Someone's not pleased with current reservation plans...

[destage]

May I have a word, mun-san? I plan to keep this short and sweet, so please listen carefully.

You are not putting me in that game. I believe that our time in Prayer's Pass was more than enough time for you to meet your 'sadism quota', as you refer to it--haven't I suffered enough for your amusement?

...No, don't answer that. I know what this is to you--it's all a game, right? You're just going to keep doing this until something breaks. That something, in your best case scenario, being me.

...I don't think I like you, mun-san.

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[virginhood]

Well, a lot of the time it's just - impossible to escape from the premise itself. And to keep trying will only hurt you. That's what I mean by making peace with hopelessness.

[destage]

[...She shivers when Kanaya says that. That...is definitely a bitter pill to swallow and one she almost instantly jumps out at--it takes a few seconds for her to stop, and she doesn't say anything for a bit.

...It hit close to home, for sure. She considers those times--when she was about moments from attempting to take someone's life, and toward the end, where she accepted that she there was no saving their souls--hopelessness.

...She simply nods after some consideration, her gaze at the ground.]

That's...something I will need to learn, yes. ...I don't like it in the slightest, though.

[speakveryclearly]

[She feels guilt for inflicting this despair upon her.]

I know. It's the worst experience one can have. They don't like... letting us escape... sometimes even death isn't a way out.

[destage]

...

[She can't really say much of anything to that. She'd have never considered dying an option--but knowing that not even that would prevent this from happening...

She looks up at Kanaya, almost wondering if she should ask...]

How...

How do you stay...well, sane knowing this?

[She needs to know. She doesn't want to wind up losing herself in the end, after all!]

1/4 BEST VIEWED ON POST AND NOT FROM INBOX...

[speakveryclearly]

[Kanaya tilts her head down at the human idol with a poker face before summoning up all of her terrible vampire energy to deliver two words.]

You don't.

[She sounds like someone who has totally lost it.]

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[speakveryclearly]

[She totally has lost it!!! WITH... LAUGHTER...]

...just grubbing. I mean kidding.

3/4

[speakveryclearly]

[Sobered, now, even more so than before.]

You're never going to be the same, though, even if you keep your sanity. That's just not how the progression of time works. Will you be the same person after graduating from Hope's Peak Academy [her inflection indicates the verb is mundane and not the Monobear-invented double entendre] as you were before you enrolled? It's... a little like that.

4/4 a.k.a. complete!

[speakveryclearly]

But!

[And this is an idea that has her genuinely up to her previously-faked levels of glee.]

There are benefits to bearing with arrangements like this until endgame without turning into such a gibbering mess that your player has to put you out of your mercy. If you play your cards just right... it's an escape from your canonical fate!!! You could go "home" with someone else, preserve relationships unique to that realm, end up somewhere relatively free of despair... isn't that what you and Mondo did with Robin after the game?