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[kingmakereffect]

If you have something to ask the Kingmaker about over text, this is where it goes! The Kingmaker will respond to text messages as soon as he's available. You will most likely get a text back very quickly.

Your smartphones will only connect to the Kingmaker. There is no option to send a text to anyone else, instead it will connect automatically to his phone.

Comments are screened for privacy; no looking at each other's private texts without permission, after all.

Comments

[cherryblooded]

Fuck you.

[kingmakereffect]

[The text is a little delayed tonight, but it'll come after a while.]

I expected something like that eventually. If not tonight, then tomorrow.

[cherryblooded]

Congratulations, you've been paying attention.

Maybe you should offer a 'if you murder someone I'll let you snap my neck' incentive.

[kingmakereffect]

He wasn't forced into doing anything he didn't want to do.

[cherryblooded]

Except, you know, being here.

[kingmakereffect]

There wasn't anything for him back home, either.

[cherryblooded]

So that makes your murder game an improvement?

[kingmakereffect]

I won't say that it is, but from how he sounded about it, he seemed to think so.

I knew him a little better than I know most of you, but I can't speak for him entirely. I just know what he said.

[cherryblooded]

[...]

Why did you have to get him killed?

[kingmakereffect]

What do you mean?

As I said, I didn't force him to do anything. He agreed to the position, and he never said no or indicated that he wanted to stop.

[cherryblooded]

Why did you have to get him killed this week.

[kingmakereffect]

That isn't necessary for you to know.

[cherryblooded]

You won't even tell me why my son died.

[He's not surprised. It's the Kingmaker. He just - really wishes he knew.]

[kingmakereffect]

[...]

I know you don't want to hear it from me, but I'm sorry for your loss.

[cherryblooded]

You know I don't believe that. But thank you for saying it, anyway.

[kingmakereffect]

Don't mention it. He talked about you a lot, so I'm assuming you were important.

[cherryblooded]

Really?

[Now that he thinks about it, he realizes that their interactions can't have been just limited to 'do I have to kill someone this week' 'no', from how often Mettaton texted.]

[kingmakereffect]

Yes. He talked about some of you sometimes. You came up a lot.

[cherryblooded]

Huh. That's... reassuring, actually.

[kingmakereffect]

Is it?

[cherryblooded]

He's my son no matter what he thought about me. That doesn't mean it wouldn't hurt if he really meant what he said at the trial. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now, but the confirmation is nice.

[kingmakereffect]

Oh.

[...]

No, he didn't mean any of that. And there were people that he refused to act against, too.

[cherryblooded]

Sigrun?

[kingmakereffect]

Probably, because he talked about her a lot too. He just said that if I assigned him certain people, it wouldn't happen.

[cherryblooded]

I see.

...Thank you for telling me this, but it doesn't change that I hate you.