ask me anything meme

[dictator]

ASK ME ANYTHING

post your character with a brief AMA plug in the header (i.e., 'i ate my twin in the womb AMA')— people respond with questions, judgement, jokes galore. comment around, thread hop, and react as you see fit!
(meme threads aren't game canon, but they're not not game canon either, right)

Comments

[temujackie]

It's totally weird, right? I wonder if people learn about the 90s in books now.

[ ew, if so ]

Well, did you like the job?

[holyposition]

Yeah, they do. It's not so far in the rear view for scholarly consensus, though.

I did. For a while. I thought I was doing something important, but he turned out to be a corrupt liar.

[temujackie]

Happens to the best of us. That sucks, though. Did you quit?

[holyposition]

I quit and joined the army. But I got here right before I left for basic training.

Can I ask you a question?

[temujackie]

Wow, you kind of lucked out, huh.

Um, sure?

[holyposition]

What's going on with you and Shauna?

[temujackie]

[ that's

not what she expected him to ask at all ]

What?

[holyposition]

She thinks the rest of you hate her.

[temujackie]

Is that what she told you? She didn't give a reason or anything?

[holyposition]

Well...I know some of it. I saw during the museum fiasco. I didn't want to pry.

[temujackie]

Well, what exactly do you know?

[holyposition]

I know what happened with your dead. What you resorted to, to survive.

[temujackie]

That has nothing to do with it.

[ well... maybe not nothing, but it's not the main factor. ]

Shauna's the one who ran away and refuses to talk to us. And we don't all hate her. It's complicated.

[holyposition]

I can't imagine how it wouldn't be complicated.

Maybe I can help?

[temujackie]

... Help how?

[holyposition]

Mediate? Maybe it would help to have someone who wasn't there. It wouldn't be as emotional for an outside observer, so they could look at it more rationally.

Not to say that any of you aren't being rational. Just, you know. Sometimes it feels good. Like confession.

[temujackie]

I would love to see someone try and come up with a rational explanation for what Shauna's problem is, actually.

[holyposition]

Well, that kind of tone isn't very productive.

[temujackie]

[ an offended scoff! i mean, yeah, he's right, but!!! ]

Okay, let me lay out a scenario for you and you tell me how you'd feel.

Imagine you show up here, and your girlfriend is here too. But she remembers more than you do from back home. Not a lot, just a month or so. But she promises you, she swears, that everything is fine and the two of you are doing great and not to worry. With me so far?

[holyposition]

She told you everything is going great? While you were stranded in the woods eating each other?

[temujackie]

Great being a relative term, I guess... But anyway, after two months of being stupid and clueless and happy with her, you fall into one of those fucked up coma things and you remember everything she does. And actually, back in the woods, you guys have been broken up the entire time, and when that happened she tried to shoot you.

And then you wake up back here, and she's already gone, because she ran off as soon as she realized you were going to wake up knowing she lied to you. And now apparently she's going around telling people that you hate her but conveniently not telling them why.

[holyposition]

People run away when they're scared. Maybe she didn't tell you that you broke up because she regrets it.

That doesn't excuse the lying, obviously. But why would she want to shoot you?

[temujackie]

Yeah, maybe. [ shauna said as much, minus the being scared part, but it still doesn't feel good. ]

We got in a fight. She said some fucked up things to me, I called her crazy, she pointed the gun at me, I dared her to do it, and she did.

[holyposition]

I'm sure in a situation like yours, people say a lot of things they don't mean. Being in charge of a sinking ship is a lot of pressure. On top of losing a baby and eating her best friend.

Not to excuse shooting you. You didn't deserve that. You don't even have to forgive her, but she's not hiding in the woods to spite you.

[temujackie]

Yeah, I get that, but she could apologize and say she didn't mean it. But she won't. And I know she's not hiding in the woods to spite me, she's doing it to spite herself. But she's hurting Jackie's feelings. So... I don't know.

[ it's very confusing and frustrating and she's ill equipped ]