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. ]

Comments

[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.

[fortheworld]

[S-SIGHING WEARILY YURI...]

[tenminutes]

Well, if I'm going to judge someone it's going to be from my experience with them, not because of what someone says about them.

[fortheworld]

There's a difference between rumour and warnings; the latter are made because people are concerned for you.

[tenminutes]

I tend to be pretty forgiving when it comes to violence if the person can improve.

[ Like that time Naoi completely slaughtered the SSS and then tried to wipe her memories out, so she let him into the SSS the day after since he stopped. ]

[fortheworld]

Even so; is it not better to prevent said violence before it can come to pass? Prior warnings being the simplest foreknowledge.

Speaking of violence in general terms. [before you use your 'I'm dead anyway' clause]

[tenminutes]

A lot of people are violent because they're scared. [ A pause. ] Bernkastel's not one of them, but there are a lot of people who are.

[fortheworld]

[...Oriko falls silent.]


...True enough.

[tenminutes]

[ Yuri smiles, not wanting to ask Oriko about her silence. Whatever it's about, it's not her business unless Oriko brings it up. ]

Just so we're clear, I'm not violent because I'm scared either, I just find it fun sometimes.

[fortheworld]

Truly reassuring.

[she says before she can stop herself oops-]

[tenminutes]

I know when to stop and that's what matters.

[ Most of the time. ]

[fortheworld]

I didn't intend to imply otherwise.

[else you wouldn't be so morally offended about all this business]