⮕ video: before the event

[grappler]

[Vi comes on the feed, and it's clear she's a little awkward. she's really not used to making network posts for herself, especially about stuff like this. it looks like she's drying off a wet cup though, and it looks like she's standing behind a bar. there's a lot of liquor behind her...]

Hey. So, uh... the original guys who ran Lupin left. I've been cleaning up some of their shit, so I haven't really said that I've kinda took it over.

[well. she's bullied Caitlyn into doing some of the admin work, so she can be a bartender LMFAO]

Just saying that it's still open. Whoever worked here while Dazai and Sigma are here, don't feel like you gotta stay. Other than that...

[she sets the glass down, frown deepening.]

Don't come in here and fuck anything up. I'll toss you out. If you want to do something shitty, go to the Last Drop.

[and then she turns the feed off.]

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[grappler]

we weren't particularly close, but he always preferred it that way. might as well try to keep that going, at least.

I shittalk a lot of stuff.

[murderingjustice]

and yet you care enough to keep up running business the man left behind and honor it by not adding your own sense of flair to it.

that is true. but your strife with the man is very well-known. i wouldn't be surprised if you were planning to loosen the cogs in the machine.

[grappler]

[call her out, why don't you.]

being in a bar feels like home. i grew up in one.

if you're thinking i'm playing a long game of some sort, know i don't have the patience for that shit. i'll go and punch him in the face again if i have to, if he pisses me off.

[murderingjustice]

Ah.

Could that bar be similar to the one he opened just recently? If so I imagine that would encourage a good punch on a face.

[grappler]

maybe.

[it's the very same.]

doesn't matter, though. it has his stink all over it now.

[murderingjustice]

so?
stink it right back up. i never thought you to be a defeatist.

[grappler]

it's a little more complicated than that.

[murderingjustice]

tell me more about it.

[grappler]

why? so you can judge me and tell me to kill someone again?

[murderingjustice]

[. . .]

i have done neither of those things.

[grappler]

really?

i seem to remember some conversation we had where you called people trash and told me i could just kill them. because they won't matter or whatever the fuck you said.

[murderingjustice]

[Vi please...]

i merely stated how things work in life. there are always those with power who watches down at those who are less with contempt. surely this did not come as surprise to you?

as for killing part. i did not encourage you to do such act. i asked whether you had taken a life before and if that life belonged to someone from top or someone from the below.

the rest is all product of your own literacy skills, not what i said.

[grappler]

it was the way you said it, asshole.

I know people don't give a shit about people who don't have power or aren't rich. but you don't have to preach to me about it like I don't know firsthand.

[murderingjustice]

you really are skipping over the context.

if you really know that, then you'd understand what i meant when i said not everyone will be given same luxury of being missed were something happen to them. assassinating a prime minister comes with more dire consequences than getting rid of unwanted orphan, for an example.

[grappler]

but those lives still matter. that's what you weren't getting.

I don't care what the world things about those sorts of people, I care about the people themselves.

[murderingjustice]

that is the moral we are taught, yes. that everyone is equal and everyone's life matters.

but it hardly applies to real life, does it? or do you personally claim to care for each life out there?

[grappler]

i claim to care about lives that everyone else overlooks. someone has to.

you probably actually care about what, two people? maybe?

[murderingjustice]

of every life out there? my, i didn't know we had one with such big and open heart among us.

i care about who i choose to.

[grappler]

you're putting words into my mouth.

so... two people. amazing. look at you go.

[murderingjustice]

sometimes it is about quality, not quantity.
tell me. why should i care about bunch of faceless people, following the leader like a sheep, who have no mind of their own to look down at the lives they are stepping on themselves.

it's a dog eat dog world. i somehow assumed that you would be aware of that.

[grappler]

i am aware of it, but i don't have to accept it.

we're getting nowhere with this. we won't ever get anywhere with this.

[murderingjustice]

so what are you going to do? change it? didn't know you had a revolutionary in you.

you are right. we aren't.

[grappler]

[usually she'd be all for changing the status quo. it bothers her a lot of times that she can't do more but wait for the next clusterfuck to happen. but there's also a part of her that doesn't want to rock the boat, because things with her sister had been going well... or as well as could be expected, given the circumstances.]

then this is pointless. bye then.

[she's gotta have the last word lmfao]