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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

[kingmakereffect]

Yes, it was.

You guys are doing really well.

[amygdalae]

[Your approval fills him with shame.]

What is the point of all this? Why 'save' us if it means we're all going to die in the end by your rules, anyway?

[kingmakereffect]

But you all don't have to die. You know that.

I'm not killing anyone myself - that's all you guys.

[amygdalae]

You might as well be the one who's doing it.

[Stop trying to push that responsibility off, Kingmaker. You are an ass.]

What is your endgoal for this? Do this until there's only one left standing? Is that how you're going to find your 'King'?

[kingmakereffect]

How likely do you think it is that something like that will happen? That all of you will just keep killing each other until there's only one left?

[amygdalae]

I know better than to think you're just going to let it stop here.

[Bruce will do his best to prevent this, but god. The fact that its already happened once is proof enough. The idea is already planted, and there's no way to stop that.]

You have something to make it happen. I don't know what, but something.

[kingmakereffect]

It's funny that you think I'd need to interfere at all.

I mean, maybe I would. But maybe not. People are terrible like that.

[amygdalae]

You've already interfered by bringing all of us here and keeping us locked in like your lab rats. What's another thing to the mix?

[kingmakereffect]

You were all given another option. It's not my fault that Dependent didn't take it.

[amygdalae]

[Goddamnit, Kingmaker.]

I don't even know how you can hear yourself say any of these things. Captain Eide said you were human, but your actions are anything but.

[kingmakereffect]

...Do only good people deserve to be called human?

[amygdalae]

[What?]

What are you implying?

[kingmakereffect]

That I am human, and so are my actions. They aren't inhuman just because you don't happen to approve of them.

[amygdalae]

How can I approve of this? You're willing to let people die just for your own agenda.

[kingmakereffect]

Plenty of people are like that. I'm willing to bet that you knew a few, back where you're from. Maybe not to this scale, but people who hurt others when they had no reason to do that, or even when they should have helped...

People like that are everywhere.

[amygdalae]

[Of course Bruce knows them. That's why he disapproves of them, too.]

Don't use them to justify yourself. It's not nearly the same thing.

[kingmakereffect]

I never said it was justified, did I?

Just that I'm no different from anyone else.

[amygdalae]

[You're insane, Bruce wants to snap out, but no, it'd be too easy. It's all too easy to give in to that vicious side of him. That's everything he doesn't want to be.]

'Anybody else' don't exactly use the dead bodies of others.

[kingmakereffect]

Can I ask you something? I just want to hear your thoughts. That's all.

[amygdalae]

Is it even possible for me to say 'no'?

[...go ahead, Kingmaker.]

[kingmakereffect]

Well, yes, but I'm going to take your response as a sign that you're not doing that.

Do you think the others in here with you are good people?

[amygdalae]

I'm not one to judge what is 'good' and what isn't [because hello, giant green ragemonster] but most of them haven't caused as much harm as I've done.

[Sure, they might have hurt a number of people. But Bruce had hurt and killed countless, and even those weren't by his choice.]

[kingmakereffect]

Do you think I've done as much harm as you have?

[amygdalae]

You're very well on the way to that.

[Sure, the number game may be smaller, but the methods are worse.]

[kingmakereffect]

But you think you're worse than me.

[...]

You probably won't believe me when I say this, but that's actually really sad.