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[nitropowered]

[The last thing Katsuki is used to is being uncertain - about himself, about anything he does, about the world around him and how it works. But this whole reset thing turned everything on its head. Sure, Izuku had explained about it probably being a simulation and all, but it was tough to quantify and really believe until he experienced the reset. Fought to make sure the reset happened, even though he didn't really know what that meant. So he has a few questions.]

if this is a simulation, what does that mean? for the people back home, I mean.

what does it mean for us?

["Is anything we do here real?" hangs in the air unspoken. That just feels a little too vulnerable to say out loud. All of this is a little too vulnerable, but he asks anyway. It's been weighing on him.]

Comments

[endcaller]

Want has nothing to do with it. The crime of which I've been accused is so vile, so monstrous, that rehabilitation is an impossibility.

I'm clever enough to recognize this, that's all.

[nitropowered]

what kind of crime is that? did you do it?

1/2

[endcaller]

I did do it, aye. 'Tis so horrid I...hesitate to speak of it.

Though I suppose people will learn the truth sooner or later.

2/2

[endcaller]

It...

'Tis insider trading! That is my crime!

I am an irredeemable wretch!

[nitropowered]

hilarious.

I get it, you're not telling. seems pretty pointless to me trying to hide it.

[endcaller]

Aw, saw right through it, did you?

Has my thespian expertise failed me so badly?

[nitropowered]

I just happen to know no one gives a crap about insider trading

[endcaller]

Oh, you would be surprised.

I was the owner of a lucrative merchant guild in Ul'dah. When I learned from a friend that an uprising was on the wind I sold our guild's fisheries to the Monetarists in exchange for a few blacksmiths. I made good coin from that agreement! The Monetarists were crippled when the war came and rebels shut down the city docks.

What a shame, eh?

[Every detail of this story is false. U'dah doesn't even have docks.]

Between you and me, I think I did them a favor. Everyone needs to learn some humility every now and then!

docks in ul'dah /laughs in canon familiar

[nitropowered]

[Frankly, if you wouldn't send a hero to deal with it, then Katsuki thinks no one cares. Whoops.]

all of that sounds boring as hell.

[endcaller]

It is!

It is terribly boring!

Never allow yourself to become involved in finances. You will meet only the dullest people imaginable.

Now, what about you, hmm?

What is your crime?

[nitropowered]

don't see any reason I'd ever get involved in finances.

[There's a pause before the next text back. A hesitation before he decides to own it.]

I bullied someone, and it was bad. real bad

[endcaller]

Broken bones bad or grisly murder bad?

[nitropowered]

don't think I ever broke his bones, but I hit him. told him to jump off the roof of the school. if he'd done that, it would've been my fault

[endcaller]

Oh, does that qualify as "real bad"? I've suffered worse abuse from random strangers on the street.

[nitropowered]

yeah, it counts as real bad to me. and to him. and I guess to this place