Plasmatio Chuuya PSLs.

[goatsongs]

Want to meet Chuuya after the end of the game? Okay! He's a little busy with two toddlers to fuss over, but he'll always be happy to greet someone he likes. (And if you're not someone he likes, at least make yourself useful picking toys up off the library floor or something.) He's drinking a whole lot less than he used to, and is all-in-all in a much better mental state than he was during the game.

You can also get him to visit, probably not with his sons in tow. Still in a better mental state and sober without having a breakdown!

Also up for AUs like 'what if chuuya did a murder' or 'what if the participants were gods' or whatever, I'm easy.

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[goatsongs]

I'll tell my follower the same. Not that they were going to murder anyway, but you know.

[Despair's last follower is a good bean who wants to play the game without murder, and Chuuya supports that 100%.]

An alliance seems like the best shot we both have at this point.

[hymned]

I know. Honestly, if we were going to run a game like this you'd think we'd at least tighten up the recruitment criteria.

[ bringing children absolutely not suited for it into a competition where murder is both likely and encouraged by some of the more ambitious gods. really, he knows his own childhood, but he'd like to think he was an outlier in that respect. ]

... It's still a long shot if anything, but.

[ They're both personable to an extent, but they're also both sort of off putting in some ways, whoops. Certainly not possessed of the same infectious, your-new-best-friend quality charms and masks as say, Positivity. ]

[goatsongs]

So much for Foresight.

[Then again, nobody really knows what Alex's deal is, maybe he doesn't mind the child trauma so much.]

Technically I don't mind if Positivity or Confidence win, but they're not smart enough to handle it on their own. Order can fuck himself with a rake, though.

[hymned]

Perhaps it's not so much a lack of Foresight as it is a lack of care or concern, hm? But that's just an excuse for him in particular. The rest of us don't quite get to say the same.

[ No, they just went and pulled a bunch of mortals in here without really thinking about the consequences, probably.

Anyway, Despair is quite openly opinionated. Certainty won't say much about it, about how it's interesting how Order and Despair manage to just grate on each other so, but. ]

... Would he even have the anatomy for that sort of thing?

[goatsongs]

[Chuuya is very blunt about his opinions of the gods even when he is a god.]

If he can't it's from a lack of creativity on his part.

[Which shouldn't surprise anyone. Creativity is not Order's strong suit.]

[hymned]

Hmmmmmmmmmm. In his defense I doubt his design parameters had much of that particular concept in mind.

[ Creativity, that is. Oh, he's sure that whatever world Order hails from wouldn't have been incapable of it, of something beyond adaptive thinking and nested if/elses ad infinitum if they had the technology to program? beings like who and what Order was, but in his experience people liked their tools with as minimal a chance of developing the notion of disobedience as possible. So. ]

Honestly, I worry for the sake of us all if either Positivity or Confidence win in their current states. If they would take advice, maybe, but as it is...

You'd think Foresight would be more helpful on this front, but.

[ 'what even is Alex's deal': the saga. ]

[goatsongs]

They definitely had fuckability in mind, don't even pretend. Not so much the creativity.

[Of all the things you could use robots for, sex is definitely in the top five.]

Who knows what Foresight's aim is?

[hymned]

I didn't actually say anything, you know. But honestly, even if his base design would accommodate it I don't think he's quite inclined to opt for that method of getting information out of someone. A little too straitlaced.

[ Connor has probably mentioned being a police bot at some point shhh. ]

Foresight himself, I'd presume. Though if I had to hazard a guess: winning this. Like everyone else here is out to.

[goatsongs]

[Something about being the police bot sent by CyberLife.]

Everybody except Charisma. Honestly, I'm kind of envious.

[hymned]

I wonder, honestly?

[ does he elaborate? no. ]

But I can't disagree that they're certainly taking the wisest option of us all.

[goatsongs]

[What do you mean Mizuki isn't being entirely straightforward.]

...well, I can't say I regret talking to my followers...

[So that part, at least, he has over Mizuki.]

[hymned]

[ a life of being a secret agent assassin world destroyer does that to you, apparently. what's trusting in others' intentions. ]

They had some time to mingle when they were introducing the mortals to this place, it's fine. Besides, they did imply that it would still be possible to contact them, so I'm sure there are at least some people leaving offerings for them.

[goatsongs]

[For like five minutes I thought you were saying Mizuki was a secret agent assassin world destroyer and just accepted that as their canon.]

Fair. There's plenty of mortals who wouldn't leave them out.

[hymned]

[ oh my god. ]

There's certainly at least a decent handful attempting to make their way through all of us. Some of them have some interesting ideas of what we'd like.

[goatsongs]

The kind of offerings they give 'Despair'...

[Chuuya scrunches his face in displeasure. The less said about that, the better.]

[hymned]

A couple of them seem uncertain on what to give 'Certainty'. Then they think I'm messing with them when I say I'll accept plenty of things ranging from offers to spar or tomato dishes.

[ Can't even say it's his professional attire that makes people think to be all proper around him, they're all stuck in the robes when among the mortals after all. ]

[goatsongs]

You just give off that uptight aura.

[No professional outfit needed.]

At least most people know they can give me poetry now, but in the first week...

[hymned]

So what you're saying is that I should start meeting them in Majima's karaoke hall rather than my own.

[ He's gotten at least one very carefully crafted item saying 'memento mori.' Apparently the black and white color scheme with pale blue accents has made at least one person think that Certainty refers to the inevitability of death, or whatever the reasoning behind that was. ]

I'm not that bad, am I?

[goatsongs]

[Without the slightest hesitation:] You're worse.

[hymned]

Ouch, not even any attempt to soften the blow...

[ It's said in good enough humor, but his tone sobers notably by the time he comments again. ]

... None of us have the least idea of what we're doing.

[goatsongs]

[If he attempts to soften the blow, assume he's been replaced.]

Godhood experience wasn't a requirement for ascension. Or even competence at anything.

[hymned]

[ He harrumphs a little in response. ]

Yes, and despite this apparently we all decided that the first thing we should try our hand at is making and running an entire world. Presumably, if there are higher powers that be who are somehow responsible for our appointments, they either have terrible judgment or a terrible sense of humor.

We'd manage to drive even the hardiest of species to extinction and run any resultant world dry of resources on frivolous things, the way we are. Or worse, fail to even establish enough structure to get that far, at the cost of any life that might have tried to survive there.

[ exhibit a: the first attempt that fell apart immediately both in plasma proper and here, much to Certainty's slowly dawning horror. ]

[goatsongs]

[Thank goodness nobody was living on it at the time.]

Counterpoint: what do gods do if they don't create and run worlds?

Don't say 'run murder competitions with children', that's not better.

[hymned]

Well, now that you've stolen the words out of mouth, what did you want me to say.

[ Entirely too blandly and easily, so who's to say whether or not that actually was going to be his answer. Either way he ends up crossing his arms. ]

That's the thing, though, isn't it. Gods are, and they run worlds. It's inevitable. What would they be if they didn't?

But if all of this and before is any indicator of how well that would go, well.

[ For all his dryness there's a measured weight in all of it. Well, he is Certainty for a reason, surprise surprise. ]

[goatsongs]

[If it was, probably he wouldn't have used the same blunt words as Despair.]

...so, if that's all gods are good for, then fuck the gods.

[He's including himself in this. He'd be a fool not to.]