy; no eavesdropping, that's rude.

Comments

[andexecutioner]

[...Uh.

Juri will just kind of eyeball those mice for a while, arching an eyebrow a bit as he does so. Ferid. Buddy. Pal. What are you doing.]

...Are you okay?

[seventhprogenitor]

Perfectly healthy.

[... Onto the desk they go! Hope there's nothing important there.]

Your concern, however, is touching. I've just realized how utterly dull this place is when no one's dying.

[andexecutioner]

You think so?

[...He says, with the full goddamn knowledge that of course Ferid thinks so; more a placeholder than anything.]

It's boring, yeah, but it's also like I said - that's a totally valid way to play the game, if that's what they want to do.

[seventhprogenitor]

If they find themselves fine with that, I'm not quite sure what I'll do. No one seemed particularly impressed by your threat this time either.

[Seemed is the key word. There's always been people who're better at hiding it than others, after all, and those who talk big often are the perpetrators.]

[andexecutioner]

[He shrugs a bit at that.]

You know full well that that doesn't matter. Somebody usually snaps and moves. If they don't...well, that's going to be the way it is, I don't know what to tell you.

[He tips his head a little once that's out there, though, picking up one of the mice and looking it over.]

You going to do something, if no one else does?

[seventhprogenitor]

Indeed~. This very well may be the last week we have together, my dearest host, because I'm not so stupid to think that they won't find some way to fumble their way to the truth. I'm only curious to see how long it takes them.

[Even if they have to like, convict someone else. He won't stop them then. That'd be fun to watch.]

On the off chance I get away with it, show me how to run this place and you can have a vacation. I'd like to try my hand at it too~.

[andexecutioner]

[......]

...Don't worry. If you win, I'll definitely keep you around for a while.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Awwwww.]

You do like me.

[How cute!!]

[andexecutioner]

You're not too bad, I guess.

[...He. Tried. Or something.]

[seventhprogenitor]

You're as bad as Isaac. Come now, you can say it! It isn't like it's against the rules to favor one person over another privately, since I'm not expecting anything from you.

[UNLESS YOU'RE FINALLY GIVING HIM A GODDAMN OF SILLY STRAWS.]

[andexecutioner]

No one here is as bad as Isaac.

[...juri of all things you could have just said

you are literally as bad as isaac]

[seventhprogenitor]

[of all the things]

Having spent a healthy amount of time with both of you, object of my affections, I can say with absolute certainty that you are.

[andexecutioner]

[Hmph.]

So are you ever going to tell me if you're serious or not with all of that affection crap?

[seventhprogenitor]

[And now he's embarrassed!!]

You don't believe me when I say that I couldn't be more serious? For shame, for shame~. I'm hurt. Wounded. My heart couldn't be more battered by your words.

[as flippant as always, jesus christ]

Whether I'm serious or not doesn't matter though, does it? I'm enjoying your curiosity quite a bit.

[andexecutioner]

It doesn't matter, no. Nothing's going to come of it either way.

[Just. Let him go back to playing around with one of those stupid little mice.]

You going to believe me if I say it's not you, it's me?

[seventhprogenitor]

Of course~! I have no reason to doubt you, after all, and I've always found you honest when you answer about what matters.

[... What matters in Juri's opinion, anyways.]

Besides, you don't have an interest in trite things like that. Have you always been so apathetic to others?

[andexecutioner]

Yeah, actually. For as long as I can remember.

[seventhprogenitor]

You don't think very much of others, then, and though it's unintentionally rude that's just how it is. Not born from arrogance, but from a simple lack of interest. It's no wonder you and I are such good of friends~.

[Besties even.]

What do you think of yourself?

[andexecutioner]

[Just...let him kind of stare at you for a moment, Ferid. Sort of like you've grown another head? What in the world.]

What do you mean?

[seventhprogenitor]

[it's a simple question juri]

Exactly as I've asked! When some people are given this question, they spiel off into how they think themselves a good person, a bad person, their perceived strengths and weaknesses... It's their time to either toot their own horn or throw a pity-party they hope others will pat them on the back about.

[andexecutioner]

[well, yeah, but.]

Do I really seem like the sort of person to do either of those things?

[...Anyway.]

Most people here think I'm a bad person - they call me a murderer, they blame me for their choices. And that's fine, they can think that all they want; when it comes to the question of whether I'm a good or a bad person, the fact is that I'm neither.

I wonder if I'm broken sometimes. I'm pretty sure I am. But other than that, I don't really question myself. I don't expect you to pat me on the back or anything for it, it's just objective fact.

I look down on humans because I'm better than them, though. That's also objective fact.

In general, though, I don't really stand around and think about myself and my place in the universe and whether I'm good or bad, right or wrong. I'm just Juri, that's all.

[seventhprogenitor]

You speak as if you're simply a tool... which I suppose in essence you are, seeing as you're the one who delivers the justice we ask of you. A machine doing its job.

[There's no exact tone behind his words; it's just an observation, picking up one of the mice himself and swinging it around by the tail.]

Machines that can't be fixed are scraped~. Aren't you worried that something like that might happen to you?

[andexecutioner]

[He's quiet for a moment at that, but he'll drag his attention over from the mouse he's playing with and looking over after a moment.]

I won't be. And even if I am...so what?

If I can't do what I'm here for, then there's no point in me existing.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Woooow.]

How pitiable~. Though seeing that in such a black and white way suits you perfectly, I wouldn't call you broken so long as you can do what you're supposed to do in life. [A pause; then, a correction:] What you're needed to do.

[He's like, hella broken compared to people with a sense of compassion and empathy, but then Ferid is too in that sense.]

...wow my grammar went to absolute shit in that last tag, i am sorry

[andexecutioner]

[He just shrugs.]

My life is a lot simpler than a lot of people make it out to be. If anything, people complicate things entirely too much - there's not a whole lot that matters out there in the end.