28th Hangover - Actions Have Consequences [Phone | Action]

[hisnameisthecaptain]

[So, the fight against the Postman ended as these fights always do.

Still, long after it was over. Long after the pain has faded from memory. The Captain was still no where to be found! About a week later The Captain finally reappears. First with a phone call.]


[Phone | Unfiltered to Everyone]

Hey, this is Captain ☠☠☠☠.

The Postman is a lot tougher than he seems and he's a ☠☠☠☠.

Also, ☠☠☠☠ it. Unless your name is Elsa Bloodstone, I work alone. Don't bother calling me, I'm not going to be here.

[Click! Hangs up and leaves.]


[Action | Around Town]

[The Captain heads to his favorite place to escape, the bar. Though he stands outside it for a long moment before changing his mind and walking away.

He'll wander aimlessly around town. His eventual destination is Makeout Point since it's a nice view. Sitting up there and watching the town as he tries to think.]

((Name where you run into him if you tag. He can be wandering past anywhere.))

Comments

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

See, right there is why you're not going to work with me.

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

So you'd rather work with someone that has regard for their own life?

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

No, I rather work with no one.

If I lose, so what?

You might not care, but you have something to go back to. I'm pretty sure someone back home is going to care if you don't go home. So ☠☠☠☠ it.

[Yeah, ☠☠☠☠ it. He had himself convinced he was going to work with Elsa again and everything would be fine but this was just reminding him that it doesn't work like that.]

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

... Y-Yes, but...

*She can't argue against that. Now all she can do is point out the Captain's own hypocrisy. This is like a hypocrite circlejerk...*

Are you saying you have nothing to go home to?

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

[He's been failtastic at keeping this under wraps and now he's angry.]

Yes, I am.

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

... I-I... I'm sorry... I misspoke.

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

No, you didn't.

I lose here or I lose when the town does. Either they drop me or I go back to being an ugly smear across the ground.

This is why none of you are helping me. Because I am done.

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

You... No, you're important. You're a better person than I am. At least you try to do the right thing... You aren't an ugly smear. At least you're important to your friends here.

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you have plenty of ☠☠☠☠ time to get over it too. Do what you want, but you can at least ☠☠☠☠ try to make it better.

And I am being ☠☠☠☠ literal. When Mayfield is over I get to go back to being pieces of chewed on meat. Do you get it? This is it.

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

T-That means you need to stay alive here!

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

Yeah? You think it's going to be that simple? This town ☠☠☠☠ jumps when those in charge say to. If we beat them, I'm pretty sure this place goes away.

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

I'm not helping, am I? I'm just making everything worse for you...

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

It can't really get much worse. You want to help? Start fixing your ☠☠☠☠ and preparing for life as if you're going back home.

How about you do that and I can feel like I'm actually helping people that want to be ☠☠☠☠ helped?

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

I-Is that... is that the only way you can really make yourself feel better? Can't you live for your own sake?

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

Just fix your ☠☠☠☠ and don't worry about mine.

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

... I'm sorry.

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

Stop that.

Go try and be a better person if you think you're so terrible. Killing yourself won't fix your problems.

1/2

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

I've already told you I can't make up for what I've done...

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

One life will never be worth hundreds of lives.

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

Then don't try to make up for hundreds. ☠☠☠☠, do you plan to do it again?

If not, then how about you try something new. The whole martyr thing is lame.

[Hypocrisy!]

You said things were starting to look up back home?

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

N-No but... nothing will ever take that back. Please don't act like it's so easy!

*So much Hypocrisy good lord.*

... Yes, slowly, things are getting better for me. And I'm happier now. But still, I'd do anything for those people that made my happiness obtainable in the first place!

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have to be easy, it happened. Giving up isn't going to make up for it either.

[This coming from the guy who gives up often...

He's just self righteously bitter he doesn't get a second chance to do nothing.]

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

I know that! But you can't talk to me like I can make up for it within my lifetime! It's an insult to all of those families, those friends! Don't pretend to begin to understand what that burden is like!

[heartstar-blues.livejournal.com]

Don't use them as an excuse either.

If you want, mourn them, I don't care. Just stop trying to kill yourself thinking your doing something good.

[imaginenumbers.livejournal.com]

I would never do such a thing.

*a pause*

Isn't that what you're doing?!