[Week 2, Thursday: Setz]

[purrtagonist]

[sooooo knife rain!!]

[Akira is waiting it out at McDonald's, trying his best not to meet the eyes of the weird guy behind the counter who recognizes him from yesterday's shenanigans. it's almost a relief when he spots Setz, a) because it gives him a reason to not pay attention to the employees, and b) he's been looking for Setz, anyway]

Yo.

[and he drops a fresh, M&M McFlurry in front of Setz, wherever he may be sitting]

This one's on me. How are you feeling. . .?

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[subordinacy]

[Shouldering the responsibility alone is kind of inevitable when every single support system he's ever had either died, became unusable in some way, or was just plain unreliable.]

Tell that to Eleanor. She's trying to blame herself for it all.

[purrtagonist]

[Akira doesn't know Eleanor well, but he has seen her around. she had always seemed so outspoken and kind, so her trying to blame herself doesn't come as a surprise at all]

. . . good people always do that when someone they know is suffering.

[heh]

I would tell her that, though. It isn't any one person's fault. And in the end, who cares about the blame, when you guys didn't die?

[subordinacy]

Other people might care.

[And by that he means more likely than not... ha... ha...]

[purrtagonist]

[makes a sort of. . . confused noise?]

Like who?

[subordinacy]

[Oh.

Um, he shouldn't have said that.

Awkwardly,]

... Other people?

[purrtagonist]

[stares at him]

Other. . . specific people? You don't mean Hume-san or Griffin-san, do you?

[subordinacy]

[Cringing just a tad...]

Other... hypothetical people?

[Setz, master liar.]

[purrtagonist]

[uuuuh huh]

That's a bad lie, Setz.

[just. pointing that out]

You don't have to name names. But if they're blaming you for this, then they're wrong.

[subordinacy]

... You're rather certain for someone who wasn't there.

[purrtagonist]

I'm a people reader.

[or so he likes to think he is]

And usually when people are actually at fault for something. . . they don't try to take all of the blame onto themselves.

[subordinacy]

... Is that so?

[purrtagonist]

It's what I've found in my experiences.

I could be wrong, but. . . well. I guess that's neither here nor there. What's done is done, and you're all alive. That's enough.

[until Eleanor and Clarke suddenly weren't god]