Audio; un: belova 》Sedorum

[laviny]

[At some point after observing and ruminating on certain network discussions, Yelena decides to make an announcement. She uses the audio option so everyone can hear that she means it by the tone in her voice.]

Okay, everyone. Hello. I would like to make something clear.

You don’t deserve to be here. You don’t. I don’t. None of us do. No one does.

This is all garbage. Very specifically, it is Capitalist garbage. There are probably more sinful people on heaven’s side than here because this is all about money and it is much easier to make lots of money when you are dishonest and corrupt and willing to do bad things.

[She huffs, exasperated, and then adds:]

Anyway, I just want you to know you all deserve nice things. And if I hear any more people say they deserve this, I will fight them. Seriously. I will fight all of you.

[She sounds like…she may be partially kidding about that last bit. Maybe. Possibly. It might be hard to tell, actually. But either way she’s saying it because she cares.]

Comments

audio; un: stargirl

[bossily]

And here I was just going to knock them all out and keep them captive in my room until the mission was over.

[But letting Yelena fight them sounds like a much less exhausting option.]

Thank you. For speaking up and saying this.

[laviny]

[Yelena snorts, amused.]

Well, if you want to fight them, too, you can. We can double team them.

[bossily]

Oh, that sounds fun. You take the headshots, and then I'll kick them as hard as I can in the shins. Surely we'll bring them down to their knees and make them think twice about insisting they belong here.

[don't tempt her with a good time, yelena]

Audio | un: Star - Lord

[spacedisaster]

[ Have some clapping, Yelena. ]

Here's the spirit, fucking thank you. Say it again louder for the people in the back.

I don't doubt for a second that you could kick everyone's asses. Single-handed. And also maybe drunk. Actually, maybe specially while drunk.

[laviny]

It might even be more fun while drunk.

[spacedisaster]

From my experience, it is fun until you get stabbed. I also had to stop Rocket from blowing up so many things when drunk. It's like the already faint voice in his head that tells him not to play with bombs in public goes away completely.

Do you have bombs? I've got a few to share if you need any.

[laviny]

No, but I don't think I want to throw bombs at any of our fellow orders. Maybe just smack them a little.

[spacedisaster]

Ah..no, these are not for the orbers, promise. That would be rude. But I keep the bombs just in case we have to fight something problematic. Liket he obrs, or a sentient planet.

Thanks for the stern reminder that we're here because of the mission, not because we did anything to deserve to be in a wannabee hell.

[ He knows what he did to deserve to be in a real hell, but that's another issue. ]

un: dragongirl

[catchatting]

I bet this place is more fun, anyway.

[ Zari's fully embraced the aesthetic with a leather jacket and dark makeup because she might as well look good. ]

And I agree. I might not know every single one of the people on our team super well, but it's always the good people who think they deserve bad things. Plus I think a lot of us really need therapy.

[laviny]

Yes, that is true. Bad people are much more likely to feel entitled to good things.

un / text: starkov

[peasant]

i could take you in a fight

[ she absolutely cannot, but she's got the spirit. ]

[laviny]

Your powers could give you and edge, but I am very stubborn and I would be determined to prove you wrong about your place in Hell.

[peasant]

thanks for the vote of confidence

[ sarcasm? serious? it's difficult to tell. more's the point — ]

i'm not sure this is what people really had in mind when they invented the phrase "tough love"

[laviny]

Well that is too bad, this is what they're getting.

[peasant]

then you'll be too busy with them to bother with me
i'm a master at hiding when i want to, anyway

[ there's that one benefit, at least, from living her life unseen for so many years. ]

text | un: goodvibes

[aurable]

I'm going to gently put aside my pacifist beliefs here for a second and just say

On record

I'll kill the first person in charge of all this I see on sight.

Pigs, all of them.

[laviny]

I will support you.

Although…what if the one responsible is an orb?

[aurable]

Hope to god some malicious idiot was behind it all, I suppose

[laviny]

Yes, I hope so, too.

[aurable]

Kill Peter to save Paul

video; un: newt

[groupiedrifter]

[He makes a 'zipping my lips' gesture.]

I'd rather not get my ass kicked, thanks.

[laviny]

[She snorts.]

Wise choice.

[groupiedrifter]

I can only hope other orbers have the brains do to the same, but I have a feeling you'll have a few you need to beat into submission.

[laviny]

Maybe. So far so good, though.

Un: Kirigan

[cruelyethuman]

What is sin, if not self-indulgence.

You have no problem with this binary line of thinking, that actions and people are either good or bad. You simply think other people deserve punishment. Well, that is a point of view, I suppose.

[laviny]

Greg Kirigan, I mean this from the bottom of my heart:

What the fuck are you talking about?

I literally said it was garbage and no one deserves it. No one.

Even you, to be clear, since I know you are sensitive about these things.

[cruelyethuman]

Thank you, for that unnecessary pardon.

Did you not mention that other people were more deserving of living here? The corrupt, the rich, the dishonest. The ones willing to do- ah, bad things.

[laviny]

I said they were more likely to be on the other side because they could pay for it. I did not say anything about whether or not they deserved to be condemned.

[cruelyethuman]

You don't believe that they belong here more than the poor souls already trapped. That's good, malen'kiy.

[laviny]

I have no idea what I believe they deserve. I don't know them. This isn't even about them. I was talking to the people from the Ximilia who are sad and think they ended up on this side because they actually deserve damnation.

It is a scam. No one should see it as a judgement on their moral character.

[cruelyethuman]

You're right. How could any of us presume to place judgement on any other person or the actions taken.

I'm agreeing with you.

[laviny]

Oh, well, okay. It can be a little hard to tell sometimes.

[cruelyethuman]

So I've been told. Repeatedly. In so many ways.

[There's a small break, a pause in the conversation before-]

Have you had to fight anyone yet?

[laviny]

No, not yet. Most people seem to be agreeing for now.

[cruelyethuman]

Or perhaps your warning of a fight has made them afraid to speak their mind. I have seen you fight, and I understand why that might make someone hesitant.

text; un: aragaki

[petsthedog]

i dunno, a fight doesn't sound so bad
especially one that's not with those gang assholes

[this is also maybe sort of a joke?? hard to tell, over text]

[laviny]

So, you need someone to spar with? Is that what you are saying?

1/2

[petsthedog]

nah, just someone to beat me up

[see, TOTALLY joking. haha, unless...?]

[petsthedog]

a sparring partner'd be great
been ages since i went against someone who ain't tryin to kill me

[Sure, one could, you know, make use of the training room, or the crewmates that have offered themselves up for such things in their down time. One could also stare up at the ceiling depressed and/or stress cook for days on end. It's fine.]

audio; un: lanxichen

[calmness]

I am liking the sound of your capitalism even less. [not that he had liked it when she'd first brought it up.]