pc w/ shu

[applebough]

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[applebough]

... Your friends sound rich.

[ A pool... the ultimate luxury................. ]

[roseoftexas]

He is.

[ he. sure is. ]

[applebough]

[ naruhodo. ]

That must be nice...

[ stockpiles envy. ]

[roseoftexas]

It's self made, from what he does. But--

[ ... ]

I think he was kinda lonely. There's a reason he let us all live there rent free.

[applebough]

[ What the fuck. ]

...

[ Yuri just stands there and stares at Shu. She needs a moment to process that. ]

[roseoftexas]

[ yeah.



take your time. ]

[applebough]

[ fukin

rich people ]

Is that where you live, then?

[roseoftexas]

[ he nods. ]

Everyone else has a fixed address elsewhere, but a room at Scarecrow's place. Makes it easier when we're on a heist. [ he pauses. ]

But-- yeah. I normally just stay at a motel, or I did before Scarecrow started offering his spare rooms.

[applebough]

[ Daily motel expenses... but that also tracks with what she remembers how Shu used to live with two others. ]

A heist? What do you take?

[roseoftexas]

... I forget who I've mentioned it to as this point. Aside from completing Teach's list, I help out when Limbo sticks his nose in something and decides he wants to make someone playing the system pay.

Corrupt bank owners, unethical research laboratories, mafia thugs pestering kids, that kind of stuff.

[applebough]

Oh, so you're like a group of vigilantes, in a sense.

[ She wonders if Limbo is the justice maniac in there. Shu doesn't seem to... fit? In that sort of thing for some reason, but that's because Yuri thinks he just goes about things at his own pace. ]

Did she leave behind a list of things for you to do...?

[roseoftexas]

Not a bad way of putting it. Scarecrow brought us all together initially, and it worked well. Pays well too.

[ he really is too chill for this but it helps him too. ]

... Oh. Yeah, in her own way. Her notebook. It had a list of all the hitmen she knew who killed for money and money only, and she was working her way down the list.

[ it's his inheritance. ]

[applebough]

[ bruh. lmao.

Yuri looks nervous for a moment. ]

I... I see.

[ Because she has the same mentality. She'd do anything for a promotion... ]

[roseoftexas]

[ ... he snorts. ]

Not quite like that.

She always told me to never leave a chance for revenge. Her notebook was her way of... reconciling her work as a hitman with what she wanted now. Hatred exists everywhere. It can't be stopped. But what can be stopped is killing that lacks both love and hatred. That's what I was taught, and that's what she believed.

[applebough]

[ She was worried for real and he just laughs. ]

That's how you were taught, so that's now what you believe in, right?

[roseoftexas]

[ he knows The City is a hellscape. he's not gonna judge people living the way they have to. ]

I'm not sure. It was her thing, but-- when she died, it felt right to continue what she set out to do. [ ... ] Death and killing aren't regular topics back home. It's illegal and kind of a taboo topic for a lot of people.

[applebough]

It seems to be that way for many other places...

[ Yuri is aware that the City seems to be... really bad compared to most of these. ]

Unless if there's a more special clause...?

[roseoftexas]

I guess people did it enough in the past that they had to put something in place to stop it.

[ and yet people do it anyway. ]

I think it's just the normal reasons. No one really has the right to kill someone else. Abuse of power. Life is a gift. The usual.

[applebough]

I see...

[ Life is a gift. Well.

She has time to get used to that sort of ideology. ]

That's fine, since I wouldn't want to—... never mind.

[roseoftexas]

[ tilts his head. ]

You wouldn't want to—?

[applebough]

... I was trying to restrain myself from being violent if I couldn't have it my way, but I eventually gave in to the urge.

[ tehepero ]

[roseoftexas]

[ don't tehepero. ]

They have ways around anger management problems, y'know.

[applebough]

I'm fine without anger management...

[ Then she kills her clone... don't worry about it. ]

[roseoftexas]

You did just talk about giving in to the violence urge.

[applebough]

Because sometimes, violence is the solution.