text; locked from bernkastel & ange; fail-locked from battler & eva-beatrice

[tenminutes]

Does anyone know any magic that can make it so that someone's bored no matter what they do, even things that they used to get a good laugh out of? Is there a way that someone without magic could do that to someone with magic?

I've been trying to think of the worst possible punishment game I can for someone and the kind of person this would be for. It took a while to decide on, but I think something like this might be it.

[ You know, now that she knows Ange is alive and she doesn't have to worry about respecting any wishes like Ange always getting mad at her for doing stupid shit or putting herself in danger. ]

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[tenminutes]

If it'd have to be a constant effort it wouldn't work anyway.

Easy, I want to completely torment someone without inflicting any actual pain other than severe boredom.

[fortheworld]

I meant more "What did they do"?

[tenminutes]

She's the kind of person who gets a good laugh out of exploding little sisters and thinks it's boring when people are upset about it.

[fortheworld]

...

I suspect this is a topic I am ill informed upon, but wouldn't incarceration be more preferable? Or... [hmm. Yuri did mention this was some kind of magician]

Some manner of preventing a repeat of such events in the future, rather than risk igniting a revenge cycle, if you see what I mean.

[tenminutes]

Well she's immortal and has stupid cheater magic powers. Witches hate being bored more than anything from what I understand.

[fortheworld]

[Witches... in this case at least she understands it's something different, but avoiding that bias is doing to be tricky, she knows...]

And what would she do if you succeeded?

[tenminutes]

Wither up into a bored old prune, maybe. I can't attack her though and I'm not stupid enough to try to get her involved in a game.

[ She can be stupid, but not that stupid. Plus she's gotten warned multiple times about getting involved with Bernkastel. Even this would probably get her in trouble if certain people saw. ]

[fortheworld]

But that wouldn't prevent her attacking you in return.

[tenminutes]

What's she going to do to me? I'm already dead, the people she could go after to hurt me are already her enemies, and she'd probably find it boring to go after me anyway if it works.

[fortheworld]

If everything became equally boring for that person, then boredom would cease to be a factor in her decisions. Unless you dull all her other emotions, she would come for you as a matter of hatred and revenge.

I am simply wary of potentially tipping unstable people with considerable power over the edge.

[tenminutes]

She's already so far past the edge she's hit the bottom of a canyon. I just want her to stop laughing when other people fall splat next to her.

[fortheworld]

In such a situation, the best course of action would be to remove her power or ability to act, not potentially aggravate her further.

Claiming she can do nothing to you is blind and arrogant. People can always find ways to hurt people; especially when they have power, especially when they're mentally unstable. If being dead makes you as functionally immortal as she is, could she not simply bring the same trick down upon you? If she's as powerful as you describe, she could easily do worse. Or the same to those you care about. Or the same to anyone in the general vicinity who happened to be in the wrong place.

If you are serious about this, this is not the time for underestimation.

[tenminutes]

She goes about hurting the people I care about whether I do anything or not. There's a difference between picking fights and trying to find a single way to fight back. I don't think that she'll do absolutely nothing but at this point, the people I care about most that are still in this world are getting hurt already. All she cares about is not being bored, so if she can't get enjoyment out of that then that's what matters.

[fortheworld]

This is not a matter of picking fights; if she is as you say then of course she must be stopped, but this will not stop her. It will make things worse.

Remove her abilities, remove her immorality or simply destroy her completely. Anything else is counter-productive.

[tenminutes]

Apparently none of that's remotely possible and even Battler can't do it when his magic is supposed to be endless. Anyway, this is more a punishment game than a declaration of war and I think she'd definitely understand that.

[fortheworld]

...


...Tampering with someone's emotions is your idea of a 'punishment game'?

[tenminutes]

Not usually, but when it's on her level it's about the only thing I can try to do. Normally I'd stick to physical stuff. I don't care if it's temporary, though, as long as it's long enough that she suffers from it.

[fortheworld]

...


[just give her a moment Yuri she has a headache]

...I see.

[tenminutes]

This is the same woman who threatened to string me up in a bridal suite after my boyfriend nearly was forced to marry a crazy person to make me watch and the only reason I didn't end up like that was because he got out of it somehow, so my goodwill toward her is basically 0 after watching Ange get turned into Sloppy Joes for a second time.

[fortheworld]

A sociopath, in other words? [she sighs] What is her name?

[tenminutes]

Bernkastel. It's not like it's not all up for viewing on the community if you want to go look.

[fortheworld]

My apologies; events at home have left me somewhat occupied.

[no Oriko you just became a recluse. Again.]

I would be seeking to avoid her in any case, but as you say.

[what's going to be funnier is when she finds out about Lambda...]

[tenminutes]

That's actually the advice I was given when I first met her. Be careful and avoid her if at all possible.

[ Yuri doesn't listen to advice very well. ]

[fortheworld]

What changed your mind?

[tenminutes]

Nothing changed my mind, I just ignored the advice to begin with.