paradisa | (no subject)

[Private;]

[...sigh.]

Okay.

Fine.

[FILTERED TO GOOD GUYS; past, present, future PP members, people who have the good of the whole castle in mind, people with generally reasonable moral values, etc, etc.]

I am going to say this as clearly as possible. Legato needs to be let out, now.

Skeptical? Let me give you a little incentive.

For those who might be new to the situation, this man is being held prisoner by the Peace Patrol. He has the ability to take control of other people, with the option of taking away their free will. It's ranged, and probably more familiar to him than his own arms. He's being kept for a number of reasons: murder, mind-control, assisting a bunch of bad guys who nearly got away with it, the list goes on. He's been down there for, oh, seven months now.

He's been locked up and cut off from the outside world. I don't mean human contact--though I wouldn't be surprised if that's in short supply too--he's cut off from his ability, his connection to things beyond that little room of his. He has, more or less, become isolated from any external stimulation. And what no one seems to understand is that people like him don't just turn off. They don't stop because they've been set still. They keep going.

So, now, for the sake of this explanation, assume that there are two kinds of people--players and pieces. Legato was previously a piece. He was incomplete. He did not function well without someone or something to follow. Even if his thoughts were ultimately his own, you could say that he lived to serve others. And that was his weakness--that's why he followed Riful, that's why he went along with all of her plans, that's why he caused so much damage and got himself locked up to begin with.

But that's not the truth anymore. He's been down there with nothing to keep him occupied but his own thoughts. All of his ties have left or failed to live up to his expectations and now, after seven months, he's had plenty of time to rationalize around it. He's had time to rebuild his thoughts, rebuild his dependencies, and rebuild himself. He's had time to complete himself. Now there's nothing to follow but a grander sense that this is all some sort of fucked-up challenge before he goes back home. He is not a piece anymore, he is an independently functioning player, and the longer he's kept down there, the longer you are essentially creating a monster.

Let me put this in another light. With nothing to keep him busy or distracted, he has essentially been trapped in his own head. He is a creature of loathing and disgust, and it doesn't take a psychiatrist to know that seeping in those thoughts isn't going to make him magically get better. He won't suddenly change his mind and become a nice person. He's going to sit and saturate and get worse until he becomes completely unmanageable. Every day he spends down there is another chance for him to become impossible to reason with. How long until he stops listening to people? How long will it take for his hatred to become so consuming that he decides to do as much damage as possible the moment he's out?

You are sitting on a ticking time bomb. If you want to know how I know, consider this: he had to go somewhere during that little stunt last week, and it sure wasn't the ballroom.

[he stops here to... take a breath. let that sink. collect himself and work on sounding a little less like he wants to flip a table or something.]

It's not that hard to figure out. Since the majority of you seem to be against killing him, get him out of there before you run out of other choices. He's not stupid, he's not going to go on a murderous rampage, and he's not going to do anything to get himself thrown right back into the little personal hell you have him locked in. If you don't have the technology yet, fine. If you don't have the precise power yet, fine. If he lashes out, all you need is someone who can shut him down or knock him out, drag him back to the basement, and then let him out again when he promises to behave. I know at least one person who could do it, and there's got to be more. Brainstorm, tag team, whatever. You're supposed to be good at that sort of thing.

The time it takes for him to think up and enact anything remotely devious should be plenty of time to develop one of the proposed methods for keeping him generally harmless. Hell, you might even be able to convince him to go along with it, given his alternatives. Anything is better than letting him fester down there. Let him out while he still has a reason to play nice.

Tch, the fact that I have to point any of this out is depressing. You'd think it'd be common fucking sense.

[ooc: the cut is meant to be as inclusive as possible, so if you can rationalize your character being a 'good guy' then they can totally see this. a-and sorry it's so long, he just has a lot of feelings right now. ;A;// THREADHOP AS MUCH AS YOU WANT, it'd be cool to get some IC decisions out of this! C:]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Isn't this curious.

He wasn't going to say anything, at first. He's content just to read and listen and absorb information. But something about this resonates with him. (People wanting him to turn off when he can only idle, idiotic and oblivious and incompetent.)

So as soon as he's done, he just quips, casually.]

Well. That was impassioned.

[oh, it's this guy again. neat.]

I'll admit to being in a poor mood.

Clearly.

Wasn't here for the event in question, myself, but I think I have a reasonable enough grasp of it. Didn't think it was possible to encounter a more incompetent police force than the one I'm familiar with, but the Peace Patrol [he says it with no small amount of derision] has managed to exceed all my expectations.

Too ill-equipped and unorganized to be a police force, really. Half of them don't want to be considered as such.

Of course. Can't do something as decisive as defining themselves, can they?

[A considering sort of hum.]

Hope you're not actually looking for their approval on this little appeal. Not if you expect results. After all, it's easy to leave a man to rot for some nonspecific amount of time and call it being humane.

There's a reason more than just they can see it.

And I suppose if no one is swayed towards any particular action and he's finally let out half-a-year from now, I'll get to say with particular conviction that I told them so.

You honestly believe the residents will move to do anything without their peacekeeping force to back them? Their individual opinions of the patrol notwithstanding, they've never been known for their cohesion. Seems to me the vast majority are content to wait until the castle finally gets bored with him and sends him on his way.

I believe nothing. I hold no expectations that anyone here can do anything. I am essentially playing at chances because I can do so at no personal cost.

And like was implied, getting anyone to do something about the particular case is not the only outcome I was interested in. It's more than simple input to output.

(no subject)

DAT FILTER; also placeholder ffff

MMM FILTER;

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject