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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]

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.

[amygdalae]

[You're talking to a guy who tried to end his own life. There's not much of a bar after that, if it even exists now.]

What I've done is incomparable. But it doesn't make what you're doing now any better.

[kingmakereffect]

You like putting words in my mouth, don't you?

I know that I'm a terrible person. I don't deserve to be forgiven for anything. I never tried to deny that.

[amygdalae]

[Only because sometimes you choose not to give anything helpful, Kingmaker.]

Then what do you get out of all of this? Is all of this just some experiment for you to observe?

[kingmakereffect]

I don't know if I'd call it an experiment. You guys are interesting to watch.

[amygdalae]

...then what, we're just entertainment for you?

['EXPERIMENT' HE CAN STILL SORT OF SWALLOW, BUT REALLY???]

[kingmakereffect]

You're putting words in my mouth again.

The point of experiments is to see what something will do, right? You conduct experiments because you think the results will be interesting.

I'm just honest about what I'm doing.