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Scorpius ([personal profile] keeps_a_cool_head) wrote2014-03-02 08:49 am

Log 0007

[In Zero, Scorpius does what he does best: he plans. Giving him space and time to think through what he wants and how to get it is one of the unintended gifts of his cell space, and he appreciates every moment of it.

After several days, he addresses the Barge]


A question to my fellow shipmates;

When an inmate commits a grievous crime, who is to blame for it? Obviously the inmate must share some, but what percentage is attributed to them and what percentage is attributed to their warden, who may be unfit to command them? A warden may fail just as easily by not admitting to something that could be most assuredly out of their control.

And what of inmates who aren't paired and no one has taken the time to explain to them the rules?

My apologies to Alex Summers. While it was certainly my intent to hurt him, he had done nothing to harm me and was simply in the correct place at the correct time.



[Private to Crichton]

Of course, John, we all know that you are the one fully to blame.

More like Alex will follow. You cannot hope to save them all.

In a few days' time they will be forced to release me. What has changed between the time of my entering this cell and the time of my leaving it? As a deterrent towards behavior, Zero leaves much to be desired.

I am willing to entertain ideas of a deal between us.
no_talent_hack: (anagram.net)

[personal profile] no_talent_hack 2014-03-02 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Scorpius, if only you knew.]

Yeah. Then I grew up.

[personal profile] gard 2014-03-02 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't the slightest idea. But here's something I do know: the demarcation between inmate and warden is not a line. It's got to be fuzzy in between. An inmate gets promoted by clearly going into the warden side; a warden probably gets demoted for clearly going to the inmate side. Meaning a warden has to be worse.

Now, I'm not sure I'd put any real faith in a justice system that punishes those who fail to prevent more than it punishes those who choose and perpetrate.
no_talent_hack: (anagram.net)

[personal profile] no_talent_hack 2014-03-02 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously? [Oh, good. Another Nagito. Or even a Junko. Now that he's on this side of the screen, he's finding it harder to remember why he ever liked her. He sighs, rubs his temple, and offers Iris a weary smile.]

Hajime Hinata. It's nice to meet you. Iris... [Why does he know her name? Oh.] Oh, uh, Jean... mentioned you to me.

[personal profile] gard 2014-03-02 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Plenty.

Every criminal has a story, and reasons to do what they did. You all have a reason in common right now. Doesn't make it any more or less compelling.
no_talent_hack: (strange edition)

[personal profile] no_talent_hack 2014-03-02 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I would if I were in the military, but I'm not.

[personal profile] gard 2014-03-02 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
What would you prefer? Villain? Wrongdoer? Rapscallion?
routemistress: (Default)

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-03-02 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's right; you were talking about telepaths. I saw that.

[private]

You've come up against one with no ethics, 'aven't you?

[personal profile] gard 2014-03-02 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, is this a sensitive subject?
no_talent_hack: (ikikiru)

[personal profile] no_talent_hack 2014-03-02 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously, that's just an excuse. You're still the one making your own choices.

[personal profile] gard 2014-03-02 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Not at all. I've lived for thousands of years. You think I haven't crossed that line before?
no_talent_hack: (ikoroshia)

[Private]

[personal profile] no_talent_hack 2014-03-02 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Y-yeah. Once or twice.
routemistress: (devil)

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-03-02 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
People 'ave reached it before now. They died, and couldn't remember bugger all about 'ow it 'appened. And it won't be mappable. Our timeships can reform their interior configurations at will, and I know damn well this boat can too.

No one knows what the Admiral is, but I reckon some kind of symbiotic connection's a given. Ships like this need it.

John's still operating on the misapprehension that my friendship's a zero sum game, I'm afraid. I doubt 'e'll talk to me. What's the point in enslaving a ship that wants to be free? Mine'd implode your brain for you if you tried that. Bless 'er.

[personal profile] gard 2014-03-02 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think, at my age, you can make 'story' plural.
routemistress: (devil)

[Private]

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-03-02 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been that person. In floods where we were flipped into mirrors of ourselves. It's a ...uniquely unforgivable kind of violation. I'm very sorry you've 'ad to live through it.

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