Video -|- un: nunya

[assholic]

[The video starts with a shot of the invitation that she'd received, the writing bold and clear before she tosses the invite down and directs the camera up to her face, which looks entirely unimpressed.]

Tell me I'm not the only one that feels like this is some lame attempt to gather certain people into a specific area for an unknown reason, aka, a fucking trap?

[Someone was feeling especially incapable of trusting anyone from this world or any of the Orbiters. She held up the ring she'd gotten, not wearing it, but showing it.]

And as far as some kind of... compensation for the shit some people went through, this feels pretty weak to me. An invite to a trap-party, a gold coin, and a pretty little bauble, because clearly I'm that easily distracted and easy to appease. They realize that people died during this, don't they? And we're all supposed to just slap a smile on, pull out a dress, and go along with this like this isn't a giant fucking joke?

[There was a look on her face like she was really, really hoping someone would be as salty as she was over this.]

Maybe it's just in my nature to think everyone's out to screw me over, but when I've already been screwed over, and not in the fun way, I'm not exactly feeling inclined to bend over for round two. There have to be other people that think this is shady shit...

[Please tell her there were other people out there that thought this was shady shit.]

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[assholic]

[Go on, Dany. Judge her. Trish and everyone else who knew what she could do did all the time.]

A more advanced one than this. At least in technology. Every world has terrible shit like this.

[She couldn't even say that people didn't get kidnapped or tortured in her world. People were the problem.]

[dorzalta]

[ So more advanced than hers was. ]

Some have far worse.

[ All the more reason to try and fix what was broken. ]

[assholic]

And some have better. Yeah, I know. But I didn't sign up for this shit. I had my own crap to deal with. I still do. And now I'm here, shoved down onto a planet, told to play nice, and then kidnapped anyway because... oh, right. Because I exist. That's just great.

For a bunch of beings set on trying to maintain life and order in the universe, those fucking Orbiters are doing a shit job of giving people a reason to play along and not just blow shit up in retaliation.

[dorzalta]

You phrase it as if any of us have--here or in our own worlds. [ From her world alone, the lists went on with how many suffered when they had no reason to. ] I understand, you know. Might not agree with you on all you speak of, but I understand.

[ She'd need some wine at this point. With a sigh, she leans back and glances up toward the canopy. ]

Are your loved ones not reason enough? Is there not something you wish returned to you?

[assholic]

What makes you think I have loved ones?

[She had Trish. But there was that unspoken threat of 'play nice or something might happen'. She had Clark, but Clark could live without her. He might be better off, actually.]

I don't like being dragged into something I didn't sign up for and not given a choice that isn't outright blackmail or a threat. That's never an effective way to get people to play nice. Or at all, in some cases.