backdated to yesterday;

[wagers]

_{[Filtered to anyone who has been negatively impacted mentally or physically by Paradisa as a whole and have been living with it for an extended period of time-- filtered away from anyone she would have directly hurt in any way.">]}

Do any of you even exist? Or did the castle's lobotomozing magic make everything better?

[...]

I guess not a lot of people like talking about this kind of stuff, you know, in spite of everyone being more than happy to run their mouths on the journal system about slice of life and how things are back home and all that claptrap. Haha.

But I know this has to kind of be a thing. How could it not? Again, barring the whole castle could be messing with our brains to make us not care about all the crap it puts us through and all that.

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filtered to vriska specifically tho

[samson]

Sure. But you kinda learn to deal with it, I guess.

not!dad

[wagers]

Well, obviously! But I'm sure people with lesser resolves would have a harder time doing just that, am I right? [Totes putting you on a pedestal, here.]

not!best kid vriska

[samson]

Well, yeah. I mean, that goes without saying. [He'll accept that pedestal, thank you.]

Uh, but for... those people... it might just be a matter of time. Like, the real world is pretty screwed up, too. I don't think this place is any different. Except for all the... you know, magic torture. That's kinda special.

not!dad

[wagers]

Yeah, pretty sure Paradisa is all those exaggerations we whine about back home embodied in one convenient place!

[the_effect_she_has]

Am I still breathing? Then yes, I exist. I'm existing until I can find a way out of this damned hellhole.

[wagers]

Whoa That first part's pretty existential. Well, kind of. You're getting there, in any case! [She doesn't even know.]

But in all seriousness, finding a way out sure is a lofty goal. Gotta commedn you there. It's such shit when this place is better than your homeworld, but you can do without the mindfucks. Well, that's how it is in my case, anyway.

[the_effect_she_has]

No, it's the same. I'm waiting for execution back home -- but it's home. I want to die on my own soil, be buried with my own people. [She wondered if they would let her be buried next to her father.] Either way, better to die free then die a puppet.

[wagers]

Makes sense! I mean, I've pretty much accepted my fate back home and all that, but even then, I kind of want to milk being alive here! And not really actually dying... Even though it's shitty, it's better than potentially being forgotten back home.

[spongetastic]

We exist. I think we just try to deal with it on our own most of the time.

[wagers]

That's what I figured, you know? I mean, who wants to be a big whiny baby about the castle being "a big meanie"? I mean, yeah, it's totally valid to complain about being literally taken over, but it's like, what do you expect people to do about it?

[spongetastic]

There's only so much they can do.

I'm guessing you're talking about Event Horizon in particular, right?

1/2

[wagers]

[!!!!!!!!]

[wagers]

No........

[sworn]

There is little merit in reminding others of our misery. That we can find some semblance of normalcy or happiness in this world despite all we endure is what keeps some of us sane. We'd go mad if we constantly focused on the negative.

[wagers]

Of course you would! Being stuck in what's shitty is going to make it so that you're contsantly waist deep in shit!

[sworn]

I would not have worded that so... colorfully. [If you were her daughter it would be soap in the mouth for you, young lady.] But yes, agreed.

However, it is also what makes us stronger. Far be it from me to give the castle any sort of credit, but for everything the castle throws at us and we survive, we become better equipped and experienced against what lies ahead.

[heliotroping]

Always but... I see it as if you let it control how you live here, the castle already won.

...I don't like losing fights.

[wagers]

Isn't it already winning what with us having quite the handicap and giving it the "home field advantage"? [She's picking up all the earth terms. A+!]

[heliotroping]

It hasn't exactly been going at us with full strength though..

[heloise]

[ Oh hello, fellow tourist to Hell. ]

Even men have ways to pacify their people, let alone a castle with such powers.

HI I LOVE YOU

[wagers]

[!!!!!!!! That voice...]

Oh god. Are you supposed to be all cryptic and spooky?

WHOA THIS IS GOING FAST

[heloise]

Cryptic, perhaps. Am I spooking you?

[solowingpixy]

[As much as he doesn't want to think or talk about the subject, it's not like his mind doesn't trail to the subject daily already as it is. When he does speak, his words are just dripping with sarcasm.]

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm still waitin' on that lobotomy.

But I doubt the castle would let our 'recovery' be that easy.

[wagers]

Haha, I know, right? [........] What if we're already lobotomized though? What if that's the cover charge aside from the "price" that everyone talks about?

[solowingpixy]

It might as well be. Nothin' would surprise me in this place anymore. I'm sure it already comes with the territory of taking memories as it is.