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[saudades]

hiiii everyone! you can call me dazai.

since we're all supposed to work together and get to know each other, i thought it would be fun to play a little icebreaker game that's popular on my earth ♥

it's called would you rather! the rules are pretty simple:

✦ post a hypothetical between two difficult choices
✦ have others choose between them, and offer their own hypotheticals in return
✦ go back and forth until you don't feel like playing anymore

noooormally, it'd be cheating to say something like both, or neither, but if you can come up with a really interesting alternative, i'll allow it~

feel free to respond to each other, as well! can't just let me go having all the fun, after all.

here's a few to get us started:

1) would you rather hurt someone to protect yourself, or get hurt protecting someone else?
2) would you rather be unable to have your favorite meal again, or be unable to get drunk again?
3) would you rather betray your boss or abandon your best friend?

[wdym these are weird questions, he's so normal. it's just a gaaaaame and definitely not a covert means of information gathering or anything. come on and play :)]

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sorry for the delay!!

[saudades]

for what it's worth, it'd be only your favorite food! losing access to ALL food wouldn't be anywhere near equivalent, after all.

[The questions, meanwhile, take a moment to think about. It's very clear these are explicitly personal; the veneer of hypothetical is practically paper-thin. The second one practically spells out what this person's answer was, as well, with the way the word revenge is conflated with justice. It's especially intriguing alongside the answer he gave to the first question; many would likely think seeking revenge would be incompatible with preferring not to harm others for personal benefit.]

both of those first two are complicated questions, and depend on your definition of quite a few things. do you consider revenge simply taking the life of the one responsible for your losses, or is destroying them in another way sufficient? say financially, socially, or politically.

similarly, what do you consider justice? if the one who took away those lost were to be seen as the victim upon taking revenge, is that truly justice? keeping your name and conscience clean is not always mutually exclusive with committing crimes, either.

[Speaking as an ex-mafioso who kept that shit entirely unknown to anyone around him for four years. Ahem.]

i wouldn't choose to forget. but what actions i took against the perpetrator would depend too much on the circumstances to give you a real answer, sorry!

as for the last, every part of a woman is beautiful, but i'll choose the face. it's what i will be spending the most time looking at, after all. ♥

[ghostlord]

At some point you have to wonder if eating is worthwhile! Inedia has never sounded more appealing.

[Wen Kexing is a special man. His way of looking at the world is skewed and for good reason. You try seeing your parents murdered and then being hauled off to live in Ghost Valley. He was abused terribly until he was old enough and strong enough to fight back.]

All of it is acceptable.

I don't give a damn about my image. I just want to drag his through the mud before I kill him. That's justice. I have no desire to stick around once it's done anyway.

[Oh he could handle behaving himself and killing in secret, but that would just be so...joyless...in this case.]

I wasn't talking specifically about women.

[saudades]

[Oh, so we are straight up dispensing with the illusion of a hypothetical now, huh. Alright.]

not to dissuade you from your murder-suicide plans or anything, but have you considered that declaring your intentions so openly might not necessarily be conducive to carrying them out?

just a thought ♥

anyway, i'm only interested in women, sorry to disappoint!

[Says the guy who literally fucks off on Valentine's Day to pine after a dead man in the bar where they used to hang out. Sure, Dazai, sure.]

[ghostlord]

They're not here. I'm not concerned. Even if they struggle, they won't escape me. I have tightened a net around them.

That's fine with me. I'm taken.

[Dazai, do you need to talk? Wen Kexing is very free with his sexuality. If someone has a problem with it, he doesn't mind beating the tar out of them.]

[saudades]

[he is just, in fact, a fucking weirdo, is all.]

i meant in your own world. but if you're certain you have it well in hand, far be it from me to discourage you~

i have a question in return, that doesn't quite fit into the parameters of the game, but i feel as host i get some leeway! why ask me the hypothetical of your own, specific situation, if you aren't interested in changing your course and don't regret your choices?