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snowblindrpg2017-10-27 04:27 pm
ex_this_ismydesign36) wrote in snowblindrpg2017-10-27 04:27 pm
Entry tags:
- *network,
- *open,
- brian thomas (marble hornets),
- bucky barnes (mcu),
- davesprite (homestuck),
- ecks (original),
- flynn carsen (the librarian),
- gregory house (house md),
- james wilson (house md),
- john watson (bbc sherlock),
- karkat vantas (homestuck),
- mycroft holmes (bbc sherlock),
- peter quill (mcu),
- sylar (heroes),
- will graham (hannibal)
Video; Day 295
[ If you're going to jump in the deep end, might as well go full monty.
After weeks of texts, rare audio and even rarer video, Will is voluntarily instigating a public video communication, and he's not here to observe social niceties. ]
All of you currently howling for House's head, threatening to murder him or otherwise getting up on your high horses, stop and take a look at your foundations. Because they are fundamentally flawed and risk crumbling out from under you.
I've spent hours and hours reading about this place, reading up on all that's come before and I get the sense that some perspective has been lost. These experiments, despite being repellent, painful and emotionally traumatic as they have been, for all of you, have almost always yielded results, that have guided you forward and provided context for our circumstances here.
[ He pauses for a moment to give his words a moment to sink in. ]
If you -collectively- start to take the position of playing God, judge, jury and executioner against the people who consent to perform and participate in these experiments, whether it be through some misguided sense of morals or personal feeling, you risk shutting down the one and only source of information that you control in this place.
Think about that for a moment. You will be voluntarily giving up the last vestiges of agency in this place.
[ Again, he took a moment to lower his eyes, giving himself a break from the camera and a breath as he gathered his words and continued. ]
It is all too easy to cling to our morals in the belief that they give us agency over our lives. But in this instance, that agency is an illusion. Worse it is a luxury that we cannot afford.
This place challenges our very moral fiber, and I understand that some of you are hanging on to what you imagine is your core self by the skin of your teeth. Believe me, I understand how that feels. I understand how frightening it is to feel yourself sliding beneath the water, afraid to breath in what comes next and the instinct to struggle against it.
[ Boy does he understand that struggleand what it means to lose and be changed. ]
But if you're struggling against one another, you're struggling against the wrong threat and you're at risk of losing sight of an important fact.
[ Another pause, this time he reaches up and plucks his glasses off his face with one hand, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles of that same hand, before replacing the glasses. ]
The morals of this town changed, irrevocably when those missiles dropped and I suspect that they had changed long before then.
@Admin or whoever is listening - Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me that the morals of this town hadn't taken on a life of their own before the missiles dropped. And tell me that if we stop pursuing the information gleaned from these barbaric experiments, that we won't become irrelevant and the plug pulled on this session?
[ He doesn't expect a response. It's a bit of theater, but also used to push across his point. ]
Some of you want House' dead for what he did with Sherlock Holmes. But a murder simply to -what- assuage a sense of injustice, how is that death anything but pointless? This entire place is an injustice, and murdering one another with no purpose truly is an abomination against any agency we might have.
However, you give me an appropriate experiment to be executed along with his murder and I'll bring him to you; hell I'll do it myself if it would be easier.
[ He may be weathering a shitty look from House but if that's the case, Will's ignoring it. ]
Otherwise, knock it off. We don't have time for our own hysterical nonsense.
After weeks of texts, rare audio and even rarer video, Will is voluntarily instigating a public video communication, and he's not here to observe social niceties. ]
All of you currently howling for House's head, threatening to murder him or otherwise getting up on your high horses, stop and take a look at your foundations. Because they are fundamentally flawed and risk crumbling out from under you.
I've spent hours and hours reading about this place, reading up on all that's come before and I get the sense that some perspective has been lost. These experiments, despite being repellent, painful and emotionally traumatic as they have been, for all of you, have almost always yielded results, that have guided you forward and provided context for our circumstances here.
[ He pauses for a moment to give his words a moment to sink in. ]
If you -collectively- start to take the position of playing God, judge, jury and executioner against the people who consent to perform and participate in these experiments, whether it be through some misguided sense of morals or personal feeling, you risk shutting down the one and only source of information that you control in this place.
Think about that for a moment. You will be voluntarily giving up the last vestiges of agency in this place.
[ Again, he took a moment to lower his eyes, giving himself a break from the camera and a breath as he gathered his words and continued. ]
It is all too easy to cling to our morals in the belief that they give us agency over our lives. But in this instance, that agency is an illusion. Worse it is a luxury that we cannot afford.
This place challenges our very moral fiber, and I understand that some of you are hanging on to what you imagine is your core self by the skin of your teeth. Believe me, I understand how that feels. I understand how frightening it is to feel yourself sliding beneath the water, afraid to breath in what comes next and the instinct to struggle against it.
[ Boy does he understand that struggle
But if you're struggling against one another, you're struggling against the wrong threat and you're at risk of losing sight of an important fact.
[ Another pause, this time he reaches up and plucks his glasses off his face with one hand, rubbing his eyes with his knuckles of that same hand, before replacing the glasses. ]
The morals of this town changed, irrevocably when those missiles dropped and I suspect that they had changed long before then.
@Admin or whoever is listening - Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me that the morals of this town hadn't taken on a life of their own before the missiles dropped. And tell me that if we stop pursuing the information gleaned from these barbaric experiments, that we won't become irrelevant and the plug pulled on this session?
[ He doesn't expect a response. It's a bit of theater, but also used to push across his point. ]
Some of you want House' dead for what he did with Sherlock Holmes. But a murder simply to -what- assuage a sense of injustice, how is that death anything but pointless? This entire place is an injustice, and murdering one another with no purpose truly is an abomination against any agency we might have.
However, you give me an appropriate experiment to be executed along with his murder and I'll bring him to you; hell I'll do it myself if it would be easier.
[ He may be weathering a shitty look from House but if that's the case, Will's ignoring it. ]
Otherwise, knock it off. We don't have time for our own hysterical nonsense.
private
[ He's drawn a paycheck from the government for years and still finds them sketchy. ]
What do you think, Gabriel am I wrong to be feeling a sense of sympathy for the cultists? Every sense I get, speaks to people driven towards their extreme. Not extreme people from the start.
[ This is a question he asks of Gabriel specifically, because Will suspects the man is able to view the horrors that he himself has endured through a more objective lens than those with more traditional moral codes. ]
private
He takes another couple deep breaths before he speaks, but it still doesn't feel like all the oxygen's reaching his lungs. ]
No. You're not wrong. Most of them probably just had glitchy nanomachines. Their brains weren't working right and they came up with strange solutions to their problems. Andromeda told Winter that she wanted to fix it, that they 'didn't know what they were doing.' But there's a part of it that speaks to some planning. Have you seen the footage of Sam in the Public Data? There's someone watching her before the nukes hit, as she's playing with a soccer ball.
This is too organized to all be glitches.
private
He fell quiet then, thinking over everything Gabriel had just said and using it as a lens to offset some of his own theories. It could only help to keep an open mind in all of this and Will was trying to do that. ]
Thank you, Gabriel. I can understand that focusing on a lot of this isn't easy, especially for those who have been directly impacted by events we can't make sense of yet.
private
His face twists into a grimace before he lets out a heavy sigh. ]
Sure. Well, I'm the one to do it, right? All the 'better' people were falling apart afterwards- if we were going to info-gather, it was going to have to be us monsters. And House.
Just keep it in mind for when this town gets into all of your deepest, darkest fears and smears them on the network for all the world to see.
private
Use our own best talents, yes? [ He said, in a quiet voice, before nodding to Gabriel's latter words. ]
I'm not looking forward to that time, though I don't expect to be spared when it next comes around.
private
[ House is intentionally prickly, but he's still a doctor. Gabriel saw what happened during a particularly bad death price, when House stopped caring if he was endangering people- that made it very clear that House isn't a monster.
Will...Gabriel's not sure, yet. The fact that Will came out and warned him on his own- that makes the man far more interesting than expected. He's looking forward to finding out more about Will. Norfinbury didn't let people keep secrets for long, after all.
Turning the focus outside of himself is helping him calm down a little, thankfully. ]
You're definitely one of the smarter ones. Peter's probably the most recent one to make a fool of himself, demanding revenge for someone being mind-controlled into killing people...and then having it happen to himself. I've heard someone trying to figure out preventative measures for mind control, but- people need hope, I guess.